Hey everyone!
As part of
Text’s release day I thought I would share with you a little something
about the main character, Nathan.
A
few fun facts about Nathan:
Nathan
is a United States Marine.
Nathan
works out a lot. He’s hot.
Guns
are his hobby and his job.
He
loves apple pie.
Like the man is serious about his pie. He loves it.
In fact, when I was writing Text I baked pies a lot. Ha ha ha. My family really
enjoyed it.
So today I brought along my recipe for Apple Pie.
I’m calling it Nathan’s apple pie in honor of my main man in Text.
It’s the perfect time of year to bake, eat and
enjoy!!
Nathan’s
Apple Pie
Ingredients
You
can use store-bought crust or you can make your own.
To
make a double pie crust:
2 2/3 cups all-purpose
flour
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup butter
½ cup shortening
6 tablespoons ice-cold
water
Apple
Pie Filling:
4-8 Granny Smith apples
(depends on size)
4 tablespoons cut-up
butter
½ cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons ground
cinnamon (Nathan likes lots of cinnamon. This can easily be cut down to taste.)
1 tablespoon
all-purpose flour (This helps the sauce in the pie thicken.)
Directions
To
make crust:
Cut together the flour,
salt, butter, and shortening with a pastry fork until blended. Add water one
Tbsp at a time and mix with fork until it firms into a ball. Separate the ball
into two smaller balls. Roll each out onto a heavily floured surface, flipping
over frequently. Place one crust in the bottom of a pie pan and reserve the
other crust for topping the pie once it is full.
To
make filling:
Peel and slice all the
apples. Add all slices into a bowl. Mix the apples with the sugar, cinnamon,
and flour until well coated. Dump apples into pie crust. Place the 4
tablespoons of cut-up butter around on top of the apples.
Cover the pie with the
remaining crust. Crimp the edges together. With a sharp knife, cut a few slits
in the top crust (to allow steam to escape while baking), and then you can
brush the top of the pie with an egg wash (egg wash = a beaten raw egg). This
will give the crust its golden-brown appearance. Also, sprinkle granulated
sugar over the top of the crust—which will give the pie a nice flavor and
sweetness.
Bake the pie in an oven
preheated to 400 degrees for 40-50 minutes, depending on oven.
Let cool and enjoy!
Note:
Nathan suggests serving your warm apple pie with a generous helping of French
vanilla ice cream.
Cambria recommends
enjoying with ice cream AND coffee.
Thanks for celebrating the release of TEXT with me!
Text (Take It Off #4)
by Cambria Hebert (Goodreads Author)***This is a new adult contemporary novel and contains sexual content and graphic language. It is not intended for young adult readers.***
Honor Calhoun never thought her life would ever be like the books she writes for a living. One morning while out for a run, she learns not all bad things are plots in novels. Some horrors can actually come true.
She faces off with a persistent attacker, holds her own, but in the end is taken hostage and thrown into a hole. In the middle of the woods.
But Honor didn’t go down there alone.
She took her kidnapper’s phone with her. But with a spotty signal and a dying battery, hope is slim.
Nathan Reed is an active duty Marine stationed at a small reservist base in Pennsylvania. All he wants is a calm and uneventful duty station where he can forget the memories of his time in a war-torn country.
But a single text changes everything.
Nathan becomes Honor’s only hope for survival, and he has to go against the clock, push aside his past, and take on a mission for a girl he’s never met.
Both of them want freedom… but they have to survive long enough to obtain it.
AUTHOR BIO:
Cambria Hebert is the author of the young adult paranormal Heven and Hell series, the new adult Death Escorts series, and the new adult Take it Off series. She loves a caramel latte, hates math and is afraid of chickens (yes, chickens). She went to college for a bachelor’s degree, couldn’t pick a major, and ended up with a degree in cosmetology. So rest assured her characters will always have good hair. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and children (both human and furry) where she is plotting her next book. You can find out more about Cambria and her work by visiting http://www.cambriahebert.com
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