Tasked with bringing something to your Thanksgiving celebration? Not quite sure what you think you should bring? Want the dish to be simple, quick, and require minimal attention? Don't know what to do with those extra apples sitting on your counter? Want to exercise the kitchen witch inside of you? Desire to prove something to your mom and family? Despise me for asking you all of these questions?  Well, you made it this far in the post so I suggest that you make this delicious warm apple crisp. Perfect for the "record-breaking" chilly weather that is about to ensue.

Apple crisp is one of my favorite things in the whole world. It brings me back to the fall seasons I experienced growing up in Pennsylvania. How does that Christmas song "Home for the Holidays" go again? Oh yeah: Pennsylvania and some homemade pumpkin pie. Did you just sing that as you read that, too?! Yes, I have been listening to Christmas music for the last couple of weeks *insert shrugging emoji* Thanksgiving evokes for me memories of pumpkin pies, mile-high apple pies, and warming, filling, yummy, put-the-winter-weight-on foods.

I am here to share with you this yummy recipe for apple crisp that is a shoe-in family approval. Just what you need, another dessert, amiright?!

For the recipe, see below:

Ingredients:

For the apple mixture:

• 4 honey crisp apples
• 2 macintosh apples
• 1 tbsp of cinnamon
• 1/4 c of sugar 
• 1 tbsp of flour
• 1/2 tsp of salt
• 1 tsp of cornstarch

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 and prepare a 9x13 baking dish. 
2. Dice up the apples- I left the skin on for SOME nutritional value to this dessert. You can peel the skins if you prefer to
3. With the diced apples in a bowl, add the cinnamon, sugar, flour, salt, and corn starch. Mix everything until well combined. Let the ingredients sit and flavors meld. 
4. While the apple mixture is resting, prepare the crumble topping. To do so, mix together the flour, oats, white and brown sugar, and salt in a separate bowl from the apples. 
5. Next, cut the stick of butter into 8 pieces and then cut those pieces in half. You should have 16 pieces of butter. 
6. Add the butter cubes to a bowl of sugar, flour, and oats. Using a pastry blender or just your hands, crumble the butter into the other ingredients.
7. In the 9x13 baking dish, spread the apples as a layer on the bottom of the dish. Next, sprinkle the crumble over the top of the apples, covering them. 
8. Bake for 40-50 minutes. 

*Minkis approved

What is the one thing I hope that never goes out of style? Great eyebrows. For me, achieving great eyebrows is something I have to work for every day. No, I am not blessed like so many women and men are, including my brother Conor *insert unamused face*.  I often wonder if I could have had nice brows if I never found my mom's tweezers...

Yep, let me take you back to my days as an awkward and goofy (still awk and goofy) 6th grader. I was in the prime of all awkward stages. Baby fat raging, braces, weekly crushes on every boy in my class. I had just been granted the right, yes I mean right to shave my legs. All of my friends were doing it and I was just begging my mom to let me shave. I didn't want to be the only one in gym class with hairy shins. First of all, I'll never forgive myself for rushing into shaving. I'd give anything to not shave anymore. Anyways, I'll never forget the day my mom handed me the electric shaver and I did it! Wow, I thought, I'm a woman.

My obsession with being hairless didn't stop there, I moved all the way up to my face. No, I didn't have a beard or a mustache. I did however have eyebrows that were in desperate need of an arch. I took to them like Anthony takes to a plate of pasta- cleared house. Plucking in all of the wrong spots. The verdict? Welp, I came down from my room for dinner and my parents asked me what happened to my face. I've been paying for it ever since.

So many brow phases. Not knowing which color was right for me. I was stealing my mom's brow pencils (she has dark brown hair) and hoping I could pull it off without her noticing the pencil had gone missing and why my brows are 5x too dark. After 12 years of experimenting, I finally feel like I have found the best products for me.

For my best brows, I use:

• L'Oréal Paris Unbelieva-Brow in blonde: here
• Anastasia Beverly Hills DIPBROW pomade in blonde: here
• Sephora Collection PRO brow brush #20: here