Portland Parents

With the fall season upon us, and Halloween right around the corner, I spruced up my normal apple crisp recipe with the addition of a handful of caramels. Chop the caramels in half or quarters so there’s more spots of smaller mouthfuls.

I used a non-stick baking pan. The caramels are really sticky when they’re cold.

Preheat the oven to 375(F).

Chop 5 apples (cut them in half, then quarters, then cut out the seed and hard bits, then slice them a little more if you like). Place them in a baking dish. Non stick is good, or you could grease a pan. Chop up about 25 caramels and sprinkle over the top. In a seperate bowl, mix together 1/2 cup of oats, 1/2 cup of flour, 1/3 cup of softened butter or margarine and 1/2 to 2/3 cup of packed brown sugar. Mix it up until you get bored of trying to make it homogenous. Sprinkle over the top of the apples and caramels.

Bake for about 30 minutes or until the top is browned.
Eat warm with ice cream.

Enjoy!
(original apple crisp recipe from Betty Crocker).

There’s a new kid in town, err, make that a new kid-friendly cafe in town…

Urban Mamas brings us the story of a newfound love; Sohbet, located in the NorthEast at 27th and Killingsworth.

That’s not too far from my normal routes, and I look forward to trying it out. Maybe with my kids- these sound like exciting and distracting attractions…

1. huge toy area with tons of diversion for the wee ones (diversions include piles of paper, markers, crayons, tinker-toys, duplo, blocks, trucks, and other stuff I’m forgetting)
2. changing table in the restroom. (Oh deity of choice how many places there are that need one of these, and special kudos to those places with changing tables in the Mens room too!)
3. free WiFi

They say it’s better than the Urban Grind, which also has a good sized play area and free wifi- I’m looking forward to a whole lotta field trips.