Apple Crisp

Seeing Traveler's entry on Apple Crisp made me hungry for the same. The perfect comfort food pick-me-up for a "sad" day. I rushed to Mother's Market to pick up ingredients: organic flour, nuts, Fuji apples, sugar and the like and set to create a modified version.

And I was off....Traveler's recipe called for hazlenuts. As much as I like hazlenuts with or in other things: Nutella, chocolate and on it's own,for example, I felt that this particular recipe needed something more familiar to me--pecans. When my brain thinks of nuts and brown sugar its output is caramel pecan. So in go the pecans. The only other change I ended up making was subbing arrowroot for cornstarch. Arrowroot seemed more "natural" to me, so I figured it wouldn't matter too horribly. Oh, and I cut a little of the sugar back and Voila!

I ended up with a wonderfully sweet, crunchy, and delicious bowl of comfort.