Looking to get a little more variety in your crisp, or fine-tune it to your particular taste buds? This recipe is more of a template than anything, and adjusting it is easy. You can:  Omit the oats from the topping, instead adding an extra 1/2 cup of flour.  Adding more cold butter for a richer topping, or 2 tablespoons (29.6 ml) melted butter with the apples for a richer base.  Change the brown sugar to white sugar mixture, adding more brown sugar for a more molasses-like taste. You can add them to either the topping, the apples, or both -- there are recipes that support all three. In general, the most commonly used nuts are pecans or walnuts, though toasted or sliced almonds, especially in the crumb topping, can be divine as well. You can add different fruits easily without changing your workflow much, simply tossing it in with the apples before the lemon, flour, and sugar. Some great compliments for the apples include:  Dried fruits, like raisins, currants, and cranberries. Fresh cranberries Pears Plums This autumnal crisp goes great with tea, or a big scoop of vanilla ice cream. Note, however that these spices go a long way, and you shouldn't need much more than a 1/2 teaspoon of each, though you could double the cinnamon if desired.  Spices go well if you add dried fruits, as well. A touch of maple syrup here will help balance the spices with a dash of sweetness. Simply use a rubber spatula to mix the flour, sugar, and oats in with the honey until it forms small, sticky balls. This mixture will be decidedly less rich, but it will be much, much lower in calories. You want to use two apples that cover each other's "weaknesses." Otherwise said, you want to find a mostly sweet apple to combine with a more tart apple, like a sweet Fuji with a pucker-inducing Granny Smith. In general, this green-red combination will do you well.

Summary: Know that this recipe can be easily adapted to your tastes. Toss in a ½ cup of your favorite chopped nuts to give the whole dish a little extra crunch. Mix in other fruits with the apples to create a complex crisp. Spice the apple mixture with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and/ore allspice. Use 4-5 tablespoons honey instead of butter for a healthier crisp. Use multiple apples for a more complex, layered taste.


Lay the paper flat on a table and position so the longer sides are on the top and bottom.   A standard piece of A4 printer paper, 8.5 by 11 inches (22 by 28 cm) in size works best, but you can use larger or smaller paper if you wish. Just make sure you are using rectangular paper. Regular notebook paper also works well, but may not be as loud as it's thinner than printer paper.

Summary: Use an 8.5 by 11 in (22 by 28 cm) sheet of printer paper.


Do you think your dates should be as "hot" as the celebrities on magazine covers?  If so, you could have an unreasonably high standard of beauty.  Remember that those celebrities have makeup artists and stylists who work long hours just to make them look beautiful. Even then, the pictures still need to be photoshopped to look perfect.  If you’re holding people to an idealized standard of beauty, you’re being unfair to them. Think about how you’d feel if people compared you to your own standards for physical attractiveness. Are you focusing on every imperfection that a person has in order to rank their looks?  If so, you could be training your brain to look for people’s flaws rather than to appreciate the whole picture.  Look for what you do like about a person’s looks rather than what you don’t like.  If you’re overly critical about people’s looks, you won’t be able to be attracted to them. You may find that when you stop trying to pinpoint someone’s flaws, they magically become more attractive. If you’re looking for someone to be with long-term, you might want to take their physical attractiveness out of the equation.  People’s looks change over time.  If you decide who to date based on their appearance rather than their personality, you might find that you have nothing in common with them in the future. Some physical traits do show aspects of a person’s character.  If a person is very physically fit, it may show you that they are committed to taking care of their body and can someday commit to taking care of you. Try to look beyond their physical attractiveness to see what kind of person they are on the inside.  A person’s looks are no indication of how they will treat you or whether or not you’ll be compatible with them.  If you’re too enamored with a person’s physical attractiveness you may overlook flaws in their character.

Summary: Be realistic. Change your perspective. Remember that looks fade. Realize that beauty is only skin deep.


This opens a new Terminal session. Next to the blinking cursor, enter the appropriate login information as shown: telnet  server.myplace.net  23 Note that the port number may vary. Check with your server admin if the connection fails.
Summary: Type Command-N. Enter host name or IP address.