Earlier this year, I received some really tough news. I briefly told my grandma about it, and she offered to watch some baseball games with me or let me sit on her back porch swing, a favorite peaceful place of mine, whenever I wanted so I wouldn’t feel alone.
The following week, she texted me. “Left something at your front door that needs special attention. 
”
I looked down at my dog. Usually calm and a little lazy in her old age, she had mysteriously raced into the house from sleepily sunbathing out back and sprinted around the entire downstairs, intently searching for someone or something in every room, for almost five minutes straight before returning to the kitchen to stare at me… Right as my grandma’s message arrived.
“Did you hear Grandma at the front door? Or smell her?” I smiled down at my dog, her tag wagging so frantically that it looked ready to fly right off. “Well… Let’s go see what she left.”
When I pulled open the front door, an envelope and white cardboard box sat on the porch. Tears pricked in the corners of my eyes. It held a gourmet crumb-topped apple pie from our favorite local maker, one with blueberries mixed into the filling too, and when I slipped out the card, the message on its front read “Sometimes we just need to hear, ‘I’m thinking of you,’ and know people are there for us.”
In my kitchen, I immediately snapped a photo and sent it to my grandma with a heartfelt thank you note. She texted me back. “Is blueberry okay? I can exchange for apple……”
Yet I instantly fell in love with that flavor combination, the juicy berries paired with the tender apples, along with the way the sweet crumb topping added a little crunch — and I jotted down a note to try baking something with those three components after I finished my first slice.
That eventually led to this healthy blueberry apple crisp! It has the same flavors and textures as that special pie that my grandma left on my doorstep. Without a crust underneath, it’s also faster and simpler to make than pie…
And quicker and easier desserts are always things I can get behind!
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