DR cillaliz, apple pie! Still the greatest thing ever!
My mother, in her saner days, made great pie crust and her apple pies were something special. After she went off the deep end, she stopped cooking, but my childhood memories of her desserts - doughnuts, cookies, pastries, pies, puddings, popcorn balls every Halloween - are something I cherish. By the time I was in high school her unhappiness had taken over, and she was never the same.