When Life Gives You Bottles (A Nifty Trick)

Sometimes, you are caught in a situation where you just don’t have the kitchen utensils that you need. Such as a rolling pin. Which was a common situation for me while I was in Brazil. As much as my family in Brazil tried to convince me that there was a rolling pin in the kitchen drawers, there were none to be found. So, when desperate times call for desperate measures, you have to improvise. Here is a handy little trick you can use when you are caught without your rolling pin (especially when you are making my “All American Apple Pie”!). All you need to do is find a smooth, empty, glass bottle (wine bottles work well). It needs to be glass, because plastic gets all crinkly and isn’t heavy enough to roll out the dough evenly. Next, just take your bottle, and flour it up. And there you have it, a make shift rolling pin!