Everyday Food for Busy People
These bars reward patience. Not because they take a long time to make, but because they taste so much better when they’re completely cooled. They’re delicious warm too, but the spiced apple flavor is more pronounced when cool.
The inspiration for the bars is a jar of Smucker’s Apple Cinnamon Topping.
This is the third post in a new series where you get to link up your recipes! Each week I’ll focus on a different common pantry ingredient. I’ll link to a few of my recipes that feature the ingredient and then give you a chance to link up to your blog.
Fall is here and so are the apples! Is there anything better than a crisp, sweet apple just picked from the orchard? Jim’s favorite Sunday night supper is an apple (he likes his tart) with cheddar cheese and a bowl of popcorn. Simple and delicious!
Every week, I buy a bag of apples from the grocery. I like having them for eating and for cooking and baking. Here are a few of my recipes using apples:
Apple goodness and sweet brown sugar make these muffins delicious. But you know what made them even better? A friend stopped by to share them with me!
Good conversation, a cup of tea and muffins warm from the oven can make a plain old Wednesday morning the best part of the week.
Muffins are about the perfect snack food. They are such a quick way to have the comfort of homemade baking. Here’s what you’ll need:
Despite the name, this dessert has no chocolate in it. It is the texture of brownies, with a dense center studded with apples and a crisp top. The cinnamon apple flavor is so good, especially warm. And the ingredients are items I almost always have on hand.
The recipe was shared with me by Magistra, on a forum I frequent. I followed her recipe, but only made a half batch instead of whole. Double this recipe if you’d like a 9×13 pan of Apple Brownies. [Read more...]
My aunt brought this cake to a family reunion in October and it was fantastic. I couldn’t really taste any heat in her cake, just very spicy. I made the cake for a dessert at a chili cook off. It was really good after the chili and again, I didn’t notice the heat. But then my lips were already burning from the chili. I did taste some heat the next day when I had a piece of the left over cake. It’s an interesting combination and very good.
The recipe is adapted from Better Homes and Gardens. My aunt ripped it out of a magazine in a doctor’s office a few years ago. I’ve always wondered who is ripping recipes out of magazines in public places. I’ll protect the identity of my aunt though. And because I have 12 aunts, it would be tough for you to figure out which one is responsible. [Read more...]
Oh, how I wish I could pull this out of the computer screen. I made them last night, ate two and I’ve been craving more ever since. I’d had a bag of frozen roll dough tucked in my freezer for a while now, waiting for the perfect inspiration. It was worth the wait.
I found a recipe for Apple Pull Apart Rolls and tweaked it. I swapped out brown sugar for white, increased the sweet gooey stuff, added pecans and spiced it up a bit. Oh my! These are fit for Christmas morning. But they’re easy enough for a plain old Tuesday night. [Read more...]
Autumn = Apple goodness. Cinnamon, brown sugar and sweet apples…mmmm. If you have some time to play in the kitchen this weekend, be sure to bake up this Apple Crinkle. You’ll love yourself for it and so will the people you share it with.
Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more...]
This is a Kraft Foods recipe. It’s easy and good.
Gather up your ingredients:
4 boneless chicken breasts
2 red apples, cored and sliced
1/2 cup sliced onions (red onions are very good in this dish)
1/2 cup maple-flavored syrup
1/3 cup italian dressing
Brown the chicken in an oven-proof skillet. Add the onions and apples. Mix the syrup and dressing together and pour over the other ingredients in the skillet. Cover and finish baking at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes, or until the chickent is done.
This would be really good served with rice, using the extra sauce over the rice.
