Carrots in Parsley Butter

Carrots in Parsley Butter, a simple side dish, yet rich in color and flavor.  The carrots are cooked in salt, pepper, and a little bit of sugar and tossed in parsley and butter.    I am always looking for simple sides to accompany spicy casseroles, meat and potato stews, or heavy pasta main dishes.

Hot Crispy Apple Pies

 A dessert pastry, just like the ones you get at a drive-through fast food restaurant, is only better.  And the best part of the "better" is the recipe calls for only two ingredients, yes, only two!    McDonald's Copycat Hot Apple Pies   If you love the apple pies from McDonald's, you will like this copycat recipe that you can make at home.  They are super flaky and crispy. These hot, crispy apple pies are similar to a turnover, except they are smaller and fried.  The perfect portable little dessert. The fruit filling is a premade apple filling I bought from a little Amish Pantry Store, not too far from where we live.   The apples are diced into little chunks, which works great for these little pies. I could have stayed there all day in their little food pantry.  I ended up buying three fruit fillings, apple, apricot, and peach. The dough for this recipe is straightforward.  Are you ready?  I used wont...

Homemade Individual Serve Applesauce

Homemade Individual Serve Applesauce is a delicious, healthy homemade applesauce with no added sugar.  With apple season in full swing, I wanted to make a batch of applesauce.  But not just any applesauce.  An applesauce that is wholesome and delicious at the same time using only four ingredients served in individual portion control containers.

Perfectly Baked Bacon

Perfectly Baked Bacon, incredible way to cook bacon perfectly without all the fuss.  All it takes is a rimmed baking sheet pan lined with just parchment paper or a wire rack insert and bacon.   I first saw this method of cooking bacon over at my good friend Marsha's blog  The Better Baker .   And I have been cooking bacon this way ever since.