Homemade Individual-Serve Applesauce is a tasty, healthy applesauce with an option for no added sugar. Homemade Applesauce My homemade applesauce recipe is so simple to make, and it creates an incredible aroma in the kitchen, and tastes much better than any you buy in the store. 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, made with only four ingredients, served in individual portion-control containers. In the past, I have made applesauce with loads of sugar, but not this time. When making applesauce, it's important to use a variety of apples. I like to use sweet and tart apples, too, to better balance flavor and texture. The sweet apples will break down more, whereas the tart apples will not. I used a variety of apples, including Granny Smith and Gala, in this recipe. I cooked the applesauce on the s...
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Perfect Peach Pie {A Southern Classic}
Perfect Peach Pie is a classic Southern pie made with simple ingredients, sliced fresh juicy peaches, brown sugar, cornstarch, and a little vanilla, piled high in a homemade buttery, flaky crust. Indeed, a summer treat during peach season! For my husband and me, nothing says summer more than fresh peaches. We look forward to them every year. We can't get enough of them.
Weeknight Supper Meal: Quick Flat Roast Chicken
Weeknight Supper Meal, an inspiration for one of your meals for the week including a quick roasted chicken, vegetable casserole, simple salad, and a classic Southern dessert. Flat Roasted Chicken, cutting the cooking time in half bringing a crispy, moist chicken . One of my favorite go-to meals that stretch our dollars and makes my meal planning a lot friendlier.
Weeknight Supper Meal: Skillet Lasagna
Weeknight Supper Meal , an inspiration for one of your meals for the week including how to makeover leftovers, how to freeze leftovers and a decadent dessert for your special Valentine's. Skillet Lasagna, one skillet meal including all the ingredients of a traditional Lasagna. But this is a shortcut version cooking the hamburger , sauce, and soft cheese along with the noodles all together. One fabulous skillet meal!
Super Bowl Party Eats
Football Party Food , a collection of our favorite game day food we enjoy! I have included good eats from all spectrums, appetizers, main dishes, sandwiches, sliders, salads, and don't forget the sweet treats. Are you ready for some football this weekend? If you are having a Super Bowl Party or headed to one, these football eats are sure to wow your guest. Enjoy!
Weeknight Supper Meal: Old Fashioned Chicken Pot Pie
Weeknight Supper Meal , an inspiration for one of your meals for the week including how to make most of the meal ahead of time, how to freeze leftovers and a couple of sweets for the Super Bowl Party! Chicken Pot Pie is the quintessential comfort food in the south. We love a savory blend of, tender chicken, mixed vegetables in a creamy sauce and blanketed in a flaky pastry.
Christy Jordan's Sweetness! Chocolate Snack Cake
Chocolate Snack Cake , a little vintage chocolate snack cake but with all the bells and whistles of flavor that a large snack cake has. The cake is rich and intense with chocolate using, butter, sugar, eggs, self-rising flour, chocolate syrup, and chocolate chips. Did I say rich and intense chocolate flavor? I am thrilled to share with you a recipe from Christy Jordan's cookbook, Sweetness. It is filled with her favorite recipes from family and friends as well as heartwarming stories of her grandparents and great grandparents.
Decadent German Chocolate Brownies
German Chocolate Brownies feature a German sweet chocolate bar in the brownie layer, a gooey coconut-pecan layer, and a luscious chocolate frosting. The perfect holiday dessert! German Chocolate Brownies These German Chocolate Brownies taste like my German chocolate recipes on the blog, but in a handheld form. They are rich and decadent. These German Chocolate Brownies start with a brownie mix. Yes, they are rich, gooey, decadent, amazing, and they are made with a mix. I am a huge fan of German chocolate anything . Every year, I try to create another recipe using this wonderfully sweet chocolate bar. If you want a German Chocolate dessert but do not have time to make a German Chocolate Pound Cake , German Cake , or German Chocolate Pie , try these brownies. They are absolutely fabulous. WHERE CAN I FIND THE RECIPE? GERMAN CHOCOLATE BROWNIES Below, under the next heading, I provide a list of p...
15 Best Southern Pies for Thanksgiving
15 Best Southern Thanksgiving Pies listed for your convenience in one place from gooey Toll House Chocolate Chip Pie to warm buttery Salted Caramel Apple Pie. What is your favorite pie? One of the classics or a new favorite... Scroll down, and you are sure to find your favorite pie recipe for a Thanksgiving feast! Turkey often takes center stage for our Thanksgiving meal, but pies are always looming on the dessert table whistling to get our attention.
Pumpkin Sugar Cookie Bars with Buttercream Frosting and Toffee Bits
Pumpkin Sugar Cookies, chewy, thick, soft sugar cookie bars frosted with vanilla buttercream and sprinkled with toffee bits. Want to know the secret to how easy and quick they are to make? Sugar cookie bars are easy to make. They are baked in a sheet pan or large jelly roll pan, frosted, and cut into bars.
Salted Caramel Apple Pie
Salted Caramel Apple Pie has three main ingredients that come together quickly, refrigerated pie crust, caramel apple pie filling, and salted caramel topping . Almost Homemade Salted Caramel Apple Pie This salted caramel apple pie comes together in 20 minutes and takes 30-40 minutes to bake. It is easy, quick, and almost homemade. When I have the time, I love to make an apple pie from scratch, but there are days I need a quick dessert for guests coming and making an apple pie is not an option. With this apple pie, I use a few ingredients to make my life easier. I use refrigerated pie crust, canned pie filling, and a jar of store-bought salted caramel topping in the Almost Homemade Salted Caramel Pie. The pie is so easy and quick to make. If you want even less fuss, you can simply roll out the top crust and place it on top of the apple filling, cut a slit in it, and crimp the edges, so easy. The Almost Homemade Salted Caramel Pie is absolutely scrumptious and wel...
Apple Pull Apart Bread
Apple Pull Apart Bread has c hipped pieces of apple between layers of slightly sweet cinnamon dough. Fun to make and worth all the effort. Green Apple Pull Apart Bread Using Frozen Dough Green Apple Pull Apart Bread is made using Rhodes thaw, rise, and bake white bread dough. One of the most rewarding and most mouthwatering breads that you can make at home for your family. By now, I think almost everyone knows about Pull Apart Bread on Pinterest. I don't think I have opened up my Pinterest and run through my followers' pins without someone pinning a recipe for pull-apart bread in a loaf pan. I decided I needed to find out what all the fuss was about, so I made my own spin on it, Green Apple Pull Apart Bread. I decided to follow up with the ingredients I use in my Apple Cinnamon Rolls . Now I clearly see why some people say you should call the law when this happens. Ha! Ha! You haven't truly lived until you've made ...
Simple Plum Clafoutis
Plum Clafoutis is a dessert that can be elegant or rustic, depending on how it is baked. I decided to go the rustic route and bake mine in a cast iron skillet. The recipe is easy---really showcasing the plums in taste and beauty. Simple can be gorgeous! Simple Baked Plum Custard The joy of this simple custard is that it is often served at room temperature and dusted with powdered sugar. Although plums are a crowd pleaser in this French dessert, cherries are traditional. Arranging the plums on top of the custard is elegant perfection in itself, but mine seemed to move when I poured the custard over them. Oh well, I did say I went the rustic route, didn't I?
Homemade Apple Dumplings
Homemade Apple Dumplings are made by peeling and coring apples, then filling them with a cinnamon sugar mixture. They are wrapped in a buttery, flaky pie crust and spooned with a warm syrup mixture of butter, sugar, and water. They are perfectly cooked, and you are in heaven! Apple Dumplings Apple dumplings evoke all the warm feelings of fall. Whenever I make these, it never ceases to amaze me how many memories come flooding in. I always think of my dear friend, an exceptional baker and cook who shared this recipe with me many years ago. Homemade sometimes means a time-consuming recipe. These are well worth it, down to making the homemade crust. On the plus side, the apple dumplings also freeze well for later baking. This saves time when baking for holidays, when there is so much to do, getting ready for guests or family coming. The crust is my go-to pie crust recipe, which I use all the time for both savory and sweet pi...
Brown Sugar Pumpkin Pie Bars
Brown Sugar Pumpkin Pie Bars are an elegant pumpkin pie in a simple dessert bar. They're an excellent way to serve dessert at family gatherings, bridal showers, and even tailgate entertaining. SUPER EASY PUMPKIN PIE BARS We like rich, creamy, sweet Pumpkin Pie , which is just what these pumpkin pie bars are. I dressed up a traditional pumpkin pie recipe by adding nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, and brown sugar instead of regular sugar. I am a little anxious for fall to arrive, so I will start with a pumpkin recipe. Pumpkin is synonymous with fall, so much so that we embrace the humble gourd in the squash family as a superfood, low in calories and high in fiber. That works for me because I love pumpkin anything!
