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A great way to cook with some of the apples picked fresh from the orchard is to make up some apple pie filling! I like to make a large pot of it, make one pie and freeze the rest of the filling in containers to be thawed out and used for fresh, homemade pies later in the season! It is super easy to do…my youngest son even helped me out with this one!
Ingredients
9 cups of peeled and thinly sliced apples
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Fall is in the air! With the change to cooler weather, the boys and I made our annual hike out to the mountain orchard to pick some apples!
We picked three bags FULL of apples – about 25 lbs of apples in all! In season right now are Golden Delicious and Jonagold (which are a cross between a Golden Delicious and ...
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I LOVE the late summer, early fall vegetables! One of my absolute favorites is the acorn squash! It looks kind of like a small greenish/orange pumpkin. Now, it can be a little bit intimidating when you see it in the grocery store, but this vegetable is versatile and super healthy. One 1 cup serving of this vegetable gives you 145% of your daily value of vitamin A. It also contains vitamin C, potassium, manganese, folate (folic acid), and it is a ...
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I love, love, love homemade cookies with my boys! My main problem with cookie recipes is that they usually yield 4-6 dozen. Sure, you can half the recipe, but an even better idea is to make the full amount and freeze half of the dough for baking another day! To get started you’ll need:
1 cup butter – softened
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
2 eggs
1 tbsp ...
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I LOVE anything pumpkin! I like it all year long, not just during the fall season. I always keep my cabinets stocked with canned pumpkin! This is a pretty simple quick bread recipe that has amazing flavor!
You will need:
2 cups of all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
2 eggs
1 cup mashed fresh cooked or canned pumpkin
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup oil
6 oz of white chocolate chips
Preheat ...
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