Dutch Apple Pie

Ingredients

• 1 (9 inch) unbaked deep dish pie crust
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup butter
• 7 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and sliced
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Directions

Place rack in lowest position in oven. Heat oven to 450 degrees F ( 230 degrees C).

1. To Make Topping: Mix 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup white sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon; cut in butter or margarine until mixture is moist and crumbly, and clumps together easily.
2. To Make Filling: Peel, core, and slice apples into approximately 1/8 inch slices. If you cut them too thick you'll have crunchy apples. In another bowl, toss cut up apples, white sugar, lemon juice, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and nutmeg. Sprinkle in flour, and stir until apples are evenly coated.
3. Layer apple slices in pie shell. You will have a lot of apples, but they will shrink. Layer them higher in the middle. Pour left over juice from apple mixture over apples. Pat the brown sugar topping evenly over apples to make a top crust.
4. Place pie on cookie sheet in oven to catch juice droppings. Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and bake for 45 minutes to one hour; bake until center of pie has no resistance. If top starts to get too dark, cover with piece of foil. Cool on wire rack before serving.

Yummy Carrot Cake

Cake Ingredients:

4 eggs

3/4 cup vegetable oil

3/4 cup apple sauce

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon allspice or pumpkin pie spice

3+ cups grated carrots

Frosting Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter softened

8 ounces cream cheese

4 cups confectioners sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Grease a 9x13 inch pan.
2. To make cake...In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar, and 2 teaspoons vanilla.  Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and spice.  Stir in carrots.  Pour into prepared pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. 
4. To make frosting... In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners sugar and vanilla.  Beat until smooth and creamy.  

I made this for Jelissa's Birthday.  It was quite delightful.  We took pictures of it BUT I left my camera at my Mom's House.  I will post it when I grab it.  You really should make it.  Consider it health with all those carrots in it.  You can eat the whole cake.  

Banana Bread

1/2 cup margarine

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup mashed bananas

1/4 cup milk

1 teaspoon lemon juice

2 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Cream margarine and sugar. Add eggs and beat. Add bananas, milk, and lemon juice. Sift dry ingredients and add. Add nuts. Bake in well-greased 8x4x3-inch loaf pan for 1 hour at 350 degrees, makes 1 loaf.

From the Lion House cookbook

I would double this because 1 loaf will not be enough to satisfy!

Whole Wheat Waffles

This is a great mild whole wheat waffle, where you can make a healthier choice, but don't have to completely change the taste. I have another recipe I usually use that is a multi-grain waffle. This recipe is great if you don't usually like wheat as much. I love wheat so I enjoy a nice hardy waffle, but I use this recipe when I'm making waffles for other people.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup all purpose flour

3/4 whole wheat flour

2 tablespoon wheat bran

1tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups 1% milk

2 large eggs

2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

2 tablespoons wildflower or orange blossom honey (or regular)

Mix dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately. Add wet to dry slowly stirring. Don't over mix.

Use with Strawberry and Honey Sauce

Thanks Williams-Sonoma

Strawberry and Honey Sauce

This is a delicious way to spice up an ordinary waffle. Seriously way good.

In small sauce pan over low heat warm 1/2 cup honey stirring until thinned but not hot, about 1 minute. 

Remove from heat.

Add 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

1 cup diced fresh strawberry's

Stir until blended.

Cover and let stand at room temperature until served

Serve on Whole Wheat Waffles

Thanks Williams-Sonoma

Wheat Pasta

This may not be the easiest way to make pasta, 

for flat wide noodles its tasty,

for smaller noodles maybe stick to the store.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon of fine salt

3 large eggs at room temperature

1 tablespoon olive oil

1. Make a well with the flour

2. Add eggs and oil in center of well

Stir oil and eggs in center of well until blended, don't let it breach wall.

Slowly stir 

4. Use your hands

When the mixture is to stiff for fork, use your hands. Draw in flour at the bottom until you have soft, moist, not sticky ball of dough

5. Knead the dough

Clean surface and dust it lightly with flour. Knead for 12-14 minutes until smooth and elastic

6. Let the dough rest

Shape dough into ball, cover with over turned bowl, and let it rest for 15 minutes. Don't let it sit for longer or it will dry out.

7. Roll out the dough

Cut dough into four equal pieces, leave three under bowl for now.

Roll dough away from you, lift dough, re-flour. Turn dough 90 degrees, roll again.

8. Roll and cut into desired thinness

9. Fold and cut

Make with Mother's Meaty Pasta Sauce

Thanks Williams-Sonoma for this great recipe

Mother's Meaty Pasta Sauce

One of my favorite things my mom makes is her pasta sauce. Pasta is one of my favorite foods and its because I've been eating this sauce for as long as I can remember.

Ingredients:

1 pound extra lean hamburger meat
2 cans tomato paste
1 can of water
2 cans tomato sauce
2 cans of stewed tomatos (blended)
2 tablespoons of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of basil
garlic salt to taste

Brown the beef, mix in everything else,
add water if to thick,
add paste if to thin,
add ingredients to your taste.

This isn't the exact amount that we use of everything, we usually make it to taste. Try different things until its just how you like it.

Use with Whole Wheat Noodles