Apfel Streudel (APPLE STREUDEL)

Bust out an apple corer.
Core yourself 6 apples. I left the peels on. Mmmm.
Sautee em in about a half a stick of butter, lid on, till they're soft. I used a hamburger masher to break into smaller pieces.
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Make a sauce to pour over the apples. It's the sauce I use for peach cobbler.
3/4 c. sugar
2 T. Flour
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
---- mash in 1 T. Butter-----
then add:
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. juice (apple juice from a jug is great)


Make a bread dough from Jan's "Fruit Filled Rolls" recipe:
2 c. sour cream, warmed
1/2 c. warm water
3 T. yeast dissolved in warm water
2/3 c. sugar
2 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1/4 c. margarine
6 c. flour

Mix together, then divide into four balls.
Let rise until double.
Roll into oblong pieces- then lay two on a cookie sheet (fills 2 cookie sheets)
Fill each one with 1 cup filling.
Make 1 inch slits in sides of dough, about 1 inch apart from each other, on the long sides of dough.
Fold in ends then "braid" sides (cross or overlap).

Let rise again. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 mins.

Eat with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream :)
SO GOOD!

APPLE MUFFINS-

Jan Walker's Awesome Recipe


Stir together:
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
1 cup grated apple

Blend dry ingredients:
3 c. flour
1 c. sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp. cinnamon

Topping:
2/3 c. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
2/3 c. chopped nuts

Stir just til flour is moistened.
Fill muffin tins 2/3 full.
Sprinkle w/ topping just before baking.
Bake at 400 for 12-15 mins.
Makes about 18+ muffins.

Waffles without Waffle Iron

The Waffle Recipe is simple-
2c flour (feel free to do half wheat/half white or bread flour)
3tsp baking powder
1tsp salt
3 eggs, SEPARATED-
(save whites and food processor or blender them till peaks form)

Fold in egg whites

1 & 1/4 c. Milk
1/2 c. shortening

No waffle iron? Use a sandwich maker!

Easy baking powder biscuits

2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
5 TBSP butter
1 (scant) cup milk

Combine flour, salt, and baking powder. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until largest crumbs are the size of a pea. Add milk, toss with a fork to make a dough. Fold it over itself a few times, not really "kneading", just combining. You want to maintain the layers of butter and flour to get a light, flaky biscuit.

Break off chunks into circles or squares or whatever shapes and slap on a cookie sheet.

Bake at 425 degrees approximately 15 minutes.

I use whole wheat flour, and like the flavor. Remember, handling biscuit dough for too long makes dense, hard biscuits, so if you don't mind an "ugly" biscuit it will taste better for the less handling.

Homemade Hamburger Buns, Fries, Burgers

We made this Sunday dinner almost entirely from scratch! About a week ago, I used the apple cutter to make a ton of potato wedges. I put em in the freezer and today we just threw them in the Fry Daddy and fwa-la! French Fries! Jared made hamburgers from scratch (not premade frozen patties) and is now an advocate for the Tupperware hamburger press! LOL. And the tomatoes are from our garden (which we really have little time for, but it gives to us anyways!) The jam we made over a month ago together for a family night, and tonight we had no hamburger buns, so I thought, "I'll bet the Walker Family Cookbook has it and ta-da, it did! They were super easy for a bread recipe and are so good I want them again! I was so excited at how pretty they turned out.The eclairs are overkill, I know, but I'd just made them for the ward dessert contest, (and got second place!) and had TONS of filling left (can't let pudding and whipped cream go to pot!) so I whipped up some more to gobble up tonight!

Taco Salad Night

Do it right and make it pretty! SO delicious on these HOT summer nights!

Eggplant, Tomato, & Bell Pepper Sauce

1.Cut 3 eggplants in half. Slather butter on the halves and sprinkle generously with parmesan. Fry in pan on both sides of eggplant, just till browned a bit.
2. Add a little olive oil then add chopped bell peppers and lift eggplant up onto them as they cook.
3. Add some chopped up onion (at least half of one).
4. Cover the contents of the pan in tomatoes (all sixes work fine- my tomatoes are little).
5. Add a few BASIL leaves, some thyme, organo, italian seasoning, a little garlic.

This is awesome for PIZZA SAUCE, SPAGHETTI SAUCE, PUPUSA SAUCE, MOZZ. STICK SAUCE.

So I zip-lock bag the sauce, then freeze it all flattened out. It stacks well this way and thaws out much quicker than brick-form.

3. Dump in TONS of tomatoes and