When it comes to fall, one of the most traditional and favorite recipes is apple crisp. It’s just the most perfect dessert for this time of year. Crisp apples with a crumbly oat topping is just so easy to make and will definitely satisfy your sweet tooth.
Ingredients
3tart applescored, peeled and sliced
1tbsplemon juice
1tspvanilla extract
3tbspbuttermelted
2tbspall-purpose flour
3tbspmilk
1/3cupbrown sugar
1/2tspground cinnamon
1/8tspground nutmeg
1/8tspallspice
1/8tspsalt
Topping
3/4cuprolled oats
2/3cupall-purpose flour
1/2tspground cinnamon
3/4cupbrown sugar
1/3tspbaking powder
1stickbuttersoftened and cut into small pieces
1/8tspsalt
whipped cream, ice cream or caramel saucefor serving
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375º. Layer apple slices in the bottom of an 8×8-inch baking dish coated with nonstick cooking spray. In a medium bowl, mix milk, lemon juice, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, brown sugar, flour and butter. Pour mixture overtop apples and mix.
Mix flour, rolled oats, baking powder, salt, ground cinnamon and brown sugar in a large bowl. Add butter pieces and mix until it resembles small crumbs. Sprinkle overtop apples and toss to coat. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream and top with caramel sauce.
Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, combine the crumbs, sugar and butter. Press onto the bottom of an ungreased 13×9-in. baking dish; set aside. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add eggs; beat on low speed just until combined. Pour over crust. Bake until center is almost set, 25-30 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, sprinkle gelatin over cold water; let stand for 1 minute. In a large saucepan, combine pie filling and evaporated milk. Bring to a boil. Add gelatin; stir until dissolved. Whisk a small amount of hot mixture into the eggs. Return all to the pan, whisking constantly.
Cook and stir over low heat until mixture is thickened and coats the back of a spoon. Cool for 10 minutes. Spread over cream cheese layer. Spread whipped topping over top. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Pumpkin Torte Recipe Variations
Use a shortbread cookie crust: Swap the traditional graham cracker crust for a crumbly shortbread cookie crust to impart buttery flavors into this torte.
Swap the pumpkin: In the fall you can use a variety of seasonal squashes or root vegetables. Consider substituting the pumpkin for sweet potato or butternut squash.
Top with sauce: Drizzle chocolate over this pumpkin torte for a more decadent dessert.
Easy Listening. Easy listening is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road music and encompasses recordings of hit songs, non-rock vocals and covers of selected popular rock songs.
Easy listening music is often confused with lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it was meant to be listened to for enjoyment rather than as background sound.
Let’s play what I call easy listening. All genres have it. So play your favorites. Below are a few of mine.
I’ll take my eggs in just about any way, shape, or form, but a fried egg has long been my favorite. Fried eggs are almost foolproof to make and can turn just about anything into a hearty meal, from a pile of sautéed gr
How to Cook a Fried Egg, Spanish-Style
To prepare a Spanish fried egg, pour about 1/4-inch of olive oil into a small, heavy skillet. Heat it over medium-high heat until it’s extremely hot (but not smoking). Crack 1 egg into a ramekin or mug. When the oil is hot, carefully slip the egg in and reduce the heat to medium-low. Then spoon some of the oil over the egg as it cooks. Remove the egg with a slotted spoon after no more than 1 1/2 minutes (when the white puffs and becomes crispy and golden-brown around the edges, and when the yolk still jiggles). Serve sprinkled with a bit of flaky salt and freshly ground black pepper
Pour half of the meat mixture over the tortillas. Spread with half the tortillas and sprinkle with half the cheese. Place another layer of tortillas on top. Pour the remainder of the meat mixture over the tortillas, spread the sour cream over the top and sprinkle with the rest of the cheese.
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until cheese is nice and bubbly.
What’s impossible about this buttermilk pie: that it forms its own crust, or that it tastes as delicious as it does? Turns out, neither! Make this amazing impossible buttermilk pie for a dessert that has to be tasted to be believed.
3 eggs
1 C. buttermilk
1/3 C. butter (melted)
1 t. vanilla
1 1/3 C. sugar
3/4 C. biscuit mix
Pinch of ground nutmeg
Preheat oven to 350°. Place eggs in prepared pie plate and whisk thoroughly.
Add buttermilk, melted butter, and vanilla.
Whisk thoroughly.
Add sugar, biscuit baking mix, and nutmeg.
Whisk thoroughly.
Scrape down the sides. Bake 35 to 40 minutes until lightly browned. Let cool before slicing.
You’ll only need a few simple ingredients to make this recipe. The exact measurements are included in the recipe card below. Here’s an overview of what you’ll need.
Start with one pot and a jumble of ingredients. Drizzle in the liquids and let it all simmer into an amazing collection of flavors. That’s the joy of one-pot pastarecipes!
What’s so Great About One-Pot Pasta Dishes?
No pre-boiling or draining. The pasta cooks in the sauce.
Fewer dirty dishes. Everything cooks in one pot.
Perfect anytime. Quick and easy–great for a weeknight or weekend.
Versatile. Use virtually any type of pasta.
Simply delicious. That’s what it’s all about!
Ingredients.
Linguini noodles
Frozen cooked shrimp
Canned diced tomatoes
Garlic
Italian seasoning
Fresh basil
Lemon juice
Salt & pepper
Chicken broth
Fresh baby spinach
Directions.
Dump all the ingredients except spinach into a big pot and bring to a boil.
Cook for 6 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add spinach and cook 4 minutes
Literally, that’s it! What are you waiting for? Get out the pasta!
One Pot Bacon Cheeseburger Recipe | Bacon Cheeseburger Pasta Skillet.
This bacon cheeseburger skillet is meal that’s incredible tasty and surprisingly easy to make. The whole family will adore this hearty dinner so much they won’t believe you didn’t spend all day on it!
Ingredients.
6 bacon strips
1/2 lb. ground beef
Season salt to taste
Black pepper to taste
1/4 C. chopped onion
1 15 oz. can tomato sauce
1 C. beef broth
1/2 C. water
8 oz. uncooked rotini pasta
3 Roma tomatoes, diced
1 C. canned diced tomatoes
2 T. ketchup
1 T. spicy brown mustard
1/2 C. shredded cheddar cheese
Directions.
Brown 6 bacon strips and 1/2 lb. ground beef in skillet, breaking ingredients apart as they cook. Season to taste with season salt and black pepper.
Dice 3 Roma tomatoes and 1/4 cup onion.
Add diced onions and tomatoes to skillet.
Add 1/2 cup water, 15 oz. tomato sauce, and 1 cup beef broth.
Add 8 oz. uncooked rotini pasta.
Add 8 oz. canned, diced tomatoes.
Add 2 tablespoons ketchup.
Add 1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard.
Bring heat to a boil.
Once boil is reached, reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes.
Pumpkin Fall Works. And other goodies. As usual I’m running late. What’s the old saying? Better late than never? I’m going to add some other photos beside the house decorations. Enjoy.
Scenery from our window seat at an Amish Restaurant in Walnutcreek,Ohio.And Groceries we bought from the Amish in Middlefield,Ohio. The blue bag is insulated for our meat and cheeses.
Favorite decorations Apple Works. Of all the decorations, this is my favorite. My wife uses 74 Wooden Apples. A few plastic but that’s it. Also she uses Franciscan plates and a few odds and ends. Enjoy.
This dessert takes everything you love about a caramel apple and dumps it onto a cookie base. Easier to eat (no wooden stick) and even more delicious.
INGREDIENTS (Serves 12)
½ C. chopped pecans (to chop, use the Rada Serrated Food Chopper or a large knife)
1 (16.5 oz.) roll refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1 C. cream cheese frosting
2 large apples (Granny Smith and Jonagold were used here)
1½ C. seltzer water or lemon-lime soda
Caramel sauce
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Toast the pecans in a dry skillet over medium heat for about 10 minutes; set aside to cool.
Grease a 9″ Springform pan and press the sugar cookie dough evenly into it. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely.
Spread the cream cheese frosting over the cooled cookie crust. Core and dice the apples into a bowl and add the seltzer water or soda; soak at least 3 minutes.
Drain the apples, pat dry, and scatter them over the frosting. Sprinkle the toasted pecans over the top and drizzle with caramel sauce.
It’s been a while since I posted here, I apologize to the thousands who come here looking for music, feel good stories and receipies. Let’s start October with music.
Play anything that you wish. Doesn’t matter if it’s rock, soul, top forty, etc.
There are a few ways we define the perfect summer song: It can be about summer, it can be released in the summer, or, in the case of some tracks on this list, it can define an entire summer with its impact and airplay.
Roadwork feels a bit like a necessary evil: Streets need to be in good condition so we can drive safely, but getting stuck in traffic because a stretch of highway is closed for maintenance can be maddening. In Switzerland, engineers have addressed this issue by developing an innovative mobile bridge that enables cars to drive over it while repairs are being done below.
Called the ASTRA Bridge and commissioned by the Swiss Federal Roads Office, the first-of-its-kind structure is about 843 feet long by 25 feet wide, and stands at a little over 15 feet tall. At 1,250 metric tons, it’s a massive beast, but can be set up over one weekend.
“The whole concept had to be designed in such a way that the assembly of the entire bridge on the motorway building site could be carried out in two consecutive nights,” Toni Hauert, head of special vehicles at Marti Technik AG, a construction company involved in the development, said in a statement.
ASTRA is equipped with a remote-controlled hydraulic unit that allows it to be raised 10 centimeters at a time in 328-foot stretches, so workers can repair the highway beneath and then move along to raise the next section. Once put together, the entire modular bridge can be controlled via one device, as all of its 22 power packs are connected to each other.
Federal Roads Office of Switzerland
“This makes it possible to move, steer, and stop this huge unit with just one radio remote control,” said Joachim Kolb, sales manager at Cometto, a transportation manufacturing company that worked on the bridge.
With two lanes and a speed limit of 37 miles per hour, the bridge does create some slowing down of highway traffic, but it prevents the total closure of a highway and the redirection of traffic onto surface streets. Most importantly, though, it increases the safety of workers who’d otherwise be working alongside fast-moving cars.
“The hazard potential for the construction workers involved has been lowered enormously,” stressed Project Manager Jürg Merian, “because the traffic no longer has to drive by them.”
Besides protecting workers from cars zipping by, the bridge provides shelter from rain and sun, making for fewer interruptions due to inclement weather.
It’s currently being employed on Switzerland’s A1, a 254-mile highway that stretches east from Geneva to the village of St. Margrethen near the Austrian border.
Federal Roads Office of Switzerland
Still relatively in its infancy — it was first piloted in 2022 and then tweaked to help improve the flow of traffic over it — the technology isn’t entirely without issues. The Swiss government website contains bulletins about the structure’s status, and multiple report instances of it malfunctioning and requiring repair.
The bridge will hopefully continue to improve, however, and perhaps inspire similar technology in other parts of the world as well. Per Cometto, inquiries have already been fielded from Japan and the Netherlands.
Rosemary Chicken with Mushrooms and Spinach Recipe.
Make this incredible chicken mushroom spinach bake for a dinner the whole family will love! Featuring chicken and vegetables topped with cheese and baked to perfection, this recipe is a crowd-pleaser you’ll want to make again and again! Watch the video or read the instructions below to learn how to prepare this wonderful dish.
Ingredients you will need:
3 lbs. chicken breast sliced into medallions
16 oz. portabella mushrooms
2-4 C. fresh spinach
1/2 C. milk or heavy cream
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1/2 C. chicken stock or broth
1/4 C. white wine
3 T. flour
2 t. thyme
Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
Fresh rosemary, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
Extra virgin olive oil
Cover the bottom of a baking dish add grapeseed oil and layer chicken breasts. Season with seasoned salt and dried thyme. Turn chicken over and repeat ending with a sprinkle of black pepper.
In a medium bowl combine garlic, chicken stock, milk, chopped garlic, white wine, and salt. Whisk in flour and set aside.
Sprinkle the chicken with chopped rosemary. Layer half of the sliced mushrooms oer chicken then layer with spinach.
Top spinach with remaining mushrooms and pour on sauce mixture.
Top with shredded cheese and remaining fresh rosemary.
Bake covered at 400° F. for 45 minutes. Remove foil and bake uncovered for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, serve and enjoy!
It’s been a while. Songs about time. I think any song about time will do for this rainy morning. Time can be in the title, song, or the group or artist’s name.
Isn’t it fascinating to think about the concept of time? It’s unique in the sense that all of us have the same amount of time in a day. But as you know all too well, some people just seem to know how to make better use of it than others. At times, it feels like you need more than 24 hours to get everything done. And during those fleeting moments when you clear your mind, you realize that you’re in an endless race against time.
For those who aren’t familiar with this website, we do music, recipes, and decorations. Today at the MC house it’s Lemon theme. Hopefully you enjoy the decorations.
If you have some decorations, feel free to post them.
It’s summer squash season, and that means zucchini! Try these yummy recipes that make this veggie the star. If you haven’t tried zucchini chips, you are in for a real treat! These crispy, baked veggies make a healthy snack you won’t feel guilty about later.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Wash the zucchini and slice up your zucchini into quarter inch slices.
Crack two egg whites into one bowl.
Mix breadcrumbs, Parmesan cheese, and seasoning in another bowl.
Dip the zucchini chips, one by one, first into the egg whites then into the dry mixture.
Place your chips on a baking sheet. You might want to place foil or parchment with spray over the top
Bake for 7 minutes in a 450 degree oven. Then turn the chips over and bake for another 7-9 minutes or until golden brown on both sides. Serve them while they’re hot!
