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October 28, 2015 By Tina

Fall Recipes – www.MomIsForever.com

We are now in the middle of Fall and I’ve been looking for new recipes to serve my family. We’ve sort of grown tired of the same old stuff and now that my children are older, I have a little more time to spend in the kitchen trying out new foods. During my search, I came across several great suggestions.

I’m not great a making pies. I’ve tried and failed several times. That won’t stop me from trying again, but here is a recipe I think I can handle. A Mom’s Take shares with us a great Apple Pie Cake recipe which calls for basic ingredients and is easy enough for even me. Her photos will make your mouth water and you can print the entire recipe found at the end of her post. Then, she gives us a sneak peek into another yummy recipe, Peach Cobbler. Visit A Mom’s Take here to get the details!

Apple spice is a Fall favorite. In any store at any given time from September 1 all the way through Christmas, I can get almost anything I want in the colors and flavors of apple spice. Well, This Mom Can Cook shows us how to make Apple Spice Muffins. She shares a recipe she received from a company called Nature Box and they look delicious! Visit This Mom Can Cook here to get the complete recipe and to learn more about Nature Box.

We like pork chops for dinner but I never thought about serving them as a special Fall meal until I came across this recipe from Tracey over at The Kitchen is My Playground. Tracey shares her recipe for Slow Cooker Apple Pork Loin {with Honey & Cinnamon, too!} Did you notice the words “slow cooker” in the title? That is one of the first things I noticed. I’m not the greatest cook but I’ve never made anything in my slow-cooker that turned out badly. In fact, I now have several slow-cookers and this past Monday, I had them all going at the same time. Visit The Kitchen is My Playground here for this great recipe.

Many of my favorite childhood memories are the nights I spent with my grandparents. My mother’s daddy (I called him Pawpaw) would get up at 4:00am every morning. I always wondered why he did that so one day I asked him. He said he had been getting up at 4:00am since he served in the Army during WWII and he just never could break the habit. I preferred to sleep in on Saturdays but when I spent Friday nights with him, that wasn’t going to happen. I remember hearing him in the bathroom across the hall, shaving and completing his morning grooming routine. Then he made his way past “my” room and into the kitchen where you would still find remnants from the 1940s. Pretty soon, there it would be the aroma of biscuits in the oven. Now, my grandfather didn’t make them from scratch. He preferred the Pillsbury canned kind. I loved them too. I suppose it was a combination of the fact that they really did taste good and the fact that he made them for me. As soon as I heard him take the pan out of the oven, he would be standing in the doorway calling, “Your biscuits are done! Come on in here now while there still hot!”

I would stumble into the kitchen where he met me not only with a smile, but with a laugh. He knew he had made something I liked and we were about to enjoy it together. We would sit and eat the entire pan all by ourselves while my grandmother slept. Sometimes he made another pan and we ate most of that one too. I wish I could remember those conversations. I don’t remember all the things we talked about but I remember the joy on his face and his laughter during all those early mornings we spent together. I’m not a morning person. I rarely get up that early without complaining, but way back then, I got up for him and those memories are precious.

I suppose that story is the reason I’ve always liked canned biscuits. I never open up a can of Pillsbury canned biscuits without thinking of my grandfather. That’s the reason I love this Mini Apple Dumplings recipe by Mommy Musings. These are little apple pies made from Pillsbury canned crescent rolls. Be sure to stop over to Mommy Musings here to get her complete recipe and instructions.

What’s not to love about homemade applesauce? Homemade foods taste so much better and they’re a lot healthier than processed foods. We do eat the the applesauce that comes in the little plastic containers a lot because they are so convenient, but you can make a lot of homemade apple sauce, pour it into small containers and freeze it. Applesauce freezes well so you can enjoy it for a long time without wasting it. Mary over at Mission to Save shares an easy six-step recipe for homemade applesauce so head over there and check it out.

I’ve tasted baked apples and I love oatmeal so this recipe caught my attention – oatmeal baked inside an apple! Kelly shares a 4-ingredient recipe on her blog, The Grant Life . Her photographs look so good that I can smell the oatmeal and baked apple right now.

Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars – the name of this delicacy sounds so good . . . well, I just don’t know how else to describe them, but Sweet Bella Roos shows us how to make them and they look like they will melt in your mouth. I haven’t made these for my family yet but they are on my list. I’ll have to try them several times . . . you know . . . to make sure they are just right before taking them to any fall family gatherings like Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Apple pie is a fall favorite at all our family holiday gatherings but I remember my grandmother and great grandmother peeling and slicing so many apples that my hands hurt just watching them. I’ve always wanted to make a great apple pie but never took the time to do it, feeling like it would probably take me all day long to get it even close to my grandmother’s quality. Barb over at Second Chance to Dream shows us an easy way to make a great apple pie. Head over there to get a list of ingredients (there are only a few) and complete easy instructions.

Apple Cinnamon Cupcakes sound good enough but how about Apple Cinnamon Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Glaze? That just sounds too good to be true. The best part of this recipe from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks is that she shows us how to make these muffins entirely from scratch. That’s the best kind! You won’t find a muffin mix on her ingredient list. You find a lot of other good stuff instead. Be sure to visit Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks here and get all the details.

I had never heard of Apple Pie Dip until I came across the recipe on Mom’s Test Kitchen. It’s this great chunky apple dip that you serve with crisp cinnamon chips or whatever chips you like. Mom’s Test Kitchen’s blog author, Jaime, also suggests topping it with ice cream. Head over there and get her recipe and try it!

Passion for Savings shares a nice Oven Baked Apples recipe. This is a great alternative to baking a whole apple pie. She shares how to bake a nice fall apple dessert, also great served with an ice cream topping.

Let’s get away from food for a minute and talk beverages. You can’t make it all the way through a fall season without having a few cups of hot apple cider. I usually enjoy apple cider when I visit apple orchards and pumpkin farms but you can make it at home too. This is another recipe from Passion for Savings and it includes caramel and a Crock-pot! Head over to Passion for Savings to learn how to make Caramel Apple Cider in a Crock-pot!

Here’s another mouthwatering and different recipe – Apple Fries. Throw together a few ingredients, fry these babies up and dip them in whipped cream – oh my goodness! Here is another new recipe to go on my “gotta try this” list. Head over to Around My Family Table to get the recipe.

It’s a salad folks – need I say more? Well, I know this is indeed a sweet treat but the fact that it’s called a salad has to count for something. Jamie over at Love Bakes Good Cakes shows her audience how to bake a lot of treats but I think this Caramel Apple Snickers Salad will be my favorite. You’ve got caramel, apples, and snickers . . . and it’s a salad. It can’t possibly get any better than that, until January when I’m spending a lot of extra time on the treadmill and eating a lot more real salads. 🙂 Until then, we can enjoy a few fall treats so head over to Love Bakes Good Cakes for all the details about how to make a Caramel Apple Snickers Salad.

You have to go over to Written Reality and let Mitzi show you how to make Apple Puffs. They are like little mini apple pies.

It looks like I have a lot of new recipes to try. I’ve always been a Spring and Summer person but the older I get, the more I appreciate the colors of Fall. I love the beautiful Fall foliage here, warm blankets, fires in fireplaces, trips to apple orchards and pumpkin farms, and I most certainly love the smells and tastes of Fall. I usually get a little bit sad when the Fall season comes around but this year, I think I’m ready and I’ll be enjoying lots of new foods too.

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