An Apple A Day...Day 7

Day 7...Waldorf Salad

Here is the final recipe for An Apple A Day. I'm all out of apples, but I still have tons of wonderful apple recipes I'd love to share. Hopefully you'll be seeing those and more in the future.

I had 2 Granny Smith apples left for today. What to do with 2 apple? WALDORF SALAD. You will see instructions and I apologize for some of the pictures, and the end result didn't look beautiful or anything, but it sure tasted good! Here goes...

Here are the items you will need:

between 1/4 and 1/2 cup mayonnaise
between 1 and 1 1/2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
1 apple; peeled, cored, and sliced
1 stalk celery
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup walnuts
salt and pepper

I'm sure you're noticing no celery or raisins. That's because I don't like raisins and I didn't have any celery. But I'm sure both would have made this recipe even better!

First: Mix mayonnaise and vinegar together. I gave the different amounts for both because if you use too much of the vinegar, the mix is too runny. And depending on the size of your apple, there may be too much mayonnaise. So just start mixing, a little here, a little there, until you get it to your desired consistency.

Second: Through in your chopped apple and 1/2 cup walnuts. *If you have celery and raisins, this is where you would mix them in as well.


Third: Mix together and add salt and pepper to taste. When I mixed all this together, I found that I had to much of the vinegar and mayonnaise mixture. So I took my other apple, peeled cored, and sliced it, and threw it in.
Spoon out onto a pretty little bowl with a lettuce leaf and there you have it. A cool, refreshing, quick, and easy dessert!

I hope you enjoyed An Apple a Day! Happy cooking!

An Apple A Day...Day 6

Day 6...Canned Crock Pot Apple Butter

This is a great recipe and an old time favorite! And super easy! Hope you enjoy!

Here are the items you need:

5 pounds of apples
4 cups sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt

First: Peel the apples.

Second: Slice and core the apples.

Third: Place apples in the crock pot.

Fourth: In a bowl, mix sugar, cinnamon, ground cloves, and salt.

Fifth: Pour mixture over the apples and mix well.

Sixth: Cover the crock put and cook on high for 5 hours.

Stir occasionally, until mixture is dark brown and thick.

Seventh: Reduce heat to low, uncover, and cook for 1 hour. Stir with whisk or mash mixture with potato masher if you are wanting a more smooth butter.

Eighth: Spoon mixture into hot, sterilized jars. Wipe top of jars then put the lids on. Boil in a boiling water canner for 10 minutes.

Then wait for the "PoP! PoP! Pops!" One of my favorite parts of canning is waiting to here the lids pop and counting them down!

Don't they look great! I can't wait for some hot biscuits. Have I told you how much I love biscuits?...let's just put it this way, a nickname of mine growing up was the biscuit burner and the Mr. doesn't call me "Biscuit" for nothing. I can't get enough of those fluffy, flaky, buttery biscuits....

Back to apple butter!

I was hoping for more jars to fill, but this really cooked down. I ended up with 2 pints, 3 half pints, and 2 of those small jelly jars. They will make great gifts, though...if they last that long!

An Apple A Day...Day 5

Day 5...Baked Apples Take 2

I wasn't too thrilled with yesterdays baked apples. It wasn't what I was expecting. I thought I would go with a second attempt...and they were tasty enough to make it into Day 5 of An Apple a Day...

Here are the items you will need:

5 apples
1/4 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup warm water
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon vanilla


Preheat oven to 350 degrees

First: Peel the apples.


Second: Slice the apples and pour them into a baking dish that has a lid that can also go in the oven.

Third: Mix the remaining ingredients together in a separate bowl.


Fourth: Pour the mixture over the sliced apples. Stir.

Fifth: Put the lid on your baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 45 minutes. At 35 minutes, I pulled the dish out of the oven, stirred the apples and baked for another 10 minutes...until the apples were tender.

OH MY GOODNESS!! If only you could smell these...they smell like Christmas morning!

Now...this is more like it! These are what I like to call Baked Apples!

Muy Delicioso!

An Apple A Day...Day 4

Day 4...Baked Apples

I hope I don't run out of apples...I still have 3 days left. Ya'll I am so proud of myself for doing this consecutively. I'm not saying that I am one who gives up and doesn't finish things but you know how hard it is being a woman today. Workin full time...errands...church....cleaning the house...cooking....cleaning the house... And I don't even have children. God bless all of you mothers out there. ANYWAYS...being so busy, it is really hard to keep something like this going, so I am proud that I have made it this far! I made a commitment to ya'll and by golly I'm gonna keep it! Not to mention the fact that these apples are too good to waste!


So here are the items you will need:

3 cups apples (about 3 medium sized apples will do the trick)
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup oatmeal
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup flour
1/3 cup butter
1/3 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 cup water

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

First: Peel and slice the apples.




Second: Mix 1 tablespoon flour, sugar, and cinnamon.



Third: Mix the flour, sugar, and cinnamon mixture with the sliced apples.

...Mixing...

Fourth: Pour into a greased baking dish.

Fifth: Mix remaining ingredients.

Sixth: Pour over apple mixture.

Seventh: Pour the water over the mixture and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, until the apples are golden and tender.




Ok...so let me be honest with you about this recipe.... It wasn't what I was expecting. But, I used the apples and didn't want to waste them, so... If I had it to do over again, I would have stopped after step four. I would have mixed about 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla with about a cup of water or apple juice and poured it on top of the apples and baked it. I would have left all of the topping off. But, you may like it. Maybe I'll try the other recipe and tell you how it turns out!

Bon Appetit

Kickin' off November with An Apple A Day

Well, we kicked off October with apples so why not do the same for November. Not to mention the fact that I have 2 Pecks of apples that will go to waste if I don't do something with them. I do enjoy apples. I love their smell, their taste, their texture, and the fact that you can do a gazillion things with them. I think I'll just show you 7 of the gazillion things that can be done with them.

This is a precious little store in Blowing Rock that I always buy my apples from. Did you know there were so many choices! I will be using a lot of the King Lucious, Winesap, and Stamey's.

What do you think?...7 days of An Apple A Day for the first week of November. Think you can hang with me?

Join me tomorrow to celebrate November and Day 1 of An Apple A Day!