Howdy!
Fall is probably my favorite season of the year. The weather allows for outdoors activity, it is the season for apple and pumpkin goodies, and the beginning of my busy season of birthdays and holidays. So in the spirit of the fall equinox yesterday, I made crock-pot cinnamon apples.
I found the recipe on pintrest (I am fully addicted) and thought it would be the perfect treat for a day full of studying for a neurobiology test on Tuesday. This is the recipe for the apples. I did some tweaking due to what I had on hand and previous apple dishes I have made before.
First I did not have large apples- I bought a large bag of small gala apple from the store and needed to use them up. To supplement the lack or large apples i used 9 instead of 6. (yes I know there was 10 apples in the picture, but I felt that there were plenty of apple slices in the pot when slicing) Second I do not have nutmeg, so that went out the window. Finally I used 2tbsp of orange juice to give it a tart kick. I learned to make a baked apple in the microwave when I was a kid using a cored apple, stuffing it with cinnamon, brown sugar, butter, and OJ and putting it in the microwave. Turns out great. So That is where I got the idea for O.J.
Apples sliced and in the crock pot.
The rest of the ingredients in the pot. I then stirred all of the ingredients together.
Final product. I chose to do the low for 4hrs in hopes of a wonderful smelling apartment for a longer period of time. Unfortunately I did not notice the fabulous smell unless I was stirring it. It turned out so good. Warm, gooey, happiness in a bowl!
Well, that is all for now. Happy autumnal equinox all!
Happy eatings,
Smashley
Bonjour!
Because of my crazy up-coming two weeks of school, I was trying to make some tasty, healthy, and easy meals. Today was just that. Thanks to my new obsession Pintrest...I am finding more recipes than I can shake a stick at. That is where I found my recipes for dinner.
I made a slow cooker BBQ chicken, a stuffed and baked sweet potato, and some frozen veggies that came with a cheese sauce. The chicken fell off the bone and could be cut with a spoon, and the sweet potato was basically a sweet potato casserole in backed potato form (with marshmallows and all.)
This is the recipe for the chicken and This is the recipe for the potato.
As a side note I love ginger slices in my water. So yummy :)
What is your easy go to recipe?
Happy eatings,
Smashley
Good evening everybody!
So I totally wanted to bite into a fattening-ly delicious cupcakes from GiGi's right around the corner from me. They are sinfully good. Well, I have been trying to be more health, So I found something else instead. Can you say YUM! I used this recipe. It was fairly easy (except I would recommend making sure you are using a 1/2 tsp and not a 1/2 tbsp). Yeah I made a few mistakes...but they turned out ok. Good thing I realized and took out some of the salt and baking soda. That was a close call.
These muffins have three components. The pumpkin muffin, a cheese cake
layer, and a streusel layer. Over all it was fairly healthy and I have
enough pumpkin left over to have a pumpkin breakfast shake tomorrow :).
Here is the grouping of ingredients (I used 1/3fat cream cheese from Aldi)
This is the cheese cake batter
Streusle topping- I later added more butter because this was one of the steps that I used the 1/2TBSP instead of 1/2tsp.
Filling the tins with the filling.
The recipe made 24 muffins, but not enough cheese cake topping. Thankfully from my faux pas I had extra streusel.
Final product with a missing bite.
Quite tasty!!! I really liked it and the roomie agreed. Def a keeper recipe! Enjoy!
What is your favorite thing to do with pumpkin?
Happy eatings,
Smashley
Howdy!
So today I made a typical go to dinner for school. I made baked barbeque chicken with steamed peas and fresh radishes. Not so typical i made some mash potatoes...which I was very disappointed in because I added way to much milk. But it was still tasty none the less.
Sorry I don't have my usual pictures step by step. I was lazy. Sorry.
So I rubbed the chicken in some season salt, garlic powder, and some ground sage. Poured on some Sweet Baby Ray's Brown Sugar Hickory. (Sweet Baby Ray's is by far the best hands down BBQ sauce. Just saying) And baked for 25 minutes in the oven. I flipped at 15minutes and slathered more BBQ sauce on it.
To the snow peas, I added some butter and steamed in the micro in a bowl covered by plastic wrap for about a minute or so.
The mashed potatoes I boiled peeled potatoes in water with salt, garlic powder, and dry thyme. Then mashed with some (aka too much) 1% milk and some margarine.
Radishes- salt and that's it.
Happy college student for dinner :D
Well, I am off to eat my dinner now.
What is your go to meal?
Happy Eatings,
Smashley.
