Recipes:
The Fall-inspired recipes continue to pour in. Thank you! Today, Miss Katy (who certainly needs a blog already!) sent this yummy dessert idea:
Apple Pear Crumble:
You can make this crumble with almost any fruit, using similar quantities and adjusting for sweetness. Serve it warm, in shallow bowls.
3 medium baking apples (such as Braeburn or Empire), peeled and thinly sliced
3 medium ripe pears (such as Bosc), peeled and thinly sliced
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 13×9-inch baking pan. In a large bowl, mix apples, pears, maple syrup, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Pour into the prepared baking pan, spreading evenly.
Topping (I usually make almost double the topping because I like a lot of topping. I also reduce the flour a little bit and up the oats and brown sugar a little.)
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
1/3 finely chopped walnuts
2 Tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
2 Tablespoons light-brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
In a small bowl, combine all ingredients and mix well. Sprinkle the topping evenly over the fruit mixture. Bake until the fruit is tender and the topping is golden, 40-45 minutes. Let cool until just warm, then serve.
Yield: 8 servings.
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If you need some additional recipe greatness, I highly recommend checking out the San Francisco Chronicle’s list of their best recipes during the last 20 years. I regularly make recipes from their food section and this list is impressive. I am going to make several of these for a dessert platter I am preparing for this weekend’s festivities.
Weekend Excitement:
I’m not going to play coy — I’m thrilled to be attending this year’s Tequila Stakes Croquet. I’m going to meet a slew of bloggers I know simply via comments and email, and entice them with baked goods while kicking their asses at croquet. If that doesn’t sound like an awesome way to spend a Saturday afternoon!
Sewing:
I’ve been busy with a few Fall aprons. The first is for a friend I cook with. Her sister lived in Africa and is dating a man from Cote d’Ivoire. She a fellow fan of the African animal motif.
It is giraffe fabric and a touch hard to see. Pockets on the front…
and patches on the back.
And I made an apron for my coffee shop buddy AJ. He’s the hedgehog lover. I used that fantastic printable fabric for this one and included the recipe on the pockets.
Cute little hedgehog.
They say we’ve officially had our last day of 100+ degree heat and to expect cool weather this weekend. Yahoo!
~K