Apple Rose Tarts

Holiday Baking?

Try a tasty yet beautiful dessert that won't put you in a food coma after dinner!

Ingredients:

4-6 Apples of choice
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp Cinnamon
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 1/2 cups flour


Instructions: Boil 1 1/2 cups of water in a medium saucepan with 1 cup of white sugar. Thinly slice apples and add to saucepan, boil for 3-5 minutes. Cooking time depends or the variety of the apples, but slices should be transparent in the end. While boiling, prepare the dough, flatten and cut into 1-2" by 5" rectangles and drizzle with brown sugar and cinnamon. Let the apple slices cool aa bit in a colander and place on paper towel. Place the slices horizontally while layering slightly over one another until the rectangle is mostly covered. Roll from one end tightly and pinch the dough when you reach the other end to secure the rose. Place on parchment paper or in cupcake liners. Repeat until desired amount are created. Bake for 20-25 minutes at 350.

Sausage Stuffing Stuffed Squash

That's a mouthful! Not just the name, when this meal is done no one goes hungry, not even the broke roommate in my case. Inspired by wanting to stuff an acorn squash given to me by a friends mom from her garden, and the first cold day of fall, which to me means holidays, and therefore stuffing, I created -deep breath- sausage, cranberry and apple stuffing stuffed squash.

Total time: 2 hours, serves 6-ish

Ingredients

• 1 large sweet onion

• 1 celery stock

• 20 oz italian ground sausage

• 2 gala apples

• 5oz dried cranberries

• 4 tbsp butter

• 3 eggs

• 1 acorn squash

• salt & pepper

• mustard powder

• 1 loaf wheat or white bread

• 1/2 loaf light rye bread

• 1 can Campbell's cheese soup 

Instructions

Begin by preheating the oven to 400 degrees. Dice the onion and celery and add to a large skillet with 4 tbsp butter, salt, pepper and mustard powder. While this is sautéing, begin toasting bread and ripping into quarter sized pieces into a large bowl. When celery and onion are soft, add into bread bowl and use the skillet to then heat the sausage. Continue toasting and ripping until you have finished the loaf and a half. Flip sausage and continue stirring until fully cooked, then add to the bread mixture. Heat cheese soup with 1/2 cup water, stir, and add to the mixture. Dice apples, and add, along with cranberries. Lastly, add eggs and (remove jewelry from hands) begin to mush with your hands, mixing everything completely until you reach a nice consistency.  Chop the acorn squash in half, scoop out guts, and drizzle with melted butter or olive oil. Fill with stuffing until overflowing and place in greased baking dish. Dispense the remaining stuffing into its own greased baking dish. Heat in oven for 1 hour with the solo stuffing covered for the first 30 minutes. To serve, slice squash into halves again. Bowl recommended. Enjoy. 

Homemade Chicken Pot Pie

Make Classic Dishes Your Own by Adding Some of your Favorite Ingredients!

I have never made Chicken Pot Pie before, nor have I ever had it made for me. But I wanted to try and make a version of it without looking at any recipe, just going for it based on what I think would taste good.

Ingredients

• Pie Crust (was short on time     :/)
• 4 boneless chicken thighs
• 1 box of angel hair pasta, or   other pasta of your liking
• 1 can cream of celery
• 1 can chicken stock
• 1/4 cup peas
• 1/3 cup corn
• 1/4 cup diced carrots
• 1/2 sweet potato
• 1/2 sweet onion
• 1/4 cup butter
• salt and pepper
• 1/3 cup parmesan cheese
• 1/3 cup flour

Directions

Boil a medium sized pot of water and add in noodles. While water is heating, cook chicken in large/deep skillet with salt and pepper. Chop sweet potato and onion and replace with chicken when it is browned. Chop chicken into thin strips and add back into skillet. pour chicken stock and cream of celery and allow to boil. Add in flour and butter and mix. Finally mix in the remaining vegetables and cooked noodles. Simmer on low and prepare pie crust in a greased casserole dish. Pour the contents of the skillet into the crust laden dish slowly and carefully. Sprinkle the top with most of the parmesan cheese, add the top of the crust and use the rest on top. crinkle the edges to form a seam and make an X shaped slit in the center. Cook for 50 minutes to an hour on 400. Recommended beverage: 1% Milk. Enjoy!