I ONLY NEED TWO MORE PIES!!
SO IF YOU WANT TO ENTER A PIE RECIPE YOU NEED TO DO IT ASAP! Can’t wait to get baking!!
some of last year’s pies.
And no we didn’t eat all of those pies! But we did try them all, I made a mini version of every pie so we could at least taste them all. Plus I needed to know if I would ever make any of them again. So we all got literally one bite of every pie.
Pie baking starts November 1st!!
This is a super quick and easy recipe for leftover chicken, but you don’t have to wait until you have leftover chicken to try it. I’m super yummy!
I just take my chicken and cube it, then add a bag of mix veggies and almost a whole family sized can of cream of mushroom OR cream of chicken soup. (maybe you could use two little ones? I’m not sure, I don’t buy little sizes of anything anymore) Sometimes I add a little milk to it too, then salt and pepper. Then you can either put it between two pie crusts OR you can put it in a casserole dish and put biscuits on the top OR you can put cornbread on the top. This time I did cornbread. Then you bake it at 350 degrees until the center is heated through and the dough is done, or the cornbread is cooked or the biscuits are cooked. The cornbread one takes the longest at about 50-60 minutes baking time. BUT IT”S SO WORTH IT & it’s super fast to put together.
My kids will gobble this stuff up.
P.S. The pie crust version of this recipe freezes really well, just make it all up and instead of baking it cover it with foil and put it in the freezer until you need it.
ENJOY!!
I don’t always make goodies for family night treats, but one Monday the kids really wanted a treat. I didn’t have anything planned, and I didn’t have anything in the pantry. So we made these quick and easy doughnuts with a can of refrigerator biscuits. The Grands Flaky Layers work really well. (which I don’t usually have at all, but that day I was glad I did)
It’s really easy, heat your oil in a pan to about 325 degrees. You might have to play with the temperature depending on where you live
Open the can and cut a hole in the middle of the biscuits . You could leave them whole, just cook them really well or they will be doughy in the middle.
Brown the doughnuts and doughnut holes on both sides.
Roll them around in powdered sugar until they are well coated.
That’s it! Enjoy!!
We made some really yummy ice cream sandwiches last night for FHE. I couldn’t decided between gingerbread cookies with pumpkin ice cream or snickerdoodle cookies with pumpkin ice cream SO we made half a batch of each. SO good! And actually they tasted very similar to each other so either choice is perfect.
You’ll Need
Gingerbread cookies I used my favorite recipe here ( I didn’t have butterscotch chips so I had to leave them out)
Snickerdoodles I also used my favorite recipe from here
then assemble
ENJOY!!
I hit 15 pie submissions this week! YIPPY!! I’m getting really, really excited for Nov. 1st to get here, and I can start baking all of those wonderful looking pies. I still have 9 slots open so if you haven't gotten your submission in yet, DON’T FORGET!! I put a list of the pies on my side bar so you can check out what has been entered so far. I thought that might narrow down your choices for you. Hope you all have a great weekend. -J
I found this recipe on the back of my bread flour. It’s really good, after messing around with it a little this is what I came up with.
The Recipe
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The Directions
Combine yeast, sugar, salt, and flour in a large bowl. In a separate microwavable bowl ( I used my 2 cup glass measuring cup) melt the 1/4 cup of butter. To the melted butter add the milk and water, return to the microwave for 30 seconds. Add the milk mixture, vinegar and sautéed mixture to the flour mixture. Mix until well incorporated, and dough is smooth and elastic. Let dough rise until it doubles in size. Punch the dough down and roll the dough out flat on a floured surface. Roll the dough back up to form a loaf (like cinnamon rolls). Cut into two loafs and let rise again until they double. Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. Brush hot bread with melted butter.
The original recipe had you spread the butter and sauté mixture into the middle of the loaf and then roll it up. So you could do it like that. BUT no matter how you make the dough you should still roll the dough out and roll it back up to form a loaf. They come out prettier that way.
We made ours into pizza bread. Which I would totally recommend, the herb flavors of the bread went really well with the pizza toppings. It was delicious.
Enjoy!!
FYI - it’s not your typical crusty french bread, it’s pretty soft, but still it’s worth a try.
On the first Monday of the month in October our family has a little secret tradition. I can’t tell you what it is, because it’s a secret. BUT I will tell you it’s lots of fun and involves delivering Halloween goodies to our friends and neighbors. This year we made melted witch cookies for that tradition.
You’ll Need
First take your sugar cookie and make a green puddle.
Then add the witch hat. To make the hat use half of a mini Oreo and 3/4 of a chocolate Bugle. Then cover the Bugle with black cookie icing and add a round sprinkle for the buckle on the hat.
Add the broom. Make the broom by using more cookie icing to adhere broken pieces of Triscuit crackers to a pretzel stick. (Someone also added eyes to this one.)
ENJOY!!
