Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins

What You'll Need:

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup wheat bran
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
•  1/2 tsp salt
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 1/3 cups bananas, mashed (2-3 medium bananas)
• 1/3 cup applesauce, unflavored
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/3 cup pecans, chopped

What To Do:

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and line your muffin pan with paper or foil liners. If you prefer, you can spray the muffin cups with non-stick spray instead.
2. In a large bowl combine both flours, your wheat bran, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
3. In a separate bowl combine your eggs and milk. Once mixed, stir in the bananas, applesauce, and vanilla.
4. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just moistened.
5. Add your chocolate chips to the mix and stir together.
6. Fill your prepared muffin cups three-fourths full and sprinkle the chopped pecans over the batter.
7. Bake for 18-22 minutes.

** If you don't have whole wheat flour or wheat bran on hand, just substitute all-purpose flour in their place. Same goes for substituting vegetable oil for the applesauce. Your muffins will still taste super yummy, they just won't be as healthy. Also, I use wheat germ in place of wheat bran, simply because I can't find wheat bran in my tiny town. **


Dish Info:

Each muffin contains 191 calories if prepared as the recipe states. I got this dish from my wonderful Taste of Home Cookbook. You should be able to bake a dozen muffins with this recipe.

Baked Apples

What You'll Need

• 6 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 tbsp flour
• 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp Cloves
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 Walnuts, chopped
• 1/2 cup milk

What To Do

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and coat a 2-quart baking dish with cooking spray.
2. In a large bowl mix together the flour, sugar, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Cloves.
3. Add your sliced apples to the sugar mixture, stirring to coat.
4. Fold the raisins and Walnuts into the apples and spoon the fruit into your prepared baking dish, spooning milk over top.
5. Bake for 45-60 minutes, until apples are soft. Allow dish to cook slightly before serving.

Dish Info 

This delicious recipe serves 12 appetites, and can be easily halved. It is also scrumptious when served with a scoop of Vanilla ice cream.

Pumpkin Pie

What You'll Need

• 1 1/2 pints Vanilla ice cream
• 3 eggs
• 1 3/4 cups pumpkin puree
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp Ginger
• 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
• 1 prepared pie crusts

What To Do 

1. Preheat your oven to 425 degrees.
2. Melt the ice cream.
3. In a large bowl whisk together the eggs, stirring in the pumpkin puree, sugar, salt, Cinnamon, Ginger, and Nutmeg.
4. Mix the melted ice cream into the puree mixture until smooth.
5. Pour the filling into pie crust.
6. Bake for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for an additional 30-40 minutes or until the filling is set.

** To melt the ice cream, let the container thaw to the point where you can easily scoop out the amount you need. Transfer the correct amount of ice cream to a microwave safe bowl and heat until melted. **


Dish Info

This recipe serves 8 pumpkin-lovin' appetites.

Apple Pie

What You'll Need

• Package of 2 pie crusts
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tbsp flour
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tbsp ground Cinnamon
• 4 Granny Smith apples, evenly sliced
• 2 Golden Delicious apples, evenly sliced
• 2 tbsp butter, cut up
• 1/2 cup quick cooking oats
• 1 tbsp milk

What To Do

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Fit your first pie crust into the bottom of a pie pan.
3. Combine the sugar, brown sugar, flour, Cinnamon, and oats in a small bowl and mix together.
4. Pour 1/4 cup of sugar mix over your apples and toss to coat.
5. Spoon the seasoned apples into your prepared pie dish, making sure that they don't pile up in the middle. Dot the tops of the apples with your cut up butter and sprinkle the remaining sugar mix over top.
6. Place the remaining pie crust over the apples, crimping the sides together with the bottom crust, and brush the crust with milk.
7. Bake for 50-55 minutes

** The top pie crust can be done in lattice form or simply placed as an entire round of dough over the pie. However, make sure to cut ventilation holes in the middle to let the steam from the cooking apples escape. **


Dish Info

This delicious pie serves 12 hungry appetites.

Blueberry Muffins

What You'll Need

• 2 cups self-rising flour
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cups whole milk
• 1 cup blueberries (frozen or fresh)

What To Do

1. Preheat your oven to 375 and line your muffin tin.
2. Combine the flour and sugar in a large bowl.
3. In a small bowl combine your eggs, vanilla, oil, and milk, whisking together until mixed.
4. Make a well in the center of your flour mixture and pour in the liquid. Mix together until moistened.
5. Gently fold in blueberries and spoon your batter into the muffin tin. 
6. Bake for 20-25 minutes.

* *To keep the blueberries from sinking to the bottom of the batter toss them around in a tablespoon or two of flour before you add them to muffin batter**

Dish Info

This recipes makes 18 scrumptious muffins. I believe, (it's been a few years since I received this recipe) non other than Paula Dean concocted this recipe- gotta give credit where credit is due!

Fruit Salad

What You'll Need

• 2 cups strawberries, sliced
• 1 lb seedles grapes
• 3 bananas, peeled & sliced
• 8-oz strawberry yogurt

What To Do

1. Mix all ingredients together and serve immediately.

Dish Info

This recipe contains 12 servings, depending on your appetite.