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 Apple Cake Fame
You too can enjoy famous this world
class apple delight serving 16. Enjoy the
holiday season without demanding travel to Gatinburg’s famed Tennessee Calico Inn.
To whip up amazing in your kitchen, you need:
4 to 6 cooking apple (depending on size)
4 T. sugar
3 tsp. cinnamon
4 C. Flour (no need to sift)
3 C. additional sugar
5 eggs
1 C. veggie oil
3 tsp. Vanilla
½ C. Orange juice
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
2 C. confectioner sugar
2 T. Margarine (soft)
2 tsp. Vanilla
3. T. Water
Pinch of salt (to taste)Grease and flour one 10" or 12" bundt pan.
Peel and core apples, cut into thin slices.
Toss in mixing bowl with 4 tablespoons sugar,
slightly more of less depending on apples size
and personal taste. Add cinnamon. Let set to
allow sugar and cinnamon to blend into apples.
Mix flour, sugar, eggs, salt, oil, orange
juice, baking powder, baking powder, and vanilla
in large bowl, by hand or in blender.
Fill bottom of prepared pan with a layer of
this thick dough, alternating batter with
apples, three times finishing with a 4th
batter layer.
Bake in 350 degree oven 1 and ½ to nearly 2
hours. Test with toothpick until batter no
longer clings. Remove from heat and allow cake
to slightly cool.
Mix remaining ingredients, confectioner's
sugar, butter, vanilla and water, until creamy,
then drizzle over still hot cake.
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Save cash and harvest the top
selling U.S. herb available simply by by plucking what you need
from your own kitchen window box. Echinacea known for immune enhancing properties taken
with first signs of common colds or flu season, native
to North America is a member of the daisy family.
Outside its purple Coneflower stems can reach 2 to 3
feet in height but not so when indoors. Bristly dark
green leafed, Echinacea roots are fibrous with strong
aromatic fragrance.
More than just herb garden medicine Echinacea becomes
a beautiful flowering herb. Better yet its easy to grow.
Seeds cheap and easily available in most health food
stores, nurseries, or from friends.
Scatter seeds on window box soil and cover lightly.
Germination occurs within 10 to 20 days. Requirements
are moderately rich soil that drains well. Don’t over
water. Keep in brightly lit window, While it can be used
in many forms one all time that brewed in water
Echinacea makes a healthy delicious tea.
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Warm Up Fall With Oven Pancakes
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How about a creative way to use the handy dandy egg?
6 or 8 Eggs
3 oz. Packaged Ramen Noodles (2 packages)
1 T. Sesame oil
1 T. Vegetable oil
1 Celery stalk
2 T. Chopped yellow or green onions
Small can of mushrooms
Grated fresh Ginger or Dried is fine
Soy sauce to taste
In oven proof pan bring 4 cups water to boil on top
of stove, add noodles broken into short pieces. Set
aside seasoning for some future use.
Cook 2 to 4 minutes, drain, dry pan. In mixing bowl blend eggs, soy sauce, mushrooms
(sliced), ginger, seasoning including a pinch of sugar
if desired.
Add vegetable oil to oven pan, brown finely chopped
celery and onion, then add Noodles and mix. Smooth out
to pancake layer. Place in oven, bake at medium heat 9 or 10 minutes.
Turn out onto dish, slice into serving wedges of 21
gms total fat, 367 calories, 14 gms protein.
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Roasted Tomato Rosemary Pasta
1 lb. Italian inexpensive tomatoes
Garlic, (1 clove or tsp. dried granules)
Salt, Pepper, pinch of Sugar if desired.
1 lb. 1 package Pasta
6 T. Olive oil
1 or 2 oz. Fresh rosemary or dried Rosemary
(Optional 1 fresh Bell Pepper)
Place tomatoes sliced in half, rub in garlic, salt and
pepper (optional sugar). Place flat side down on lightly
oiled cookie sheet, bake 12-15 in 375 degree oven until
roasted.
Cook pasta in salted water until tender. Put rosemary
and remaining oil in blender, puree. Season to taste,
toss with pasta and serve.
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Living Lettuce (live roots still
growing in plastic containers)
6 giant fresh Pablano Peppers 99
Cents Only Stores
Herbal Tea - 30 bags
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3 pairs Kids Socks
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Full size box Cherrios and Triscuit
Crackers
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Some of the spice-up additions are homemade by adding
hearty tastes like raisins, herbs, berries, nuts, to a
healthy base such as oil, yogurt, vinegar, or creams.
Most often these are served as a topping, or dressing,
added to give normally quite foods a big spark flavor.
These can be created then kept handy for weeks so
long as they are refrigerated. This combo adds life to
your Italian, Native American, Asian, and Italian dishes
1 ½ teaspoon dried or fresh thyme
3 oz. dried or 6-7 leaves fresh basil
1 T. dried or 1 oz. fresh oregano
1 T. dried or 2 oz. fresh rosemary
1 3/4 C. olive oil
Add herbs to oil. This can be placed in blender for a
quick turn, or store in 14 oz. Bottle as is using funnel
If you don’t have a funnel make a cone of handy aluminum
or cutting the top of a smaller plastic bottle works
fine. Pour mixture into bottle. Close and refrigerate at
least 1 to 2 days until ready for use.
Nutrition Info (per serving) Calories 273 | Fat 28 g |
Carbohydrate 0.1 g | Fiber 0.1 g | Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 1 mg
14.2 Americans go hungry each day
1 of every five children depend n Food Banks.
8% of all families struggle to put enough food on the table.
We need your good ideas.
DOD's goal are to assist the many people struggling
in today's economy.
As we continue to do what we can, we need you to help
when you can.
Thank you.
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