This has been a weekend to eat outside! The temps dropped into the high 70’s, so we took a picnic to the lake on Saturday, ate supper out back at our little soda table in the yard Saturday night, and had breakfast and Sunday dinner on the deck. It was perfect!
Menu
Roasted Chicken with Lemon Curd
Potatoes & Carrots
Steamed Broccoli
Fresh Fruit
I tried a new roasted chicken recipe for dinner and we both loved it. It has an herb mixture rubbed under the skin of the chicken, then you glaze the outside with lemon curd. It was really moist and full of flavor. The recipe came from Cooking Light and you can find it here. The outside of the chicken gets a little dark because of the sweet curd, but that’s also oh, so delicious!
I added carrots and potatoes to the dish in about a cup of chicken broth. It just makes for an easy side dish. I don’t know about you, but we are always ready to eat when we get home from church, so anything I can do to hasten getting the meal on the table is a good thing!
Is this not the perfect apple?
We picked up some Gala apples at the Apple Barn last week and it got me to thinking about apple desserts, specifically, fried apple pies. So I made a batch…
When I was growing up, my mom often made fried pies for our picnics, so when we planned a picnic for Saturday, I got up and cooked some dried apples and made pies for our day at the lake. It’s a nice treat I make about once a year!
I also hadn’t made bread for about a month, so I decided to make Cinnamon Raisin Bread with my Sour dough starter. I love looking at Panera and other bakeries and getting ideas for my breads. I added a cinnamon crunch topping to my bread, along with the cinnamon and raisins that were swirled into the loaf. Fall just cries out for bread like this, doesn’t it? I toasted a slice, buttered it and sprinkled it with cinnamon and sugar. Yummy treat at breakfast!
What kind of special things have you been cooking in your kitchen this week?
Under His feathers,
RefreshHer 
Okay, how do you make those little
“fried pies”??
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1. I love your new background!
2. The fried pies AND the cinnamon bread both look so yummy!
3. We had a nice break from our HOT summer on Saturday, it was in the low 80's w/no humidity. =) Since it was soooo cool, I made chili for supper. Here's the recipe I used: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/chili-in-a-biscuit-bowl-recipe/index.html
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Beth, for my fried pies, I cook up dried apples until they're nice and mushy soft. I add sugar to taste, as well as cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg.
Make up pie dough – (2 cups flour, 1 tsp salt, 3/4 cup Crisco and ice cold water) Roll the dough out, then cut into round shapes. You can use a small bowl that would be about 5″ in diameter. Place filling on half of the dough, fold over and crimp with a fork.
Melt butter in a skillet and brown the pies in the butter. I also set them up on their sides to get the edges crispy once the front and back get browned. Place on paper towels on a cooling rack. Sprinkle with sugar while warm.
They're a bit time consuming, but they're worth it!
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Okay, thanks, I'll try it! The lady at the exercise place won't understand why I didn't lose any weight when I come everyday!
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