A Bushel Of Apple Recipes

Fall's recipes almost always include apples.  For me, that's a real treat, because I love them raw and crispy or cooked and meltingly delicious or anything in between.

This time of year, one of my favorite things to whip up is a big crockpot full of apple cider, mulling with some Penzey's mulling spices, a little sugar (if it is a tart batch only) and/or a bit of either cranberry or orange juice blended in on occasion for a tasty change of pace.

If you heat it in the crockpot, you can leave it on warm for a while, and your whole house smells like heaven while it mulls.

Wonderful stuff, and perfect for when company drops over.

When I want some quickly?  I just shake a little apple pie spice in the bottom of a mug, fill it with cider and heat it in the microwave for two and a half minutes or so to steep the spice into the cider.  Love it.  It's like apple pie in a mug.

But we also do a lot with apple muffins, crisps, baked and sauteed apples for desserts.  And for snacks?  A cut up apple with a tablespoon or so of peanut butter can be pure heaven.

Here are a few more recipe ideas to get you going:


-- Jackson Pollack Candied Apples
-- Fall Salad With Apples, Walnuts and Stilton
-- Spiced Pork Tenderloin With Sauteed Apples
-- French Toast With Maple-Apple Compote
-- Southern Pecan And Apple Salad
-- Quick Spiced Apple And Butternut Squash Soup
-- Wild Rice With Apples
-- Cast Iron Apple Cobbler
-- Autumn Apple Cake
-- Red Cabbage And Apple Salad With Ginger Vinaigrette
-- Old Fashioned Oatmeal Apple Honey Cake
-- Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake
-- Spiced Apple-Pecan Oatmeal
-- Apple And Raisin Slaw
-- Cinnamon Apple Raisin Bread Pudding
-- Double Apple Bran Muffins
-- Apple And Gorgonzola Salad With Maple Dressing
-- Old Fashioned Apple Nut Crisp
-- Apple-Cinnamon Fruit Bars
-- Apple Confit
-- Maple-Cinnamon Applesauce
-- Plum And Apple Compote With Vanilla Custard
-- Apple Crumb Squares With Apple Cider Sauce
-- Baked Apples With Dried Fruits And Walnuts
-- Apple Bacon Pancakes With Cider Syrup
-- Baked Apple Cinnamon French Toast
-- Bok Choy-Apple Slaw
-- Cheddar-Apple Melt
-- Spiced Apple Cider Muffins
-- Chicken-Apple Sausage
-- Chunky Apple-Rhubarb Sauce With Dried Cranberries
-- Curried Carrot-Apple Soup
-- Warm Apple-Cabbage Salad
-- Apple And Leek Stuffed Pork Tenderloin
-- Apple Oatmeal Cookies
-- Puffed Dutch Apple Pancakes
-- Apple Streusel
-- Cinnamon-Apple Muffins
-- Grandma's Applesauce Cake (this recipe via my pal WB) 


(Gorgeous shot of an apple via Selma90.)