Cranberry sauce

1 Cup sugar
1 cup water
1 pkg. cranberries (2 cups)

Wash berries put water in a pan
add sugar.  bring to a boil stirring often.
add cranberries
return to a boil
reduce heat and boil gently 10 min
cool to room temp before refrigerating.

Grandma Teasdale's Pumpkin Coconut Bread

1 1/3 C oil
5 eggs (beaten)
1 small can pumpkin

Beat together and add:

2 C sugar
2 C flour
2 pkg coconut cream pie filling
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Nuts (optional)


Makes 4 small or 2 large loaves
325 degrees
45 min for small loaves
60 min for large laoves

Spicy chip dip

1 pkg Cream Cheese (softened)
1 can Rotel Tomatoes (Undrained)

Mix with mixer until well blended.  We like it with regular potato chips, but it works with tortilla chips and Fritos as well.

Quick and Easy Cinnamon Rolls

1 Roll Pillsbury pizza dough (or favorite ready dough)
Cream cheese softened
brown sugar
cinnamon
2tbl butter softened
chopped walnuts/pecans/almonds etc (optional)
Cream cheese frosting (home-made or store bought which ever you have on hand)

~Unroll Pillsbury dough and press or roll out to desired thickness (I prefer very thin)
~Spread on a layer of cream cheese
~Combine brown sugar, cinnamon and butter and layer over cream cheese
~Sprinkle chopped nuts over evenly
~Roll as tight as you can without tearing the dough
~Slice into rounds and place in a backing dish to rise while the oven warms up per Pillsbury box instructions
~Place in oven and cook until top edges are golden brown and rolls are fragrant
~Spread cream cheese over top of warm rolls to allow it to become soft and melt into the rolls.
~Enjoy!

Cinnamon Apple Upside-Down Cake

I have added this recipe before but thought I'd add a photo of the finished product.

Last weekend while working the Paonia Harvest Festival I was able to trade 2 knit baby hats for a whole box of organic apples (one of my favorite fall ingredients)...so we have been having a real apple fest at our house using them in all our favorite apple recipes.

Hope this inspires all of you to go out and use a great fall ingredient. :-)

1 box regular yellow cake mix
1 large Granny Smith Apple or 2 small Season Tart green apples
Palm full Cinnamon
Pinch Nutmeg
Palm full Brown sugar

Parchment paper
1 Deep round cake dish

~Follow box instructions for Yellow Cake
~add a few healthy dashes of cinnamon to batter.
~Remove the skins and cores from the apples
~Slice ¾ of the apples into thin half moon shapes.
~Dice the remaining 1/3 apple into small pieces and set aside.

~Toss apple slices with brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg (these ingred should be to taste, none should overpower any other).
~Use parchment paper to line your baking pan (this will allow you to turn out your cake perfectly after baking).
~Layer spiced apple slices along bottom of baking dish
~pour in yellow cake batter and then sprinkle remaining diced apples over the top.

~Bake per the directions on the boxcheck the cake with a tooth pick to ensure the cake is fully cooked before removing from oven.

The small diced apples will have floated to the center of the cake. You should now be able to turn out your cake to reveal your lovely half moon apple slices on the top of your cake

Serving Suggestion:Drizzle with warmed caramel and serve along side of French vanilla ice cream, OR enjoy warm right out of the oven no extra additives needed.

Blood Punch with a floating hand

 Halloween Neighbor gift--great for visiting teaching

1 Quart mason jar
2 packet black cherry Kool-aid
2 Cups sugar
1-2 vinyl gloves (NO LATEX!)
1 square of fabric
String or ribbon
paper with instructions:
Blood Punch with a floating hand
Fill Glove (s) with water, tie off and freeze
Add 2 quarts of water for Blood Punch
carefully remove glove from icy hand
place in punch and serve
Hole punch 


Stir the sugar and kool-aid together in the Mason Jar.  Place the lid on the jar and then center the square of fabric on the lid and secure with the ring.  Hole punch the paper and place on string.  Using the same string, tie the gloves to the mason Jar ring.


I loved doing this.  The Ice turns white in the middle when you drop it in the punch and it looks like bones!  Super cool and the kids love it.   I found this variation online:

http://murfreesborohaunts.blogspot.com/2007/09/blood-punch-recipe-for-all-you-vampires.html

3 cups (500 mL) cranberry juice
1-1/2 cups (250 mL) apple juice
1-1/2 cups (250 mL) grape juice
2 cups (500 mL) caffeine-free cola
1 cup (250 mL) frozen strawberries
Cooking Instructions
In a large pitcher or punch bowl, combine the cranberry juice, apple juice and grape juice. Stir, then refrigerate until you're ready to serve. At the last possible moment, add the cola, the strawberries and, of course, the Floating Hand of Death (directions below).
Floating Hand

In a measuring cup or jar, stir a few drops of green food coloring into some water — not too much, just enough to give it a slightly decomposed tint. Pour the greenish water into a disposable rubber glove (the stretchy kind — make sure it's not powder-coated inside) and tie the top securely. Place in the freezer for several hours or overnight. At serving time, peel the glove off the hand and deposit icy hand in chilled punch. Yum.
Servings: Makes about 10 servings.
How kids can help

Stir together the punch ingredients.
Un-glove the Hand of Death and add to the punch.

General Conference Snack Mix

2 cups salted peanuts
3 cups mini Pretzels
1 cup M&Ms
1 cup raisins



Toss together in a bowl or divide up into baggies.   ---In lieu of pretzels or peanuts, I've used Cheerios and coconut as well.

Yummy Fruit Dip

1 Pkg (8 ounces) Cream cheese, softened
1 Jar (7 ounces) Marshmallow Cream

Stir together and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Serve with fruit for dipping--i prefer strawberries with this one but apples and bananas are great too!