I am not a chef. While some of these recipes are adapted from existing recipes, many of them are my own creation...no recipe in sight. Others have been so changed from their original that I doubt if I told the creator I based a recipe off theirs that they would recognize it. I just love to cook. More than that, I love the challenge of cooking with seasonal ingredients, or like now, when there are few veggies in season, seeing what I can make with the ingredients I have on hand. It is fun to me to do a big grocery shop at the beginning of the month, brimming with ideas, knowing I will change what I make, and see how long I can go before the next "big shop". Only picking up something small (like sour cream today) to complement the final product. All of these recipes should be accessible to the home cook. To people without gourmet food stores or weird ingredients. Most are simple, but a few like the one below, require intermediate knowledge. But if you are a beginner, it's ok to dive in. What's the worst that can happen? You feed the result to the dog (p.s. this is a dog safe recipe!).
Anyway, enough rambling. After a meal of butternut chili (for another post) and homemade corn bread, we had APPLE CHEWIES!
Apple Chewies (makes about 3 dozen cookies)
Ingredients:
1 1/2 c. whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 c. firmly packed light brown sugar
1/2 c. sugar
1 lg egg, at room temp
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 c. milk
1 1/2 c. rolled oats or multigrain hot cereal (this is what I used)
3 small apples, peeled, cored, and chopped
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Mix first 4 ingredients together, set aside.
Measure out oats, set aside.
In large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars until creamy about 2 minutes.
Add egg, vanilla, and milk. Mix until smooth.
Stir in oats and apples. Drop by spoonfuls onto parchment lined cookie sheets. Bake 10-12 minutes.
Enjoy!
