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I just love it when my kids ask me for my recipes. It gives me hope that they actually liked what I fed them while they were growing up. LOL

I am at a weird place right now. My husband loves to cook so much that when I offer to do so, he talks me out of it. I am beginning to feel like he doesn’t like my cooking. Oh well. I love that he does the majority of the cooking these days.

Stacy, my daughter, asked for my cobbler and apple crisp recipes:

Nowadays, I buy the Uncle Buck’s mix at the Bass Pro store whenever we visit and use it to make cobbler. I did make this recipe back in December of 1998. LOL I mark things like that on my recipes sometimes. I also wrote “very good”. It was from the Taste of Home Magazine.
Apricot Cobbler
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup water
3 cans (15-1/4 ounces each)
apricot halves, drained
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
TOPPING:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons cold butter or margarine
1/2 cup milk (can add more)

In a saucepan, combine sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in water; bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil and stir for 1 minute; reduce heat. Add apricots and butter; heat through. Pour into a greased 2-qt. baking dish. For topping, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl; cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in milk just until moistened. Spoon over hot apricot mixture. Bake at 400 degrees for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the topping comes out clean.
Yield: 6 servings

Here is my Apple Crisp recipe. I made this just the other day.

APPLE CRISP
place approx. 4 cups peeled, sliced apples in an 8×8 baking dish
Over 4 cups sliced apples put 3 tablespoons butter, 1/2 cup water and cinnamon to taste.

In a mixing bowl:
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
add 1 egg and work until mixture is like corn meal

I use a knife and fork and cut them across each other to work the mixture.

Sprinkle over the top of the apples and bake at 350 degrees until brown, or about 1 hour. I cover with foil the last 20 minutes of baking time.

Note: I usually double this recipe and bake in a 9×13 baking dish.

For this weeks Tackle It Tuesday, I have decided I will cook something yummy for dinner. Hubby already has plans to grill out some pork steak and so I am going to make scalloped corn to go along with it. We will have a yummy salad with tomatoes our neighbor brought over from her garden.

Here is my recipe for Scalloped Corn

2 eggs beaten
1 can whole kernel corn using liquid (I like to use white corn)
1 can cream style corn
1 package jiffy style corn muffin mix
1/2 cup melted margarine
1 cup sour cream

Mix all and bake in a 9×13 baking dish. 350 degrees for 45 minutes covered. Remove foil and bake an additional 15 minutes.

I look forward to Friday each week to see what questions Val at Fun, Crafts and Recipes will think of for the Four Foods on Friday meme. This week she changed it up a bit. She listed the first 4 letters of the alphabet. Beside each letter she mentioned two different foods that begin with that letter. Participants of the meme are to post a recipe or menu idea based on at least one item from each letter.

A - asparagus, applesauce

B - balsamic vinegar, bread

C - chicken, cinnamon

D - dressing, dumpling

I will have to think on this a bit. I’ll get back to this post later.

Ok, my daughter came up with this idea. She loves to cook and is a good cook.

Make a chicken breast and marinate it in Italian salad dressing. Put the breast between two pieces of bread for a yummy sandwich. Have some asparagus on the side.