Recipes to Celebrate Apple Season

Here are two great apple recipes to help you celebrate apple season with your families!

Crumb Top Apple Pie

Pie Ingredients:
1 prepared pie shell
2 pounds baking apples (Granny Smiths), about 5 cups peeled and sliced
2/3 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Crumb Topping Ingredients:
2/3 cup flour
1/3 cup brown sugar, packed firm
1/4 cup butter

Directions: Mix sugar, 2 Tbsp. flour, and cinnamon. Peel, core, and slice apples, then layer into pie shell. Sprinkle with the sugar/flour/cinnamon mixture, alternating it with apple layers. Prepare the crumb topping by mixing the 2/3 cup flour and brown sugar, then mixing the butter into it with a pastry blender, until the butter is in pea-sized pieces or smaller. Sprinkle the topping onto the pie.

If you are going to bake your pie immediately, place it on a cookie sheet, and bake at 400 degrees for 40-45 minutes, until juice is thick and bubbly.

If you want to freeze your pie to bake later, place it in a large ziploc bag and freeze. To bake a frozen pie, do not thaw before baking. Place on cookie sheet and bake at 400 until juice is thick and bubbly, about 1 hour, 15 minutes. Cover edges with foil after 45 minutes baking to prevent burned edges.

Johnny Appleseed Cake

Ingredients:

1/2 cup melted butter or oil

1 3/4 cup applesauce

2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon*

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg*

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves*

1 cup raisins

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease bottom only of 9-inch square pan. In large bowl, combine all ingredients and stir until well combined.  Pour into prepared pan.  Bake 30 - 35 minutes or until top springs back lightly when touched in center.

* You can substitute 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice for the cinnamon, nutmeg & cloves if you wish.

Apple Pie & Pumpkin Pie Recipes

Didn't make it to Pie Night last week? We thought we'd post the Apple Pie recipe for those who want to make some Thanksgiving pies ahead of time at home. Gina Tesdahl has also provided an Easy Pumpkin Pie recipe for us too! Thanks Gina for pulling Pie Night together and for the recipes!

Crumb Top Apple Pie

Pie Ingredients:
1 prepared pie shell
2 pounds baking apples (Granny Smiths), about 5 cups peeled and sliced
2/3 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Crumb Topping Ingredients:
2/3 cup flour
1/3 cup brown sugar, packed firm
1/4 cup butter

Directions: Mix sugar, 2 Tbsp. flour, and cinnamon. Peel, core, and slice apples, then layer into pie shell. Sprinkle with the sugar/flour/cinnamon mixture, alternating it with apple layers. Prepare the crumb topping by mixing the 2/3 cup flour and brown sugar, then mixing the butter into it with a pastry blender, until the butter is in pea-sized pieces or smaller. Sprinkle the topping onto the pie.

If you are going to bake your pie immediately, place it on a cookie sheet, and bake at 400 degrees for 40-45 minutes, until juice is thick and bubbly.

If you want to freeze your pie to bake later, place it in a large ziploc bag and freeze. To bake a frozen pie, do not thaw before baking. Place on cookie sheet and bake at 400 until juice is thick and bubbly, about 1 hour, 15 minutes. Cover edges with foil after 45 minutes baking to prevent burned edges.


Easy Pumpkin Pie

1 prepared pie shell
1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin or butternut squash
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar or ¾ cup white sugar
3 eggs or 3/4 cup fat-free egg substitute
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1 ¼ teaspoon milk, fat free, low fat, or whole

Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place pumpkin, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and cloves in mixer bowl or blender and mix. Slowly add milk and mix until all well blended. Pour into prepared pie shell and bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until knife inserted near center comes out clean.

Leonardo Curti's Homemade Pasta Recipe

A big thanks to Chef Leonardo Curti of Trattoria Grappolo for his demonstration on how to make homemade pasta AND for providing the recipe below! Trattoria Grappolo is located at 3687 Sagunto Street in Santa Ynez. For more information, visit their website or call the restaurant at 805-688-6899.


Pasta Fatta in Casa (Homemade Pasta)

Ingredients:
3 cups flour
5 eggs
1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

Directions: In a bowl, beat eggs and olive oil together. With the flour already running in the food processor, add egg/oil mixture to flour. Stop processing when the dough forms a ball.