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PRE-PREP:

  1. Place oven rack in middle of oven
  2. Preheat oven to 350
  3. Grease bread pan

INGREDIENTS:

  • 2 cup flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg (optional)
  • ¼ cup bran/wheat germ (optional)
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 3 Tbsp milk (optional)
  • 3 bananas, ripe/mashed (about 1 ¼ - 1 ½ cups mashed banana)
  • 1 cup blueberries
  • ½ cup chopped nuts walnuts/pecans

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Sift the dry ingredients together (flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon & nutmeg) in a bowl.
  2. Add bran/wheat germ to the sifted ingredients and set aside.
  3. Mash the bananas in a large bowl and mix in the vegetable oil, sugar, eggs, vanilla & milk.
  4. Add the flour ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir in, mixing well.
  5. Add the blueberries & nuts if you are going to use them.
  6. Spoon the batter into the greased bread pan.
  7. Bake 1 hour at 350. Always set the timer for 45 minutes and start looking at it through the oven window to avoid burning it. Bread is done when a toothpick or butter knife inserted in top comes out clean.
  8. Let bread sit in pan for 10 minutes and then turn out.
  9. Banana bread freezes well, so you can make them as you have ripe bananas and store the loaves!

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Gaby - Sorry, but I have no specific recipe for applesauce.
I do know, thanks to Nathan putting garlic powder in the pot when I was cooking it once (he was much younger and had a lot of enthusiasm, but less cooking savvy) that garlic powder is NOT a good ingredient for your normal applesauce… 

I usually am inspired to make applesauce because I have apples that have been in the refrigerator a little too long and are no longer crispy enough to eat raw.
I guess tart apples like Granny Smith are better if you are going to buy new apples, but honestly I don’t think it matters. However, I never buy Red Delicious for anything.

So, peel however many apples you have – let’s say 6 apples - quarter them, and then cut them into little chunks. I do this directly into the pot I am going to cook the applesauce in.
Add say ¼ cup sugar, ½ tsp cinnamon, dash of cloves & 1 tsp vanilla. (You can always add more of these things, but you can’t take them out, so don’t put too much.)
Maybe add maybe ¼ cup or so of water so you don’t scorch the pot when you first start cooking it. Apples make their own liquid once they start cooking.

Bring to a boil and turn to a low heat.
Cook for a few minutes and taste, at this point test for flavor and add sugar or spices if necessary.
Continue cooking until the apples are the texture you like them – maybe 15 to 30 minutes or so – don’t let them dry out. Add water if you need to.
Be careful, because once you get the apples & sugar cooking, it can be like molten lava!

There you have it. XXOO

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PREPREP:

  1. Place oven rack in middle of oven
  2. Preheat oven to 425
  3. Grease muffin tin

INGREDIENTS:

  • ¼ cup oil or melted margarine
  • ¼ cup sugar, white
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup applesauce
  • 1 ¾ cup flour, white or unbleached
  • 2 Tbsp (or more) wheat germ or bran
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • Dash nutmeg (optional)
  • ½ cup nuts, chopped (walnuts/pecans)

PREPARATION:

  1. In large bowl, mix oil, sugar & egg and mix well.
  2. Add applesauce to sugar mixture.
  3. Sift flour, baking powder, salt & cinnamon (& nutmeg) together & add w/germ to wet ingredients.
  4. MIX ONLY UNTIL DRY INGREDIENTS ARE MOST!!
  5. Add nuts.
  6. Fill greased muffin tin cups 2/3 full.
  7. Bake at 375 for 20-30 minutes.

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These are really moist, delicious cookies.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp cloves
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup canned pumpkin
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 bag white chocolate chips
  • 2/3 cup walnuts, chopped

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 325 and prepare cooke sheets.
  2. In a mixing bowl combine:  flour, cinnamon, cloves & baking soda, and set aside.
  3. In a large mixing bowl beat:  butter, white sugar & brown sugar
  4. Beat pumpkin, egg & vanilla into the butter mixture
  5. Slowly beat flour mixture into the butter mixture.
  6. Stir in the chips & walnuts.
  7. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto cookie sheets and bake for about 11 minutes.
  8. Remove from cookie sheets to wire racks immediately and let cool.

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