Sunday, July 7, 2019

Raspberry Streusel Muffins

These are my all time favorite muffins, hands down. In the backyard of my old house, I had a huge raspberry batch and along side the boat loads of raspberry jam I used to make, I always made these muffins. They come together quickly and did I mention they have streusel? I want to go make a batch right now haha and I would if I still had the fresh berries in my backyard....memories! Enjoy!


Ingredients

MUFFINS:
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup whole milk
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 cup fresh or frozen whole unsweetened raspberries, divided


PECAN STREUSEL TOPPING:
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons butter, melted

Directions

In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar and baking powder. In a small bowl, combine the milk, butter and egg. Stir milk mixture into flour mixture just until moistened.
Spoon about 1 tablespoon batter into each of 12 greased muffin cups. Divide half of the raspberries among cups; top with remaining batter, then remaining raspberries.
For topping, combine ingredients until mixture resembles moist crumbs; sprinkle over muffins. Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes; carefully remove from pans. Serve warm.

Nutrition Facts
1 each: 234 calories, 12g fat (6g saturated fat), 45mg cholesterol, 176mg sodium, 29g carbohydrate (14g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein

Submitted by Lianna Black

Saturday, July 6, 2019

White Chocolate Popcorn

This is an easy recipe that makes a great gift. I am not sure if its really a recipe anywhere on the web but I just started melting white chocolate and pouring it over popped microwave popcorn. I think you could also go down to Holiday and grab some of there fresh popped popcorn. I like doing it myself! Any white chocolate will do, white chocolate chips, vanilla melties, whatnot. I love to buy vanilla melties at Winco and use them! They work great and taste great too. I don't have a real recipe for this, so just eyeball the amount of white chocolate or melties you want to use and then pour it over a bowl of fresh popped popcorn and stir it up, easy! It is really addicting too, you may want to eat the first bowl yourself and make another, just sayin. You can always add mixins like tiny pretzel sticks, m & m's, marshmellows or whatever you can think up! It is versatile and bags up beautifully for gift giving. I love to give it for teacher gifts! Have fun with it!!

Submitted by Lianna Black

Homemade Sloppy Joes

I used canned sloppy joe sauce all the days of my life...never thought about making my own until recently when I discovered this recipe from https://www.countrysidecravings.com/homemade-sloppy-joes/ - its super easy to make and comes together in minutes. I was dumbfounded! It was sooo delicious and made me realize that nothing is impossible when you are first learning to cook! LOL I am a beginner but this recipe made me feel like I have advanced some way. My kids agreed and ate them right up! I love knowing that I can replace a prepared item with a homemade item because it is so much healthier and I know what is in it! This one is a dinner winner!

Ingredients
1 pound lean ground beef
1 small onion chopped
3 cloves garlic minced
1 (15oz) can tomato sauce
1/4 cup ketchup
1 tablespoon Worcestershire
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
Hamburger buns
Toppings of choice: pickles cheddar slices...
Instructions
In a large skillet brown the ground beef, onion and garlic over medium heat until no longer pink. Drain any grease. Add in the tomato sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire, brown sugar, chili powder and mustard. Stir well to combine and simmer on low for 5 minutes. Taste and add salt and pepper as needed. Serve on hamburger buns and toppings of choice.

Submitted by Lianna Black

Fruit Crisp Topping

This recipe is from my sister and it is tried and true! It can pretty much go on any flavor of pie filling...apples, peaches, cherries, you name it! It is super easy, my favorite quality in a recipe :) oh and its delicious!

1 stick of butter
1 C brown sugar
1 C flour

Mix well and cut the butter in until it looks pea size. Then add:

1 C quick oats
1/8 tsp salt

Mix well and sprinkle over pie filling of choice in a 13x9 dish.

Bake for 40 min and 350

Enjoy!!


Submitted by Lianna Black