During this past week, we enjoyed the hot days of summer at Hinckley with our friends, Debbie and Richard. Mealtime finds us sharing whatever we are in the mood to make and evenings find us playing Dominoes - a game you either hate or really hate! I have yet to win!!!
I had planned a trip to mom's house last week and ended up going a little early since mom was taken to the hospital suffering from dehydration. After the hospital personnel pumped a bit of fluid into her, she was ready go home about the time I got to Faribault - 10:30 at night. When we got home, neither of us had a key to get into the house... Thanks to a very nice new Chief of Police in Kenyon, who knows how to break into a house without even damaging the screen, we were safely in the very warm house shortly after midnight... what a day for mom!
The next day, I harvested some of the garden's produce and froze some corn for Christmas dinner.
This weekend, Rich and Anita joined us at Hinckley for a very restful and relaxing weekend. Once again we ate good food and played a silly ass game - the red ball, blue ball thing... I love this picture of Anita trying to make "tree" points...
And here Rich is trying to coach Mikey on how to pitch the thing... it didn't help!
(Although eventually the boys did manage to win)
This is a picture of one of the best creations I have tasted in awhile (the minions consumed much of it before I could even grab my camera). It is called Darling Debra's Delicious Apple Dumplings and I have actually included the recipe since it is so good and so easy!
Gather the ingredients:
2 Big Granny Smith Apples
2 Packages of Crescent Rolls
1 stick of Butter (NOT margarine)
A big bottle of Mountain Dew
1 Cup Sugar
Cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Cut apples into eighths. Wrap each apple slice in a crescent roll and place it in a 9 X 13 pan. Melt butter with sugar and about 7 shakes of cinnamon (however much you like really). Pour melted mixture over rollups. Pour Mountain Dew over rollups until they are almost covered. (I know this sounds like it won't work, but trust me, they are wonderful.) Bake for about one hour and serve with whip cream or ice cream or just eat them!
As long as I am including recipes in this entry, I might as well include the one for
"Hummingbird Cake" (no idea where it got the name) that I made for Friday night - it also was well recieved - it is a rich cake on the order of carrot cake.
INGREDIENTS:
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 eggs, beaten
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 can (8oz) crushed pineapple, well drained (I used a can of dark sweek cherries pitted and drained)
1 cup chopped pecans
2 cups chopped firm ripe banana (about 4)
PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 350°. Stir flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon together into mixing bowl. Add eggs and salad oil to the dry ingredients. Stir with a wooden spoon until ingredients are moistened.
Stir in vanilla, pineapple (or cherries) and 1 cup pecans. Stir in the bananas. Spoon the batter into a 9 X 13 pan and bake until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. (sorry, I lost track of time - it was aroung 45 minutes I think)
Cool and frost with Cream Cheese Frosting - I used the kind you can buy off the grocery store shelf and it was very good.
ENJOY!
