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The Treehouse Apple Fest!
Apples are such a wonderful fruit, and there are so many things you
can use them for in your family; eating, crafts and recipes! Here are some special
projects and recipes from our Treehouse Friends. We hope you have an Apple Fest at your house this year!
Apple recipes from our friends
Olivia's Microwave Baked Apple
Get a very juicy apple
Have Mom cut it in half (not longways) and take out the seeds and core it.
Take some white sugar and sprinkle in on both halves of the apple.
Take some "special sugar" (brown sugar) and sprinkle it on both halves. Put
some extra brown sugar in the hole where the core was.
Add a little butter (maybe a teaspoon full) to each apple (in the core)
Close the apple
Have Mom/Dad put it in the microwave.
Set the cooking time to 90 seconds.
Have Mom/Dad take it out.
Let it cool because it can be very hot.
Enjoy!
Eammon and Padraig's
Apple Cinnamon Mickey Mouse Pancakes
2 cups Jiffy Mix (or Bisquick)
1 egg
milk
cinnamon
1 medium apple
Have a nearby grownup peel, core and coarsely chop the apple (if you are
old enough, you can do this yourself with a grownup's supervision). Put
the apple in a small bowl and set aside.
Add Jiffy mix, 1 egg and enough milk to make a batter. If you have trouble
stirring, the batter is too thick and needs more milk. Add either 1 tsp.
of cinnamon and mix again. Finally, stir in apple chunks.
On a warm griddle (sprayed with non-stick spray), have a grownup ladle the
batter into three circles, the biggest below, and the smaller two on top
for ears. (for this to work, all circles must touch to make one mouse face
shaped pancake). Cook on both sides until golden brown.
Break out the syrup and go to town!
Collin's Apple Activities!
Collin is one of our Treehouse friends, and his Mom gave us these neat
apple projects we can try at home!
Apple printing
Slice an apple in half, dip in paint, stamp on paper. You can make greeting cards
,stationary or decorate a Welcome sign that says "Welcome, we love Autumn!".
Apple Picture
Draw an outline of an apple on a piece of paper. Now paint or
squeeze glue onto the picture, tear up red/yellow/green tissue paper and decorate your
apple. For more texture, twist, crumple or do both to the tissue paper
before sticking it on paper.
SeptemberLady "Born and have lived in Southern MD most of my life. My husband and I just finished building a new home on the family farm, where I hope to retire in the near future.
My interests: Doll collecting, cookbook collector (especially old ones), antiques, family/friend get-togethers, cooking/baking, flower and vegetable gardening, bird-watching."
Memorial Day: Backyard Grilling Memorial Day signals the start of barbecue season. Everyone wants to light that fire and charcoal that first meal. A few tips might pre- vent your entree from becoming a "Burnt Offering."
Read these tips for plenty of grilling ideas, make this year's barbecue perfect!
Growing and Using Garlic Chives Garlic chives, Allium tuberosum, is a hardy perennial (Zones 3-9) that will grow to about 12 inches high. The stems are skinnier and flat, instead of hollow as are regular chives, with greenish white blooms that are about an inch wide and not as rounded. They bloom in the summer rather than spring. The bloom stalks grow much taller than the leaves, sometimes up to 30 inches.
The stems and blooms are both edible and have a mild garlic onion taste. I've noticed many writers will list this as primarily as an Asian herb, as they are also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leeks, ku chai (China) or Nira (Japan), but it has many other uses as well!
The Perfect Porch Swing Perhaps it is the soothing rhythm or the reassuring creak of the porch swing that attracts us. Perhaps it is the companionable silence or quiet conversation. Or maybe swings simply remind us of more genteel times.
Although porch swings can be purchased in a wide range of materials, the most common are wicker and wood. You can also make your own porch swing from one of the myriad of woodworking patterns available at garden centers, hardware stores, or on the Internet.
Memorial Day: Backyard Grilling
Growing and Using Garlic Chives
The Perfect Porch Swing