Our Cookbook Blog

Our Cookbook ~ What We Cook, is a compilation of every recipe we (Janice and Carissa) cook - recipes from our cookbook collections, our recipe boxes, and our heads! We set up this blog for friends and family who have our cookbook to let them see pictures we post of the recipes in the book, and also for us to note any corrections, revisions, or additions to What We Cook. We encourage people who are cooking our recipes to let us know how the recipes turn out and any suggestions they might want to make.

In addition, we will be sharing some of our new recipes (along with pictures) that are not in our cookbook. We hope you will help us out and test recipes and give us your comments.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Date-Filled Baked Apples ~ page 252

This is one of my mom's recipes in the cookbook...and it was YUMMY! Knowing that it didn't have any fat in it besides the walnuts made it taste even better! We had some friends over for dinner and she couldn't eat anything with dairy in it. It is hard to find a dessert with no butter, cream, or chocolate in it.. but this was perfect.
Here are the kind of apples that I used...I think they were Gala, but I can't remember. If you don't already own an apple corer..this recipe would be a good excuse to get one. They are fun and easy to use. I slipped this in the oven as we sat down for dinner and they were ready as soon as we were ready for them!
The only thing I would say about the recipe is that I served mine in a bowl with a spoon, the peel on the lower half was a little hard to cut with a spoon. My mom serves hers on a plate with a fork and knife, so the skin isn't an issue. I might peel the whole apple next time, although the peel did taste great too. Lillian (the 5 year old) gobbled hers and half of another one right up!

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