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Monday Menu: A Fall Favorite

Since I discovered using a cast-iron skillet method for making apple crisp, that’s been my go-to. Cooking the apple mixture on the stove changes everything. The apple mixture has time to become soft and syrupy before adding the topping and baking at a higher temperature.

And this week I had a few apples I needed to use before they went bad. I think I made one of my best apple crisps.

Here’s what I added to the recipe below: caramel sauce spread liberally over the cooked apples before I added the crisp. I also grabbed the jar of pumpkin spice and added about two teaspoons worth while cooking the apple mixture.

Sunday Smile

White duck on dog bed, Great Dane on couch

The last few days have been super busy, so to make up for missing Furry Friday, here’s some bonus content.

Nora injured her wing yesterday, nothing serious, but I suspected it was sore. So, last night she got some family time before heading to her coop (new!) for the night.

For whatever reason, she makes a nest of all the stuffed animals. I put a few towels down to protect them, but luckily, all she left us were a few feathers.

Work Wednedsay: Bolding Colby

One of the issues I had with the first read through of the completed manuscript was Colby. He felt like he was a shadow of himself. And the trouble started in Act One.

Tuesday Tunes: I Was Made for Loving You

This one is prevalent in the film Fall Guy, which I highly recommend. And action/comedy/romance that hits on all cylinders.

Choose your flavor. The original:

Monday Menu: Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

I am an avid watcher of B. Dylan Hollis’s cooking videos. If you haven’t seen one, you are missing out, and there is no way I could explain the joy they bring. I’ve added the video of this recipe at the bottom of this post.

A few days ago, one of his old ones popped up in my feed, and I knew I had to make the recipe. I made a few changes, mostly adding bacon pieces because I thought the recipe was crying out for them.

The other change I made, was to default to my traditional Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies measurement. One pound of bacon renders one-half cup bacon grease and that is the amount of butter for a half-batch of my cookies. I felt Dylan’s recipe (he is always faithful to whatever old recipe he finds) was too much flour for the amount of fat.

Here’s what I did: