Cider Pulled Pork with Apple Butter Barbecue Sauce is always a favorite!  I love that it is so easy to create sensational pulled pork - a slow cooker is all that you need to create the most tender and flavorful pulled pork ever.  Cider and other wonderful spices make for a taste that is perfectly complimented by homemade Apple Butter Barbecue Sauce.  Perfect for a crowd!

Lucky us that summer has decided to bless us with yet another wonderful sunny weekend.  We're in the middle of a major landscaping makeover, trying to replace the four trees that came down on our house during major storm last November.  It seems like the perfect time to reconfigure everything and plant all kinds of wonderful trees, shrubs and flowering bushes so that they will be all ready to take off in the spring.  All those helpers are going to want some seriously good food during the weekend, so it's the perfect time to make one of our favorites!

Sugar and spice, and everything nice!  Who doesn't love a tall stack of hot Sugar & Spice Applesauce Pancakes with Maple Cinnamon Syrup on a lazy autumn morning? 

​And make those a healthier, applesauce, whole-wheat and fresh buttermilk stack?  Drizzled with warm and buttery Maple Cinnamon Syrup?  This is the kind of breakfast that is going to stay with you for a few hours of raking leaves or tackling end-of-the-season chores.  Get your plates - your pancakes are flipped and ready!

If you love apple pie, you are going to LOVE these tender and perfect Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bars!  A buttery shortbread cookie crust, topped with cinnamon-sugar sliced apples and a brown-sugar oatmeal streusel, drizzled with salted caramel and sprinkled with flaked sea salt - these are apple pie perfection, bite after delicious bite! 

​This family favorite recipe ranks right up there with fresh baked Classic Apple Pie, Salted Caramel Apple Pie, Upside-Down Caramel Pecan Apple Pie - the perfect little bite of apple pie in bar form.  These are the perfect addition to our November Pie Celebration!​

When autumn rolls around, it's all about the apples!  If you love apple pie, you will LOVE Glazed Apples & Cranberries!  A perfect mixture of tender, tart and sweet apple slices, with the sweet tang of fresh cranberries, in a light and perfect cinnamon glaze.

I'm going to let you in on a little holiday tradition - one that is always on our table for Christmas dinner, and usually the New Year too!  Glazed Apples & Cranberries are perfect with your holiday ham or pork tenderloin.  

​So quick and simple to make, when this is baking alongside your Holiday Ham, the aroma wafting around the house is out-of-this-world!  And the tender sweet apple slices?  So good that everyone will be gobbling them up fast!

At our home, the surest way to get everyone rolling out of bed early at the morning is to bake up a batch of these little lovelies!  Everyone goes crazy when I make these mini Cinnamon Sugar Applesauce Muffins - and what's not to love?  Simple and tender applesauce muffins with a buttery, cinnamon & sugar topping that are just made for munching - or popping in your mouth warm from the oven!

​And these go so fast, that if you don't run when them come out of the oven, they will be all gone!  The best part is that your kitchen will smell just like a bakery...cinnamon, sugar and apples...what could be better?

September...finally the best season of the year is here again!  Warm autumn days and crisp evenings, trees changing color every day.  Bonfires, hayrides, and one of our family favorites - many trips to the local apple orchards.  We loved doing it with our parents when we were young, taking our kids when they were little, and it's wonderful seeing our grandkids sharing the same adventures and memories!

​We have so many favorite orchards in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and now Ohio!