Jolene's Recipe Journal

  Fall is my favorite time of year and one of the best days is when I see the message from the local orchard that the Honeycrisp are ready! When I chose my recipe for this month's Muffin Monday I knew it would be something with apples.

T is for Taco and Taters! This year I'm participating in a bi-weekly challenge with some blogging friends to post recipes using all of the letters in the alphabet.  It can feature a food that begins with the letter of the week or the recipe name can contain the week's letter.

  S is for Summer Squash Salad! This year I'm participating in a bi-weekly challenge with some blogging friends to post recipes using all of the letters in the alphabet.  It can feature a food that begins with the letter of the week or the recipe name can contain the week's letter.

I'm a huge biscotti fan and I thought it would be fun to try a fall flavored variety. I searched Taste of Home and found these Pumpkin Seed Cranberry Biscotti.

  I think pears are one of the more underrated fall flavors. I'm personally a big fan and I was very excited to find this salad on the Taste of Home website that showcased them.

Sometimes I make things and wonder if it's even really worth doing a post.  But then some of these things turn out to be so delicious that I feel like it would be a shame if I didn't share them with you.  

Who else is ready for fall? I'm so excited for hoodies and cider and nights around the fire pit. This week I'm getting together with some amazing bloggers to share recipes featuring the season's best flavors! I'm kicking things off with Apple Cider Biscuits. They've got a few more ingredients than your standard biscuit recipe, but I promise, they're not super hard to make.  You can totally do the "cut in the butter with knives" thing but I am terrible at that so I use a food processor.  Add your flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and cubed cold butter. Just be sure to pulse, not go full tilt with it. Once it resembles coarse crumbs, add in your cider. No, apple juice is not the same. Even if you don't have an orchard nearby your local grocery store most likely will carry cider in the fall months.  Dump the dough out onto a pastry mat or lightly floured surface. It's going to look ragged, it's okay.  Knead it 7 times or so to bring it togethe...

Summer may be winding down but there's still an abundance of zucchini available at the farms and I always make sure to grab some while I'm there.  I was craving chocolate cake so I went searching for a recipe that used zucchini and found this one on Taste of Home.