Posted on 11/06/2013 7:06:08 PM PST by dynachrome
Country Raisin, Apple Sweet Potato Casserole
Sweet and tart combination of sweet potatoes, raisins, pecans, and hard apples. This casserole style dish features spices and butter.
Ingredients -
3 cups sliced peeled Tart Apples (Granny Smith, about 2 large)
3 cups sliced peeled Cooked Sweet Potatoes
1 cup black Raisins
½ cup Pecans pieces
3/4 cup packed Brown Sugar
½ teaspoon ground Cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon Nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon Allspice
3 tablespoons Butter
1 cup miniature Marshmallows (optional)
Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Layer half the apples, raisins, pecans, and half the sweet potatoes in a buttered 1-1/2 quart casserole dish.
3. In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and allspice.
4. Sprinkle half the nutmeg mixture over the sweet potatoes, raisins and apples.
5. Dot casserole with half the butter.
6. Repeat process with remaining ingredients.
7. Cover with foil and bake 15 minutes.
8. Remove foil and baste with pan juices. Sprinkle with Marshmallows.
9. Bake uncovered, 15 minutes additional minutes.
Favorite after Thanksgiving sandwich:
Mustard,Turkey, cream cheese, cranberry sauce; stacked in that order on sourdough bread.
That’s right. Those marshmallows browned just enough to be a bit crispy., cold turkey with jellied cranberry.
I’m treating this thanksgiving like my last. Any of them could be. You know?
My comment is not intended as a downer. Just as a thanksgiving in the true sense of the word.
Lefse
Yum! Maybe a spoonful of cornbread dressing squeezed in, too ;-)
Sounds very similar to our Thanksgiving “staples”!
Country Raisin, Apple Sweet Potato Casserole
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Oh my.
Thank you!
I don’t know if I can wait until Thanksgiving to try this.
(Oh - and marshmallows are not optional! ;-)
Yes, I know what you mean.
Right now, I’m treating this bowl of popcorn like it’s my last bowl of popcorn.
:-)
And Sopapilla Cheesecake!”
Never heard of it - what’s in it?
Sounds very similar to our Thanksgiving “staples”!
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And every recipe reminds me of the person who would always bring it to the family gathering.
What is coke salad?”
Will be interesting to see your recipe. My mom used to make a jell-o salad with coke as the liquid. Had whole cherries, cherry or strawberry jell-o, nuts and celery - all mixed up together. It was yummy.
Growing up, the adults squeezed in to eat at the "grown ups" dining room table and all of the kids (cousins) had to sit at numerous card or "kid" tables, set up in the living room and kitchen.
The memory of the feast spread out on that dining room table will never be forgotten ;-)
Mama’s Sage Dressing...
Recipe handed down from my great, great, great Grandmother. Lord, the women (and sometimes) the men in my family can cook.
Turkey on the Weber kettle…best crispy skin ever! Mrs POF always grabs the first piece immediately after it comes off the grill.
Nothing compares to Southern Dressing. We make my Grannie’s cornbread/sage dressing (that was passed down from generations) or it’s not Thanksgiving!!
Looks like my Mom’s dressing recipe. Have to add a pound of cooked sausage. Her secret is to boil the giblets for an hour or two and then use the reduced giblet water to moisten the dressing. Gives it GREAT flavor! Save some of the giblet water for making gravy from the drippings. We always do the turkey on the Weber grill; I have to add a cup or more water to the aluminum pan under the turkey so the drippings don’t burn and become bitter. The drippings + water + giblet water make spectacularly flavorful gravy.
Haven’t tried the eggs or celery seed. May have to give the a try.
My Chinese wife every Thanksgiving makes Dim Sum....But she loves the turkey and gravy,Pecan pie with ice cream.
The meat on the bottom of the turkey and the neck....yum!
Sopapilla Cheesecake
2 8-oz packages cream cheese (not low-fat!)
2 8-oz packages refrigerated dinner rolls
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup cinnamon-sugar (=1/2 cup sugar mixed with 1 T cinnamon)
1) Line a 9 x 13 pan with one package unrolled crescent rolls.
2) Flatten.
3) Mix together cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla.
4) Spread in pan over crescent rolls.
5) Spread other crescent rolls over cream cheese mixture.
6) Pour melted butter over the top and then sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mix evenly over the whole glorious creation. :-)
Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 -30 minutes.
This recipe will go fast, so get yours while everyone else is getting their salads.
Also, it’s fun but not necessary to explode the butter in the microwave while melting it. ;-)
Oh - and this is even better the next morning, cold from the fridge with coffee. Mmmmmm!!!
Your tips makes the dressing a bit more moist, which is good.. We keep it a bit dried because that is the way our great Grandma made it.. :)
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