Pioneer Woman at Heart

Temperatures remain cold here - 3°F with a wind chill of -15°F this morning. I follow the blog Mennonites Can Cook, and they recently shared a recipe for Brunch Pie .  I can easily get distracted with new recipes, or they can inspire me to use up what I have (so I did). I used canned mushrooms (we do need a lot of that vitamin D in the winter).  I need to dehydrate more next winter.   Although the sun was shining for a few days, I'm not always out in it long enough. I decided to try it next, but I swapped out the frozen hashbrowns with frozen rutabagas , that I froze last year.   Also, from the freezer, I used my garden green onions, (I had fresh bell pepper) and added frozen and cooked watercress greens and a pinch of homemade fire powder.   Hot peppers are a good source for a lot of goodness for our health. Not to forget about all the condiments I canned last year, we topped the breakfast with some home canned cowboy candy too.   We added a...

  I picked up some local orchard apples, so I baked us an apple pie.  Not the healthiest way to start the new year, but I did. I freeze my pie crust crumbles, so all I have to do is add the ice water and roll the dough (recipe is online with King Flour's website). The recipe is from a very old book of mine - Farm Journal's Complete Pie Book, printed in 1965.  I haven't bake an apple pie in a long, long time.  I used to can apple pie filling when all the kids still lived here.  The pie was not a pretty thing, but tasted okay.  I have only baked Dutch apple pies if I remember correctly.  I will bake it again, but not too soon, and tweak the recipe.  I also realized, I only have one pie cookbook on my homesteading bookshelf.  Do you have a favorite pie recipe book that you use?  Do you have a good old fashioned apple pie recipe? I have gotten tired of breakfast sausage and bacon lately, so I switched things up, dug into the freezer, and ba...