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Apple Cranberry Stuffing

November 16, 2012 by Stephanie

Oh, stuffing. You are, by far, my most favorite Thanksgiving side dish.

I think if you handed me a bowl of stuffing and that was it, I would probably be satisfied.

And my stuffing MUST include apples. It just has to. This is non-negotiable. And this time, it also includes another Thanksgiving favorite of mine, cranberries!

Apple Cranberry Stuffing

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 60 minutes

Yield: 6-8 servings

Ingredients

4 cups whole wheat bread, cubed
4 cups white bread, cubed
1 tbs. olive oil
1 small onion, diced
1 cup chicken broth (or vegetable broth)
2 tsp. chopped fresh sage
1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme
3 apples, peeled, cored, and diced
1/2 cup fresh cranberries, roughly chopped
salt to taste
2 tbs. butter

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spread cubed bread out on a baking sheet. Bake for about 5 minutes or until the bread is lightly toasted. Scoop the toasted bread into a large bowl and set aside.
In a sauce pan, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Saute the onion for about 5 minutes or until translucent. Add in the sage and thyme and cook for another 2 minutes.
In the bowl with the cubed bread, add the onion mixture, diced apples and cranberries. Mix well. Pour in the chicken broth and mix until the bread is moistened. Add in salt to taste.
Pour the mixture into a large baking dish. Chop the butter into small cubes and distribute evenly over the stuffing. Cover with foil.
Bake for about 30 minutes. Remove the foil and cook for another 15 minutes.

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Filed Under: Sides, Vegetarian/Vegan · Tagged With: apple, cranberry, low-fat, stuffing, thanksgiving, vegetarian 14 Comments

It’s Friday! I am back home in Florida for my friend’s wedding this weekend. It’s nice to see my family again. My little brother has been calling me a “ditcher” since we moved to Arizona. He also thinks I moved 5,000 miles away. In my birthday card that he gave me right before we moved, he wrote, “Happy Birthday, Sis. You’re a ditcher. See you in the year 2020.”

It’s okay. We are going to spend the whole day together today. I ain’t no ditcher!

In celebration of it being the weekend, I have created a yummy martini for you. Apple and pumpkin in one awesome drink! This drink is the perfect drink to serve your Thanksgiving dinner guests…or you could be like a certain someone and drink one and a half of them at 11:30 in the morning because you made them to photograph and you don’t want it to go to waste so you drink them and then end up with a raging headache for the rest of your day…

Apple Pumpkintini

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Yield: 2 martinis

Ingredients

2 1/2 tbs. pumpkin puree
3 ounces apple cider (I used the Spiced Cider from Trader Joes)
2 ounces vanilla vodka
1 ounce ginger ale
cinnamon and sugar (for the rim)

Instructions

In a shallow dish, mix together a couple of tablespoons of sugar and about 1/2 tsp. cinnamon. Rub some apple cider along the rim of each martini glass. Dip the rim in the cinnamon sugar mixture to coat.
In a cocktail shaker, add about 3-4 ice cubes. Add in the pumpkin puree, apple cider, vodka, and ginger ale. Shake well and pour into the martini glasses and serve.

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Skinny Bitch Tuesdays: Apple Pumpkin Soup

October 2, 2012 by Stephanie

Well, friends, we finally got to our new place in Arizona! We love it. It’s so much nicer than where we used to live. All of our stuff should be arriving in a day or two so we are busy getting the place ready and doing some shopping.

But first, today is our last Skinny Bitch Tuesday post! I know! I will miss these posts too. It’s been such a blast cooking out of the Skinny Bitch cookbook. I am not good with cookbooks. I tend to only try one or two recipes and then forget about the book, so this was a great experience for me to actually try more than a few recipes from one book.

For our last post, I chose the Curried Pumpkin soup. As always though, I changed up the recipe. One ingredient really stuck out to me and that was apples! I’m not usually a sweet soup person, but the thought of apples and pumpkin together just sounded so wonderful! So I swapped out the curry flavors and added more apple flavor. The soup was so comforting and delicious and not too sweet at all! I served it with some cheddar rolls, but serve it with any kind of nice, crusty bread and you have yourself the perfect fall dinner!!

OH! And since this is the last Skinny Bitch Tuesday post, we wanted to go out with a bang, so all four of us are giving away a copy of the Skinny Bitch cookbook! That is 4 opportunities to win your own copy! Scroll down after the recipe to enter the giveaway!

Skinny Bitch Tuesdays: Apple Pumpkin Soup

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes

Yield: 4-6 servings

Ingredients

3 tbs. unsalted butter
1/2 medium yellow onion, diced
2 granny smith apples, peeled and diced
1 tbs. flour
4 cups vegetable broth
2 tbs. brown sugar (can omit if you don't want a sweet flavor)
1/2 cup unsweetened apple juice
salt to taste
cinnamon, nutmeg, ground ginger (optional and to taste)
2 cups pumpkin puree
1/2 cup skim milk
toasted walnuts or pumpkin seeds, for garnishing

Instructions

Heat a large saucepan over medium heat, add the butter, apples, and onion and saute for about 3 minutes or until the apples and onions are tender. Stir in the flour.
Add the broth, apple juice, brown sugar, salt (and cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, if using). Once the mixture is hot, stir in the pumpkin puree. Simmer for about 20 minutes.
Add about half of the mixture into a blender and blend until smooth. Remove and add the remaining soup mixture and blend until smooth. Add the pureed soup back into the pot. Or, use an immersion blender if you have one.
Stir in the milk and heat until hot. Add more salt or other seasonings if desired. Garnish with toasted pumpkin seeds or walnuts.

Notes

Adapted from Skinny Bitch

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