Happy OCTOBER! My favorite month of the year!

I love October!  I love it for so many reasons!  General Conference!  My birthday!  Quayd's birthday!  Halloween!  Witches Brew!  One of my favorite tablescapes of the year! Fall Leaves!  Three months till Christmas!    And, it's also National Cookie Month!  So, I've decided, for fun, to share a cookie recipe every weekday this month!  I'll share some tried and true and a few never tried but planning on it recipes over the next few weeks for fun!

 Logan Canyon ~ September 28, 2011

The General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was amazing!  We loved every second of it.  The music was lovely.  The talks were inspiring.  As always, we come away feeling uplifted and motivated to be better, serve better, try harder to be our best and to follow the teachings of Christ!  LOVED it!  I'm posting some of my own thoughts about conference on the Sisters Dear Blog tomorrow.  LOVED IT!

I also loved having the entire family home all weekend.  Especially since I woke up with achey body, sore throat, tummy ache flu on Thursday morning.  I spent the entire weekend down.  I did manage to muster up some traditional cinnamon rolls and a tasty Sunday dinner of pulled sweet pork and homemade tortillas.  Very tasty!  I'm feeling much better tonight!

Here's the first cookie recipe, which I made earlier tonight.  The recipe called for them to be drop cookies.  I decided when I saw how "wet" the dough was that I would make them as bar cookies.  I was glad that I did because they are more like cake.  To make them as drop cookies, I think I'd use 2 cups of flour instead.  Anyway, Doug loved them!  Connie thought they were pretty tasty.  I did snitch a bite and they were pretty good, if I do say so myself, however, they taste more like a cake than a cookie. 

 
Salty Caramel Apple Cookies

In medium size bowl, stir together:

1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup chopped pecans
 
Set aside.

In separate bowl, mix:
 
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup quick cooking oatmeal

Stir in:
1 cup raisins 
1 1/2 cups shredded or chopped apple

Cream butter & brown sugar together in mixer.. Add beaten egg, oatmeal and fruit.
Add the dry ingredients and mix well.  Pour cookie dough into a 9x13" pan and spread evenly.  Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes.  Drizzle caramel icecream topping or caramel dip over the warm bar cookies, then sprinkle with sea salt crystals, if desired.  Enjoy!

And for other news...

I lit the candles, got the camera on the tripod, was all set to photograph the October tablescape and when I turned the camera on, it said, "Check Batteries".  Took those out, put them in the charger.  Put new ones in.  Attached the camera to the tripod.  Got all set to take the pix.  Turned it on.  "check batteries".  I'd forgotten to put those in the charger after my NC trip!  No pix tonight!

I finished reading the Doctrine and Covenants today!  Just over six weeks cover to cover!  I'm ready to start reading the Book of Mormon again, along with finishing the New Testament between now and New Years Eve! 

Quayd's remark about General Conference:  "Epic!"
Gracie's thoughts on General Conference: "It was wonderful, Mom!"
ZJ's thoughts on Conference:  "I'm only ten, Mom.  It was good but it was long."

Goodnight! And Happy October!!!

Decisions determine destiny.

 

Comments

[Nicole]

Thanks for the recipe Sophia, perfect for fall and I have all the ingredients!

[susan]

please tell ZJ that i'm only 62 and it was long for me.....tsk tsk. BUT when Sister Dalton spoke Sunday, my conference experience was totally complete and filled. I was nourished and blessed...but it was still long.

[Pamela K.]

I can't wait to try this cookie recipe! Sounds yummy!