#Brown Sugar

1. Melt butter in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add sliced apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, and lemon juice. Bring to simmer.
2. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook 15 minutes or until apples and tender.
3. Dissolve cornstarch in water. Stir into apples.
4. Cook 1-2 minutes until thickened. Add vanilla.

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Sift first 4 ingredients together.
2. In large bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in vanilla pudding mix. Stir in eggs and vanilla. Blend in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop rounded cookies onto ungreased cookie sheet.
3. Bake 10 to 12 minutes (until edges are golden brown)

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. In large bowl mix beef, egg, water, bread crumbs, and minced onion. Roll into small meatballs. Bake for 20-25 minutes, turning once.
2. In a slow cooker or large sauce pan over low heat, blend the cranberry sauce, chili sauce, brown sugar and lemon juice. Add meatballs and simmer for 1 hour before serving.

1. Let cream cheese soften. Peel and chop the apples into fine pieces.
2. Mix together cream cheese, brown sugar, flour, and vanilla. Add the apple and mix.
3. Make a wreath with the crescent rolls and scoop apple mixture onto crescent rolls.
4. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar then fold triangles overtop of the mixture into the center.
5. Bake at 350 F until crescent rolls brown/cook.

1. In a large bowl, mix kiwis, apples, raspberries, strawberries, white sugar, brown sugar, and fruit preserves. Cover and chill.
2. Preheat oven to 350 F. Coat each side of the flour tortillas with the cooking spray, and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Cut into wedges and place on baking tray.
3. Bake for 8-10 minutes, then cool for 15 minutes. Serve with chilled fruit mixture.

Otherwise known in our house as ‘Neat Josephs’, these open-faced meat sandwiches are a great way to the kids to get their daily required ketchup…

1. Brown the beef and garlic until cooked. Add the rest of the ingredients to the pan and let simmer for 15 minutes.
2. Separate 4 hamburger buns, and lay out all 8 pieces onto a baking sheet (face down), and bake for a couple minutes.
3. Flip the buns, and distribute the sloppy joe mixture onto each one. Garnish with some cheese.
4. Cook for a couple more minutes until cheese is melted.