Dirt Cups, Cake or Pie

Here is the easiest Halloween dessert even that kids can make and love and it can be in cups, cake form or in pie!

All you need is instant chocolate pudding, whipped topping milk, and assorted fun garnishes that shout Halloween.


The kids love to decorate the cake with cheap barbies and toys from a dollar store on the cakes and use candies and tombstone windmill cookies for decorating for a ghoulish treat.


Check out these easy instructions and if you're planning a Halloween party, one of these may be the best centerpiece and dessert of the night.

Shrimp Stir Fry with Broccoli and Zucchini

A quick meal, all in one pan, except the rice!

1 pound cleaned and deveined shrimp
1 sweet green pepper; cut in 3/4-inch squares
2 teaspoons fresh minced garlic
pinch or more of cayenne pepper
1 small carrot; thinly sliced 
2 cups of broccoli florets (microwave with 1 teaspoon of sugar and covered with water for 5 minutes drain)
1 zucchini cut into chunks
1 yellow squash cut into chunks
1/2 cup pineapple chunks and 1 cup liquid
1/4 cup dry sherry
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 cup teriyaki sauce
2 tablespoon olive oil or sesame oil


In a large wok style fry pan, add oil and all the vegetable, saute with garlic for 3 to 5 minutes we like the vegetables crisp, cook longer if you prefer. Add pineapple and sherry to pan. In a small bowl mix the pineapple juice, cornstarch and teriyaki sauce together. Add and cook till thickened.  Serve with jasmine rice or other white rice.

Old Fashioned Apple Compote

This is my first recipe every fall called Old Fashioned Apple Compote it's a buttery cinnamon sliced or diced apple delight.

Growing up in Central Utica, N.Y., we lived close by apple orchards and many neighbors had apple trees, so we had an abundance of fruit that was generously given to us.

We would make Apple Pies, Apple Cake, Apple Handpies, and Apple Cider, and this compote was a favorite, especially at breakfast time.

Although it tastes great right from a spoonful, it's terrific on pancakes, waffles, for topping freshly baked Apple Pie Muffins, and even on vanilla ice cream!

During the winter months, mom did lots of canning apple compote in a mason jars to use for tarts and pies.

This is so easy and perfect for anything you grew up on using butter for these cinnamon-coated apples.

Mom even served them as a side dish with Baked Pork Chops.

So the skies are the limit on possibilities with this recipe just scroll down to the printable recipe card for our yummy recipe it's so easy!

Mom's Fried Veal Cutlet Recipe

1 1/2 lbs veal cutlets around 1/4 inch thick
1/2 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon butter (optional)
5 cloves garlic
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 cup dry Italian flavored bread crumbs or more

 (mom made her own breadcrumbs from stale bread 
3 tablespoons Pecorino Romano cheese, freshly grated
1/4 cup fresh parsley, finely minced
1 egg
salt and pepper, to taste

1/4 teaspoon oregano

Combine bread crumbs and  cheese in a pie plate. Add 1 clove finely minced garlic and the fresh parsley together. In another dish beat one egg with a tablespoon of water.

In a large skillet, heat the oil, and butter (optional) with the remaining whole cloves of garlic. Turn the garlic cloves until pale yellow. Mash the cloves into the oil using the tines of a fork when they become toasted, then remove.

Season the veal with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.  Dip each piece of veal egg then into the seasoned bread crumbs coating both sides well. Dip into the egg mixture once again. Roll in the bread crumbs a second time.

Pan fry the veal cutlets in the olive oil, carefully turning once, until well browned on both sides. Turn down to low heat and fry till brown and tender around 25 to 20 minutes.

 

Note:

A mixture of 1 freshly squeezed lemon juice, 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic, oregano, black pepper, salt to taste and 1 tablespoon of melted butter make a great sauce over the top.

Baked Pumpkin Donuts

We just love the flavors fall brings with the fragrant smell of cinnamon, and comforting spices baked into these Pumpkin Donuts plus it's a super easy recipe to make!


If you're a big donut and apple fan you may also love our recipe for these apple cider donuts, we love to serve these two fall favorites during this time of the year!


These baked pumpkin donuts are great any time of the day and certainly perfect at breakfast time or a treat to bring to any outings, events, or get-togethers, especially around Halloween and Thanksgiving.


Our easy pumpkin donuts have all the best autumn spice flavors and complement this easy-made-from-scratch batter.


We love them plain, rolled in cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar, glazed with tinted frosting, dipped even in white chocolate.


There's no rolling, or cutting, just make the batter and drop it into donut molded pans


Baking is so much healthier than fried and you won't notice the difference other than they come out a little flat on the bottom.


Since you've insisted on the healthier version, I will leave a baked or Air Fryer method as an alternative to make these Pumpkin Donuts with that method below.


Scroll down to our recipe card for this easily printable recipe on how to make baked pumpkin donuts!

Roasted Garlic and Potato Soup Recipe

Rich, creamy, and two flavors that compliment each other Roasted Garlic and Potato Soup Recipe.

If you love filling robustly flavored soups, then look no further, this roasted garlic and hearty cream potato soup is off-the-charts perfection!

Roasting garlic is easy to do, but the potatoes are roasted also, this is the best flavor in one creamy soup ever!

Easy Pumpkin Fluff Pie

Pumpkin and Fall go hand in hand but sometimes the weather isn't so chilly when pumpkin season starts so I always kick off the season with this No-bake Pumpkin Fluff Pie.

I save the baking for later in the month of November for my Homemade Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Roll, and of course everyone's favorite our Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spiced Latte.

Fall has such wonderful seasonal flavors and you can adapt the pie with more or less of what you prefer like cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, just to name a few.

It's such a busy time of the year with back to school and there is no time for lengthy desserts.

This pie is perfect if you're a busy cook especially on the weekends when you just want to relax, the recipe for this pumpkin fluff pie is super fast and easy.

Creamy cheese whipped topping, and pure pumpkin just brings fall to life with all the best flavors of the season.

This pie won't stop that busy schedule and takes around 6 minutes to prepare with a premade store-bought crust.

This pumpkin fluff is also known as a pumpkin lush pie, pumpkin delight pie, no-bake cheesecake pumpkin pie, you may have heard of those names before for this recipe.

If you're looking for a fall dessert, don't miss trying this super easy pumpkin pie recipe.

Scroll down to our easy recipe card to print this off, and HAPPY FALL!!

Crockpot Pork Mushroom Marsala with Linguine

No Bake 1960s Chocolate Bon Bons

The history of these "No Bake Fudge Ball Cookies is simple just like the cookie itself they were the first cookie I ever made in home economics class back in the 1970s.

These have just a few ingredients and really are fudge-like in consistency and probably after all these years considered candy although the teacher said they were cookies.

They are a chocolate lovers' delight and with the addition of being in rolled into assorted nuts or other suggestions we have below make these a whole other level of yumminess.

We have so many picky eaters in our home, so I roll them in sprinkles, nuts, and coconut and let them choose what they like.

It is sort of a candy cookie, and perfect for a potluck, a Christmas cookies tray, and just a nice little pick-me-up treat for a sweet tooth fudge cookie lover.

If you're not fond of baking cookies you're going to love this recipe ( this one doesn't have peanut butter) for no-bake cookies.

Perfect for gift giving,and great to teach new little learners of cooking in the kitchen.

There are step-by-step instructions in the printable recipe card at the end of this post.

Grandma's Green Beans In Tomato Sauce

Grandma's Green Beans in Tomato Sauce is a rich tomato sauce similiar to just a stew with any kind of green beans and usually pole beans when we had them.

We had this summer meal growing up as my dad always grew pole beans in our yard but any green beans can be used frozen canned or fresh.

Although money was tight back in the 1960s when Grandma made this meal occassionally we would be lucky to have some cubed pork or chicken added to the pot.

W,e made the basic recipe with just pole beans and fresh tomatoes with herbs today, however there are also many additions you can add to feed a large family.

The best part about this easy recipe, is dunking fresh Homemade Bread into the sauce, it's a bowl of pure delicious Italian comfort food.

During the holiday sprinkling, the top with dried cranberries gives this a green and red festive look and also adds a little sweetness!

For me using pole beans is a treat when I can find them and I am always appreciative when someone that still grows them sends me some this is the first recipe that I will make with them.

Scroll down and check out our easy printable recipe and remember you can use any beans your prefer in Grandma's recipe.

Angel Food Key Lime Cream Cake

I can't begin to tell you how refreshing this cake is. Everyone said, wow usually the pie is so sweet the angel food cake calms that down, I will definitely be making this one again. My boys all loved it! The cake is so light, the lime flavor just brings you to the tropics for a few moments if you don't live there, I will bet coconut will top the cake next time.