Healthy Mostly Apple Recipes First:
🍎Healthy Apple Bran Muffins by 'Rachel Cooks': My dad with Parkinson's needs to up his whole grain game. So I bought some bran, to use with my whole wheat flour, and these look good, though I might cut down on some of the oil, which isn't much, just 3T, just a little, and maybe up the apple flavor with a little applesauce...?
https://www.rachelcooks.com/healthy-apple-bran-muffins/
🍎Whole Wheat Apple Bran Muffins by Food.com: This next muffin recipe is quite a bit more bran-filled; it makes up the bulk of the muffin, in a 3:1 ratio of bran to whole wheat flour, but definitely looks lower calorie, so that can be a plus when you are watching every bit of energy you take in, versus how much becomes stored (as fat on your/my bod).
https://www.food.com/recipe/whole-wheat-apple-bran-muffins-306448
🍔Best Black Bean Burgers by 'Sally's Baking Addiction': Not an apple recipe..., but inspired by apple baking adventures and wanting to use the heat from the oven when baking...I'm trying these tomorrow (I already opened the cans yesterday, when I thought there wasn't enough leftover chili for dinner, but discovered there was excess chili, so then I put the cans in the fridge after pre-draining...so I must!); I am interested in seeing if the special technique of dry-baking the canned, rinsed beans helps make them 'not mushy' and 'the best'!
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/best-black-bean-burgers/
🍎Quinoa and Veggie Salad, with Apples, Dried Berries, Walnuts and Cheddar by Recipeland.com: Another non-dessert, this recipe could be either an entrée dish or a protein loaded carbohydrate salad when the main dish is a soup. For my octogenarian folks, I might need to pre-cook then cool the apples so they are soft enough; I also probably would use spinach, maybe even kale, as we are not found of arugula.
https://recipeland.com/recipe/v/quinoa-veggie-salad-apples-drie-51653
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🍏Whole Wheat Fresh Apple and Applesauce Cake by Recipeland.com: This one is almost in the decadent category, and there is another bundt featured there, but because it uses whole wheat flour, and no cream in the glaze, I'm calling it (comparatively) 'healthy', but that's why it didn't get a 'red apple' to mark it
https://recipeland.com/recipe/v/whole-wheat-fresh-apple-apple-s-55159
Decadent Mostly Apple Desserts:
🍎Another apple-y dessert, this looks super delicious, and should help satisfy an adult desire for the caramel apple flavor, but in a softer, more decadently refined way (and for those cooking for those who need soft desserts, caramel apples are an impossibility!...upon biting into an ordinary apple, (that had been pre-sliced!) a family member with some dental work literally broke a tooth!)
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/buttery-caramel-apple-upside-down-cake/
🍎Another "Sallys Baking Addiction" recipe, this one looks delicious, maybe decadent, but in a way that apples and cake are decadent; it *does* have quite a bit of oil and flour, but it's a big, dense bundt, so those are apropos ratios, plus the glaze is rich with cream in it....
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/glazed-apple-bundt-cake/
Last, but hardly least: Easy Mostly Apple Recipes
🍎Ukrainian Apple Pastries, Pirozhki s yablokami, v hlebopechke by user Irina75 on Sparkrecipes.com: I still miss Sparkpeople, and part of the strength of that site was the great recipes on Sparkrecipes, from both their paid staff, but also users, along with nutrition info...here's one that looks interesting, and probably easy as it appears to be made in a bread machine; it also looks pretty healthy; might make a delicious breakfast alternative to muffins
https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=3232567
🍎Apple Cinnamon Slab Pie by 'Natasha's Kitchen': I made this next one, with a few changes yesterday, but here's the original, though I would call it more of a strudel than a pie, even a slab pie, and it *WAS* very easy! (also pretty quick) Basically: sauté some sliced apples with butter and sugar, then wrap in store-bought puff pastry and bake...result: an elegant dessert
https://natashaskitchen.com/apple-cinnamon-slab-pie/
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🍲Moosewood's Mojo Sauce: Sounds delish, and made me wish...that I still had my Moosewood cookbooks (they might be in the boxes my ex packed, which I haven't opened yet) but so *glad* I discovered Moosewood has some recipes online; I ate there, decades ago, (in the mid '80s), with a different ex, who'd been a regular customer as a student at Cornell. (Ithaca is gorges!)
https://moosewoodcooks.com/2015/06/mojo-sauce/
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These look good, and my fam is now WAY into soft cookies (after years of only liking hard little bricks!)...I might try these with whole wheat flour to make them a *little* healthy...I think they look quite yummy 😋
https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_lossy,ret_img,w_650/https://www.livinglocurto.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/softest-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe.jpg
https://www.livinglocurto.com/softest-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/
