Harvest Apple Salsa and Cinnamon Tortilla Chips

                     Sweet, crispy, juicy apples

in all their glory.

Here's a wonderful and unique treat to enjoy while

apples are at their peak.

We have lots of apples this year and we need

lots of recipes for them.

Some of you may have read a trick I read on-line

to keep the birds from eating all of your apples.

You hang CDs in the tree and the constant

moving and reflection will scare the birds

off. 

Well, it worked and in almost 20 years, this

is the first year we have had an abundance

of apples! 

Hannah is one of the Young Women in our church and

for our activity one night she had us over to our home

and taught the girls 16-18 years of age how to make a

Sunday Dinner.  Hannah decided on this activity by

herself and decided on the menu she wanted to teach.

Hannah started by chopping apples for the salsa.

Apple Salsa Recipe

2 apples, preferably 1 red and 1 green,

cored, sliced and roughly chopped

(She used 1 Granny Smith and 1 Fuji)

Mix in a bowl:

1 tsp. lemon zest

1 tsp. lemon juice

1/4 C craisins

1/4 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 C. caramel ice cream topping

Toss the sauce with the apples and serve

with Cinnamon Tortilla Chips.

Then she showed us how to make homemade cinnamon

tortilla chips to have with the salsa.  We even did a taste

test on commercially made cinnamon tortilla chips.

They didn't stack up to the homemade.

Cinnamon Tortilla Chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Flour Tortillas

Butter

Cinnamon Sugar

Butter your tortillas, then sprinkle generously

with cinnamon sugar.  Cut into 8 wedges.  Place

on a cookie sheet.  Bake in 350 degree oven for

7-9 minutes until lightly browned.  Let cool.

(She says she has found the commercial ones

at Target if you want to use those.)

These were seriously amazing.  Your family

will love this and it is so unusual!

Hannah continued with the rest of the meal, showing

us how quick it was to put together.

She included steamed rice pilaf with steamed vegetables,

crock pot roast beef with gravy and finished with

a German Chocolate Cake.

The cake by itself would have been a great activity.

But that wasn't all, she also set the table beautifully in a color

to match the apples.

Love the green and yellow polka dots.

What a cute napkin fold too.

These young girls have so much talent and are so

fun to be with. 

What an amazing instruction and meal.  Everyone loved it.

Thanks Hannah.  You can teach us anytime!!!

(Her mom said she did it all by herself

 except the gravy because of time constraints!)

I will be posting this with

Made By You Monday

Market Yourself Monday

Tasty Tuesday.