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Now, These Are Some Festively Delicious Muffins!

My sister cannot stand pumpkin. For her, fall is such an awful recipe season – everything you see online and in the magazines seem to be pumpkin this, pumpkin that.

So during fall I won’t even try to make her taste anything with pumpkin in it! I know she would hate it, just thinking about it – even if she liked the taste. But I like to save some of my pumpkin harvest to keep trying new recipes later on in the winter. And this is one of the recipes I used to completely surprise my sister. She loved the muffins so much she almost didn’t believe there was pumpkin involved!

These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins come with a delicious Walnut Streusel and will do nicely for most any occasion. Change things up by trying different frostings or glazes. These bite-sized sweet treats can be prepped and baked in just 45 minutes! How’s that for a perfect dessert for your next special dinner!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Oh Sweet Day

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Quick tip: Instead of the streusel topping, you could use your favorite frosting.

This Chicken-Fried Steak With Country Cream Gravy has classic down-home country flavor and makes use of a few simple but clever tricks to yield a dish with a restaurant-grade, thick, unbroken, delicious crust. I just love some of these country-style recipes, don’t you? Of course, it doesn’t hurt that this recipe only takes about an hour and yields a creamy, savory gravy that tastes great on a number of different things aside from the chicken-fried steak itself. And it’s a great way to make good use of a rather inexpensive cut of beef.

You’ll need a large skillet and some large cooling racks for this recipe. Other than that, you won’t need any extra-special skills or equipment to put this yummy country meal together. The gravy would go nicely over mashed potatoes, boiled new potatoes, or even certain crisp green veggies, though I just couldn’t resist really getting into the country spirit and having some sweet potato fries with it. Whatever you choose, you need not make it too complicated to put together a hearty full meal.

Recipe and photo courtesy of The Midnight Baker

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Quick tip: You can use the same method and ingredients to cook chicken!

If you like apple, nuts, and cream cheese filling, you’ll love this Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake! You could probably have the cake without it, but I think that that praline frosting really puts this cake over the top. And all of that cinnamon and apple really smelled lovely while I was baking this – the perfect flavors for the holiday season!

For having such a rich flavor, this cake certainly is rather moist and buttery – and rather well balanced. Sure, a little of this cake goes a long way, unless you have brought a really hungry sweet tooth with you, but nothing is out of place here. It has a really great flavor for autumn and the holidays. Do use a 14-cup bundt pan if you have one; it will fit into a 12-cup one but only barely so. And while you’re at it, why not make two and save the other one for later (just make sure you hide it well…)

Recipe and photo courtesy of Baked By Rachel

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Quick tip: Use store-bought frosting to make this cake even faster – it will taste amazing even if you don’t use frosting at all!

If you like cheesecake and like red velvet cake, you will love this beautiful marriage of the two: the Red Velvet Cheesecake. It’s a decadent blend of textures and flavors that is sure to make your sweet tooth really happy. Wow, this looks so festive and tastes even better! Many people probably would save this treat for the holidays, but with the weather already turning cooler, I just couldn’t resist giving this recipe a try. And boy, am I glad that I did! It’s two of my favorite types of cake, beautifully layered into one.

The mid layer can be deceiving – for someone taking a quick look at this cake, it may look like cream cheese frosting. But it isn’t! It’s the delicious baked cheesecake in between the gorgeous red velvet layers that makes this cake so extra special. Once you have a taste, you will keep going for one more bite!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

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Quick tip: The cheesecake layer can be baked and frozen up to several weeks in advance.

Burritos… who doesn’t love them?  Add a little crisp and now we’re talkin’.  These crisp chicken burritos are just the thing to mix up for a great addition to Taco Tuesday! This quick and easy recipe makes 8-10 servings, and is ready in under an hour.  Serve this with a dollop of sour cream and a side of Spanish rice, and you’ve got yourself a Mexican meal that will melt you!

There are a few steps, but it’s not that difficult a recipe. It’s quick, simple, low-hassle; for that matter, you could probably modify things quite a bit, according to your tastes, though it is delicious, as is. Surprise your family with this superb meal and it will instantly become everyone’s favorite!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Recipes When I’m Away

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Quick tip: When assembling, sprinkle with a bit more cheese on top if you like it extra cheesy.

My husband is begging me to make these twice a week.

This Buttermilk Fried Chicken is a classically Southern twist on the usual American fried chicken recipe.  It makes for a great main course for lunch or dinner at home, but with the right sides, it also makes for great picnic and tailgate food. My great-grandmother in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, made some fabulous buttermilk fried chicken.  Alas, she closely guarded all of her best recipes (to the point, in some cases, of going to different grocery stores for different groups of ingredients, so no one person working there would have the full list of ingredients) and would only share them with fellow culinary artists who were very close to her.

Unfortunately, she passed away before I properly got into cooking.  I can’t say for sure that it’s an exact match (time blurs certain details and enhances others), but this buttermilk fried chicken does come close to her old recipe, at the very least, and I assure you that it is quite delicious.

I mean, all you can do is make this recipe for yourself and sample it. I guarantee you won’t be sorry! Grandma certainly knew what she was doing in the kitchen and her recipes prove this sentiment time and time again. Enjoy!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Jo Cooks

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Quick tip: Mashed potatoes are the perfect side dish for these!

Wow, The Crust On This Is Divine!

When I was a kid, my mother used to make the most delicious pork chops! I don’t know why, but somehow I thought they were really difficult to prepare so I never tried to make them when I grew up and moved into my own house. Of course, I was totally wrong – cooking pork chops isn’t difficult at all. Later on I started experimenting with different recipes – I was never quite happy with the result as I thought they definitely didn’t look or taste as perfect as the ones my mother made. But then I came across this recipe!

Would you believe that you can have six pork chops that look that beautiful in just half an hour?  And, being crunchy and savory on the outside and juicy and tender on the inside, these Double Crunch Pork Chops taste wonderful, too.

The Homemade Honey Garlic Sauce makes for a nice finishing touch and likely would go well on a number of other meat dishes. I have to say, it had been a while since I had pork chops with a crust anywhere close to this good, especially from a recipe that called for the pork chops to be pan-fried.  I believe that this is what we Southerners call “chicken-fried”:  get a good, solid crust on the outside that seals all the moisture and flavor inside it.  Boy, is it tasty!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Rock Recipes

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Quick tip: Adjust the amount of cayenne pepper to your liking.