Recipes From The Cupboard

Homemade Apple Cider Recipe

Homemade Apple Cider: BEFORE YOU COOK IT PICTURE

Folks, this absolutely awesome. Just look at that picture. I have made it several times.

Want homemade applecider WITHOUT all the preservatives?

This is old school style…

And, want to make your house smell amazing? 🙂

Ingredients
• Big Ole Pot
• 12 assorted red variety of apples. Walmart has lots of varieties. Red, Gala, Fuji, Pink, …
• 1/2 lemon juice (the lady behind me in line told me to make sure I added it)
• 1 orange
• 1 Tbsp WHOLE Cloves (spice isle). They are little round balls.
• 1 tsp WHOLE Allspice (spice isle). They are little round balls.
• 4 Cinnamon Sticks (yeah baby!) I might experiment with more of these. 🙂
• 2 tsp nutmeg or 1 WHOLE nutmeg
• 1/2 cup or so of brown sugar for sweetness

Directions
• Wash & cut apples & orange in 1/4s. Leave seeds & peel. Add to the pot.
• Squeeze lemon into pot
• Add spices to pot
• Top with brown sugar
• Take yummy picture
• Nearly fill to top with water
• BOIL for one hour
• Using a OXO Good Grips Wire Potato Masher , I mash the apples from to time.

• After one hour, let it simmer covered for 2-3 hours.
• It will look soupy like the picture below.
• Using a Nut Milk Bag to strain the liquid into a container. This will remove all the chunks of stuff.

• I use a Luminarc Quadro 2-Liter Glass Pitcher with Lid to store it in the refrigerator.
• Warm it up on the stove on low/med heat and serve. 🙂

Oven Baked Sweet BBQ Wings

Sweet BBQ Wings in 30 Minutes

YUMMY… This has completely stopped me from buying wings ANYWHERE…. and it is so cheap and quick.

Ingredients
• Package of wings or drummettes
• 2 tsp smoked sweet paprika (Central Market) or just smoked paprika
• Little honey
• 1 Tbsp of apple cider vinegar
• 1/2 cup butter (I use KerryGold grass feed cow butter)
• 5 Tbsp or so of BBQ Sauce (I use Garland BBQ b/c it has NO high frustose corn syrup! And, it is made here in DFW!)
• Add some hot sauce if you wanna spice it up!
• 1 tsp or so of chopped/minced garlic

Directions
• Melt butter in bowl (30 seconds or so in the microwave works for me)
• Add rest of ingredients
• Mix it up
• Remove about half of the sauce mixture. You will drizzle it over the wings after they have cooked.
• Mix the wings and sauce together in a zip lock bag to get the wings coated with sauce
• Preheat oven to 450 (or the grill)
• Line your baking pan with tinfoil and a quick spray of PAM
• Cook for about 25 minutes. Check on it. Brown to desired level.
• Add the cooked wings to a large bowl and mix the remaining sauce with it.
• Eat it. 🙂

Grape Jelly MeatBalls

Grape Jelly Meat Ball Recipe

I love at least ONE serving of this treat each Christmas.

Ingredients
• Package of frozen meatballs. I get the bag with about 50 or so in it. One day, I’ll make my own meatballs!
• 12oz Chili Sauce (by the ketchup)
• 18oz Grape Jelly

Directions
• Melt all the jelly sauce & grape jelly on high in a crock pot
• Add the frozen meatballs
• Stay on high until the meatballs are no longer frozen
• Lower the heat to LOW and let it set until the sauce thickens and the temperature of the meatballs are right.
• Serve hot with toothpicks.