Cinnamon Applesauce

This tutorial on How to Make Applesauce is simple and delicious!  We like to eat it hot out of the oven, or chilled.  No added sugar is needed.  A great thing to try if you slightly damaged apples that fell off the tree or find a few forgotten ones in the back of the fridge.  A half batch only needs 45-60 minutes depending on how thinly you slice the apples.

Here's my finished product:

Pumpkin & Salted Caramel Cinnamon Roll Pancakes

Don't you just love irony?  Today I totally diverged from our very healthy breakfast routine and made these pumpkin & salted caramel cinnamon roll pancakes.  Today the book "The 21-Day Sugar Detox" that I requested from the library a couple months ago finally arrived.  This totally confirmed that I need read this!  Anyway, back to the pancake review.  We made a double batch and had leftovers.  These are as delicious and sweet as they sound, yum, yum!  My kiddos all liked them.  Certainly something to try for a special breakfast this Fall.  Mine did not turn out as pretty as the author's, but we were curling hair for picture day intermittently while making breakfast.  :)

Zoodles & Meat Sauce

I'm still getting tomatoes out of my garden.  Tonight I used some Roma tomatoes to make this garden fresh tomato sauce.  Then I fried 1 lb of ground beef.  After the beef was browned, I sauted the zucchini noodles with it for just a couple minutes.  I transferred this to a large serving bowl and then topped with the very hot sauce.  Placing a lid on top and waiting a few minutes helped to heat the zoodles and cook them a bit more.  We topped ours with some spicy garlic salt, hot sauce and extra basil.
  
My daughter made this simple salad of spinach, strawberries, celery and pine nuts.  It is dressed with this dressing.