Apple Cinnamon Muffins...

With leftover bananas you make banana bread; additional blueberries makes blueberry pancakes; extra lemons makes lemon bars.

But what about apples? This recipe for Apple Cinnamon Muffins is very quick and easy - use any kind of leftover apples to make this delicious breakfast treat!

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Apple Cinnamon Muffins (Makes 8 muffins)
Adapted from a Perfect Baking recipe by Parragon

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• Pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 small apples; peeled, cored and finely chopped 
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 egg, beaten
• 5 tablespoons butter, melted

Topping:

• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

 Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line 8 muffin tins with paper liners. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon together in a large bowl. Stir in sugar and chopped apples. In a smaller bowl stir milk, egg and butter until well mixed. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined. Divide batter evenly among liners. Mix together topping ingredients and then sprinkle over the muffins. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden.

If an apple a day really does keep the doctor away, all you have to do is eat half of these muffins which shouldn't be too hard : )

Chicken and Veggie Pizza...

never was so easy.

Should this even be considered a recipe? So simple, very forgiving, and you can make it your way. This is a great weeknight dinner.

Chicken and Veggie Pizza

Ingredients:  (Ultimately whatever you want)

• pizza dough (frozen or refrigerated; I prefer Pillsbury)
• pizza sauce (marinara sauce works too)
• shredded cheese
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 tomato, diced
• 1 can of black olives
• 1 jar of quartered marinated artichokes, drained
• cooked chicken, diced

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Cook diced onion on medium-low heat. When onion is soft, add artichokes and tomatoes, cooking for about 2 more minutes. Roll out pizza dough on a greased cookie sheet. Spread pizza sauce on top. Add layer of shredded cheese. Add cooked veggies, olives and chicken. Sprinkle another layer of shredded cheese on top. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

This recipe is fantastic if you have leftover chicken from something- I actually used some leftover chicken from fajitas.

And there you have it: pizza made deliciously easy. It's not delivery and it's not DiGiorno!

Easy Chicken Pot Pie...

Normally, I'm all about homemade baking. Cakes, cookies, especially pie crusts, there's just something about actually making it that's way more satisfying than unrolling or mixing it from a package.

Sometimes though, you run out of a little thing called time and that's where frozen puff pastry comes in.

Easy Chicken Pot Pie Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 frozen puff pastry sheet, unthawed
• 2 cooked chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch pieces
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 1 frozen bag of mixed vegetables
• 1 jar of gravy
• 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
• Salt and pepper to taste

Sauté onions, garlic powder, salt and pepper over medium heat until slightly caramelized. Add in chicken, gravy and vegetables. Heat until mixture is warm. Pour into a greased pie dish. Unroll pastry sheet on top and crimp edges to seal. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. You may want to put a baking sheet underneath the pot pie. Your oven will thank you later : )