Oatmeal Cookie Apple Crumble

This fantastic autumnal dessert is reminiscent of a dump cake and is the best crumble ever!

Tomorrow is the first day of fall here in the Northern Hemisphere and that means I have been ready for everything autumnal for the past month or so :) I made this apple crumble recipe out of season, but I cannot remember when. Then I lost my pictures in the Horrible Harddrive Failure of June 2018. I, of course, was absolutely distraught at having to make this recipe again to get new pictures - NOT! It's such an easy dessert and it reminds me a lot of a dump cake recipe. The end result is a magnificent autumn dessert. My favorite way to eat it is warm with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream on top - but that is only because I can't find the cinnamon bun ice cream I used to love for any dessert with cinnamon in it. Honestly, I could see a couple different flavors of ice cream being a great match with it!

Throwback Thursday No. 69

Hello, friends! I am in love with this era of recipes that I'm in now and I'm reminded that I need to make some of these again asap. First up is this BACON-WRAPPED GOUDA STUFFED CHICKEN recipe. 1. BACON and 2. GOUDA. Like you cannot go wrong with those two things :)

And you can't have savory without a little sweet and these PEANUT BUTTER CUP BLONDIES
are not only delicious but super easy to make. Just be sure you have a glass of milk ready to go!

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Banana Pudding Pancakes #FantasticalFoodFight

Welcome to another Food Fight! Fantastical Food Fight is a group of food bloggers who will get a theme or ingredient each month and make some sort of variation for it. It could be traditional or nontraditional and can be found in a cookbook, on a blog, or be a blogger's own creation! For more details, check out this page.

This month's Fantastical Food Fight theme is BANANA. Apparently, there is this thing called the International Banana Festival that takes place in the month of September (in Kentucky, I think?). That was all I needed to go ahead and make our September Food Fight all about bananas. I left it up for whatever my blogging friends wanted to do - sweet or savory - anything banana goes!

My birthday was this past Sunday and I decided that even though last month, waiting until the last weekend before the Wednesday to post ended in fiasco, I would risk it. This month, I had a magical recipe in mind and I wanted it on my birthday. I am ridiculously excited to share these gorgeous little pancakes today. What a decadent way to start my 30th year, right?!

It has all the best elements of banana pudding and then you get pancakes too! The sauce honestly seems pretty close to vanilla pudding to me. I'm fairly certain it is pretty much just a homemade pudding and I didn't even realize it when I was making it. Pudding makes me nervous haha. But alas, no hollandaise-esque disaster. Everything went perfectly and my birthday breakfast was FANTASTIC! It was awesome!

Easy Egg Drop Soup

This soup is so easy to make and you can make it with add-ins or without!

Easy Egg Drop Soup is one of my favorite quick soup recipes that I love to make in a bind. There is room to have add-ins to make it more filling, like chicken, tofu, bok choy, and mushrooms. You can add some, none, or all! It's totally up to you. The base is the same and is wonderful on its own. This recipe really is easy and it's so quick. My older two kids love cooking and have nailed frying eggs, making mac and cheese, and making grilled cheese sandwiches. I think if they could make those, they could definitely make this soup.

Menu Plan Monday - September 17, 2018

I think it's safe to say that this week is all comfort food. My niece turns 2 on Sunday and I get to make her birthday cake and I'm really excited to make it. I think it's gonna turn out super cute!

Monday - Carbonara
Tuesday - Slow Cooker Tex Mex Chicken
Wednesday - Coffee Cake Donuts // Kale Soup
Thursday - Cheesy Tuna Casserole
Friday - Grilled Butter Burgers
Saturday - Chicken and Dumplings
Sunday - Easy Cinnamon Twists // Birthday Cake for my niece, Presley

What are you having for dinner this week?
Feel free to leave a link to the recipe in the comments!

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