This is the recipe Tim used to win the 2011 Portland Pie Off.

Winning Pie

Ingredients

• 3 Large Eggs
• 5 1/3 Tablespoons Butter
• 1 Cup Dark Corn Syrup
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 1 1/2 Teaspoons Vanilla
• 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
• 1 1/4 Cup Pecans
• 1 Ready Pie Crust or Your Own Pie Crust

Tim with his pie trophy

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Melt Butter
3. Lightly beat eggs and combine with corn syrup, sugar, vanilla, salt, and butter.
4. Pour pecans into bottom of uncooked pie shell.
5. Pour combined ingredients over pecans. Pecans will float to the top.
6. Cover pie crust edges with foil to keep from burning.
7. Place pie in oven and cook for approximately 50 to 55 minutes.

The pie will be done when the pan is jiggled the center of the pie is firm. Getting the pie to set may take some extra time. Add 5 minutes at a time until done.

I played around with my Mother’s bran muffin recipe and figured out a way to use our great Michigan blueberries paired with lemon. This one is a new favorite in our house.

4 1/2 cups bran flakes
2 cups milk
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
3/4 cups oil
zest and juice of one lemon for batter
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. Baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. Baking soda
1/2 tsp. Salt
2 cups rinsed and drained blueberries, dredged in about 2 Tbs. flour

Glaze: Combine zest and juice of 1 lemon and enough powdered sugar to make light glaze.

Combine bran flakes and milk and allow flakes to soften about 5 minutes. Add sugar, eggs, oil, lemon zest and lemon juice. Combine dry ingredients and add to wet mixture. Fold in blueberries. Bake at 400 degrees for about 15- 20 minutes in lined muffin tins. Brush a light layer of the glaze on the muffins while they are still warm. Makes a little over 2 dozen muffins.

a simple dessert with a little flair

10 minutes total / 1 serving per banana

I grabbed this online when I wanted to make a simple honey and banana recipe.  I added a pat of butter, and the lemon mentioned at the end is great.  Jen and I had it over vanilla ice cream and would recommend it.

Ingredients

Directions

Ingredients

• 8 apples
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/3 cup melted butter

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Peal, core and slice 8 apples into greased baking dish.
3. Crumble together flour, sugar, baking powder, egg, salt, and cinnamon. Sprinkle over apples.
4. Pour melted butter over crumble.
5. Sprinkle with additional cinnamon.
6. Bake for 35 minutes.

Everyone in our family knows if you like a soft sugar cookie these are the best surgar cookies you will ever eat, hands down.  The key is the final milk to flour ratio.  Bake one cookie, if it is too flat add flour. Not flat enough more milk.

I feel sorry for anyone that did not get the chance to stand by while Aunt Marg made these cookies.  While we all struggle to get the ingredients measured out just right Aunt Marg would just grab the ingredients and throw them together.  The first time I tried making the cookies from an actual recipe card they just didn’t taste right (they were terrible). The problem was when the ingredients were put down on the card the salt was missed.

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