By Sheri Hopkins
Lifestyle Contributor
Hello everyone! Sorry I missed last week, I had a wedding to cater. My great-neice got married. I cooked all the food and enjoyed every minute of it. She was a beautiful bride!
The article about my funeral was a big hit, but I failed to mention one thing. Curtis Feimster is singing at my funeral. I hope he can hold it together long enough to sing. I know he will be so torn up.
Fall is in the air. The mornings and nights are cool and crips. I love this time of year.
I have been getting ready for my big Halloween bash. Everyone knows I give out full-size candy and have tons of trick-or-treaters. I love seeing all the kids dressed up.
My son, Jacob, y’all know the one that I was in 15 hours of labor with? He never wanted to dress up for Halloween. I literally had to make him. He would throw fits, try to refuse and I would make him. Mean mom! The last time I got him to dress up, he was Danny Zuko from Grease. I hope his children, if he ever has any, want to dress to the nines for Halloween, just to drive him crazy.
Do ya’ll remember the talking furbies? If anyone knew my mother, they knew she loved toys of all kinds, stuffed animals and dolls. When Cabbage Patch Dolls came out, land sake! My sister-in-law had to fight tooth and nail at JCPenney to get Cabbage Patch dolls for all the family for mom.
Back to those talking Furbies, mom had to have one. Those things were possessed or something. They would just start talking and scare the daylights out of you. One time mom had put Furby in the closet and needless to say he decided to start talking in the middle of the night. If my mom wasn’t prayed up, after that, she sure was. Scared her to death. Furby had to go. She tried giving him to me and I said “I don’t want that crazy thing.” I don’t know what happened to Furby, but he disappeared from her house.
Back to Halloween, we always watched scary movies. We would even talk my mom into watching them with us when we were teenagers. Friday the 13th was one we always watched and Nightmare on Elm Street. Today you couldn’t pay me to watch a scary movie. As teenagers that was always so fun.
Someone asked on Facebook if you could sleep in a funeral home for a million dollars and I said “I would sleep on Elm Street for that.”
I’ve dressed up as clowns, old ladies, and my favorite, Little Debbie. In my case, it was Big Debbie. Fun times taking my nephews and nieces trick or treating.
I know it’s been a while, so I need to tell y’all about the time we went trick or treating and went to this lady’s house and she left us standing on the porch and told us to wait. She comes back with these treats wrapped in foil. Back then you could hand out homemade treats. We were so excited, and we all just knew it was a brownie in that foil. When we got home to eat it, guess what it was? Cornbread!! Now mind ya if I had a bowl of beans, that wouldn’t have been half bad, but we were sure looking forward to that homemade brownie. Good memories to have!
This week’s recipe is something I found because I was craving something apple. This bread recipe is so simple but so good. Don’t let the word “bread” scare you young cooks. Anyone can make this!
QUICK APPLE PIE BREAD
1 21-ounce can apple pie filling
1 cup butter (I used one stick of butter and one margarine)
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of salt
3/4 cup of raisins (I left out the raisins)
3/4 cup chopped nuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, I used three medium size load pans. It is too much batter for one.
Put the apple pie filling in a bowl and use your potato masher to chop them up. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar, stir in eggs, apples and vanilla until well blended. Stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and add to the apple mixture. Then add the raisins and nuts. Pour into your greased pans and bake for 30 minutes or more. I started with 30 minutes and had to cook a little longer. It is so good and moist. Enjoy!
