The Mothership

These were such a crowd pleaser with my family.  They are definitely best warmed up. If you need extra icing the recipe is below or buy an extra can of vanilla icing. These are a little fancier than your normal cinnamon rolls but less work than bougie cinnamon rolls. Just like me they are somewhere inbetween simple and bougie. Two of my kids were not a fan of the “soft apples” so you could just omit them and the milk then as well.  Ingredients: 1 stick of butter 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 large apples, peeled, cored, chopped into bite size 1/2 cup pumpkin puree 3 eggs 1/4 cup milk 2 Tbsp. honey 1 tsp vanilla 2 tubes of 8 count cinnamon rolls with icing ***optional - 1 can of vanilla icing   Recipe: Set oven to 350 Melt 1 stick of butter and brown sugar on medium heat until it bubbles. Stir in apple bits. Let cook until the apples are tender. While apples are cooking, in a separate bowl mix/beat the pumpkin, 3 eggs, milk, honey, and vanilla until well mixed. Take cinnamon rolls...

I love experimenting in the kitchen and the more I do it, the more comfortable I get with making mistakes. As a child, I would stand with my tippy toes stretching and my head straining to see exactly what my grandmother would be orchestrating. She was ALWAYS cooking.  You know how your memory fades, but for memories that mean so much to you, they are imprinted in your mind?!?? And if you close your eyes hard enough it’s like you are right there in the memory?!? One thing I can still picture to this day is her arthritic hands stirring ingredients. She rarely used a spoon for stirring. She almost always used her pair of hands. The hands that God gave her. The hands that orchestrated so many things...notes, lists, phone calls, present wrapping, crossword puzzle filling, hugs, finger shaking, and stirring ingredients most frequently. My grandmother was amazing. She is my tie to the “hills” and my reason for being slightly sassy. She always encouraged me to make things in the kitchen an...