A sweet-tangy brown sugar-maple syrup dressing gets its zip from apple cider vinegar and performs as the perfect partner for a leafy green salad tossed with pears and candied pecans.
For perfect apple cubes: Stand the apple on your cutting board and cut down into four slabs; discard the core. Lay slabs, cut sides down, and cut into 1/2-inch slices, then crosswise into 1/2-inch cubes.
Add bite to a simple salad by crumbling uncooked ramen noodles over bok choy, a Chinese white cabbage. A cider vinegar and soy sauce drizzle make the salad a unique and flavorful alternative to the traditional starter salad.
Sweet, sauteed apples are great for breakfast, but you can serve them at any meal. The syrup from the apples is delicious on homemade pancakes or waffles.
Just like potato pancakes only shredded carrots star in this one. Eggs, flour, breadcrumbs and garlic surround and bind the carrot together. They cook up crusty and golden and are so good with homemade applesauce.
An apple glaze and sweet dried figs complement the savory blue cheese in this simple yet refined stuffed pork tenderloin. Serve with wild rice and steamed green beans.
Frozen Brussels sprouts get an upgrade in flavor when roasted with apple and sweet onion chunks and drizzled with lemon. You don't even have to thaw the sprouts -- just pour them frozen from the bag onto the baking sheet, season, and roast.
