Apples – In the Kitchen with Polly

Breads Breakfast & Brunch Fall Seasonal Sweets

Sweet and Cinnamon-y Apple Bread

PollySeptember 9, 2023August 28, 2025

Bread baking is my Everest—meaning I haven’t conquered it yet! I’m not even at base camp so the bread recipes that appeal to me are easy and pretty much foolproof 🙂 Here’s one of my favorites! The recipe is so…

Breakfast & Brunch Fall Muffins

Cracked Sugar Pumpkin-Apple Muffins

PollySeptember 11, 2022September 16, 2025

Pumpkin isn’t only for October and November, you know. I hope you have an extra can or two of pumpkin puree on hand for the other ten months of the year 🙂 This isn’t a pumpkin muffin, and it isn’t…

Fall Fruits Pies & Tarts Sweets

Mini Apple Pies

PollyNovember 27, 2012August 28, 2025

I hear mini pies are all the rage now. Bye-bye cake pops and chocolate with bacon; hellooooooo mini pies! Here’s a great recipe with which to start. Having made this recipe a few times, I now know a few things…

Salads Side Dishes Summer

Raw Apple-Fennel Salad

PollyJuly 12, 2011August 28, 2025

Ever eaten raw fennel? Time to start! And here’s a fabulous recipe to start with: Raw Fennel and Apple Salad. It’s easy to make and it’s shockingly good. I say shockingly because everyone I coerce into trying it has been…

About Me

It's all about the recipe—really, it is! I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks, food magazines, friends, the Internet, and more recently my adult daughters. I test every recipe I post. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, and a few I have made only a few times. I don't post mediocre recipes. I don't post good recipes. I post GREAT recipes! When I find a recipe I LOVE, I can't wait to share it. I started In the Kitchen with Polly on January 01, 2010, a joint venture between myself and my non-cooking but most excellent webmaster, proofreader, technical goddess and all-around bestie, ratty (not a joke—ratty is her chosen nickname—her Mama didn’t do that to her, she did it to herself!). Last year we hit a snag—the website went up in monstrous flames. It took a long time to sort out what happened and even longer to recreate what was lost. Hundreds of pictures gone, and every recipe we posted (300+) over the last 14 years had to be reformatted, many pictures retaken. It's done now though, and we are back! I like this brighter version :) Scroll through! Find something you like, and let's get cooking! There’s a search button and there are also tags to click on if you want to find a recipe for a specific food. If you need it, the print button is on the preview page and at the end of each post.

Enjoy!