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Jan 28 2013
waffle recipe

Waffle Recipe

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Who doesn’t love waffles? My waffle recipe is pretty basic. I use applesauce and honey to make them a little sweet. This makes 6 large George Foreman waffles, I don’t have a regular waffle iron.

Ingredients:

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1½ cups milk
  • ¼ cup applesauce
  • ¼ cup honey
  • 1 Tbsp. sugar
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

  1. In a large bowl, whisk eggs.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients and combine until well mixed.
  3. Pour over preheated iron and cook
  4. Enjoy!

 

Jan 19 2013
stuffed shells recipe

Stuffed Shells Recipe

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Here is my stuffed shells recipe. I sometimes make it was ground Italian sausage and sometimes I omit it. It just depends on what sort of mood I am in.

This amount should serve around 4 people. The measurements are only guidelines and things should be adjusted to your own taste. I’ve made this so many times that I usually don’t measure anymore and just throw it all in and stir.

Ingredients:

  • 16 Jumbo Shells
  • 3/4 cup Ricotta Cheese
  • 1/2 cup Mozzarella Cheese
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan Cheese
  • 2 cups uncooked Spinach, fresh or frozen,
  • 1 Egg
  • 4 shredded Fresh leaves or Dried Basil to taste
  • Italian Seasoning to taste
  • 2 small Garlic cloves
  • Pasta Sauce
  • 1/2 lbs ground Italian Sausage (optional)

Directions:

  1. Preheat Oven to 350°
  2. Cook shells according to packaging directions
  3. In a medium size bowl, put all cheeses, egg and seasonings including garlic in it.
  4. Saute spinach, in a medium skillet, until wilted, then remove it, chop it and place in bowl with the cheese.
  5. If adding sausage, brown the sausage in a skillet until cooked through, and put into bowl with the cheese.
  6. Mix everything until well combined.
  7. In a oven safe dish big enough to hold the shells in one layer, spread some pasta sauce covering the entire bottom and place the shells in the pan opening side up.
  8. Fill each shell with a scoop, large spoonful, of the cheese mixture.
  9. Cover the shells with a thin layer of pasta sauce and then cover them with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese.
  10. Cover the dish with foil and cook for 15 minutes.
  11. Then remove the foil and bake for 10 more minutes.
  12. Serve with a side salad and biscuits!

 

stuffed shells recipe

 

Jan 5 2013

How to Make Sweet Potato Fries

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This really isn’t a recipe for sweet potato fries. Just a “How To” because the only ingredients I used were sweet potatoes and extra virgin olive oil. Sometimes you just really want to have something fried but don’t want to feel guilty about eating it afterwards. Maybe that’s just me; but here is an alternative to regular fries and using a fry daddy. It would be dangerous to my health, and I don’t have the counter space, to have a fryer because I love french fries and fried pickles! I’ll stick to the stove.

Sweet Potato Fries on the stove!

1. Scrub your potatoes! Veggies are pretty dirty in general, because they come from dirt and also you have no idea how many people have touched your food before you took it home. Ok rant over back to cooking.

2. I am not a big fan of skin so I peel it off. Sometimes I’ll leave a little skin on for a bit of a flavor change.

3. Chop it into fries! sweet potato fries

4. Put a couple tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet. Heat it up on medium heat. sweet potato fries

5. Put in the heated skillet. Cook it for about 10 minutes moving the fries around on a pretty constant bases until desired crispiness.

Enjoy your sweet potato fries! I like to dip mine in ranch. sweet potato fries

Dec 14 2012
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Simple Biscuit Recipe

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I have this biscuit recipe because my husband requires bread at all meals. He doesn’t always get it but he’d prefer to have it. Here is my simple biscuit recipe I sometimes make him because it is easy and simple to make and it doesn’t take all day to make.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 5 Tbsp butter, cut into tiny pieces
  • 2-4 Tbsp honey, depending on how sweet you want them, I normally do 3
  • 3/4 cup milk, whole, buttermilk, 2% I’ve used all and prefer whole, they all change the taste a little bit

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 400° and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper
  2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and butter until it’s coarse
  3. In a small bowl, combine milk and honey
  4. Pour milk mixture into flour mixture and combine until all of the ingredients are no longer dry
  5. Put dough on a flour surface and kneed for a couple of minutes
  6. Roll dough into a log a couple of inches thick
  7. from log, cut 1.5-2 inch thick biscuits and place on cookie sheet

    biscuit recipe

    cut and ready to be baked

  8. Bake for 10-12 minutes
  9. Enjoy!

 

biscuit recipe

yum!

 

Dec 3 2012

Blackberry Muffin Recipe with Greek Yogurt and Steel Cut Oats

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So it’s going to be a food week! Today I’ll start with breakfast, a muffin recipe! Blackberry muffins with greek yogurt and steel cut oats.

When buying fruit out of season, it’s always a guessing game as to when it’s going to go bad. I had boughten some blackberries a few days ago and decided I needed to do something with them before they went bad. I decided on blackberry muffins! I looked through a lot of recipes and ended up pulling different things from a few them and created my own to make them somewhat of a complete breakfast? Or really so I can say they have all of these things in them, they must be healthy 🙂 I tend to make the batter the night before to bake the next day because they can be time consuming.

Here is my muffin recipe:

  • 1 cup precooked steel cut oats I usually do 1/2 cup oats to 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 cup greek vanilla yogurt
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup oil I used canola but vegetable oil should be good too
  • 3/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ~ 1 cup blackberries carefully cut into smaller pieces, I quartered mine

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°
  2. in a medium bowl, mix the oats, yogurt and honey

    wet ingredients 1

    cooked steel cut oats, greek yogurt, honey

  3. in a small bowl, mix oil egg, and sugar until well combined

    sugar mixture

    brown sugar, egg, oil

  4. combine sugar mixture with oat mixture
  5. sift the flour, salt, baking soda and powder today and add to wet ingredients

    dry ingredients

    I dont have a fancy sifter so I use my mesh strainer

  6. gently fold in blackberries, they can lightly coated in flour to prevent them from sinking in the batter

    fruit

    blackberries cut into fourths

  7. bake, in a greased or lined muffin tin, for ~ 15-20 minutes, until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean

    yum!

  8. Enjoy!

I would say that this recipe makes around 12 muffins, but I don’t really know because I use the muffin tin and my George Foreman, don’t judge me :), and those muffins are tiny compared to my muffin tin for my oven. Also, you don’t have to use blackberries. Blueberries work great with this recipe too!

I hope you love these muffins!