Lentil Burgers
lentil burger
1 can lentils
1/4 cup whole what flour
1 tbs worcestershire sauce
1 egg
5 saltine crackers crumbled
garlic powder
black pepper
for garnish:
lettuce
roasted red peppers or salsa
shredded cheddar cheese
Open can of lentils and rinse well to get rid of some of the sodium. Place in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients and stir up. Form into 4 burger patties and cook in a frying pan sprayed with olive oil. Cook until browned on both sides 4-5 minutes total. Serve on a whole wheat english muffin, or some of that thyme bread I made yesterday yum!
Thyme/Rosemary bread - vegan friendly
As you know I had a bad bread experience the other weekend :) What's that you say? The birds liked it so it must have been ok? Well ok then :) So I wasn't going to let it get me down! So last night I prepared to have a second battle with bread and I won! Instead of going for the hardest bread to make (whole wheat) I decided to start small with a delicious thyme olive oil bread... and oh my lord it was sooo goooood!!!! I ate 1/2 of it last night hot out of the oven dipped in some extra virgin olive oil with fresh ground pepper mixed in. DELICIOUS!The best part about this bread is how FAST and EASY it was. Mix it all up, let it rise an hour then pop it in the oven, done and done that's it! I highly HIGHLY suggest you give it a try. I'll be making this again for sure!
Thyme/Rosemary Bread
ingredients
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 teaspoons dried thyme or rosemary
2 1/2 cups bread flour (i used king arthur bread flour)
1 1/2 teaspoons white sugar
2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast (one package)
1 cup water
3 tablespoons olive oil
Add dry ingredients (salt through yeast) to a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook and combine.
Create a well in the dry ingredients and add oil.
Warm milk or water to 100-130 degrees and add to bowl. (30 seconds in the microwave works perfectly)
Mix dough until it cleans the sides of the bowl. Allow dough to knead on the hook in the bowl for 1-2 minutes.
Coat bowl with olive oil. Add dough to bowl, turn to coat, and allow to rise in covered bowl for
1 hour.
Shape dough into square or round loaf (your choice). Brush top of dough with oil.
Heat oven to 375 and bake for 25 minutes.
Serve with olive oil seasoned with herbs or cracked black pepper.
yum yum yum yum yum!!!!
Poose Cookies (the best healthy chocolate chip cookies ever)
Poose Cookies
ingredients
1.5 cups King Arthur whole wheat flour
1 cup Quaker oats
1 tsp baking soda
1 Tbs Splenda brown sugar blend
2 Tbs Splenda sugar blend
1 package (7 ounces) Gerber Prunes with Apples baby food (NOT plums and apples) (contains 2 – 3.5oz containers)
3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 large egg plus 2 egg whites
1.5 tsp vanilla extract
1.25 cups semisweet chocolate chips
.25 cup walnuts (optional)
pam cooking spray
instructions
preheat oven to 350
In a small bowl whisk together flour, oats, and baking soda. Set aside.
In a large bowl stir together splenda brown sugar and splenda sugar blend, stir in applesauce and prunes with apples containers.
Beat in egg.
Stir in vanilla. (if you want add a little more, mom always said a little extra vanilla never hurt anyone!)
Gradually stir flour mixture into wet mixture. Adding 1/2 cup at a time and stirring until incorporated.
Once flour mixture is almost incorporated, fold in chocolate chips and walnuts.
Drop heaping tablespoons onto a silicon baking pad on a cookie sheet.
Bake for 10-15 minutes or until browned and cooked through. Will vary with oven used.
Serve warm or for a summer treat transfer into the freezer and eat frozen a few hours later!
(to make these even healthier, take out some of the chocolate chips and sub in dried fruit and nuts - delicious)
Are we lost again?
So we got some snow this weekend... Or i should say we got A LOT of snow this weekend. So we powered up with some homemade pizza before taking to the trails to snow shoe! It's a good thing we chowed up since what started out as a well marked easy to follow trail turned into a never ending saga that lasted over 2 hours and many miles... But in the end we found our way home!! hooray!!
Back to the pizza... This is what I call Pizza in a hurry because it's all said done and on your plate within 15 minutes of starting.
Pizza in a hurry
4 flat out style wraps (we use the low carb originals)
1 cup diavola (spicy) tomato sauce
4 tsp basil pesto
1.5 - 2 cups part skim mozzarella
turkey pepperoni (however much you feel like!)
sundried tomatoes
1 can sliced mushrooms (we were out so none on this one booo!)
oregano
black pepper
Heat oven to 350.
Lightly spray cookies sheets with olive oil and place flat out wraps on them.
Spread lightly the pesto onto the wraps then spread on the spicy diavola sauce (1/4 cup each wrap)
Sprinkle mozzarella over sauce
Add pepperoni, sundried tomatoes, mushrooms, and whatever else you have on hand.
Sprinkle with oregano and black pepper.
Cook for 8 minutes, or until nicely browned and crispy.
Enjoy some deliciously crisp thin crust pizza in a hurry!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Big soft ginger cookies
These cookies are hands down one of my new favorites. The issue with most gingerbread recipes is the amount of butter needed to roll them out and do cutouts. Since you are just making cute little gingerballs rolled in snow there is no need to add all that butter. These cookies were so super moist and decadent I wouldn't have believed they didn't have any butter in them, except for the fact that I made them :)
I mean just look how tasty those look!!
All dressed up and ready to go in the oven. yum
Big Soft Ginger Cookies
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1/4 cup splenda for baking blend (or 1/2 cup white sugar)
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 2 tablespoons sugar for rolling
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together the apple sauce and 1/4 cup splenda. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. Shape dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place the cookies 2 inches apart onto a silicon baking mat on a cookie sheet.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container.
Lemon poppy seed muffins
So last night I was sitting around watching bad tv and learning to crochet when I thought to myself.... I could really go for a muffin right about now! I had traveled home to NJ last week and my mom gave me a slew of her recipes so I figured I'd give one a try :) These are super easy to make and don't take much time at all.
Lemon poppy seed muffins
1 3/4 cup flour
3 Tbs splenda baking mix
1 Tbs poppy seeds
2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup skim milk
2 Tbs vegetable oil
1 Tbs grated lemon rind
2 Tbs fresh lemon juice
1 egg lightly beaten
- mix first 5 ingredients in a bowl and make a well in the center
- combine milk and next four ingredients and stir well
- add to dry ingredients, stirring just until moistened
- divide evenly among 12 muffin cups coated with cooking spray
- bake at 400 for 25 minutes or til golden
- remove from pans immediately and let cool on a wire rack
And you are done and done! I may have eaten 3 last night... yum!
Low-fat banana bread
Most banana bread recipes call for a stick of butter and a cup or MORE of sugar!? That is just not right in my book. There is no reason you should take what could be a good for you food and weigh it down with sugar and unnecessary fat. Instead I’ve taken a basic recipe and tweaked it to make it a low-fat butter free version that still is moist and tastes great!
Low-fat banana bread
1 1/2 cups flour (I use whole wheat)
1/4 cup oats
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 overripe bananas
3/4 cup no sugar added apple sauce
1/4 cup splenda for baking
1/2 Tbs vanilla extract (you can NEVER have too much vanilla)
1 egg
optional: 1/2 cup chocolate chips or nuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix dry ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
Using a spoon or a fork mash peeled bananas in a large bowl. Add apple sauce, sugar, vanilla, egg and mix well. Slowly add dry ingredients stirring to incorporate. Add chocolate chips or nuts if desired.
Spray a 9inch cake pan with cooking spray and pour the batter into the pan. Use a spoon to spread to cover the bottom.
Cook for 25-30 minutes or until a knife comes out clean when poked into the center. Do not over bake (it will get dry... yuck).
I like to slice it up like a cake. So get baking and chowing! I made the other night and John ate half of it before the morning... and the rest by the end of the day... hahaha love it!
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