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Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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Granola
In lieu of having temporarily lost my granola recipe, I decided to post it here. In which case, if I ever lose it again, I will be able to easily find it and print it out.
Granola
4C oats
11/2C wheat germ
1C grated coconut
1/4C powdered milk
1-2tsp cinnamon
1tbs sucanat
1/3C coconut oil
1Tbs vanilla
seeds and nuts equaling 1C total
(I will often go over and it doesn't effect the recipe)add dried fruit after baking if you wish
Mix dry ingredients
warm oil, honey and vanilla then add to dry ingredients
spread into a greased baking sheet
bake @250 for an hour or 300 for 1/2 hour
turning about every 10 minuets
Saturday, 10 July 2010
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Life in the Fast Lane
We have been very busy doing things. If you'd like to read about our missions trip feel free. We also went to visit friends and see Gettysburg. Then friends came here. In between I have been trying a few new things. One of the things I tried were called 'mudballs' from heavenlyhomemakers. I have decided I don't like the 1 to 1 ratio of peanut butter and honey so I changed the recipe. Here's my rendition:
1C peanut butter
1/2 C honey
1/2C unsweetened coconut
1/4 C wheat germ
1/2 C chocolate chips
1/4 C sesame seeds
1 1/4 (to 1 1/2) C oats
Roll & eat
Wish I had some pictures to share but we ate all of them. I'm going to try making some chocolate chips and then making these again soon.
Friday, 18 June 2010
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Blogs of Interest
I have been incredibly busy getting ready to go on a missions trip with our family. I decided that I would bake some snacks so we would have something remotely healthy while we were away. So I have made massive amounts of crackers, granola a few loaves of bread and animal crackers. We're going to pick up some apples and I think I will bring salad (just in case there aren't many greens there) I'll miss my kale but.......I'll survive.
In my busyness I stumbled upon some fun blogs and thought I would share.
http://www.keeperofthehome.org/
This blog is giving away a ton of free items. Go check it out!
http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/
Friday, 21 May 2010
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Spontaneous Baking Day
I've been wanting to bake all week. But with everything else going on it kept getting pushed back. Yesterday (at the end of the day) I was making hamburger rolls for dinner so I decided that since I had all of the flour ground I could easily whip up some bagels and straw berry shortcake biscuits. Of course I had to go buy the strawberries and heavy cream. And I had to do this AFTER I had gotten my son from karate (7:30 pm). Needless-to-say, dinner was late........again. But it was good!
Dinner included: hamburgers and hotdogs, sweetpotato fries, and strawberry shortcake for dessert. (I was going to include a salad but ran out of time)
I chose to display the 'bun' I made with something in it.
If you can imagine that this was originally made to be a hamburger bun.......you can start to see why.
(hubby said they looked like flying saucers.....gee thanks! At least he redeemed himself by also stating how good they were)
Sweet potato fries. Toss them in some olive oil, put them on the grill or bake in the oven. DELICIOUS!
Strawberry's were on sale 2 for $5 and I just couldn't resist!
The biscuit recipe is the old 'Betty Crocker' stand by.
I used coconut oil instead of shortening and sucanat instead of granulated sugar.
I threw in a little vanilla and sugar with the heavy whipping cream.....DELICIOUS!
Oh, And I made these for tomorrow morning. Cinnamon cranberry bagels. Cranberry because I started making these before I realized the kids had eaten all of the raisins.
But before I go. I wanted to share the new way my kids like to go down the stairs.
Sunday, 16 May 2010
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Everything Bagels
While reading a really fun blog (link follows) I decided to try my hand at Everything Bagels. We LOVE everything bagels. So without further ado... this recipe
The wheat I ground was half hard red wheat and half hard white. I changed the above recipe as follows: NO honey. I added 2 Tablespoons granulated garlic and 2 Tablespoons onion powder to the flour mixture. I didn't broil the bagels and only boiled them for 2 minuets total. Then baked.
boiling for 2 min (flipping after 1)
cooling on the homemade knit towel which I love for it's soaking properties without leaving lint all over. Cool to the touch and then dip into seeds.
I quickly figured out the seeds worked best if I first dipped the bagel into the dried onion, then the poppy seeds, then the sesame seeds.
bagels waiting to bake
Finished beauties!
I just couldn't resist.
DELICIOUS! And completely worth the effort.
ambiguousinamber
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