by Sharon | Apr 28, 2015
It’s excellent to have an easy recipe on hand when your family is going in many directions during the evening. The pictures shows you have to make these delicious Pepperoni Rolls, but a simple explanation may be helpful.
You’re going to need some basic ingredients:
- 56 pepperoni slices
- Italian seasoning
- Garlic powder
- 3 cans Pillsbury Buttermilk Biscuits
- 1 egg
- 1 jar Pizza sauce
- 1 block cheese
- Parmesan cheese
Of course, you can substitute ingredients to those of your choice.
So, basically you have 30 canned biscuits, pepperoni, cheddar jack cheese. Egg wash with garlic and Italian seasoning. Bake following the biscuit directions and enjoy.
This is one of those recipes you’ll want to keep handy for something quick and easy to make that your family will thoroughly enjoy.
by Sharon | Apr 22, 2015
This is truly a delicious spring and summer dessert your family will absolutely love — unless strawberries aren’t your thing. You can always use a berry of your choice. I like the idea of using Oreo Cookies — the vanilla ones rather than the regular ones. Let’s get started making these!
Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
- 24 golden Oreo Cookies
- 1¼ Cup diced medium sized strawberries
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon cornstarch
- 8 oz softened cream cheese
- ⅓ cup sour cream
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place half the golden oreos in a food processor. Pulse until it forms crumbs, add in the melted butter and pulse again until crumbs are covered in butter.
- Press crumbs into a 8 inch baking pan lined with parchment paper or foil. Bake in oven for 5 minutes, take out and let cool on counter.
- Place strawberries in pot with 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 tablespoon water. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 10 minutes until soft. Stir every few minutes.
- Combine lemon juice with cornstarch and stir into mixture and simmer an additional minute until thickened. Place strawberry mixture in food processor and pulse until smooth. Place in a bowl and set aside.
- Place cream cheese, sour cream, remaining sugar, vanilla and egg in food processor.
- Pulse until smooth and combined. Pour on top of oreo crust.
- Pour half of the strawberry sauce on top of cheesecake. Use remaining sauce however you wish — on ice cream or pancakes or waffles. Bake at 325 degrees for 36 minutes or until cheesecake is just slightly jiggly.
- Take out of oven and let cool on a wire rack. Crush remaining oreos and sprinkle on top, gently pushing into the bars.
- Place in a fridge covered and let set for at least 3 hours until cutting into squares.
- Serve and enjoy!!
It’s not only delicious, but also has eye-appeal.
by Sharon | Apr 17, 2015
This is a sweet butter your family will love on pancakes, waffles, toast, even vanilla ice cream and I’m sure you can think of more.
Let’s take a look at the recipe:
- 5 medium size ripe bananas
- 20 ounce can of crushed pineapple — not drained
- 1/4 cup ground coconut — but if you can’t find it flake coconut will do just fine
- 3 cups of granulated white sugar
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice — bottled or fresh
Just looking at the ingredients, I cut the granulated white sugar in half when I started making this monkey butter. But I kept the other 1 1/2 cups available after a taste test. I think it better to have less sugar than too much. Then I could add to get the right sweetness. After the boiling process, I got a little on the spoon to cool and a bit of a taste . . . then I slowly added more sugar to get to what was pleasing to my taste.
Here’s what you need to do:
- Begin by peeling and slicing the bananas.
- Put them into a large pot.
- Add the rest of the ingredients.
- Put the pot on the stove and bring to a boil — stir constantly.
- After bringing to a boil, lower to simmer and cook until thickened — you still need to stir continuously.
- After properly thickened, spoon the mixture into sterilized glass jars and allow to cool.
- You can refrigerate the monkey butter. It should keep for 4 to 6 weeks, if it lasts that long — your family may go absolutely “ape” over this!
Now, you’ve been introduced to Monkey Butter . . . it was totally new to me, so I had to check it out. I’m pleased you did, too. It’s a catchy name for a delicious homemade butter.
Enjoy!
by Sharon | Apr 15, 2015
Here we have a vegan banana bread recipe that is also gluten free. Isn’t it amazing that 20 years ago we didn’t even know anything about gluten . . . maybe you did, but I didn’t. Every recipe is a new adventure. And on that note, you can add nuts and maybe even chocolate chips — as long as they’re vegan.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup gluten-free oat flour
- 1 cup gluten-free all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup olive or coconut oil
- 3 very large and very ripe bananas
- optional: 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips, plus an extra handful for the top
- optional: 1/2 cup walnuts or almonds
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 375° F.
- Get out a large mixing bowl and sift the gluten-free oat flour and gluten-free all purpose flour together.
- Add baking soda, baking powder and salt to the mixing bowl and whisk it all together.
- Get out a medium mixing bowl, this is for the very large and very ripe bananas. You’re going to peel them and mash them up with either a fork or your hands.
- Add the mashed bananas, oil, optional chocolate chips and/or optional nuts to the dry ingredients. You’re going to mix this all together gently — don’t overdo it.
- Spoon the mixture into a lightly oiled 5 x 9 inch loaf pan. Add the handful of optional chocolate chips on the top.
- Bake for 20 to 30 minutes. You want the top to be lightly browned. Test with a toothpick — you want it to come out clean, not gooey with batter.
- Allow to cool thoroughly before removing it from the pan.
- Wait about an hour before slicing it — you don’t want it to crumble on you.
- Enjoy!
by Sharon | Apr 11, 2015
This should be no big surprise, but almond butter is made with almonds. That’s it! That’s all there is. Now, some people roast their own almonds and others buy roasted almonds. You’ll need a pound of almonds roasted, or roast raw almonds yourself. You’ll need either a food processor or a vitamix to make your almost butter.
Place the roasted almonds into your food processor or vitamix and process on High for 5 to 6 minutes. To make your almond butter smoother, you may want to process it longer, but make sure your processor doesn’t get too hot.
Once you’ve made it and sampled it, keep it refrigerated because there are no preservatives added.
Now that you know how to make Almond Butter, you can make Cashew Butter and even your own Peanut Butter.
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