Blender Pancakes

Adapted from Shar's Kitchen

Combine in blender the following and mix on high speed for 2 full minutes:

1 cup whole grains (wheat or buckwheat)

1 cup milk

Add:

1 cup milk and blend 2 more minutes

Add:

2 eggs

1/3 cup canola oil (I used coconut oil)

1/2 tsp. salt

1 Tab. honey or 1 Tab. apple juice cocentrate

Blend well. Can or store in refrigerator over night.

Just before cooking, add:

1 Tab. Baking powder (blend in gently with moment speed until mixed.

Banana Chip Muffins

Can you tell my girls like these? I looked over and my18 month old had already eaten two or three tops. ;)

From BM Food from -Thomalee Abraham

2 extra ripe bananas
2 eggs
1 cup packed brown sugar (I don't pack it. Less sugar is better for me.)
½ cup butter or margarine
1 tsp. vanilla
2 ¼ cup flour (The 1/4 cup I use wheat flour)
2 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. salt
1 ½ cup chocolate chips (I used mini, and like only 1/2 cup)

Mash bananas well with fork or potato masher. In a bowl, beat mashed bananas, eggs, sugar, butter, and vanilla until well blended. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Stir in chocolate chips after adding flour mixture to banana mixture. Mix until all blended. Spoon into well greased muffin cups( I use mini muffin tin). Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes(mini more like 15 to 20 min.

Chicken and Pasta

K- picture is not as good as it tastes.

I have heard about marinating chicken in Italian Dressing, but it was organized cooking that reminded me of it, so easy.

Pronto Pasta Bake

adapted from Pampered Chef

12 oz rotini pasta (I've added other kinds of pasta, and wheat pasta)

1 medium zucchini, coarsely chopped

1/2 of yellow squash coarsely chopped (really you could use more zucchini or more squash with whatever you have)

2 garlic cloves

1 jar 48 oz spaghetti sauce (with basil, or anything you like)

2 oz Parmesan cheese (this would be nice, but I choose to spend money else where)

2 cups of mozzarella cheese

375 degrees. Cook pasta. Press garlic, add zucchini, and sauce in bowl. I split this recipe into two 9x9, or 8x8 pans and freeze one for later. If you have a bigger family use 9x13 pan. Layer 1/2 sauce, 1/2 pasta, and 1/2 cheese, then again. Cover and cook for 45 min, uncover and bake for 5 more min.

Serve with yummy garlic bread. A lot like a mini lasagna, bet you could add meat too. Yummy.

Italian Red Potatoes

I don't have measurements for this, but we love them.

Oven at 400 degrees

4-5 red potatoes (how ever many to feed your fam)

Cut up into bite size pieces. Coat with olive oil, Italian Seasoning, and we like garlic, so garlic salt. If you don't you can use just salt and pepper. Pop in the oven for 10 min, open stir around, add more oil if looks dry or sticks to pan. Pop in for another 10 min, check them again and stir. Then 5 more minutes and then try not to eat to many!

Strawberry Freezer Jam

Don't let this no sugar needed fool you. It does unless you use Splenda, and if you didn't know, do not use splenda, I think it has an awful after taste, but also contains sucralose. (which I have been told anything with ose on the end is a form of sugar) Fry's had strawberries on sale this week for 97 cents, so I bought some and got this hoping for less sugar. Nope and I didn't want to use a fake sugar, so I used real sugar instead. The freezer jam really is delicious, my aunt Debbie made a ton one day and gave me a batch home. WE LOVED it. So, yes it has that stinkin sugar in it, but what jam doesn't? Hopefully strawberries go on sale again. My friend said she had a recipe that doesn't need sure-jell. I'll post it when I try it. ;)

Tortillas

I always wondered what would happen if I didn't have tortillas in food storage. Here it is! Thanks best bites, now if I could replace that shortening with something healthier.. maybe butter?

Flour Tortillas

2 1/2 c. flour
1 c. very hot water
1 tsp. Kosher salt
1/4 c. shortening

Mix flour, salt and shortening. Still crumbly, add some hot water. Then roll in balls, then fry.

Stressed?

This sign made me laugh.

I definitely want to hang it in my kitchen. Not crazy about her flowers on it, but otherwise pretty cute.

Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts!

http://www.lilluna.com/2011/02/tutorial-tuesday-stressed-spelled.html