I've been a bit of a slacker about sharing recipes and so to make up for it I have decided that I will now share 3 that I have just made and LOVED with you all.
You want to hear about them, right?
I know you would rather taste them, and you are always welcome to stop on over and grab some if you see that I have posted that I just made {whatever} and it is divivne, hop in your car/truck/scooter or just run over. Treats are always better when shared with friends. And I'm the type of person who loves to make a treat, I will eat 1 or 2 servings and then I usually get the craving for a different something and make a new thing. Needless to say I ALWAYS have treats laying around at my house.
Where was I....Oh, Yeah! Recipes!!
Recipe #1
Fresh Lemonade (really its citrus-ade because its not just lemons)
8 (total) lemons, limes or oranges- any combination
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups hot water
This is the key to good lemonade,I did a lot of research on this to find the secret to good lemonade last night between the hours of 8:50 and 8:52. Google is fast:
Make a sugar syrup. To do so you heat the sugar and water to a boil, then cool it. This very evenly distributes the sugar flavor instead of letting it sink to the bottom. So do that first thing in the morning and stick it in your fridge to let it cool. About the time that you are wanting to serve the lemonade, squeeze the citrus fruits of your choice. Reserve some of the pulp if you like that kind of lemonade, if not remove it with the seeds. Pour into a large pitcher, add the chilled sugar syrup and then add enough water to the mixture to make 2 quarts. Feel like getting wild?!? Add some raspberries or stawberries or mango! If you smash the added wildness in the bottom of your glass before pouring in the lemonade, it will mix very nicely together.
ENJOY!!
Recipe #B I totally did that on purpose to annoy my sister who (I hope) reads this.
Angel food bread pudding.
-Let me explain: I am a sucker for the reduced for quick sale rack at the bakery, except the donuts- NEVER buy day old donuts. So the other day there was angel food cake for 99 cents, we had just gotten some awesome peaches from my sister in law, so for dessert one night we had just that. With whipped cream on top. It rocked. But then I made jam with the rest of the peaches and I had 3/4 of a cake left over. So I Googled angel food cake bread pudding and came up with some whack jobs ginger/lemon/raisen/pecan angel food bread pudding. Did not sound good at all. Except the lemon part- that was intriging. So I looked at the basics of his recipe and got my gear going. This is what I came up with:
Cubed, day old angel food cake (about 4 cups total)
1 cup of milk
4 eggs
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
Zest of one whole lemon
(OOOOH! Add poppy seeds! I didn't but it would be awesome!)
Pour cubed cake into a greased square pan, in another bowl mix together the other ingredients and pour over cake, making sure to get all the cake wet. I had to smoosh some pieces down to get enough egg mixture on them so that they wouldn't get toasty burned. Cook for 20-30 minutes at 350* until the center no longer looks runny.
I think making a creme anglaise sauce (another day- its very complicated cooking that would take a long time to explain) and pouring it on top, sprinking a few dried cranberries on there could possibly win me....what cooking awards are out there?! Look it up and tell me so I can start prepping my acceptance speech. But yeah, its really, really good. Come share it with me before its gone. :)
Okay, recipe # Last (again, annoying the sister. hehehe)
Get ready people...this one is monumental:
But first, theres a story.
Hey! Don't skip my story and scroll down to get the recipe. To get my goods, you hear my ramble. Its the rule. That I just made up.
So my kids go through phases of loving bananas and hating bananas. The phase goes something like they love them in the store and ask for them whenever we are there and then hate them when they are home and refuse to eat them. So I am always finding myself with browning bananas on my counters. I sneak them into muffins and make this really good creamy banana bread that has a caramel crunch topping on it, I've tried covering them with chocolate and freezing them- all but 2 are still in my freezer waiting to be eaten...and I ate the 2.
I was in the mood for something new, so I googled again and saw a recipe for double chocolate banana bread. It won. But, you know me, I could not leave well enough alone: I changed it- for the better of course. This is the result:
Chocolate peanut butter banana bread (imagine a chocolate peanut butter frozen banana...in bread version)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil
1 1/4 c mashed banana (lets be honest, no one measures the smashed banana- use the 2 or 3 that are on your counter and call it good)
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup peanut butter baking chips (you know, like chocolate chips, but peanut buter)
Mix the sugar, eggs, oil and banana until well mixed and add the other ingredients, fold the peanut butter chips into the mixed batter and pour it into a large greased loaf pan. Bake at 350* for 50-60 minutes.
Let it cool a little bit and then pop it out of the loaf pan and enjoy.
Here's my little tip of the day too: If you use a plastic knife to cut it, it doesn't gum it all up and make a mess. It works for brownies and cake too.
Your welcome! :)
Now that you ahve my weeks creations you can go and do as I did- ignore your mommy chores and bake away, then eat and drink to your hearts delight. As you sit in what is likely to be a very messy kitchen. And house. Cause you ignored your chores.
Yeah, it happened something like that for me.
But it was worth it.
You want to hear about them, right?
I know you would rather taste them, and you are always welcome to stop on over and grab some if you see that I have posted that I just made {whatever} and it is divivne, hop in your car/truck/scooter or just run over. Treats are always better when shared with friends. And I'm the type of person who loves to make a treat, I will eat 1 or 2 servings and then I usually get the craving for a different something and make a new thing. Needless to say I ALWAYS have treats laying around at my house.
Where was I....Oh, Yeah! Recipes!!
Recipe #1
Fresh Lemonade (really its citrus-ade because its not just lemons)
8 (total) lemons, limes or oranges- any combination
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups hot water
This is the key to good lemonade,I did a lot of research on this to find the secret to good lemonade last night between the hours of 8:50 and 8:52. Google is fast:
Make a sugar syrup. To do so you heat the sugar and water to a boil, then cool it. This very evenly distributes the sugar flavor instead of letting it sink to the bottom. So do that first thing in the morning and stick it in your fridge to let it cool. About the time that you are wanting to serve the lemonade, squeeze the citrus fruits of your choice. Reserve some of the pulp if you like that kind of lemonade, if not remove it with the seeds. Pour into a large pitcher, add the chilled sugar syrup and then add enough water to the mixture to make 2 quarts. Feel like getting wild?!? Add some raspberries or stawberries or mango! If you smash the added wildness in the bottom of your glass before pouring in the lemonade, it will mix very nicely together.
ENJOY!!
Recipe #B I totally did that on purpose to annoy my sister who (I hope) reads this.
Angel food bread pudding.
-Let me explain: I am a sucker for the reduced for quick sale rack at the bakery, except the donuts- NEVER buy day old donuts. So the other day there was angel food cake for 99 cents, we had just gotten some awesome peaches from my sister in law, so for dessert one night we had just that. With whipped cream on top. It rocked. But then I made jam with the rest of the peaches and I had 3/4 of a cake left over. So I Googled angel food cake bread pudding and came up with some whack jobs ginger/lemon/raisen/pecan angel food bread pudding. Did not sound good at all. Except the lemon part- that was intriging. So I looked at the basics of his recipe and got my gear going. This is what I came up with:
Cubed, day old angel food cake (about 4 cups total)
1 cup of milk
4 eggs
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
Zest of one whole lemon
(OOOOH! Add poppy seeds! I didn't but it would be awesome!)
Pour cubed cake into a greased square pan, in another bowl mix together the other ingredients and pour over cake, making sure to get all the cake wet. I had to smoosh some pieces down to get enough egg mixture on them so that they wouldn't get toasty burned. Cook for 20-30 minutes at 350* until the center no longer looks runny.
I think making a creme anglaise sauce (another day- its very complicated cooking that would take a long time to explain) and pouring it on top, sprinking a few dried cranberries on there could possibly win me....what cooking awards are out there?! Look it up and tell me so I can start prepping my acceptance speech. But yeah, its really, really good. Come share it with me before its gone. :)
Okay, recipe # Last (again, annoying the sister. hehehe)
Get ready people...this one is monumental:
But first, theres a story.
Hey! Don't skip my story and scroll down to get the recipe. To get my goods, you hear my ramble. Its the rule. That I just made up.
So my kids go through phases of loving bananas and hating bananas. The phase goes something like they love them in the store and ask for them whenever we are there and then hate them when they are home and refuse to eat them. So I am always finding myself with browning bananas on my counters. I sneak them into muffins and make this really good creamy banana bread that has a caramel crunch topping on it, I've tried covering them with chocolate and freezing them- all but 2 are still in my freezer waiting to be eaten...and I ate the 2.
I was in the mood for something new, so I googled again and saw a recipe for double chocolate banana bread. It won. But, you know me, I could not leave well enough alone: I changed it- for the better of course. This is the result:
Chocolate peanut butter banana bread (imagine a chocolate peanut butter frozen banana...in bread version)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil
1 1/4 c mashed banana (lets be honest, no one measures the smashed banana- use the 2 or 3 that are on your counter and call it good)
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup peanut butter baking chips (you know, like chocolate chips, but peanut buter)
Mix the sugar, eggs, oil and banana until well mixed and add the other ingredients, fold the peanut butter chips into the mixed batter and pour it into a large greased loaf pan. Bake at 350* for 50-60 minutes.
Let it cool a little bit and then pop it out of the loaf pan and enjoy.
Here's my little tip of the day too: If you use a plastic knife to cut it, it doesn't gum it all up and make a mess. It works for brownies and cake too.
Your welcome! :)
Now that you ahve my weeks creations you can go and do as I did- ignore your mommy chores and bake away, then eat and drink to your hearts delight. As you sit in what is likely to be a very messy kitchen. And house. Cause you ignored your chores.
Yeah, it happened something like that for me.
But it was worth it.
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