http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2009/10/baked-chicken-meatballs/
luni, 28 decembrie 2015
marți, 24 noiembrie 2015
Peanut butter cheesecake
Peanut butter cheesecake
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/cheesecake
This irresistible cheesecake is the perfect indulgence for peanut butter fans - freeze for up to two months and serve as a show-stopping dinner party dessert
Cooking time
Prep: 30 minsCook: 5 mins
Skill level
Easy
Servings
Serves 6 - 8
For the base
50g butter175g pack peanut cookies
For the filling
5 gelatine leaves500g tub ricotta175g smooth peanut butter175g golden syrup150ml milk
To decorate
270ml pot double cream2 tbsp soft brown sugar1 bar peanut brittle, crushed
Oil and line a 20cm round loose- bottomed cake tin with cling film, making it as smooth as possible. Melt the butter in a pan. Crush the biscuits by bashing them in a bag with a rolling pin, then stir them into the butter until very well coated. Press the mixture firmly into the base of the tin and chill.Soak the gelatine in water while you make the filling. Tip the ricotta into a bowl, then beat in the peanut butter and syrup.Ricotta has a slightly grainy texture so blitz until smooth with a stick blender for a smoother texture if you prefer.Take the soaked gelatine from the water and squeeze dry. Put it into a pan with the milk and heat very gently until the gelatine dissolves. Beat into the peanut mixture, then tip onto the biscuit base. Chill until set.To freeze, leave in the tin and as soon as it is solid, cover the surface with cling film, then wrap the tin with cling film and foil.To defrost, thaw in the fridge overnight.To serve, carefully remove from the tin.Whisk the cream with the sugar until it holds its shape, then spread on top of the cheesecake and scatter with the peanut brittle.
vineri, 13 noiembrie 2015
joi, 22 octombrie 2015
5-Ingredient Vegan Quinoa Fudge
http://www.simplyquinoa.com/5-ingredient-vegan-quinoa-fudge/
5-Ingredient Vegan Quinoa Fudge
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 3 hours, 10 minutes
Yield: 25 - 36 squares
adapted from Rawmanda
Ingredients
1/2 cup uncooked quinoa
8 medjool dates
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted
3 - 4 tablespoons water
Flaked sea salt (optional)
Instructions
In a dry skillet, toast the quinoa on medium heat until it begins to pop and is fragrant, about 1 - 2 minutes. Toss it a few times to ensure even toasting.
Add quinoa to a high powered blender and blend on high until it resembles the texture of flour. Transfer to a food processor.
Add dates, cocoa powder and coconut oil. Process until combined.
With processor running, add water 1 tablespoon at a time until a dough has formed.
Line a small container (sandwich sized works great) with plastic wrap. Press dough into container and smooth with hands. Sprinkle with sea salt (if using).
Place in freezer for 3 - 4 hours until set.
Remove from freezer, a cut into small, 1/2" squares (remember these are bite sized!). Store in freezer and enjoy whenever the chocolate craving hits!
marți, 20 octombrie 2015
luni, 19 octombrie 2015
Oatmeal Protein Pancakes
http://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/2015/02/protein-pancakes.html
Oatmeal Protein Pancakes
Yields 6
Ingredients
1 1/3 cup whole grain oats
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup cottage cheese
2 eggs
1/2 cup water
1 tsp olive oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
dash of cinnamon
Instructions
Add oats and baking powder to a food processor or blender and blend until they're as fine as flour. Remove to a bowl.
Add the cottage cheese, eggs, water, vanilla, oil and cinnamon to the blender and blend until smooth. Add the wet ingredients to the bowl with the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
Scoop about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake and pour onto a hot griddle spray with non-stick cooking spray. Cook on one side until bubbles begin to appear on the surface of the pancake. Flip and cook on the other side.
duminică, 11 octombrie 2015
Ich hab' ein Kuscheltier Lyrics
http://www.magistrix.de/lyrics/Kinderlieder/Ich-Hab-Ein-Kuscheltier-1219054.html
Ich hab' ein Kuscheltier Lyrics
Ich hab' ein Kuscheltier, das ist ganz lieb zu mir,
Ich halt's in meinem Arm, da liegt es weich und warm.
Ich hab ein Kuscheltier, das ist ganz lieb zu mir,
da bin ich nicht allein und schlafe besser ein.
Manchmal ist die Mutti weg und ich bin ganz allein.
Ach, das kann ich gar nicht leiden, doch ich fang nicht an zu schrei'n.
Denn obwohl ich traurig bin – ich weiß ja, dass sie wiederkommt.
Mein kleines Stofftier ist bei mir, wir haben uns ganz lieb.
Und wer Angst hat, wer Angst hat,
der hat 'n kleinen Piep!
Und wer Angst hat, wer Angst hat,
der hat 'n kleinen Piep!
Und sind die Eltern nicht zuhaus'
macht mir das nicht soviel aus. Denn:
Ich hab' ein Kuscheltier, das ist ganz lieb zu mir,
Ich halt's in meinem Arm, da liegt es weich und warm.
Ich hab ein Kuscheltier, das ist ganz lieb zu mir,
da bin ich nicht allein und schlafe besser ein.
vineri, 9 octombrie 2015
Thinking with gestures
Thinking with gestures
Via: Observer
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2015/october-15/thinking-with-gestures.html
Can gestures speak louder than words? APS President-Elect Susan Goldin-Meadow certainly thinks so. During her William James Fellow Award Address, Goldin-Meadow shared highlights from her seminal research on the power of gesture, beginning with the integral role that gestures play in human learning and cognition.
“You’ve got to be careful how you move your hands, because as you’re moving your hands, you may be changing the way you think,” the University of Chicago psychological scientist warned an audience at the 2015 APS Annual Convention in New York City.
Goldin-Meadow’s research has shown that the gestures we produce when we talk are not merely random movements used for emphasis — instead, these gestures are reciprocally tied to our thoughts and even to our ability to learn. Goldin-Meadow defines gesture as bodily action that represents information and thus has an indirect effect on the world — unlike actions that affect the world directly (e.g., gesturing about opening a jar compared with twisting open the actual jar).
“The gestures we produce provide a window onto our thoughts, and that window often gives a different view from the window that speech gives us,” she explained. “Importantly, gesture not only reflects what we know, but the gestures we produce can change what we know.”
Gesture Reflects Knowledge
Through an influential series of experiments, Goldin-Meadow and colleagues have demonstrated gesture’s integral role in learning. By observing the gestures children made while explaining how they (incorrectly) solved a problem, Goldin-Meadow and colleagues were able to predict a specific child’s ability to successfully learn how to solve the problem.
Using a task originally developed by Jean Piaget, Goldin-Meadow showed children ages 5 to 8 two rows of six checkers carefully lined up so that each checker in one row corresponded with a checker in the paired row. A researcher then spread out the checkers in one row so that there was a wider space between each checker, creating one row that was longer than the other.
Then, Goldin-Meadow asked the children which of the two rows had more checkers. Children didn’t always understand that the two rows, though different lengths, still had the same number of checkers — that is, they didn’t understand conservation of number (i.e., that quantity doesn’t necessarily change when its shape or the container holding it changes).
Goldin-Meadow was able to predict which children would learn conservation based on the kinds of gestures the children produced when they explained why they thought the rows had different numbers of checkers. When asked for an explanation, some children said, “It’s different because you moved them” while using their hands to mimic the spreading gesture the researcher had used. These children were classified as gesture–speech “matchers”; the gestures they made with their hands matched the reasoning they articulated with their words.
Other children, however, gestured in ways that did not match their speech. These children gave the same verbal explanation for why the two rows were different — the researcher spread one row apart to make it longer — but, instead of using a spreading motion, the children pointed at a checker in one row, then at a checker in the other row, then back to the first row, and so on.
“The child is using his gestures to pair up the checkers in one row with the checkers in another row, which is the first step toward one-to-one correspondence,” Goldin-Meadow explained. “When we found kids like this, we thought, maybe they’re in a different cognitive state from the gesture–speech matchers.”
And, in fact, these children, called gesture–speech “mismatchers,” were far more likely to succeed on the task (that is, to recognize that the number of checkers in the two rows was the same even when one row was spread out) after instruction on a conservation-of-numbers task than were the children who matched their gestures and speech.
“What this suggests is that gesture is really an effective tool for instruction — teachers can use it to figure which of their students are ready to learn a particular task,” said Goldin-Meadow. “Gesture conveys substantive information about a speaker’s thoughts. The ideas conveyed in gesture aren’t always expressed in speech, which is where things get interesting.”
In one experiment, researchers taught groups of third and fourth graders a strategy for solving a simple math problem. They were given an equation (e.g., 7 + 8 + 5 = _ + 5) and asked to fill in the blank to balance the equation. These types of equations can be challenging for math novices; they tend to either add up all of the numbers in the whole equation (and get an answer of 25 for this problem) or add up all of the numbers on the left side of the equation (and get an answer of 20).
One group of children received only verbal instruction. Two other groups were taught using matching or mismatching speech and gestures. The relationship between speech and gesture had a profound impact on how well the children learned: Children who received mismatching gestures from an instructor learned more than children who received matching gestures and more than children who received only verbal instructions.
Additional studies showed that gestures can even help learners extend their knowledge to unfamiliar types of problems — which is at the heart of learning.
Gestures That Lead Us Astray
While gesture is clearly a powerful tool for enhancing learning, the information conveyed in gesture also can lead people astray. Children pick up on information in an adult’s gestures even when the information isn’t true — a phenomenon that extends to eyewitness testimony.
“I don’t want to argue that gesture is an unqualified good in terms of learning,” Goldin-Meadow explained. “What I want to argue is that gesture is a powerful tool for learning. It can be used for good, but it can also be used for evil.”
Eyewitness testimony, while sometimes cited as the gold standard for evidence in the legal world, is often unreliable. In a series of experiments, Goldin-Meadow and colleagues demonstrated that gesture may be one way to unduly influence witnesses, particularly children.
In one example, Goldin-Meadow shows a video of a child sitting at a table with a researcher. The child has just watched a musician perform. When the researcher asks the child a perfectly formed open-ended question about the musician — “What else was he wearing?” — the child lists off a series of different types of hats. The musician, however, was not wearing a hat — so how did this open-ended question lead to a series of hat answers?
Looking at the video carefully, you will see that the researcher makes a subtle gesture as she asks the question, pulling the brim of an imaginary hat over her eyes.
“This phenomenon is incredibly powerful, yet completely ignored by the legal world,” says Goldin-Meadow. “So, we don’t know necessarily when interviewers are misleading eyewitnesses.”
Making Meaning From Gestures
Whether used for good, evil, or neutral ends, gestures have power because people extract meaningful information from them — even without realizing it.
This tendency became apparent in another experiment on learning in which children were asked to solve an equation of the same form: 7 + 8 + 5 = _ + 5. All of the children were taught to say the words, “I want to make one side equal to the other side.” Some children were also taught to point with two fingers at the two numbers whose sum was missing from the blank (7 + 8), but another group of children was taught to point at the wrong two numbers (8 + 5). A third group was taught how to solve the equation using only words.
Intuitively, it would seem that the wrong-number condition would be a disaster, but surprisingly, even a misleading gesture led to better learning than no gestures at all. The more correct the child’s gestures were, the better the child’s performance, but even gestures conveying only partially correct information were more helpful for learning than words on their own. The concept of grouping — metaphorically grouping sets of numbers together — seemed to emerge from the gestures the child was taught to produce, even if the gestures highlighted the wrong two numbers.
“Children start out producing rote movements with no real understanding of what they’re doing, but over time they come to recognize grouping in their own gestures,” Goldin-Meadow explained.
Gesture actively brings action into a speaker’s mental representations, and those mental representations then affect behavior in compelling ways — at times more powerfully than the actions on which the gestures are based, Goldin-Meadow has found.
William James famously said, “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” In her address, Goldin-Meadow said she would like to make a friendly amendment to those words: “Gesture may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without gesture.”
luni, 5 octombrie 2015
duminică, 4 octombrie 2015
marți, 29 septembrie 2015
Banana chocolate no gluten bread
http://www.foodfaithfitness.com/paleo-banana-bread-with-chocolate-and-almond-butter/
1/2 cup coconut flour, sifted, 44 grams*
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/3 cup creamy almond butter
4 large eggs, at room temperature
3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
3 large ripe bananas, mashed, 390 grams or a heaping 1 1/2 cups mashed
1/3 cup chopped dark chocolate
Directions
Preheat your oven to 350°F and generously grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan with coconut oil. Additionally, line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, stir together the coconut flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon until well combined. Set aside.
In a large, microwave-safe bowl melt the almond butter until smooth and creamy, about 1 minute. You can also melt it over the stove on low heat. Add in eggs, maple syrup and vanilla extract. Whisk until smooth and well combined.
Into the almond butter mixture, add the mashed banana and whisk until well combined.
Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and whisk until smooth, and no lumps of coconut flour are left. Stir in the chopped chocolate until well mixed. Pour into the prepared loaf pan and let stand for 10 minutes before baking, so the coconut flour can begin absorbing the moisture.
Bake until the loaf is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45-50 minutes. Let cool COMPLETELY in the pan.
Once cooled, slice and DEVOUR
Easy raw cake
http://www.superhealthykids.com/blueberry-chia-seed-cashew-cake/
Crust:
8 date, pitted – Dates, medjool
1/2 cup – flaxseed, ground
2 tablespoon – chia seeds
Filling:
6 oz – cashews
2 tbsp – Coconut Cream
3 tablespoon – coconut oil
3 tablespoon – maple syrup, pure
1/2 cup – blueberries
Directions
Soak the cashews for at least 6 hours
To make the crust, you will need to pit and chop the dates.
Blend the chopped dates in a food processor until a ball forms around the edge of the blender.
In a bowl combine the processed dates, flax meal and chia seed. Knead well with your hands.
Press the mixture by hand into a lightly oiled 5 inch spring form pan. Place the crust in the fridge while you prepare the filling.
To prepare the filling, blend the soaked cashews, coconut cream, melted coconut oil, maple syrup and blueberries. Process on high speed to ensure consistency.
Spoon the filling onto the crust and place in freezer for at least 4 hours.
Decorate the cake after it’s frozen if desired.
Let sit at room temperature for 10 minutes before serving.
luni, 28 septembrie 2015
miercuri, 23 septembrie 2015
Cinderella Dream Song Lyrics
A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you will lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling thru
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true
marți, 22 septembrie 2015
Ziua in care m am iubit cu adevarat
Următorul poem a fost scris de Charlie Chaplin la cea de-a 70-a aniversare a sa, în ziua de 16 aprilie 1959.
”În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am înțeles că în toate împrejurările, mă aflam la locul potrivit, în momentul potrivit.
Și atunci, am putut să mă liniștesc.
Astăzi, știu că aceasta se numește … Stimă de sine.
În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am realizat că neliniștea și suferința mea emoțională nu erau nimic altceva decât semnalul că merg împotriva convingerilor mele.
Astăzi, știu că aceasta se numește … Autenticitate.
În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am încetat să doresc o viață diferită și am început să înțeleg că tot ceea ce mi se întâmplă, contribuie la dezvoltarea mea.
Astăzi, știu că aceasta se numeste … Maturitate.
În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am început să realizez că este o greșeală să forțez o situație sau o persoană, cu singurul scop de a obține ceea ce doresc, știind foarte bine că nici acea persoană, nici eu însumi nu suntem pregătiți și că nu este momentul …
Astăzi, știu că aceasta se numește … Respect.
În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am început să mă eliberez de tot ceea ce nu era benefic … persoane, situații, tot ceea ce îmi consuma energia. La început, rațiunea mea numea asta egoism.
Astăzi, știu că aceasta se numește … Amor propriu.
În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am încetat să-mi mai fie teamă de timpul liber și am renunțat să mai fac planuri mari, am abandonat mega-proiectele de viitor.
Astăzi fac ceea ce este corect, ceea ce îmi place, când îmi place și în ritmul meu.
Astăzi, știu că aceasta se numește … Simplitate.
În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am încetat să mai caut să am întotdeauna dreptate şi mi-am dat seama de cât de multe ori m-am înșelat.
Astăzi, am descoperit … Modestia.
În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am încetat să retrăiesc trecutul şi să mă preocup de viitor.
Astăzi, trăiesc prezentul, acolo unde se petrece întreaga viață. Astăzi trăiesc clipa fiecărei zile.
Și aceasta se numeste … Plenitudine.
În ziua în care m-am iubit cu adevărat, am înteles că rațiunea mă poate înşela şi dezamăgi. Dar dacă o pun în slujba inimii mele, ea devine un aliat foarte prețios.
Si toate acestea înseamnă … să ştii să trăiești cu adevărat.”
Nu trebuie sa ne temem de confruntari…din haos se nasc stelele.
Charlie Chaplin
luni, 21 septembrie 2015
Briose cu MEI SI OVAZ
http://mazilique.ro/2013/09/briose-cu-mei-si-ovaz/
...consistente si au o aroma discreta de caramel. Perfect. Plus ca sunt extra simplu de pregatit – tot ce ai de facut e sa amesteci cu lingura intr-un castron....
INGREDIENTE
suficiente pentru 12 briose
1 cup* faina
2 si 1/3 cups (230g) fulgi de ovaz 1 cup zahar1 lingurita si 1/2 de bicarbonat de sodiu1 lingurita de sare
Toate astea le-am amestecat cu o lingura, apoi am adaugat:
1 cup lapte batut1/2 cup ulei cu aroma neutra (cum ar fi de rapita sau de floarea soarelui; eu am folosit Olisana Omega 3-6)1 ou1 lingurita de extract de vanilie1 cup boabe de mei decorticat (eu am luat de la Solaris)1/3 cup de apa clocotita
Amesteci din nou. O sa obtii fix un terci. O sa-l pui intr-o tava de briose, o sa-l bagi la cuptor 25 de minute si apoi o sa fie mult si bun.
Din toata compozitia s-ar putea sa-ti iasa mai mult de 12 briose, cat incap intr-o tava. Nu ma injura, bucura-te ca there’s more. Pentru ca oricum o sa mananci cateva hot from the oven si o sa te apuce remuscarile. Atunci o sa le inlocuiesti cu cele pe care o sa le faci in tura a doua si va fi ca si cum nimic nu s-a intamplat. Nu?
Aluat Pizza
300 g de faina, 200ml apa calduta, 1 lingura de ulei de masline, 1 lingurita de sare si una de drojdie uscata.
Hidden Veggie Pizza Recipe
http://www.superhealthykids.com/hiddenveggiepizza/
1 box frozen spinach (thawed)1 cup mushrooms1 32 oz jar spaghetti sauce (try to find one with only whole food ingredients)mozzarella cheeseother desired toppingsPreheat oven to 425 degrees F.In a high powered blender, blend together spinach, mushrooms, and spaghetti sauce.Make your whole wheat crust.Spread sauce on the crust.Top with cheese and other desired toppings. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly.
Raptitude - All You Need is Love
http://www.raptitude.com/2015/09/all-you-need-is-love-seriously/
...
Love makes solutions clearer
You might wonder how you know what the loving thing to do is. You won’t always, but once you frame the problem that way, it is surprisingly easy to come up with a productive, low-stress response that makes you (and others) better off.
Dilemmas almost always trigger some sort of fear or aversion, and so that’s the mode of thinking we first bring to our responses. We feel like we have to evade, ignore or destroy the problem. Identifying the loving response starts your problem-solving in a totally different place, putting the well-being of the people involved at the North on your compass, instead of feelings of relief or escape.
Your friend is late meeting up with you? What’s the loving thing to do?
You keep skipping piano practice? What’s the loving thing to do?
...
duminică, 20 septembrie 2015
sâmbătă, 19 septembrie 2015
Quinoa Squash Parmesan Fritters
http://www.juliasalbum.com/2014/10/spaghetti-squash-quinoa-and-parmesan-fritters/
Ingredients
2 eggs2/3 cup flour (for gluten free version, use multi-purpose gluten-free King Arthur flour)2 cups spaghetti squash, cooked and wringed out (see below)2 cups quinoa, cooked1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, freshly grated¼ cup fresh spinach, finely chopped (OPTIONAL)1/2 teaspoon saltFor garnish:2 green onions, choppeddollop of sour cream or Greek Yogurt
Instructions
The recipe requires 2 CUPS COOKED spaghetti squash. First 3 steps describe how to cook spaghetti squash (this can be done 1 or more days in advance):
Preheat oven to 425 Fahrenheit.Cut the squash in 2 halves, scrape out the seeds and the fiber out of each half. Spray oil over the cut sides of the squash. Spray the baking sheet with oil and place the squash on the baking sheet cut side down.Bake for about 30-40 minutes. Remove it from the oven when it's cooked through and soft, and let it cool. Flip the squash so that cut side faces up – that will speed up the cooling. After squash cools, scrape squash with a fork to remove flesh in long strands and transfer to a bowl. Let it cool.Important: Wring out the spaghetti squash by wrapping small portions of it in paper towels and squeezing hard with your hands over the sink. Be careful not to drop the spaghetti squash into the sink if the paper towel breaks. Try to get rid of as much liquid as you can.Cooked spaghetti squash can be refrigerated for 5 days. I prefer to cook spaghetti squash, refrigerate it and make fritters the next day or 2 days later - that allows spaghetti squash to drain the liquid out and get dryer, which is preferable for fritters.
Now, on to how to make fritters:
In a large bowl, using electric mixer, beat 2 eggs on high speed for 1-2 minutes. Add flour and continue beating for about 30 seconds to combine. To the same bowl, add spaghetti squash, quinoa, Parmesan cheese, finely chopped spinach, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Mix very well until all the mixture has uniform consistency. Taste and adjust seasoning, if necessary, even though it should be just perfect.Heat a large skillet on high-medium heat until VERY hot. Only then add olive oil. It should sizzle and smoke right away. Using a tablespoon, spoon the tablespoon-ful of the batter for each fritter and drop on the skillet. Using a spatula, correct the shape of each fritter, making it flatter and rounder. Cook until the bottom side of each fritter is golden brown, about 1-2 minutes. Reduce heat to medium. Using spatula, flip fritters to the opposite side, and cook 1-2 more minutes. When flipping the fritters, you can use a spoon on the opposite side of spatula to help push each fritter onto the spatula and then flipping. Turn off the heat and let the fritters sit in the skillet (uncovered) for 2-3 more minutes (check the bottom to make sure it's not burned - if it is too dark, remove fritters from the skillet immediately). Do 4 fritters at a time.Serve as is, or top with the dollop of sour cream or Greek yogurt and chopped green onions (delicious if served this way!).
Whole-Grain Apple Cake with Yogurt Cream
Whole-Grain Apple Cake with Yogurt Cream
http://www.myrecipes.com/m/recipe/whole-grain-apple-cake-yogurt-cream
There's a trifecta of textural awesomeness here, as the buttery-crisp topping meets silky-smooth yogurt cream on moist, tender cake. By using whole-wheat pastry flour in place of all-purpose, we triple the fiber per slice to a hearty 4 grams. For a chunkier cake texture, use chopped apples instead of shredded. This cake is great served warm or at room temperature.
Cake:
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
2/3 cup nonfat buttermilk
1/3 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
7.5 ounces whole-wheat pastry flour (about 1 2/3 cups)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
2 cups shredded peeled apple (about 2 large; such as Gala or Honeycrisp)
Baking spray with flour
Streusel:
3 tablespoons quick-cooking oats
2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons frozen unsalted butter, grated
Dash of kosher salt
Yogurt cream:
1/2 cup plain 2% reduced-fat Greek yogurt
3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
1 tablespoon brown sugar
Preparation
Hands-on: 18 Minutes
Total: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes
1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. To prepare cake, place first 5 ingredients (through eggs) in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed 30 seconds or until well combined. Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 5 ingredients (through ginger) in a medium bowl, stirring well with a whisk. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture; beat at low speed just until combined. Stir in apple by hand. Spread batter into a 9-inch springform pan coated with baking spray.
3. To prepare streusel, combine oats and next 4 ingredients (through dash of salt) in a small bowl; toss to combine. Sprinkle streusel topping evenly over batter.
4. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs clinging. Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove sides of pan.
5. To prepare cream, place yogurt, whipping cream, and 1 tablespoon sugar in a bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until soft peaks form. Serve with warm cake.
Sidney Fry, MS, RD
AUGUST 2015
Nutritional Information
Calories 299
Fat 13.5 g
Satfat 3.3 g
Monofat 6.2 g
Polyfat 3.2 g
Protein 6 g
Carbohydrate 40 g
Fiber 4 g
Cholesterol 49 mg
Iron 1 mg
Sodium 252 mg
Calcium 94 mg
Quinoa MacCheese
http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/quinoa-spinach-mac-and-cheese/?m
FOR THE CASSEROLE:3 Tablespoons Butter3 Tablespoons Flour1-½ cup Whole Milk2 dashes Freshly Grated Nutmeg¼ teaspoons Salt8 ounces, weight Shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese3 cups Cooked Quinoa (cooked According To Package Instructions)2 bunches Fresh Baby SpinachFOR THE TOPPING:½ cups Freshly Grated Parmesan Cheese4 Tablespoons Butter, Melted¾ cups Panko Bread Crumbs
Preparation Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 F.
In a medium saucepan add 3 tablespoons of butter and flour and heat over medium heat. Whisk continuously until a paste forms. Whisk in milk. Increase heat to medium/high and bring to a boil whisking the whole time. Stir in the nutmeg, salt and cheddar cheese. When cheese sauce is smooth remove from heat.
In a large bowl mix together the cooked quinoa, cheese sauce and spinach.
Transfer the mixture into a casserole dish (I used an 8 inch cast iron skillet). Top with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
In a small bowl mix together the butter and bread crumbs. Sprinkle over the top of the casserole.
Bake on 350 F until bubbly, about 20 minutes.
Remove from oven and enjoy!
Chocolate zucchini bread, no gluten, no sugar
http://www.feelgreatin8.com/feelgreatblog/chocolate-zucchini-bread-gluten-free-no-refined-sugar/
INGREDIENTS
1 medium zucchini, shredded (about 1½ cups shredded)2 eggs, whisked¾ cups almond butter*⅓ cup honey¼ cup cocoa powder2 tablespoons almond flour1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 teaspoon cinnamon½ teaspoon baking powder½ teaspoon baking sodapinch of salt*Can substitute peanut butter or another nut butter.
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.Shred your zucchini using a food processor or cheese grater. Remove all of the liquid from the zucchini by squeezing it between paper towels until it feels dry.Mix the zucchini with all of the other ingredients until they are combined and are a deep chocolate color.Pour the batter evenly into two mini loaf pans. Bake in the oven for 25-35 minutes,or until a toothpick poked into the center comes out clean.Let cool, cut each load into 8 slices, and serve! Keep leftovers in a sealed container in the fridge.
NOTES
*Actual nutrition info may vary based on exact ingredients used.
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