Coconut Yogurt Cake!!

It's a really easy recipe!! 

• 2 - 6oz containers of yogurt (we used Coconut Chobani, it's a Greek Yogurt but you could use regular yogurt too!)
• 2 eggs

Now you take the containers from the yogurt, and use them to measure the flour and sugar and oil!

• 2 containers of sugar
• 1 container of oil
• 4 containers of flour

Then add a dash of vanilla and 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder!

Mix it all up and bake at 375* F for 35 minutes!

Makes 2 - 9in cakes! 

I sprinkled some dried coconut on top to make it extra coconutty! Mmm! Yummy!

Throwback Tuesday: Betty Crocker

Betty Crocker has had many faces over the years.

I think I fit right in. I create recipes, I love to cook, and I look like her ;~D

Pavlova!

We've been talking about Australia in T-Tot's school work, so we decided to try making one of the famous Australian deserts.

Pavlova is named after Anna Pavlova, a famous ballerina from the turn of the century. This desert is believed to be named after her while she toured in Australia and New Zealand in the 20's.

 Ingredients:

3 egg whites
1 pinch of salt
1 cup of white sugar
1 tablespoon of cornstarch
1 teaspoon of lemon juice or lemon flavoring
1 1/4 cup of heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup of confectioner's sugar

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Draw a 9 inch circle on the parchment. An easy way to do this is to draw around the outside of a 9 inch pan with a pencil.
2. In a large bowl, beat egg whites on high speed until soft peaks form. Add 3/4 cup of the sugar gradually, while continuing to whip. Make sure sugar is completely dissolved. Mix together the remaining 1/4 cup sugar with the cornstarch; lightly fold into meringue with lemon juice.
3. Spread a layer of meringue to fit circle on parchment, approximately 1/4 inch thick. With remainder of mixture, pipe or spoon swirls around the edges to form a shallow bowl shape.
4. Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 1 hour. Turn off oven, but leave meringue in oven for an additional 30 minutes. When cool, the meringue should be hard on the outside, and slightly moist on the inside.
5. In a large bowl, combine the cream and half a cup of confectioners sugar, and whip until thickened. Decorate with fruit of your choice; strawberries are excellent.

We used dried pineapple, kiwi and strawberries on ours. :~)

We got a new stove!

We got a new stove this weekend!

This is our old one, it was about 32 years old. :)

Our new one! Isn't it purty???

Today we decided to try out the oven. :)

We made cookies! 

For the cookies we used:

2 bananas

1 cup of quick oats

1/2 cup of chocolate chips

1 tb of peanut butter

Mix, mold into balls and bake at 350* for 10-15 minutes. 

We LOVE our new stove! 

P.A.P.P.A. Guacamole

A lunchtime invention from lunch yesterday. 

P.A.P.P.A. Guacamole

Pepper

Avocado

Peach

Passion fruit

Apricot  

Guacamole 

Ingredients for 2 servings:

1 avocado
4 small peppers or 1 regular sized pepper
4 tablespoons of Peach/Apricot/Passion Fruit jelly (Ours was from Wegmans)
Tortilla chips

Cut the avocado in half lengthwise and scoop out the flesh. Chop it up and mix in the peppers and jelly. Serve with chips! (I had chips with a hint of lime)

Enjoy!

Warm and yummy Corn Soup!

You poor guys have lots of posts to read! :~)

Last one....no promises....

1 can of corn
1 onion
2/3 cup of chopped chicken
3 tablespoons of horseradish mustard
Celery seed (optional)
Garlic powder (optional)
1/3 cup of heavy cream

Saute the onions at medium till brown. Do NOT turn the burner on high and burn your onions like I did.

Dump in the corn, and chicken to simmer.

Throw in the rest of the ingredients to serve.

I think it makes 2-3 big bowls and 4-6 little bowls....

12 days till X'mas!

12 days till X'mas 12/12/12!

We made Cinnamon Ornaments!!

(Sitting in the oven, just cause)

A friend gave us the dough, but you can make your own!

You need the ratio of 1:1. 

E.g. 1 cup of applesauce and 1 cup of Cinnamon.

Mix it up and roll it out. 

Cut it up with cookie cutters!!! :~D 

If it gets to sticky use some cornstarch to alleviate the stickiness. 

Bake @ 200 Fahrenheit until hard. (We haven't gotten that far).

26 days till X'mas

I love this time of year!

The snow here and there, bold people who put up their Christmas tree's earlier than anyone else, and Christmas lights! 

Something nice to do at Christmas is bake several dozen cookies!!!

Then give them out to people who work in your community. It will brighten their day!

A yummy cookie recipe! (pictured above)

1 box of cake mix

3 eggs

1/3 cup of veg. oil

Mix them all together and drop on a tablespoonful on cookie sheets 2 inches apart.

Bake at 350 for 10-13 min.

Makes 3 dozen approx. 

If you want to add sprinkles, dip the dough in sprinkles before you bake.

39 days till X'mas

One of our favorite "Christmas" dishes that we make is Baked Brie.

You need a

can of crescent rolls,
and some brie cheese.

Take the crescent rolls and put the pointy part of the triangle in the middle using (I think all) to make a circle.

Then put the cheese in the middle and bake (using directions on the package).

This is one of my absolute favorite Christmas dishes.



What is your favorite holiday dishes?

:~D

On the topic of Christmas,

I saw an article today on our local newspapers website. They were talking about the radio stations that switched to ALL Christmas music November 1st. I think those radio stations have a wonderful idea!!

All the comments were people who dislike the idea of Christmas music so early.

I listen to it all year round!

Why not start listening to it on Nov. 1st??

I challenge y'all to listen to a Christmas CD!!! 

(One of my ABSOLUTE favorites!)

Pumpkin Recipes

Pumpkin French toast for 2:
3 eggs
Dash of spices of your choice
1/3 cup of pumpkin
4 slices of bread

Preheat the stove to med.
Beat the ingredients all together.
Soak the bread in the mixture for 15 sec or so on each side (or it gets supper soggy).
Fry it on each side.

Add Maple syrup!

Baked pumpkin pancakes:

Preheat oven to 350

In a bowl mix:
2 cups of pancake mix
1 cup of milk
3/4 cup of pumpkin
4 eggs
2 tablespoons of brown sugar

Pour into a 9x13 pan and top with chocolate chips and cinnamon-sugar mix.

Bake for 18 min.

Serves 6 of us! :~)