I may not be in love with the heat this summer, but I am in love with all the strawberries! I could swear that you could only get good strawberries in May and June, but here it is August, and the grocery on the corner not only has lots of delicious, ripe strawberries, but they have them on sale this week for a dollar a pound!
I love slicing a strawberry or two (or three, or four) into cold cereal for breakfast. Not to mention just munching on some for a snack, or making tasty desserts. When buying strawberries in quantity, though,
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We had waffles the other night and I made this super healthy, low-calorie apple topping for our waffles. I drizzled just a smidgen of real maple syrup over the top, and it was just divine.
It’s also a very frugal recipe, as you can go ahead and use apples that are bruised or just not perfect for serving raw – just cut out the yucky parts and use the rest.
Quick and Easy Microwave Spiced Apples
Quick and Easy Microwave Spiced Apples
4 Granny Smith apples, cored, and sliced
1 tablespoon lemon
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I don’t know if this would actually count as a recipe.  A few weeks back, they had some wonderful little angel food cakes at Costco. They came in packs of 12 for $5 and some change, and they only had 120 calories apiece — and no fake sugars or weird chemicals. We loved them, but when I went back to buy more, they were gone.
Yesterday, they were back. I picked up two packs, and threw one in the freezer. The other pack, we opened for dessert last night. We just went simple: I whizzed about
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We had delicious oatmeal pancakes with blueberry sauce for dinner. So yummy!
Oatmeal Pancakes
Oatmeal Pancakes with Blueberry Sauce
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup oats
2 tbsp brown sugar firmly packed
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 large eggs, separated
2 tbsp butter, melted
In a small bowl, whisk the milk and egg whites. Add the oats and stir. Let sit.
Whisk the flours, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl. Mix the yolks with the butter and then mix that into the
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Last year, for my daughter’s fifteenth birthday party, she wanted a lemon layer cake — with four fluffy layers, a lemon curd filling, and a lemony seven minute frosting.
I baked her cake layers the evening before, and for the first time in my life, my cake fell. Now, I grew up with the high altitude cooking, and know how to adjust, so I don’t think that was the problem. I have a very old oven in the home that I rent, and the oven is full of hot spots and the temperature varies like crazy — if I set it at
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We had beef and bean burritos the other night, and for dessert, we had a fantastic fruit salsa with cinnamon chips. We really loved this, and it’s something we’ll have again and again.
Sweet Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Chips
Sweet Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Chips
5 large frozen strawberries
1/4 cup orange juice
2 kiwi, peeled and chopped
1 small mango – peeled and diced
1 peach, peeled and diced
1 banana, peeled and diced
3 whole wheat tortillas
butter flavor non-stick cooking spray
2 Tbs sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1. Preheat oven to 400°.
2. In a food processor or
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I use bananas in a lot of recipes — banana muffins, smoothies, banana bread, empanadas, more muffins, fruit salsa, and more. It can be a problem having bananas of the right ripeness around, though. It seems like there are a whole bunch of almost-ripe bananas, and then, as if by magic, there are one or two overripe bananas. The minute they get ripe, the boys want to eat them, but the second they start to turn brown (which is when they start getting really good, in my opinion), none of the kids want them anymore. And one or two bananas isn’t
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Even though we’re waiting on a big snowstorm tonight and tomorrow (although it was over 70° yesterday and we were outside in tank tops), today we had some lovely - and very healthy – smoothies for lunch.
A Very Purple Smoothie
A Very Purple Smoothie
1/2 cup frozen blueberries
5 large frozen strawberries
1 1/2 cups milk (I used almond milk)
1 scoop protein powder
Blend everything in a blender until smooth.
Makes 2 large smoothies. With the protein powder I used (Spiru-tein), each serving came to 200 calories,1.88g total
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One of my favorite things to eat is an oatmeal-based apple crisp. My favorite flavor in the world is cinnamon, and there’s nothing better with cinnamon than oatmeal and apple, right?
I wanted a treat tonight, and we had some apples to use up before they went bad, so this is what I decided to do with it. It was a definite hit with the kids, too.
I did all the mixing in a zip-top bag, so the only things to wash are two measuring spoons, a measuring cup, and the pan. It took all of 10 minutes to throw together.
Healthy Apple Crisp
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