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Some recent food pics July 23, 2008

Filed under: Food, Recipes — eula @ 5:30 pm
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Freshly picked jalapenos and tomatoes from my vegetable pots! The insides of the tomatoes were slightly green, probably weren’t completely ready yet but they were quite sweet! Made more jalapeno poppers with the peppers but baked them this time to avoid the oil. So yum.
fresh picked veggies

Mom made bread again. One pan is plain, the other has dried pork shreds inside.
bread two pans

This one has cinnamon sugar! Each roll is rolled with cinnamon sugar inside.
bread cinnamon rolls

Chocolate beef chili. Soo good. The chocolate flavor is barely there but makes it taste so much better. I cheated and used a packaged chili flavoring mix but that’s how I usually make it. I like consistency and it’s easy. Brown a pound of ground beef, add a chopped onion, chopped jalapeno pepper, a can of red beans, a small can of tomato sauce, a packet of chili flavoring and 3 teaspoons of cocoa powder.
chocolate beef chili

 

Healthy chocolate chip cookies July 12, 2008

Filed under: Food, Recipes — eula @ 6:02 pm
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chocolate chip cookies healthy
My sister asked me to make chocolate chip cookies after seeing this article in the NY Times. The recipe is here. BUT it asks for 2 1/2 sticks of butter for only 16 cookies! I love cookies but I can’t stand to bake with that much butter. I’d prefer to buy them and blissfully eat them without knowing how much butter went into baking them. So I searched the web for a healthier version with ingredients I had on hand and I found this one on jinxy’s blog.

Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
by Jinxy

1/4 cup applesauce
2 Tbsp. butter
1/3 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 cup quick cooking oats
3/4 cup dark chocolate chips or crushed dark chocolate bar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat together applesauce, butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a separate mixing bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Stir flour mixture into first mixture and mix well. Then stir in oats, followed by the chocolate. Place rounded tsp-full 2 inches apart on an Exopat baking mats on a cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes.
chocolate chip cookies stack
They’re pretty good although the oatmeal in them is very prevalent throughout the cookie.