Recipes!

Ok following through with my promise- here are some recipes from the past few weeks- I hope you enjoy them:

Whole Wheat Carrot Muffins

¼ cup wheat germ

½ cup wheat bran

1 ½ cup all purpose flour

1 ¼ tsp baking soda

4 Tbs Brown Sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

¼ tsp nutmeg

1 cup shredded carrots

¼ cup golden raisins

¼ cup apple sauce

2 Tbs maple syrup

1 Tbs apple cider vinegar

1 cup almond milk

2 tsp ground flax seed

¼ cup warm water
½ cup chopped walnuts

Preheat over to 375. Sift dry ingredients together in a medium bowl. In a separate bowl mix sugar, spices, carrots, raisins, apple sauce, syrup, vinegar and milk. Mix flax seed and water together and add to carrot mixture. Stir in the dry ingredients- careful not to over mix, then fold in walnuts. Bake for 20 min, or until golden brown. Makes 12 Muffins

 

 

 

Coffee Cake Muffins

½ Cup margarine or butter

2 ¼ cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 Tbs ground flax seed mixed with ¼ cup of water

1 cup Almond or Soy milk

1 Tbs white or apple cider vinegar

2 tsp baking soda

½ cup nuts

½ cup raisins (optional)

Preheat oven to 375* grease muffin cups. Combine flour and sugar. Melt butter and pour over flour mixture, mixing until crumbly. Set aside 1 cup of flour mixture for topping. To the remainder of flour mixture, add the rest of the ingredients, stirring just until moistened. (batter will be thin and lumpy.) Fill muffin cups ¾ full and top with remaining crumble mixture. Bake fore 15-20 minutes. Makes 12 muffins

 

Roasted Vegetable Gallette

(sorry about the photo, we dug in before I could get a picture!)

1 pie crust (my mom made this one- I have to get the recipe, it's amazing!)

1 medium head of broccoli, chopped into florets

1 large handful on plum tomatoes

3 garlic cloves, peels left on

2 handfuls of Brussels sprouts, trimmed

1 handful of fingerling potatoes, quartered

2 medium carrots, chopped

*feel free to add any vegetable you like*

3 Tbs Grape seed oil

3 Tbs olive tampenade (for pie base)

2 medium onions, thinly sliced

Salt and Pepper

Preheat over to 375* and arrange veggies on a baking sheet- toss with 2 Tbs of oil and sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper. roast veggies for 15-20 min, tossing regularly. In a saucepan, add the remaining Tbs of oil and sauté onions until they are soft and begin to caramelize (15-20 min). when the veggies and onions are done, you can begin assembling the gallette- rolls out the pie crust - top with olive tampenade, then caramelized onions, then add the roasted vegetables. sprinkle with a little more salt and pepper. Then begin to fold up the sides of the pie, careful not to tear the crust- (work clockwise, folding up the sides as you go) Bake at 375* for 15-20 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown.

Gingerbread

( From James Beard's American Cookery Cookbook, this is delicious served with chutney! )

1 cup light or dark molasses

(2 Tbs ginger spread- the ginger people* I added this, it was not in te original recipe)

1/2 cup boiling water

5 Tbs butter (Smart Balance)

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 to 2 tsp of ginger

1 tsp baking soda

2 cups all purpose flour

Put Molasses (and ginger spread) in a mixing bowl and add the boiling water and butter. stir until well mixed. Add the salt, ginger, and soda, and stir lightly. Stir in the flour just enough to moisten and mix. Turn into a loaf pan and bake at 375* for 25 to 35 minutes, or until the top springs back when pressed lightly and the mixture is pulling away from the sides of the pan.

So there you go, some recipes for you! I hope you enjoy them, and I will try my best to put up some more. Here are just a few random pictures of some knitting projects I've recently completed- if you want any of the patterns, just ask!

Sorry if it's a bit blury, whoops! I did all the little block seperatly awhile ago- they have been sitting in a bag since last spring! I finally just crocheted them all together today!

Here's a nine stitch braid beenie- pretty quick and easy to make

Well everyone- that's all I can do for today- hope you enjoyed it- now go home and bake something!