Eat my heart away

Cooking makes me happy. Good food makes me happy. Sharing good food makes me even happier. Eating good food makes me happiest. Please don't eat cereal for dinner.

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Persimmon Mousse 

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Nutella filled chocolate chip cookies...for next time when I have a stuffed cookie cravings

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Swedish Meatballs - this is why I love IKEA

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Bacon from Mission Beach Cafe, San Francisco

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Baked pasta with sauteed onions and ground beef

Easy recipe

Ground beef, one package 

Onion

Garlic

Fresh tomatoes

Penne pasta

Parmesan cheese

Mozzarella cheese

Seasoning (salt, pepper, etc)

Saute one chopped onion until translucent

Add chopped garlic (we used about half a glove)

Add in ground beef (hmm...can't remember how much my bf used but he used the entire package)

Add in freshly crushed tomatoes (great stress relieve). We used about 12 tomatoes

Simmer for about 10 minutes

Add in seasonings (salt, pepper, crushed red peppers, oregano, dash of nutmeg...weird right, but so good)

Add the sauce to cooked penne

Distribute into a baking dish and add freshly grated cheese 

Bake for 5-7 minutes at 375

Add cheese to the top and broil until golden brown

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Banana flambe with vanilla bean ice cream, topped with whipped cream and cinnamon almonds

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Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies (adapted)

2 sticks softened butter

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

1 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs

1 tablespoon pure vanilla

3 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup chocolate chips

1/2 cup white chocolate chips

1/2 cup crushed oreos

1 bag reduced-fat Oreo Cookies (testing if it makes a difference)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

Beat butter and sugars until well combined.  

Add in eggs and vanilla until well combined

In a separate bowl mix the flour, salt and baking soda.  

Slowly add to wet ingredients along with the chips and crushed oreos until just combined.  

Using a cookie scoop take one scoop of cookie dough and place on top of an Oreo Cookie.  

Take another scoop of dough and place on bottom of Oreo Cookie.  

Seal edges together by pressing and cupping in hand until Oreo Cookie is enclosed with dough.  

Place onto a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet and bake cookies 9-13 minutes or until cookies are baked to your liking. 

 Let cool for 5 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.  

Makes about 2 dozen VERY LARGE cookies.

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Chewy Chunky Blondies

Test driving some recipes. I have to make this since I love blondies. I am adapting the recipe to the following:

2 cups flour ¾ teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1-1/2 cups (packed) light brown sugar ½ cup sugar 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup white chocolate chips 1 cup  butterscotch chips or Heath Toffee Bits  1 cup  coarsely chopped toasted walnuts

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 9” x 13” baking pan and put it on a baking sheet.

Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt (make sure all the lumps are out).

In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter until smooth and creamy. Add both sugars and beat for another 3 minutes, or until well incorporated. 

Add the eggs one by one, beating for 1 minute after each addition, then beat in the vanilla. 

Add the dry ingredients. Fold and combine just until they disappear into the batter.

Using a rubber spatula, stir in the chips and nuts Scrape the batter into the buttered pan and use the spatula to even the top as best as you can.

Bake in the center rack for about 40 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center of the blondies comes out clean. The blondies should pull away from the sides of the pan a little and the top should be a nice honey brown. 

Transfer the pan to a rack and cool for about 15 minutes before turning the blondies out onto another rack. Invert onto a rack and cool the blondies to room temperature right side up.

Cut into 32 bars, roughly 2-1/4” x 1-1/2”

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The Eat Seasonably Calendar

from EatSeasonably.co.uk

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Brown Butter Mash Potatoes

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Roasted Turkey Breast

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Low Fat Banana Rocky Road Protein Muffins

This was adapted from the recipe (click photo): 

3 large mashed bananas

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup organic raw agave 

1 large egg

1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce

3 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla 

1/2 cup whole-wheat flour 

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup Rocky Road protein powder 

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon 

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Mix the wet (first 6) ingredients together. Sift the dry ingredients (rest besides the chocolate) and combine, be sure not to overmix. Stir in the chocolate chips, the batter should be kind of lumpy and wet. Use an ice cream scooper to evenly distribute into muffin cups/tins. I ended up with 13. Bake at 375 for 18-20 minutes. EAT :)

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Healthy Pumpkin Cupcakes

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Chickfila copycat

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