Saltine Toffee

Here is one of my favorite holiday recepies. We used to make it and give it away for Christmas presents to distant family:

4oz Saltine crackers
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups chocolate chips
3/4 cup pecans

1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2) Line cookie sheep with crackers
3) In a sauce pan combine sugar and butter, bringing it to a boil for 3 minutes. Pour over crackers and spread
4) Bake for 5-6 minutes, and then spread melted chocolate on top

Deck the halls!
Poohbear

New recipe

I apologize for not posting sooner, my life has been very busy. But anyway, today I was looking through my recipes, and remembered something I had not done before. A year or so ago, I made this for New Years day dinner with green beans, mashed potatoes and rolls. I used a whole chicken, but you can also use chicken breast, but it has to have skin.

Orange Rosemary Chicken:

chicken with skin
butter
rosemary
several oranges

 Preheat oven to 375. Slice two oranges, and juice the rest. Set these aside. Place the chicken in a large pan, soften butter, and mix rosemary into it. Spread herbed butter under the skin of the chicken. Pour orange juice over chicken, and place orange slices under the chicken skin. Cover with foil, and bake until completely done.
You can serve this with any sides you want, and it is also good cold and shredded up in a salad, with dried cranberries.

Hawaiian Meatballs

Here is another of my favorite recipes:

a little milk for in case balls do not form

1 1/2 lb. ground beef

2/3 c. bread crumbs

1/3 c. minced onions

1 egg

1 1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. ginger

1 Tbsp. butter

2 Tbsp. cornstarch

1/2 c. brown sugar

1 can pineapple tidbits

1/3 c. vinegar

1 Tbsp. soy sauce

1/3 c. green bell pepper, chopped

Drain pineapple, reserving liquid. Mix meat, bread crumbs, onion, egg, salt, ginger, and milk (if

needed). Shape mixture by rounding tablespoons into balls. Grease a large pan and place balls

into it. bake at 350 until done. Take meatballs out of the oven to cool. Mix cornstarch, sugar,

pineapple juice, vinegar, and soy sauce over medium heat until smooth and thick. Pour onto

meatballs and let them sit for about ten minutes.

ENJOY!

This is a realy good shake:


1cup yogurt (prefereably flavored with vanilla)
1/2- 3/4 cup berries of any kind ( my favorite is rasberries)
honey to taste
chocolate syrup to taste, optional
a little milk to thin it


Scoop it all into a blender and mix until creamy. Pour and enjoy!

Yes, I know it is short, and easy, but it is REALY good!


~Poohbear:D~

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Happy Saint Patrick's day everyone!!!!

I wanted to share a wonderfull Saint Patrick's day recipe

Chocolate Guinness Cake:

1 cup guinnes beer ( yes I know it has beer in it, but the alcohol burns away when baking)
1/2 cup butter, cubed
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
2 eggs
2/3 cup sour cream
3 tsp vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda

• Grease a nine inch spring form pan, and line bottom with parchment paper.





• In a small sauce pan heat beer and butter until butter is melted. Remove from heat, wisk in cocoa and sugar until blended. Combine the eggs, sour cream, and vanilla into mixture. Add in flour and baking soda while wisking until smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan.





• Bake at 350 for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick incerted near the center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.remove sides of pan

Topping:

1 8 oz package cream cheese, softened

1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

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  In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar and cream; beat until smooth.




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  Add topping to top of cake and style it to make it look like froth on top of a pint.

With the frosting: Another way you could do it is, make a double batch dye it green, and ice the whole cake (that's what I did)

Have a GREAT day!!!!!!!!!!!

Texas Sheet Cake

This is my absolute favorite chocolate cake

Batter:

2 cups white sugar*
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 sticks (1 cup) butter
1 cup water
4-5 Tbsp cocoa
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

Sift together flour and sugar. In a pan, bring to a boil the butter, water, and cocoa. Pour over flowur mixture while hot. Ad buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, and vanilla. Bake in a large jelly roll pan, ( about 10"x 15") at 350 for 20-25 minutes. Grease pan but do not flour.
PS: the pan will be brim full of batter but this is ok.

* Has to be white


Frosting:
1 stick (1/2 cup)butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 lb of powdered sugar*
4 Tbsp cocoa
4 Tbsp buttermilk

Bring to a boil cocoa, butter, and buttermilk. Add powdered sugar, and vanila. Pour onto hot cake.

* You may need to add more, but remember frosting will be thin and harden when cool

Pumkin Bars

this is one (I have many:) of my favorite recipes

Batter:
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 cups pumkin
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup oil
2 tsp cinnamon
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda

Beat eggs, oil, sugar, and vanilla together. Mix in pumpkin. Sift flour, cinnamon, salt and baking soda, and mix into batter.
Bake at 350 for 30 miniutes.

Here is the best part:

Frosting:

1 80z pkg cream cheese
1 cup butter
1 lb powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp sour cream

Mix everything together and frost on cooled pumkin bars.


Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

Scones

This is my grandma's recipe, it's amazing!!

1 3/4cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup flax seed meal
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
2-3 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup buttermilk
berries

Mix everything together, then dump batter onto a round plate. Shape into a circle and cut into 8ths. Place scones on greased cookie sheets and bake at 375 for 25 minutes.

Enjoy!!!!!!

Powdered sugar pound cake

I made this today and it is AMAZING!!!!

6 eggs, room temprature
3 sticks butter, romm temperature
3 cups all purpose flour
4 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon lemon flavoring (I used lemon juice)
1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring

Cream butter.
Add powdered sugar one cup at a time while beating.
Beat in eggs one at a time.
Add lemon and vanilla flavoring.
Add flour last one cup at a time.
Pour batter into a greased tube pan.
Bake at 350 for 1hr or util done al the way through.
Let cool before taking cake out of the pan.
Add frosting/glaze if desired

Here is one of my favorite recipes

I found it at http://allrecipes.com/recipe/cow-patty-cookies/detail.aspx



Cow patty cookies

2 cups white sugar
5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups quick cooking oats
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup milk



Cover baking sheets with wax paper and set aside.
Combine sugar and cocoa in a large saucepan. Stir in milk, butter and peanut butter. Cook and stir over medium heat until butter melts and mixture is combined, about 5-20 minutes. Remove from heat.
Stir in the vanilla, oats and nuts, and mix thoroughly. Take a teaspoon and scoop out a spoonful of the mixture; drop the spoonful onto the waxed paper-covered baking sheet. Repeat with the rest of the mixture. Place in the refrigerator until the cookies are cooled and set. Store the cookies in an airtight container.


enjoy!!!!!

Wilted spinach salad, Pic of the day #10

These when put together make my brothers FAVORITE salad.

The recepie:

Snow peas,
Spinach,
Dried cranberries,
Pecans toasted in butter,

Take the spinach and put it in a large bowl, and toss the peas, and cranberries on top. After you have done all of this take the hot pecans and butter and pour them on the salad, and TADA!!!

You now have a nice warm YUMMY salad to enjoy!

pie recipe, pic of the day #7

Me and my sister made 2 HUGE chocolate pudding pies. Here is the recipe for the pudding:

4 cups milk
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
2 TBSP butter
Place ingredients in saucepan. Cook over medium heat, bring to boil, while stirring.

1 cup milk
7 TBSP cornstarch

In a separate bowl, mix milk with cornstarch. Set aside.

12 egg yolks
2 tsp vanilla

Beat egg yolks with a fork, add in vanilla. Slowly pour mixture into bowl with milk and cornstarch.

After saucepan ingredients are brought to a boil, add in egg mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, about 2 minutes or until mixture is thickened. Pour into bowl to cool, place plastic wrap directly onto mixture and set in fridge to cool at least 4 hours.

What we did to make pies:

We made the pudding and put it in graham cracker crusts and let sit for around ten minutes. While it sat we used the egg whites and made a HUGE batch of meringue. After the meringue was finished we heaped it on the pies and baked them for around 5-7 minutes. After it was baked we put it in the fridge until it was set.

ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chocolate zuccini cake is actually GOOD!!!!!

Hi, this is one of my favorite vegetable dishes. (My cousin does not like vegetables and he loved this cake!)

Double Chocolate Zucchini Cake:

• 21/2 C. flour
• 2/3 C. Cocoa
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 C. butter
• 11/2 C. sugar
• 1/2 C oil
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 C. milk
• 2 C. grated zucchini
• 6 oz. chocolate chips

Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Cream butter and sugar; beat in oil, eggs, and vanilla. Add the milk while alternating with dry ingredients to the butter mixture. Pour into greased 9x13 baking pan and sprinkle chocolate chips over top. Bake for 35 to 45 minutes. ENJOY!!!!

Yummy Pizza!!!!!!!

Hi, here are some recipes from my pizza cooking class:

Pizza dough:

· 1pk active rapid-rise dry yeast

· 1C warm milk

· 1tsp salt

· 3C all-purpose flour

· 2Tbsp virgin olive oil

· 1tsp sugar

1. In small wet bowl mix yeast, sugar, and warm water and leave standing for 5 minutes.

2. In a bowl mix salt, flour 1Tbsp olive oil, and yeast mixture mix with wooden spoon until dough forms a ball.

3. Turn dough out on a counter top lightly dusted with flour and knead until dough is smooth.

4. Lightly oil a mixing bowl and place dough in it, set a towel over it and let dough rise in a warm area for1-2 hours until it has doubled size.

5. Punch down dough and place on a surface dusted with flour. Divide the dough. Knead for 6 minutes and gently stretch by hand, otherwise gently roll dough to desired dimensions.

6. Place dough on baking sheet. Makes 4, 12 in crusts or 8 individual.

7. Bake at 450Fahrenheit for 12 minutes or until golden brown.

8. ENJOY

Rolled pizza:

· ½ recipe pizza dough

· 2C mozzarella cheese, shredded

· 7oz. meat of your choice such as thinly sliced prosciutto, ham, or salami, ore chopped bacon, pepperoni, or Canadian bacon.

· 1C torn baby spinach

· 1Tbsp olive oil

· Salt

· Pizza sauce for dipping

· Extra flour for rolling dough out

1. Position oven rack in the lower 1/3 of the oven and preheat to 425 Fahrenheit. Coat baking sheet with cooking spray.

2. On a lightly flour surface roll out pizza dough to a 12-14 inch diameter. Sprinkle ½ cheese over dough. Arrange with meat in a single layer, sprinkle on other ½ cheese, and spinach over the top.

3. Roll into a Jelly roll like shape and baste with olive oil and salt. Place seam side down on baking sheet and bake for 35-40 minutes. Allow pizza to cool for 10 minutes. Cut into ¾ inch slices. Serves 6

4. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For my birthday my parents got me 3 cooking classes!!!! I have already done 1. For that I learned how to make crepes. It was FUN!!!!!!

I have made two batches for church potlucks. Our church LOVES them!





Here is the recipe-





Crepes Bretonns- (the breading) Equipment-





1 C, 2Tbs, flour measuring cups and spoons


1/3 C ,sugar medium bowl


pinch of salt large bowl


1 1/3C,milk spoon


2 Tbs, butter melted whisk


2tbs, water nonstick skillet about 8"


2, eggs plastic spatula


wax paper or plastic wrap


plate





1. Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Place milk, butter, water and eggs in a medium bowl and whisk together well.





2. Pour liquid ingredients SLOWLY into dry ingredients combining with a whisk. You should want to combine slowly to prevent lumps from forming. The batter should be almost liquid. Put batter in fridge for around 20 minutes.



3. Heat skillet on medium heat (do not grease). Pour a scant 1/4C batter on skillet and swirl until no holes. cook until slightly brown on edges, carefully lift to check doneness. It will come up clean if done, flip over if done. Cook on that side until it slides off easily.\



4. Place crepe on a plate and then place a square of plastic wrap or waxed paper over it to prevent sticking. Continue until batter is gone.



You can spread either whip cream and sliced strawberries or cream cheese on it and roll up.



5. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!

A few good recipies!!!!!!!!

Hi, I have told you before that I like to cook. Here are three of the recipes that I like to make.



Family bread,


4c. warm tap water,
2/3c. non-fat dry milk powder,
1/3c. sugar or 1/4c. honey,
2PC. or 4ts. dry yeast,
1Tbs. wheat gluten ( use this if you are using wheat flour),
1Tbs. salt,
1/3c. melted margarine,
12c. flour ( it works good if you do 8c. wheat and 4c. white)

Yields 4 loves.





When I make this I use a large plastic bowl. You CAN NOT use metal to mix with!




Mix the water, dry milk, and sugar (or honey) in the bowl. Add yeast, allow the mixture to sit until the yeast dissolves some (this will only take a few minutes). Add (wheat gluten goes in now if you are using it) salt, margarine or oil, and flour. Mix with a wooden spoon until it gets to thick, then dig with your hands. When the dough s in a nice cohesive ball turn it onto a floured kitchen table or counter.



Now start kneading the dough with all the love you have for your family. When you knead it, press the love for your family into it. If you need to you can add a little flour. Knead for about 15 minutes, dough should pop up when you press your finger in it.

Place dough into a bowl and place a rag on top. Let the dough sit for 2hrs. When the 2hrs are up punch down the dough. Separate dough into 4Th's and place into separate pans. Some times I like to braid the loaves or put a few oats on top. Let the loaves sit for 2hrs in the oven ( do not turn it on). After the 2hrs are up heat the oven up to 350 Fahrenheit. Let the bread bake for 40 minutes or until they are brown on top. When they are ready take them out and cool them.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!


Oatmeal Peanut Butter Balls,
3/4c. uncooked oatmeal,
3/4c. nonfat dry milk,
3/4c. chunky peanut butter,
1/2c. honey,
1ts. vanilla
1/4c. raisins (optional)

( This only makes a few so I usually double it)

Stir oats and dry milk together. Blend peanut butter, honey, and vanilla together until smooth. Stir in oat mixture and raisins. Shape dough into small balls and store in refrigerator. Do not bake.

Enjoy!!!!

Oatmeal Cookies,

1 1/4c. butter,
3/4c. firmly packed brown sugar,
1 egg,
1tsp. vanilla,
1 1/2c. all-purpose flour,
1tsp. baking soda,
1tsp. salt
1tsp. cinnamon,
1/4tsp. nutmeg,
3c. non cooked oats.

Heat oven to 375 Fahrenheit. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine flour, spices, and baking soda, add this to the egg sugar and vanilla. Mix well. Stir in oats. Drop rounded spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets. Bake for 8-9 minutes or until slightly brown.
Cool and place cookies on a platter.

Enjoy!!!!!!!

Some good cookies!! and more

Hi, the picture to the left is a person taking their blood sugar. I have to do the same thing except I have a different meter. My meter is a One Touch Ping. It is wirelessly connected to my Pump so I don't have to take shots!! I do the same thing when I check my blood sugar.

Some really easy cookies: You will need:

1cake box

2eggs

1/3cup vegetable oil

Heat the oven to 350 fFahrenheit. Mix the ingredients in a bowl. when thick roll into balls and set on greased pans for around 10 minutes or until they are done!!

They are not good for you but they sure are good tasting!!!

Cucumber sandwiches, and a tasty intro.

Pooh loves honey and so do I. I also love to eat and I love to cook, especially desserts.

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in February 2008.

I have found several ways to still enjoy good food and cooking it. On this blog I want to share so that you may enjoy it too. After all,food with good nutrition and less sugar is good for everyone!

One of my favorite low-carb recipies is cucumber sandwiches.

You will need: Cucumber slices,cream cheese,dill,and crackers. Spread the cream cheese on the crackers then add a slice of cucumber on it, sprinkle shredded dill on top and enjoy!