I’ve recently been on a mission to re-organize and clean out our freezers. I know we have things that have been in the arctic depths too long. The other day on a clean out I found some sweet bread (coffee cake remnants?) that I had frozen in chunks. I tasted it. Hmmm. It was okay. [...]
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Cleaning out the freezer: bread pudding with apples and cranberries
Posted in apple, baking, bread, butter, cake, comfort food, Cooking And Baking, cranberries, dessert, frugal living, fruit, walnut, whole grains, tagged baking, dessert, Food, recipes on November 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Back-to-school breakfast from the garden: zucchini bread with pepitas
Posted in baking, bread, breakfast, buttermilk, cake, comfort food, Cooking And Baking, dried fruit, Food, frugal living, gardening, kefir, organic food, organic gardening, preserving the harvest, raisins, recipes, summer squash, sweet things, walnut, whole grains, zucchini, tagged bread, breakfast, children, family, Food, recipes on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
August and September end the lazy days of slow breakfasts, but they don’t have to end good breakfasts. For a quick, healthy breakfast or afternoon snack, bake a loaf of whole-grain, low-fat, higher protein but still moist and delicious zucchini bread, chocked full of good stuff like pepitas, which contain healthy fatty acids. Take a [...]
Carrot Cake: have your cake and eat your veggies too!
Posted in buttermilk, cake, carrots, Cooking And Baking, dessert, family, Food, kefir, organic food, organic gardening, sweet things, whole grains, tagged cake, carrots, dessert, family, Food, photography, recipe, recipes on April 27, 2010 | 9 Comments »
It’s dessert time again. Today’s dessert is carrot cake, perfect for using up the last of your winter carrot crop. This rich cake is loaded with fresh carrots for good health, and apple sauce and buttermilk bring moisture without fat to the crumb. Neufchatel cheese for the cream-cheese frosting gives all the flavor of traditional [...]
Peanut Butter-Chocolate Brownies (with oat flour and yogurt–shhhhhhhh!)
Posted in baking, brownies, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggs, Food, organic food, sweet things, whole grains, tagged baking, chocolate, dinner, family, Food, health, kids, recipe, recipes on April 6, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I’m going to keep this simple. It’s dessert time. This recipe makes a small pan of lower-fat brownies. We’re starting with cocoa powder in lieu of chocolate. Instead of butter, we’re using peanut butter and yogurt. How about some whole-grain oat flour? Put them together and you have an easy sweet treat that’s much healthier [...]
Pound Cake by the ounce: all the flavor, miniature size, whole grains
Posted in cake, dessert, Food, organic food, sweet things, whole grains, tagged baking, cooking, Food, health, organic food, photography, pound cake, recipes, whole grains on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently our household commitment to seasonal, local food hit its limits this week when my husband found some beautiful organic blueberries and I found some organic strawberries. We bought them. Tonight I served them with pound cake made from scratch. Pound cake used to be a once-every-few-years kind of thing in our household, because with [...]
Pineapple Upside Down Cake: flavorful, healthier
Posted in cake, Cooking And Baking, dessert, eggs, health, organic food, pineapple, pizza, sweet things, Uncategorized, whole grains, tagged cake, cooking, dessert, dinner, environment, Food, health, organic food, pineapple, pineapple upside down cake, recipes, whole grain on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This pineapple upside down cake is probably much lighter and considerably healthier than the ones you remember from childhood, but it is full of great flavor and texture. . . . My husband initially told me he just wanted a sliver. Next thing I knew, he was returning for a big slice.
