Ingredients:
A bag of leftover bagels – chopped into little squares
leftover cinnamon bread – chopped into little squares
2 bananas
7 eggs
3 cups half & half (or whole milk or heavy cream)
chocolate chips
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Strawberry Shortcake
This is why we love Laurie so much… she brings the best strawberry shortcake ever! Ok… it’s not just the shortcake, but it helps! The recipe is from Martha Stewart!
Cottage Pie with Mashed Yams
We found this yummy recipe on the Nourished Kitchen blog and just had to try it (with our own additions and modifications, of course)!
Ingredients:
1 pound grass-fed ground beef
1 cup beef stock
1/3 cup cream
1 stick butter
1 large onion, chopped
1+ cup frozen peas
1+ cup diced carrots
3 medium sized yams or sweet potatoes
2 cups shredded cheese
1 tablespoon arrowroot powder
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
1 teaspoon dried thyme
2 tablespoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
sea salt and crushed black pepper to taste
Mac & Cheese
This recipe came from the Macaroni & Cheese cookbook, which is pretty hilarious because the only requirements are literally that the recipe contain macaroni AND cheese. So recipes like Truffled Timbales with Zucchini Pesto, Lemon-Scented Pasta Pudding and Tuna Noodle Casserole are in this book because they have… you guessed it… both cheese and macaroni! We’ll be trying out a couple more recipes, especially a couple of the baked versions.
This recipe is SUPER easy and SUPER quick. You can literally prep everything in the time it take for your pot was water to come to a boil.
Ingredients:
12 ounces smallish macaroni (elbows or pennette)
2 cloves chopped garlic (we minced 4 cloves)
1 shallot, chopped (we clearly used a red onion)
10-12 ounces shredded Gruyere, Emmenthal or Appenzeller (we used about 16 ounces total of all three!)
4 ounces of creme fraiche (we used heavy whipping cream)
A grating of nutmeg
Salt and pepper to taste
2 – 3 tablespoons butter
Peach Blueberry Pie
Crust:
3 cups all-purpose flour (we did 1/2 whole wheat pastry flour and 1/2 white flour)
1 tablespoon sugar or succanat
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
20 tablespoons (2 1/2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
4 to 5 tablespoons ice-cold water
Filling:
3 pounds ripe peaches (approximately)
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 cup blueberries
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup (packed) light-brown sugar OR succanat
1/4 cup granulated sugar OR succanat OR honey
1 packet Stevia
1/4 cup all-purpose flour OR whole wheat pastry flour
1 large egg white, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
2 tablespoons heavy cream
Mashed Potatoes & Green Beans
Mashed Potatoes:
1.5 – 2 pounds organic potatoes
whole milk
heavy cream
butter
Cook potatoes according to pressure cooker instructions
Scoop cooked potatoes into mixer
Add at least 2 tablespoons butter, but as much as you want
Pour in at least 1/2 cup milk, but as much as you want for desired consistency
Add a splash of heavy cream
Mix to desired consistency
Top with pats of butter
Serve hot
Green Beans:
1 pound of green beans
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 large shallots
salt
pepper
Blanche the green beans in boiling water for 3 minutes
Drain the beans and immediately run cold water over them
Heat the butter and olive oil in a saute pan; saute the shallots on medium heat for 5-10 minutes
Toss the green beans and shallots with salt and pepper to taste
Heat all together, only until green beans are hot
Homemade Ice Cream
The base is the same regardless, but you have some options when it comes to the sweetener that goes with the flavor. If you don’t want to use sugar (we try not to!) we suggest agave nectar or succanat, depending on the flavor you choose. Succanat has more of a molasses taste to it, so we wouldn’t recommend it for the lemon ice cream, but it would be great if you wanted to make cinnamon ice cream or something more substantial like chocolate.
For our first try we decided to do lemon and strawberry & banana. The lemon came out very lemony (which we like!) and the strawberry banana was a perfectly smooth end of summer flavor.
Ice Cream Base
4 egg yolks
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon zantham gum
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup half and half
1 1/2 cup heavy cream
Lemon Flavor
finely grated zest of 3 lemons
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
2/3 cup agave nectar or 3/4 cup succanat or 3/4 cup sugar
Strawberry/Banana Flavor
1 pint of strawberries
1 banana
1/3 cup agave or 1/2 cup succanat or 1/2 cup sugar
Triple Chocolate Cake
We saw this on-line and couldn’t pass it up… it’s the winner of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Is Your Dessert Intense Enough? contest! Enough said! We also liked the simplicity of ingredients… literally chocolate, butter, eggs and heavy cream. While there are very few ingredients, it is fairly time intensive, so plan accordingly. We made the cake on a Wednesday and froze it until Friday when we pulled it out around noon. We whipped up the ganache frosting around 3:00, frosted the chilled cake and it was perfect when it was cut around 9:00 that night!
Active time: 30 minutes Baking time: 40 minutes Freezer time: overnight
Cake Ingredients:
3 cups Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
8 large eggs, chilled
1/4 teaspoon salt
Ganache Frosting Ingredients:
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 cup Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate Chips
2 ounces Ghirardelli White Chocolate baking bar, chilled
Tortilla Casserole
Taken (and only slightly modified) from the Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant cookbook.
We had tried this before, so we doubled the recipe so we would have leftovers!
Ingredients:
1 medium organic onion
1 roasted garlic clove, minced or pressed
3/4 teaspoon dried oregano
3 tablespoons olive oil
jar of organic tomatoes, chopped (you can use fresh, just saute longer)
10 sprouted tortillas
1/2 pint organic heavy cream
1/3 cup grated parmesan
salt and ground pepper to taste
1/2 cups grated organic Monterey Jack cheese
Prep time: 10-15 minutes
Black Forest Cake
Ok, we’ll admit…. this is a time consuming cake. We made this over two days. Day one we made the four chocolate cake layers and the filling. Day two we made the frosting and assembled it. Click “read more” to see the lengthy list of ingredients and instructions. While it’s time consuming, it did get rave reviews from those that ate it! One catch–you have to like maraschino cherries!
Key Lime Bars
Straight from Martha Stewart, these bars were a big hit! The fresh lime juice is what makes them so mouthwatering, but it’s also what makes this a very time consuming recipe. Budget about an hour from starting the crust to pulling the bars out of the oven. You’ll only need a few minutes to whip up the topping and slice the limes later. Worth the effort for a party or family function!
Crust Ingredients:
1.5 cups finely ground graham crackers
1/3 cup sugar
5 tablespoons melted butter(drizzle of honey)
Filling Ingredients:
3 large egg yolks
1.5 teaspoons finely grated lime zest
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
2/3 cup fresh key lime juice (anywhere from 16-24 limes)
Garnish:
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 limes finely sliced into crescents
