Two Muffins, One Batter
We're snowed in. I have one egg and 1/2 cup milk left. What to do for breakfast? Well, I kinda winged it. I came up with Mango Muffins and Cinnamon Sugar Muffins from one basic batter.
You can do any flavor combination you want with this, so I'll just give you the basics first. This batter will make 12 muffins. Basic Muffin Batter 1.5 cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup sugar 1.5 tsp baking powder 1/8 tsp salt 4 tbsp wheat germ 1 egg 1/2 cup milk 1/4 to 1/3 cup applesauce 2 tbsp. vegetable oil Mix the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Lightly whisk egg in a smaller...I thought I had a perfectly vegan breakfast…
...until I took a huge bite of that oatmeal with wheat germ and HONEY. I've been writing this eloquent blog about my southern family and our food habits and all this stuff. I looked at it this morning after my vegan blunder and decided to just get to the point without all the story. Perhaps I'll post it later. This is basically what it boils down to: I saw Oprah on Wednesday. She had Michael Pollan, the Chipotle founder dude, and Alicia Silverstone on the show. Michael Pollan was talking about his latest book, Food Rules, and the movie Food,...
Gorton’s Frozen Grilled Fish
After becoming a fan of Hungry Girl's website, I began reading about all their fun new food finds. Gorton's has a whole line of grilled fish fillets that are frozen. I got the Lemon Butter Salmon at $3.99 at Publix last week. I will confess that I also picked up a less healthy breaded option, too. But back to the healthy stuff. For $3.99, you get 2 healthy doses of protein that are not plagued by high sodium content. Usually, pre-packaged and flavored food like this are FULL of sodium. These were surprisingly...
FRS: Healthy Energy Supplement
I ordered this after reading about it on Hungry Girl's Q & A. She loves it, and I just HAD to know what it is like. When I visited the site, I entered my zip code to see where it could be sold around here. I feel like we're pretty metropolitan in Nashville, even if it is still the south. When I hit enter (my mistake), there were no search results. Apparently, you have to click the little arrow in the boxy thing in which you enter your zip code. My pressing enter made...
Noodle Adventures: Grilled Tilapia and Stir Fry with Black Bean Sauce
I love rice noodles. They're so light and fluffy and take mere minutes to fully cook. Since we had rather bad weather yesterday afternoon, I picked my dinner options according to my pantry. I knew we would be having tilapia because Thursdays have kind of become our unofficial fish dinner night, and I had planned accordingly in this week's shopping trip. Tilapia is always an easy and budget-friendly protein to have around, and these babies were HUGE! So the 3 easy parts to this meal: Grilled Tilapia: brushed with olive oil, sprinkled with my favorite seasoning mix,...
Meatless Meatballs? Really!?
Filed under: appetizer ideas, product review, vegetarian dinner, you have got to try this!
I just discovered the most wonderful meatless invention ever: meatless meatballs. Veggie Patch frozen meatballs...with no meat!
They are GOOD and filling. I think they would even be good in an appetizer...you know the ones that Southern folks serve at parties in their crock pots? The ones you eat with toothpicks and chase around your plate with a slightly sweet sauce on them? I have no idea what those are called, but I would bet these would be good in that, too. Mix 'em with some marinara and noodles, and oh my! I had wanted to make this another...Neighborly Hot Dog Relish
Filed under: Truly Southern Recipes, easy dinners, you have got to try this!
My parents recently moved to a very small town in Tennessee, and they really love their new neighbors. They hang out a lot, and to mom's retirement delight, they share recipes. This one is from quite a lady. She and her husband keep a beautiful property, one that Joe and I first noticed as the "Gingerbread House." They have all sorts of recycled things as yard decorations. Their back yard also boasts a wonderful little babbling brook. I am very appreciative that she shared this wonderful recipe with my mom, especially since mom...
I Started Laughing Out Loud For No Reason Today
Filed under: easy dinners, entertainment, food news, healthy stuff, product review
So I've got 3 things today. Only one is food related. #1: I started laughing out loud during one of my classes today for no reason. My students were quite perplexed, as was I, because it was a serious laughing fit. Tears filled my eyes. THAT kind of laughing. And I didn't even have my extra-special Portland Brew icy coffee beverage yet. I was in one of those mid-afternoon foggy states of being, we were trying to go over their homework, and the kids were extra chatty. It just came out of nowhere. I...
The Noodle Adventures: Shirataki is a Go
Filed under: easy dinners, healthy stuff, product review, vegetarian dinner, you have got to try this!
I tried the shirataki noodles last night. They are actually really good. They come already cooked inside a bag with water. You have to strain out the water and rinse them pretty well because it is a little funky. I was expecting a raucous stench because some of the sights describing shirataki talked about how most people find the liquid to be highly unsatisfying to the nostrils. It really wasn't that bad at all. I wouldn't cook with it or anything, but I have smelled worse (husband, dog, students, the occasional changing of a...
New Year’s Resolutions: Noodle Bowls
New Year's resolutions really annoy me. It's not that I think people shouldn't make them. Everyone should have a catalyst to get healthy. It's the folks who join the gym. They crowd the track, the machines, and the spin classes. I don't think it's necessarily the fact that they made the resolution...It's the fact that they will get fed up with it by March. All those folks who don't know which side of the track is for walking, overcrowd the spin classes (there was a waiting list of 10 people on Sunday, the most I've ever seen it) and don't...
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