Recipes

Carob Coconut Blobs (raw, vegan, GF)

I decided before my parents came up I wanted to make a raw dessert since they have jumped on the juicing band wagon with Josh and I, and their really into eating vegan. Their not Vegan but dipping their toes in, so it’s pretty fun around these parts in our food adventures!

So Carob Coconut Blobs it was:)

I made these from (this recipe) But I used almonds in place of the coconut because I was out of coconut from (these cookies)

They were so worth it! Plus I enjoyed the almonds in these blobs. So head over to Casey’s blog to make these blobs!

We are having a wonderful time with my parents. We went to a favorite restaurant on the Central Coast that’s all Organic. They of course loved it. Saturday and Sunday have been filled with Christmas shopping, Church fellowship, christmas plays, dessert potlucks, and so much more! So blessed! We are off today to head over to the little Danish town to see Christmas decor, gather craft goodies and eat at a favorite health food store for lunch:) More pictures to come! For sure more fashion posts on the way. I’ve embarrassingly been Christmas shopping for myself! Pretty sure the stores count on us to do that!

Anyone else christmas shop for themselves???

Oh, one more thing! You can’t get rid of me:() My mom got me the cook book (Baby Cakes) and donut pans! Can’t wait to share all the goodies with you.

Marian<3

Peace on earth, good cookies to men

December 15, 2011

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Peace on Earth good Cookies to men.

So I had super ripe bananas! That only means one thing in this household. Baking!

Josh had his prayer group coming over and I bake for the guys every time. I would say it’s nice because they get cookies and I get left over cookies, but you know what? They never leave any! Eh well. But I baked these cookies for me all me muhahahhahah! and made sugar cookies for the boys. l’ll post the sugar cookies soon:)

Ok, onto this recipe shall we?

~Peace on Earth cookies~

Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip (vegan, gluten free, sugar free)

2 Large mashed bananas

1/3 cup melted earth balance

2 cups gluten free oats (if you want it GF)

4 Tblsp Dairy Free milk

1 tsp Vanilla

1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips

Optional you can add raisins, and or a pinch of cinnamon

~Directions~

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees

Mix all ingredients

Grease cookie sheet or cover with parchment paper

Bake for 18-20 minutes until lightly golden brown around edges. Be careful not to burn them:()

Marian<3

easier then folding underwear

December 7, 2011

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Homemade Icing.

It’s no wonder sweet treats are always floating around this gingerbread house of ours. Josh has a mad sweet tooth and I like to bake. Match made in heaven? Yes, I know so.

Last Monday Josh requested Gingerbread cookies with frosting for the Mens prayer group at our house. Well, I rolled up my sleeves and got to work.

Thank goodness I secretly hid 3 cookies to eat, I mean take photos of because there were NO cookies left when I came down stairs!

Now onto the homemade icing. It’s easier then folding underwear!

Ingredients

Softened unsalted butter – ⅓ cup (we use Earth Balance)
Confectioners sugar – 3 cups
Milk – 1 to 2 tablespoons (we use my homemade almond milk)
Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon

Place ingredients in bowl and mix with a hand mixer.

Easy right?! Go make some icing for your sweetheart, Mother, friend or dog! scratch that dog one just go make it!

Do any of you fold your underwear too?

coconut Lovin

December 3, 2011

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Coconut lovin is for sure! And I would love to hug Elise for this great recipe!

I had a bunch of coconut sitting in my pantry not being used and when I came across this recipe I had to try it, like now! Plus my girlfriend was coming over to hang out so there really wasn’t a better excuse, and the hubs will be extra happy about this when he comes home.

You can add icing on top if you want to. They really don’t need icing but I made some for fun.

So head on over to Hungry Hungry Hippie for the (Recipe) and make some!

Love Marian<3

Muffins, dessert for breakfast, at least in my book

November 30, 2011

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Muffins!!! Who doesn’t love these puffy clouds on your tongue?!

You don’t? oh, well come again tomorrow for my thrifting experience.

When I was a young girl, (ahem, High school) I would eat the poppyseed muffins my Mom would buy from the costco pack to take with us to the river every weekend. And EVERY weekend the same scenario played out. I would cut the muffin in half in hopes it would help my portion control. No such LUCK my friends! Once on my lips I just had to eat all of it! IT was all mine! muhahahaha. Oh sorry…. Anyway, Tummy ache would ensue, and once the poppy seed muffins were all gone it was onto to the chocolate muffins. Chocolate has always been a second choice in life. (the horror)

So I leave you with simply beautiful moist moist moist (hopefully you don’t hate that word) vegan blueberry muffins. They can be gluten free too. See note below

Yields 8

Ingredients

1 1/2 Cup Flour

1/2 Cup Sugar

2 tsp Baking Powder

1tsp salt

3/4 Cup Milk

1/4 Cup Oil

1 Cup frozen blueberries (or fresh)

Mix dry ingredients, Then add wet ingredients and fold in frozen blueberries

spray muffin pan with olive oil, or use cupcake liners and pour muffin batter into pan

Bake at 375 degrees 25-30 minutes. Poke toothpick through center to make sure they are fully done.

These really are soo MOIST!

Gluten free note. if you want it GF simply replace flour with GF flour and use 1 tsp baking powder and add 1 tsp xanthun gum.

I’ve never tried them gluten free so this is simply a guess, but I think it will work:) IF you try it let me know!

Marian<3

and check out (Katie’s) blog for an awesome Luna bar give away! Don’t miss out ya hear?!

Great Grandma’s Cheese Pie

November 26, 2011

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Oh Great Grandma’s Cheese Pie.

Ever since I was a little girl when my Dad’s Italian family would get together for any holiday, Cheese pie was ALWAYS there. Some other favorite’s that always made it were

Pizzelle’s

Lasagna

Manicotti

and so much more, but I was always fondest of that cheese pie. My Mom took it upon herself per my Dad’s request to learn everything my great Grandma and Grandma cooked! So as she would bake the cheese pie’s I would join in and help. Squishing that butter and flower together with my little fingers, pouring the sugar and cream cheese in the blender, smelling the cinnamon mix with that creamy goodness of cheese pie that is, and anticipating the slice I would get after our family dinner. Oh yes, Very sweet memories indeed.

Here is the recipe sent via E-mail to me from my Mom almost 6 years ago after the hubs and I got married and well, I wanted to recreate that holiday treat. So I’m sharing this beloved recipe from my dear Great Grandma Angelina to you. Trust me, it will be a favorite indeed, you might want to make two. I could barely save 1 piece to take a photo of!

Crust
1 1/4 cups flour

2 sticks of butter cut up

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 tablespoon sugar

1 egg beaten

Blend butter into flour mixture, add egg and mix with hands and press into pie plate

Filling
2 eggs

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups milk

2 8oz. cream cheese blocks

1 1/2 tblsp. flour

1 teaspoon vanilla

Sprinkle of cinnamon on top

blend eggs in a blender and add sugar, then milk, cream cheese in cut up chunks, then add flour and vanilla. Pour into Crust and sprinkle the top with cinnamon.Bake at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes or until edge’s of pie crust is golden and pie begins to get little cracks that open up on the sides or in the center

Love you Marian!

Happy after Thanksgiving, Happy holidays and Merry Christmas! From our house to yours<3

Marian<3

As promised

November 23, 2011

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Apple Butter That the hubs made. Here’s the recipe as promised

APPLE BUTTER

2-4 lbs Apples Peeled and cored

1 Cup Apple Cider Vinegar

2 Cups Fresh Apple Juice Or Water

2 Cups Brown Sugar (or less)

2 tsp Cinnamon

1/2 tsp Ground CLoves

1/2 tsp All Spice

Grated Rind & Juice From 1 Orange Or Lemon

1/2 tsp Salt

Directions

Peel, core and cut apples. (save core for juicing)

Put in pot and bring to a boil with apple cider vinegar and fresh juice or water.

Once boiling reduce heat and simmer, add remaining ingredients, stir.

Simmer for 1-3 hours

You can leave it thick once cooked or you can put it in a food processor or vitamix to smooth it out. I prefer mine smooth. The hubs prefers his clumpy.

Can it.

Did I just tell you to can it? I did! Well, Can the butter and enjoy!

From our hearts to yours<3 okay, that was a little over the top cheese, but, well uh, it’s from our hearts so ya, go make it!

Marian<3

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

November 17, 2011

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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

(Gluten free or Vegan or both)

So, i’ve been diagnosed with a slight gluten intolerance. I eat vegan, although I don’t call myself vegan. Are you following? ok, good neither am I. So, where does this gluten thing leave me? Well gosh I just don’t know. Gluten= feeling crumby and gluten + eating vegan = too much thought into food for me, especially with my food past . So, for now, although I don’t like labels or diets ( I prefer eating for health) So avoiding gluten when I can and eating a mostly plant based diet is where it’s at for me, for now:() Fewsh!

Onto cookies. These are yummy and requested a lot in our household and I don’t mind one bit.

Not a chocolate fan? Add raisins. Not an oatmeal fan, eh maybe you can find something that wets your whistle next post.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Vegan or Gluten free or both

(provides 12-14)

1 Cup gluten free all purpose flour
2 1/4 Cups Gluten free rolled oatmeal ( or regular oatmeal if gluten is of no concern)
1/2 tsp Xanthun gum
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
8 Tbsp Earth Balance or 1 stick of butter ( room temperature)
3/4 Cup brown sugar
3/4 Cup granulated sugar
1 egg (or 1 flax egg)
3/4 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chocolate chips (more or less depending on preference)

Preheat oven to good old 350 degrees. Mix flour, oats, xanthun gum, baking soda & salt

In a separate mixing bowl mix together butter and sugar until blended. Then add egg, vanilla and mix in chocolate chips.

spray cookie tray or use parchment paper & roll dough into cookie balls and bake 10-15 minutes ( or until the edges are just golden) I’ve learned you really don’t want to over bake these cookies.

Enjoy!

I made these cookies on Sunday when my family had a dinner get together and they LOVED them. I of course only told them after they ate them that they were gluten free. I don’t mean to be sneaky but sometimes I just wait to speak up about what exactly is in my baking.

God Bless everyone! Yay for It being almost Friday<3

Before the season is over

November 15, 2011

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You can say that again! These were very yummo! Chocolate cookies filled with pumpkin pie. I can thank Katie For this awesome recipe! If you want to make these head on over to her Blog

before pumpkin season is over. Wait, what am I saying, I’m pretty sure you can get pumpkin all year round? But, you need to make these. Their firm on the outside and soft on the inside. Chocolate shell over pumpkin fluff. Yum……….

I really just LOVE vegan baking! In fact, I made another recipe of Katie’s for my family on Sunday night and they of course LOVEd it! I’ll post that sometime since Josh will be requesting that dessert again:)

I LOVE dessert in some form every day. Even though I wouldn’t call myself a sweets person, it’s nice to have a little something sweet everyday! My old self would have NEVER indulged in sweets unless is was a “cheat day” and that never turned out good. What works for one may not for the other, but breaking free from restrictions helped me leap over to the other side of normal eating instead of binge/ starve.

Have any of you forbid food only to find out you just went bonkers on it when given the chance to eat it?

—Earthy Gurl

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Coconute Carob Blobs + Baby Cakes!

Peace on earth, good cookies to men

easier then folding underwear

coconut Lovin

Muffins, dessert for breakfast, at least in my book

Great Grandma’s Cheese Pie

As promised

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Before the season is over

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