Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Breakfast Cookies!

    No not really... Just breakfast AND cookies :)


    I've been on an oatmeal kick lately, especially with the breeze thats been a blowin and making it really feel like fall here, oatmeal is a great comfort food! Especially with bananas, almond butter, walnuts, and cinnamon.. mmm. I've been doing something with the banana though that I never thought of and it makes it taste like Banana Bread pudding, its so good. You just cook the oatmeal as normal and then you add a banana, mash it up really good until its like baby food and stir it in, and then put it back in the microwave for around 30 seconds. Don't knock it til you try it! Then add the rest of the fixins. 


      Now for the COOKIES! 
      These are whole wheat goodness. Well if you're like me and like healthier tasting stuff. They just have less sugar and are made with whole wheat flour... duh? But my room mate approves.. I think ;) Its the recipe in Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Moskowitz, my favorite vegan. Feast your eyes on these babies!

 


Thats it for now... Enjoy your first day of fall!






Thursday, September 2, 2010

The College Life

      With my move to one bedroom where I am suppose to do all my living, also known as a college dorm, I was a little skeptical as to how my cooking would go. It will still take some getting used to, but here are some things I've made in these past two weeks!


    The first thing I made was hummus because it's super easy and I will pretty much eat it with anything. I also got this little food processor from target for 6 dollars. Yup. Pretty awesome. It works pretty well too. It was just the basic hummus recipe, no tahini, but still good. Just garbanzo beans, veggie oil and garlic!

Then my second adventure was trying sunflower "cheese". I usually buy sunflower seeds to toss in my oatmeal so I had a bunch and I saw a recipe on a blog, and I thought why not? I get to use my handy dandy food processor! So this was just soaked sunflower seeds, lemon juice, and water. The recipe called for dill, but I didn't have any in my limited pantry so I went with out. It could have used some spices or something but still not to shabby. Good with these Ezekial pocket breads I've come to love!


My first trip shopping I bought a bunch of bananas and I realized I don't use a bunch of bananas before they go bad, so I froze two of them. And here is the lovely creation they turned into...

ONE ingredient ice cream! So so good. 

I just like slurpees :)
Then I made another yummy treat, not all on the same day of course :)

CAKE IN A MUG!! 
And it was good for you too... well sort of.
I made up this recipe too :)
4 Tablespoons whole wheat flour
3 Tablespoons Agave
2-3 Tablespoons rice milk
2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
2-3 Tablespoons Applesauce

Heat it in the Microwave for 5 minutes and then drizzle some more agave on top and it is delicious!

I was talking to my mom the other day and we both share a love of figs so she told me they were buy one get one free at Publix. So I went and got two packages of figs. How am I going to use them all? I have no clue, but here is one way!

These are like super yummy and healthy fig newtons, but better!
I didn't make this one up I just changed one that I found. And I made it smaller in order to use my little food processor.
The crust is...
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oats
1/4 tsp. baking soda
2 tablespoons Applesauce
1 1/2 tablespoons agave
 Mix all that up and spread half on the bottom of a pan.

The middle is where I changed it a lot and don't have exact measurements either. 
6-7 figs
2 pitted dates
a splash of lemon juice
a splash of water
a tablespoon of agave
couple dashes of cinnamon
Just mix that all up in a food processor until its pasty like. Put it over the bottom crust and then put the remaining crust mix on top. Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes or until the top gets brown. 
This is one of my favorite things I've made! It is so yummy and it has no refined sugar! 
So that's all so far, more to come I'm sure! Especially now since I have a kitchen on my own floor and don't have to go all the way down to the base level. 
Ok I'm done :D