Cooking
Gammie’s Granola
There are very few things more satisfying than a bowl full of homemade granola with fruit and yogurt. I started making granola when I was a newlywed and once I perfected the recipe I just could not go back to the store bought. This recipe is the basic delicious crunchy style granola with many optional add-ins to encourage experimentation and offering the ability to customize your own favorite variety. Now that I am a grandmother -Gammie is my chosen name- it is now called Gammie’s Granola. Have fun experimenting and enjoy!
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Banana Peanut Butter Cookies
Cooking with a Toddler
Last week I shared some ideas for how I get my toddler to be a helper. Rather than share a new recipe, I decided to give you some more cooking related tips to get you cooking while entertaining and teaching your toddler!
At the counter activities
1. Let your toddler add ingredients.…
Read MoreFresh Harvest Vegetable Marinara Sauce
Having a vegetable garden is fun and rewarding. The challenge is to use up the produce as it fills up the kitchen. So I decided to be creative and see how many of the vegetables from our garden I could use up in one recipe. I combined our garden veggies with a few things added from our local farmer’s market and cooked up a batch of vegetarian pasta sauce. We had it for dinner tonight over quinoa spaghetti noodles and it was delicious. I cooked up some conventional spaghetti as well, so my husband and brother had a choice. They both loved it all.
Ingredients
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Overnight Fresh Berry Jam with a Minty Kick
Have you ever wondered what you can do with the final cup or two of berries that you have in the refrigerator the night before your morning trip to your favorite Farmer’s Market? Well this recipe is worth a try. You can be as creative as you like and the results will not disappoint!!
Ingredients
1-2 cups fresh berries
1-2 Tablespoons whole Chia seeds
1-2 teaspoons honey or agave
4-5 fresh mint leaves …
Honey Whole Wheat Pita Bread
Here is a recipe that you will only believe actually works if you try it! This pita bread has the real pita pocket!! It is pretty amazing! You put a flat piece of dough in the oven and *POOF* a pocket appears! And, did I mention that they are DELICIOUS!! As you can tell, we Weisser Women love our Mediterranean food! We have given you the recipe for Hummus and we have given you the recipe for Tabooleh. Now, you will have the last recipe to make an unbelievably tasty trio!! Make all three for a delicious mediterranean dinner! Or, just eat it as a snack! YUM!
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Tabooleh
Tabooleh
My husband is Armenian so we LOVE mediterranean food. Tabooleh was a salad/side dish that I grew up eating even before the vegetarian culinary trend became so popular. We have a huge patch of mint growing in our garden each summer so making Tabooleh during the summer months is a regular request from my family. The whole grain goodness of bulgur wheat combined with mint, parsley, tomatoes and other veggies with a lemon vinaigrette dressing is healthy dinner salad or side dish to serve at any summer BBQ. Hope you enjoy our family rendition.
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Anti-Inflammation Foods
As many of you know, I am recovering from a serious back injury. I am NOT a person that likes to take medicine, which is ironic because I am a certified Physician Assistant and my husband is a Pediatrician. So when this injury occurred, I did not have any choice at first but to take some pain meds and some anti-inflammatory medicine to help me through that first week. Since the pain meds made me crazy, I got off that asap and have continued to take NSAIDs-ibuprofen (Advil) for the past 6 weeks. Now that I am feeling alot better and can actually sit at my computer and compose a paragraph or two, I decided to do some research on foods that have anti-inflammatory properties. …
Read MoreRice Salad
Here is a situation I often run in to: I make an awesome stir fry. I cook some healthy brown rice to go along with it. The meal is delicious… But there is just too much rice leftover! What can you do with all this rice… So I spent some time searching through a number of brown rice recipes, found a few, modified them, and created my own. I will give two variations of a similar recipe.
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No Recipe Dinner
Our family has tried to implement at least 1 or 2 “no recipe” dinners each week. For us, this means a dinner that requires minimal ingredients and is fast and easy to make from memory, no recipe required!
Currently, our go-to recipe is a delicious egg, meat and potato scramble invented by my husband. This recipe is fun, especially if you like the occasional breakfast for dinner, and only requires a few ingredients.
Egg, Meat and Potato Scramble
feeds 4, or 2 with leftovers for lunch the next day.
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