Whole Wheat Brownies

I have really enjoyed trying the recipes over at 100 Days of Real Food

I just tried her recipe for these Dark Chocolate Whole Wheat Brownies. I doubled the recipe and used my Pampered Chef mini muffin pan to cook them in. Bite size brownies. I sprinkled chopped walnuts on top.

I used some dutch chocolate (cocoa) I had on had. I don't know if it was "dark" or not, but oh well. I also did the honey version. They were a little...bitter at first, but after eating 3 of them, I decided they were pretty good. There is no sugar in the recipe at all. I may try them again and change the recipe up to see if I can make them a little sweeter, naturally.

Whole Wheat Muffins

Orange/Cranberry Muffins-100% Whole Wheat

I got the recipe from 100 Days of real food and added 2 T orange zest and 1 C chopped, dried cranberries to the batter. These are really yummy. Hearty and just mildly sweet. There is no "sugar", just honey. I used fresh ground hard white wheat (my new favorite) flour.

Sorry for the bad phone picture. I left my camera in Idaho and am waiting for it's return. Enjoy!

Homemade Granola

This was my first try at homemade granola.

Recipe:

3 1/2 C rolled oats
1 C cranberries
1/2 C raw sunflower seeds
1/2 C raw pumpkin seeds
1 C unsweetened coconut
1/2 C raw, sliced almonds
2 t cinnamon
1/2 t nutmeg
1/2 t allspice

Mix all the dry stuff together. Then, in a small pot melt 6T unsalted butter and 1/2 C Honey. Once butter is melted add 2t Vanilla Extract. Pour over the dry stuff, mix it all in and spread on a baking sheet. Cook at 250 for 75 min. Let it cool before breaking it up into pieces.

My opinion: It needs some salt! But I think it will be good on yogurt.

Anyone else have any tasty, healthy granola recipes?

fall baking

I got this fun recipe for candy corn sugar cookies from a friend.
When I saw her post about it on facebook, I didn't realize they were bite size
cookies and was a little confused for a minute when I went to cut them out.
Anyway, it worked out and they are so cute and fun for the holidays.
Let me know if you want the recipe.

I made fresh rolls for dinner last night. Justin suggested using
the fall cookie cutters, so we had pumpkin and leaf shaped rolls.

They were also delicious.

*recipe from Shalise Reid

Delicious London Broil

Very rarely, since having my gall bladder removed do I eat beef anymore, but I read somewhere on line that London Broil would be a lower fat beef to try????, so I picked some up last week. I wasn't really sure what to do with it, so I looked up some recipes. I had about 7 pieces of meat (close to 3 lbs) and here's what I did with it...

Season and sear meat in pan. Transfer to crock pot. Arrange meat on bottom.
Mix one can condensed cream of mushroom soup and one can of stewed tomatoes. Pour over the meat. Sprinkle 1oz package of onion soup mix over the top. Cover and let cook for about 8 hours. The smaller pieces, the more tender and falling apart they are.

So fast, so easy and it was SOOOOOOO good!!!!!! Lots of flavor. I think my body was craving a little red meat.