Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Peach Lemon Sorbet

Wow. I popped over to Blythe's blog, www.littlenoticings.wordpress.com, and found this amazingly summery recipe just waiting for me to see it. I immediately opened the freezer, and voila! we even had frozen peaches!!!

Ingredients:
1 cup frozen peaches (or mango, or whatever fruit you want)
1/4 cup lemon juice (or less if you like it less tangy, mine was pretty sour)
1 tablespoon sugar

Just food process (or blend, since our blender is crappy, I used the food processor) everything together! Voila! A delicious summer... smoothie... thing!!! Yay!



~Ashley
PS. Sorry for the photobooth picture, I'm too lazy to take it with the 40D :)

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Banana Ice Cream Heaven

And guess what? It's not at. all. bad for you.

Just blend several frozen bananas and a spoonful (or more if you're feeling fierce) of nutella in the FOOD PROCESSOR!!!! NOT blender! Food processor! Then top with some chocolate syrup if you're feeling super fierce.


~Ashley

Thursday, May 16, 2013

A Terrible Story of Chocolate and Chickpeas

There once was a girl. She was so fond of chocolate and sugar that she ended up really wanting to eat some one day. So she decided to make an actual HEALTHY recipe for chocolate chip cookie dough dip.
Little did she know what fatal mistake she was making.
With her food processor out and a can of chickpeas beside her, the girl continued through the last hours of her life, not knowing something was amiss.
She blended the ingredients and folded in the chocolate chips, then spooned up a single bite to see if her creation was well-made.
As soon as the miraculous mixture passed her lips, her eyes widened in surprise.
Staring down at the dip that lay before her, she slowly cradled the Rubbermaid container to her chest and crooned to it, "Preciousssssss....."
Grabbing the biggest serving spoon in her mother's kitchen drawer, she began scooping up enormous mouthfuls and shoving them in her mouth. With the heavenly brown mixture smeared all over her face, she looked like a gluttonous food critic gone horribly wrong.
She kept eating, and when the mixture was gone, she bolted to the store to buy more ingredients!
She sped through traffic, got thirty-seven servings of all the ingredients, and returned home.
As soon as she arrived home, the possessed child bolted inside to its waiting food processor. Throwing handfuls of chickpeas and chocolate chips onto the whirling blade, it roared in delight.
Shoveling handfuls of dip into its mouth, the monster began to swell. It got bigger and bigger that it crushed its house and family to death, but still it ate.
And ate.
And ate.
The previous-girl-now-monster was so fat that all of a sudden, it burst, shooting out golden splats of cookie dough dip all over the surrounding houses and sidewalks.
And thus died the poor girl, whose named used to be Ashley.
If only she hadn't eaten so much of that heavenly cookie dough dip!
The end.
http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/05/23/want-to-eat-an-entire-bowl-of-cookie-dough/

Healthy Baked Apples

I've tried over the years to go "healthy" with my eating, but it has always failed. I've decided to try one more time and actually take bigger steps this time. So this morning, I boiled up a big vat of green tea and put it in the fridge to cool.
Also, I HATE apple. HATE HATE HATE. Well, plain.
So I found a delicious "recipe" (more like guidelines) to make a baked apple. Theirs involved the oven, 25 minutes, and a bunch of other things I don't have time for.
So I decided to make up my own. I took the picture after I was halfway done eating it, so it looks a little strange...........


Ingredients:
1 small apple
cinnamon
maple syrup

Directions:
Slice the apple, removing the core. Sprinkle some cinnamon (however much you like) all over it and microwave it for 40 seconds. Take it out and drizzle some maple syrup (again, however much you like) on top. Microwave for another 40 seconds. Take out. LET COOL!!!!
Enjoy!
~Ashley

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Food, fun, and more food

On Friday, we participated in a traveling/progressive dinner with our wonderful youth group- daaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww :D

The first house had a beautiful garden and I got some great pictures.

A bumblebee!!!

I don't think Rachel was ready for this...

Don't eat this one.

Courtney and Jesse dawwwww :)

Get  ready for some great faces from SAUNDRA.... Please don't kill me! 

Another good one from Saundra..

Great one.

Megs and Courtney :D

~Ashley

Thursday, May 9, 2013

SuperDuperHealthy Chocolate Cookies

Craving sugar? Try these SuperDuperHealthy Chocolate Cookies instead. They're chock full of healthy amazingness and they taste like it, too (not healthy, amazing). Instead of using butter and sugar, we're going to use sour cream and honey for a low-fat, low-sugar cookie.
The Ingredients

Ingredients:
1 cup + 2 Tbs sour cream
1 cup honey
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups chickpea flour OR all purpose flour for something that tastes normal :)
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
6 ounces or about 1 cup chocolate chunks (or
      wilber buds as I used)

I mashed Wilbur buds with this spiky meat mallet.
I'm definitely very evil.
Procedure:
1. Preheat oven to 325 and line 3 baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Beat sour cream and brown sugar/honey until well mixed.
3. Add one egg and beat. Add second egg and vanilla and beat.
4. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, cocoa powder, and salt.
5. Add the dry ingredients a little bit at a time until all mixed.
6. Add the chocolate chunks and mix just a little until combined.
7. Drop cookie dough in heaping tablespoons onto the parchmented cookie sheets. Bake 10-12 minutes on convection bake until the tops are dry and the cookies are a little puffed.
The magical metal cookie remover.
8. Cool on baking sheets 5 minutes, then remove with a metal cookie remover to cooling racks to cool completely.

Gooey Goodness
Nom nom.








~Ashley 

Friday, March 15, 2013

Coffee Cake in a Mug

I absolutely hate breakfasts.

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I find cereal, toast, and anything else except bacon and eggs disgusting.

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I usually eat leftovers from the fridge when I eat breakfast.

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But the story isn't over. I found a delicious, fast, and easy recipe for coffee cake in a cup.

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Well, this was a few months ago, and I have made the mugcake several times since. Here is the recipe.

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Coffee Cake in a Mug

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Ingredients:

1 tbs butter

2 tbs sugar

1 egg

2 tbs sour cream

vanilla

1/4 cup all purpose flour

1/8 tsp baking powder

crumb topping (see below)

OR

Nutella (not both, that's gross.)

Procedure:

1. SOFTEN not melt the butter in a large mug in the microwave.

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2. Fork in the sugar until creamy.

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3. Add some egg. I usually use a whole one, but you don't have to. Mix.

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4. Add the sour cream and some DROPLETS of vanilla. Not dribbles. Droplets. Mix.

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5. Add 2 tbs of nutella IF you are using it.

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6. Add the flour. I used gluten free, but it's the same for regular flour. Also add the baking powder. Mix.

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7. If you didn't add nutella, mix the following with your fingers in a small bowl and sprinkle on top (I didn't):

1 tbs butter

2 tbs flour

1 tbs brown sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

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8. Put in microwave for one minute MAKING SURE IT DOESN'T GO OVER THE TOP! If it still looks REALLY wet and jiggles when you shake it, microwave for 10 seconds more. If needed, 10 seconds more. I usually do 1 minute and 15 seconds.

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9. Eat. Careful, it's hot.

We bought some Trader Joe's "Cocoa Almond Spread". It tastes just like Nutella, but a VERY faint almondy taste and it's a bit less sticky. BUT it has way less fat and sugar. Yes, please.

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~Ashley

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Avacado Summer Salad

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Here's a recipe for a delish salad I invented today for lunch.

Avacado Summer Salad

WARNING!!! This recipe is serious GIRL FOOD! Do not attempt to feed to male characters! Serves one.

Ingredients: Half avacado, cube-ished

8 cherry tomatoes, sliced SUPER thinly

2 green onions, sliced

1/4 cup cottage cheese

2 tsp lemon juice

Black pepper

Leaf of big Romaine lettuce, rinsed

Directions:

Mix all ingredients. Spoon onto leaf of lettuce. Fold. Eat.

~Ashley

Thursday, November 22, 2012

EBA: Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

Stuffed yet?

I sure am. Goodness, I love Thanksgiving so much. I think it's sad how people just think of it as a time to eat, sleep, and watch football. We have so much to be thankful for and we take it all for granted! Let's all think of five or more things we're thankful for. Here's mine, post yours in the comments.

1. Fall

2. Dance

3. Turkey

4. Cameras

5. Family

6. Friends who care

7. My nice warm bed

8. Cold days with fluffy blankets

9. Coffee

10. Colorful leaves

Happy Thanksgiving!!!
~Ashley

Saturday, November 10, 2012

This is so sad....

Alright, well first of all, this is sad because this is the second time I have had to write this post. The first stinkin' time, my Safari window on my mom's iPad decided to close itself and delete my post.

So....

Ok, I am ashamedly admitting that I was so bored of what to write, I went, head held low and tail between legs, to an automatic blog post idea generator.

But, before you judge me, I came up with a spectacular idea: 4 Things You Hate About Salt.

So here it goes.

1. If you eat too much of it, it burns your tongue and throat.

2. If your stupid salt shaker lid decides to plug the holes for a minute, so you shake it really hard, and then decides to unplug the holes, instead of Soupé al la Puacé, you get Sált a la Sált.

3. If you are on a field trip and you just ran out of water, and your mom decided to give you oversalted peanuts for lunch and you decide to eat them.

4. If you eat too much of it, you get water retention.

Yes, that last one was a last resort.

Goodbye for now.

~Ashley

Saturday, October 27, 2012

My Succulent Creation

I made a beautiful delicious omellete today. I'm very proud. It took for.ev.er.

Make an omelette patty-thingy. Cook onions, tomatoes, and spinach in a separate pan. Put them on the omelette patty thing. Sprinkle garlic salt and italian seasoning on it. Fold the omelette in half and eat!!!!

And i'm not hungry anymore......... :(