Sunday, April 22, 2012

Spaghetti with White Bean Sauce - Courtesty of Food Network .com

I'm posting this b/c I made it and loved it and I don't want to lose the recipe but I didn't follow this recipe exactly so if you want to make it, let me know and I'll tell you what we changed. 
Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sauce: heat the olive oil in a non-stick frying pan. Add the garlic, onion, bell pepper and cook over medium heat until soft, not brown, about 4 minutes.
Stir in the white beans and cook for 1 minute. Add the vegetable stock, half the parsley, the pepper flakes, and salt and pepper to taste. The sauce should be highly seasoned. Simmer until the beans are quite soft. Coarsely mash half the beans with a fork.
Cook the spaghetti in a large pot in 4 quarts rapidly boiling salted water until al dente, about 8 minutes. Drain well. Meanwhile, bring the sauce to a boil. Transfer the spaghetti and bean sauce to a large shallow bowl and mix well. Sprinkle the spaghetti with the remaining parsley and serve at once with freshly grated cheese on top

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Monkey Muffins - adapted from Sally's Baking Addiction

makes 16 small muffins (I used a cupcake pan)
■2.5 cups whole rolled oats (not instant)
■1/4 cup brown sugar or applesauce
■1 tsp baking powder
■1/2 tsp salt
■2 tsp ground cinnamon
■1 tsp vanilla extract
■1/2 cup milk
■1 large egg
■2 large very ripe bananas, mashed
■1/3 cup creamy peanut butter (or almond butter or I bet even nutella would work)
■1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, raisins, peanut butter chips, craisins...whatever you like to spruce it up

DIRECTIONS
1.Preheat oven to 350. Get cupcake liners ready
2.Mix together oats, brown sugar/ applesauce, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
3.Add in the milk, vanilla, and egg. Mix together until evenly combined.
4.Add mashed bananas, peanut butter, chocolate chips (or whatever you decided to put in) Stir well.
5.Pour the mixture into the pan and bake for 20 minutes.

Delicious hot with a glass of milk. Also tasty cooled. Even Natalie inhaled this. Super high in protein, fiber, whole grain, potassium, notice no added oil or butter or other fats, and low in carbs. I personally dig it because it's really filling. I had this for breakfast, it's now 10:10 and I haven't even started scrounging through the kitchen for easter candy to tide me over till lunch (that's rare for me. :) )