Favorite Recipes

PB and Fruit Wrap with Honey

2009-04-20T12:52:00.002-04:00

Yummers and a half!! This works well with bananas, pears and apples. It is easy, delicious and healthy-ish. This can certainly be made super healthy if the wrap is a whole wheat wrap and the fruit was organic and the peanut butter was all natural and you stole the honey from the bees in your bee hives. But I don't farm bees and I am not one to buy organic or whole wheat stuff, yet. Here is the Recipe I used and it turned out Yummy.

2 Tortillas (small or 1 big)
1 banana (or sliced pears or apples)
Peanut Butter to your liking
And a little honey

Roll up and eat!

Mexican Egg Burritos

2009-04-19T10:33:00.002-04:00

Darwin Bell

One of my favorite things about taco night is breakfast the next day. This has caused me to skip taco nights and just get what I need for my breakfast burritos since they are yummier and quicker. I guess the are healthy too. They probably could be a little healthier but I am not one to buy fat free or light stuff, it just tastes funny to me. I guess a good thing about these yummy little snacks is that you can add and subtract items to make them to your liking and what you have in the house at the time. Fresh veggies like tomatoes, onions, and avocados or any variety of cheeses works well to, except I may not put Parmesan or ricotta that would be nasty.

This is how I prepare mine it make 2-4 burritos:

Scramble eggs but try to cook them like an omelet (I'm not a chef so they aren't always perfect)

Then melt cheese on the eggs and pepper to taste

heat tortillas

Place eggs and cheese on the tortilla

add salsa and sour cream.

Roll up and enjoy!!

Baked Potato

2009-04-18T07:42:00.007-04:00

Samiksha

So there I was, at the produce stand in a face off with the potatoes. I usually go for the red potato, it is different then the rest, I like that. I had chosen to make steak for dinner which is very unusual for me, I am a ground turkey or chicken gal myself. Unlike the red potatoes, red meat pretty much grosses me out to look at or touch.

My options flooded my mind: potato salad, roasted reds, diced and sauteed, mashed . . . wait what about BAKED!?! Can you believe in all my days I never once made a baked potato? Of course I have eaten them, it is one of my faves from a little known chain restaurant, they sell a variety but I always would get sour cream and chives, YUM!

So I broke out my super hero sight senses, and read the little signs under each potato, and I found it, The Russet Potato! I came home and studied about making them. I came up with the most simple one, followed some surprisingly simple steps and viola a baked potato.

It was also very neat that i set them aside, finished cooking which took about 30 more minutes, and they retained their heat and moisture. It made for a perfect meal.

Preheat oven to 375 (i found it really is important to wait until heated, food turns out better)

Scrub the potatoes,
Stab the Potatoes 6-10 times with a fork to help release the steam
Brush, roll or dip in olive oil (so the skin is greasy-ish)
Lightly Salt the potato (with whatever salt you have)

When oven is ready, put a baking sheet on the bottom rack to catch the drippings.
Place the Potatoes on the rack above.

Cook for 1 hour(maybe up to 30minutes more for really large ones)
The outside will be crispy and delicious while the inside is soft and yummy!!!

I ate mine with butter and sour cream, but cheese and bacon would have been yummy too.

Cream of Wheat

2009-04-17T08:28:00.003-04:00

John Morgan

Cream of WHAT?

So I came across cream of wheat in the grocery store. Now I have eaten oatmeal and I have tried grits (not quite able to eat them) but never cream of wheat. I guess the generic name for it is enriched farina, which is even weirder! Well me being me, I bought it!

Upon returning home from the store, I broke out my box of cream of wheat and read the directions. It seemed simple enough and it resembled oatmeal enough, so I decided to break out a Ruthie Recipe for oatmeal and apply it to the cream of wheat.

When all was said and done, can you say YUM!!!!! It was so utterly awesome tasting. The texture however was a bit different, I guess it is porridge, like the three bears ate, I have no idea, it was very interesting, but I personally LOVED it! I tested it on my sister, the one who gags eating scrambled eggs, well she is my only sister but she still gags on weird textured food. Anyway she ate it, and she loved the taste but wasn't the fondest of the texture but there was no gagging so I take that as a good thing.

Well here is how I prepared it, Ruthie style:

Mix 1 serving of Cream of Wheat according the package (i used the microwave)
add a little butter
and brown sugar (however much you like, I put like 2-3 loose tbs not packed)