For another fun installment in what I am now calling the “summer of salads” I made a simple Greek salad. What I was not aware of when I first decided to make it was that Feta cheese is expensive! However, it really does give the salad that distinct flavor. What went into our simple Greek salad?
- Mixed Romaine leaves.
- Sliced tomatoes.
- Sliced cucumbers.
- Red onion slices.
- Feta cheese.
For my husband I also added grilled chicken (grilled in EVOO with salt and pepper). Another thing I wasn’t aware of? Feta cheese is made from sheep or goat milk! I’m going to guess ours was made from goat milk. Maybe this little guy contributed? I see him on my morning walk and it always makes me smile.
Who would have thought that experimenting in the kitchen would lead to learning something new about cheese? I guess it’s true what they say, you really do learn something new everyday! What have you learned recently?
I have been on a search for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe for some time now. Maybe it’s cooking in a higher altitude, but the regular chocolate chip cookie recipes never seemed to come out just right. They would be flat, or too hard, but never just soft and moist! Well my world was totally ROCKED when I found this recipe for Vanilla Pudding Chocolate Chip cookies!
For this batch I used 1 Cup of milk chocolate chips, and 1 Cup of white chocolate chips. The regular recipe calls for 2 Cups of semi-sweet (which is actually even more tasty in my opinion). The mix of chips was awesome as well though, and I can see this cookie recipe being a great base for trying all kinds of chips in them! Have you seen all the different kinds of chips in the baking isle recently? Wow!
What is your favorite cookie?
You have heard about chia seeds, right? For eating that is, not just for growing a Chia Elephant
. Well, I had a nice bag of chia seeds sitting around the pantry that were just begging to be used somehow. The rainy weather outside made it seem like a great idea to bake some muffins. Since I didn’t have a chia muffin recipe on hand I improvised with what I did have in the house. The result?
Cinna-chia Muffins
- 1 egg
- 2 cups original Bisquick
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 T vegetable oil
- 1 t cinnamon
- 1 t chia seed
Bake in a preheated oven at 400F for 14-17 mins depending on your oven.
The result is a basic muffin with a cinnamon kick! The chia seeds don’t have a strong taste in the muffin, but you will still get all the tasty benefits!
My husband and I had a lot of fun over the weekend making “healthy” donuts in our donut pan
! Because you bake them instead of deep frying, they are a much healthier choice (still naughty, but much better). The pan came with a simple spiced donut recipe that is really tasty. It creates a cake like donut, but more dense than the deep fried version. For our first batch we used powdered sugar and a bit of hot water to create a “glaze”.
You can’t see the glaze much at all, but it was pretty yummy! However, we decided to share donuts with my husband’s family on Sunday, so we wanted to kick things up a notch and really WOW everyone. Enter, the powdered donut!
Even tastier than the glazed, and far more messy to eat! I simply dipped the hot donuts in the powdered sugar as they came out, then allowed them to cool. Once they were cooled down, they got a second dip in the powdered sugar, which created the awesome white coating on the donuts.
We are pretty excited to experiment with new recipes and donuts. Since it works just like a muffin tin, I envision pumpkin, banana, and maybe even blueberry, donuts in our future!
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