Berry Syrup

2 cups Sugar
1 cup water
Dissolve

Add 1 cup frozen berries ( I like the triple blend, but any frozen or fresh berries will do)

Bring to boil  allow to boil for 2 1/2 minutes

Remove from heat add:
1 tsp vanilla

Serve over Sunday Morning Breakfast Waffles, pancakes, german pancakes, or crepes.

Carmel Syrup

This recipe is from Our Best Bites Cook book, so they get all the credit, but I needed to post it because it is amazing on Sunday Morning Breakfast Waffles.

3/4 cup buttermilk ( i never have buttermilk, but you can always make buttermilk by adding a couple    Tbsp vinegar to regular milk, and it is a good substitute.)
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter (no substitutes)
2 TBsp corn syrup
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

Combine all the ingredients except the vanilla in a 4 quart sauce pan. It gets really big and foamy.
Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and cook 7-9 minutes until it is a nice carmel color.
Take off heat, add vanilla.

Enjoy!

Sunday Morning Breakfast Waffles

Here is the original recipe from Better Homes and Gardens

1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 TBsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 egg yolks
1 3/4 cup milk
12 cup cooking oil
2 egg whites beat until stiff

Add all ingredients except the egg whites. Stir until well blended. Gently fold in egg whites, cook in waffle iron.

Here is what I did that was amazing...and healthy...at least I think.
(remember I have to triple everything, but it is a good idea to triple even if you have a  smaller family, then you can just put sheets of wax paper between them and freeze them and toast them for a quick breakfast.)


1 cups white flour
2 cups ground oats (oat flour) (I did mine in my blender)
4 TBsp ground flax
2 cup whole wheat flour
3 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
5 cups milk
2 cubes butter melted (1 cup oil)
6 egg yolks
3 TBsp lemon juice
2 tsp vanilla
6 egg whites beat until stiff.

add all ingredients and stir until well blended, add egg whites and gently fold into batter. Cook in waffle iron.

Eat with peaches and Carmel Syrup on top.
Or great with whipped cream and peaches and bananas and walnuts, sprinkled with a little cinnamon.
I let the kids get creative with their toppings.
I will post the Carmel Syrup recipe as well as a Berry syrup that is amazing.

Canning Pinto Beans

I am putting this link here for a quick reference.
This is the blog post that I did for canning pinto beans which are a great thing to can in the winter when the garden is not needing attention and produce canned.
You can do this whenever you are not crazy busy and it is so fast to do, and so handy to have on hand

Click here

Bubble Seed Bread

3 cups flour
(you can use white flour, whole wheat, oat flour, or a blend of all)
1 1/2 cup hot water
1/4 tsp yeast
1 tsp salt

1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix with a fork until just blended, and all flour is incorporated with the water.

2. Cover and let set for 8 hours or overnight (or longer)

When ready to bake, Preheat oven to 450 degrees
3. Put 1/4 cup of raw pumpkin seeds, raw sunflower seeds, flax seeds, and sesame seeds on the cupboard in a pile.

4. Pour dough out onto seeds.

5. Gently fold the four sides of the dough into the middle and carefully lift into greased pan, flipping it over so the side that was down on the seeds is now up in the pan.

The pan you use should be tall and have a lid that will be able to bake in the oven. I have a ceramic dutch oven type pot that has a lid, or a corning wear casserole dish with a glass lid.

Bake with lid on for 30 minutes
Take lid off and bake an additional 15 minutes for a total of 45 minutes on 450 degrees.

Apple Brie Walnut Sandwich

These are most amazing...try before you judge.

1 recipe Bubble Seed Bread sliced
1 wheel Brie cheese
1 apple sliced on mandolin
1 cup walnuts roughly chopped

1. Cut white mold off of Brie wheel
2.Layer Brie (use a thick slice) , apple and walnuts on one slice of Bubble Seed Bread
3. Top with another slice of Bubble Seed Bread
4. Grill or toast in oven until cheese is melted

Enjoy!

Color Salad!

Your body needs color! Lots of it to eat, so here is the best colorful, freshest, most delicious salad your glands will love you to eat!

1 bunch spinach
3 green onions chopped
strawberries
blueberries
pinapple diced
orange slices
craisins
1/4 bunch cilantro chopped

( add any colorful fruit or veggie...pomegrante, avocado, apple, pear, water chestnuts, zuccini, asparagus, tomato(all colors) ect.)

Candied nuts (see recipe below)
Mix together and add dressing (see below) and nuts just before serving

Candied Nuts
1 cup nuts (pecan, slivered almonds, walnut, or cashews work best)
Enough pure maple syrup to coat nuts (not too soggy, not too dry)
Cook in frying pan on med-low heat. Watch carefully. stir often. Once sugar has crystalized on the nuts, take off heat and let cool.
Add to salad just before serving.

Cool Lemon Dressing
1/3 cup sesame oil
2 Tblsp agave
zest and juice of one lemon
Mix together and let sit while putting salad together. Add just before serving.

Cilantro Ranch

3 tomatillos (medium cut into quarters)
2 tbsps lime juice
1 cup cilantro (fresh)
5 scallions (white and ends)
2 garlic cloves (crushed)
1/4 tsp salt (taste)
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp parsley
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/2 tsp season salt
dash of Frank's Red Hot sauce (Big or little dash--you choose!)

1. Put all ingredients in the blender and blend well.
2. Chill in fridge for at least 2 hours to let the flavors meld.

Pesto Tortillas

uncooked flour tortillas or make your own, or whole wheat tortillas

Add: Pesto sauce on bottom
Sprinkle with asagio and mozzarella cheese
Corn
Spinach
Tomatoes (or salsa)
Mushrooms

Fold in half and put in heated skillet. Cook one side them flip to warm other side.
Serve with Cilantro Ranch

Shrimp stir-fry

This one is too good not to put here.

Debole's has a jerusalem artichoke pasta that is so good, and you would never know you weren't eating white flour pasta. I used their noodles for this stir-fry, but over brown rice, spinach or quinoa it would be wonderful too.

Melt 4 Tbsp butter
Add: 4 cloves minced garlic
4 green onions chopped finely
1 cup diced fresh pinapple
1 Tbsp agave
1 bunch asparagus cut in 1 inch pieces
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/2 tsp onion powder
salt and pepper to taste
Saute 1-2 minutes until asparagus is tender crisp
Add: 1 lb shrimp (any size)
2-4 Tbsp cream
Cook until shrimp is warm
Serve over noodles, rice, spinach, or quinoa

*This would be really easy to make vegetarian, just add some mushrooms, or zucchini instead of the shrimp.

Mock Apple Pie

This is great for breakfast or dessert!

Filling:
3 apples
1 banana
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Can also add 1 drop of cinnamon essential oil- great if there is any virus going around)
Pulse in blender of chop finely with pampered chef chopper. Don't make too mushy, you still want texture to it

Place in bottom of a dish
On top of that put nuts (below)

Nuts
Chop 1-1 1/2 cup nuts (walnuts, almonds, pecans work best) You can do just one nut or blend them
add 1/4 tsp salt and
Pinch of nutmeg