Wow, I have actually done three whole weeks of this. Usually, I only focus on something for about a day and then forget about it, or tell myself I don't have time. Well, I have tho tell you that it feels good to concentrate on something. I am glad that I chose cooking to use as my focus because when I cook... I get to escape the world around me. Nobody else matters and my life outside the kitchen simply floats away. While my current life wails around me like a hurricane, threatening to drive me to insanity, I can just forget about it in the kitchen... My current crisis: best friend and moving to San Diego. Best friend: wants me to rot in h-e-double hockey stick. San Diego: my dad got a stable job offer at a company not filled with evil jerks.
Anyway, while we transfer our minds back to the kitchen, this week's recipes are based around breakfast/ brunch:
1) Cinnamon Pecan Twist-- or is it Braid... (from 'Taste of Home: Simple and Delicious Cookbook')
The Cinnamon Pecan Twist is for my Sunday School Brunch next Sunday. It is in honor of the last day of Sunday School until it resumes in the fall. They asked me to bring in something and I thought this would tie right into it.
Amelia Earhart Quotes
~"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
~"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done."
~"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."
~"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do."
~"Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization."
~"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price."
~"...decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying..."
Perfect Cauliflower
Even if you HATE cauliflower (like moi) you will love, love, love this! It is one of the only ways to get me to eat my vegetables (other than putting brown sugar on my carrots) and if that's not a miracle, I don't know what is.
"Even if you hate it; even if you detest it; even if you loathe and abhor cauliflower... You're going to love it after this...
You must, must, must try this recipe!
Ingredients:
One head cauliflower
Olive oil
Kosher salt
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2) Cut cauliflower in florets, then cut each floret in
half so each one has a flat side.
3) Rinse thoroughly.
4) Spread one layer deepon a lined baking sheet.
5) Drizzle with olive oil.
6) Sprinkle with kosher salt.
7) Roast for 20 min.
They will come out savory and browned and crunchy and amazing!" Quoted almost exactly from my mom's blog... so thanks mom!
Perfect Banana Bread
Notice the title of this is Perfect Banana Bread, not Almost Perfect Banana Bread. I got this recipe from Better Homes and Gardens, so thanks to them!!!
Materials:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 egg
1 cup mashed bananas (usually about three medium of them works)
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup cooking oil
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/8 teaspoon salt
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2) Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a medium size bowl, set aside.
3) In another bowl, combine the egg, bananas, sugar, cooking oil.
4) Add egg mixture to dry mixture all at once.
5) Stir till moistened.
6) Fold in nuts.
7) Taste test.
8) Get out a bread pan and spray with cooking spray.
9) Spoon in batter.
10) Bake for 50-55 minutes.
11) Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes before you enjoy!
Perfect Cookies
You have never tasked anything as good as this stuff! Thank you Better Homes and Gardens peeps.
Ingredients:
1 cup melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 12-ounce (2 cups) semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2) In a large mixing bowl: beat butter, sugar, brown sugar and baking soda.
3) Beat in eggs and vanilla.
4) Beat in flour.
5) Taste test.
6) Drop dough on a cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes.
7) Let cool before you enjoy or you will burn your mouth!
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