Peanut butter chocolate chip granola

Yesterday I made granola for my sons 3rd birthday party. It was a hit so I thought I would pass on the recipe! I use organic ingredients but you can use regular.




Ingredients:

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup oil (sunflower or coconut oil is best, but you can use any) 

1/4 cup honey

4 cups old fashioned rolled oats

1 1/2 Tsp vanilla 

1/2 Tsp sea salt

1/2 cup organic raisins

1/2 cup organic dark chocolate chips

1/2 Tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup organic peanut butter

1/2 cup organic peanut butter chips

1 cup organic chocolate rice crispy cereal (I use koala crunch cereal from sprouts, they have chocolate or regular and its all natural ingredients) 

Directions:

Mix rice cereal, oats, raisins and salt in a large bowl, set to side.

In a saucepan add peanut butter, cinnamon, honey,brown sugar and oil and heat until melted and creamy, turn off heat, add vinilla extract and give it a good stir.

Now pour liquid mixture over oat mixture and stir with a spatula until mixed well and coats all the oats. Spread out on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for about 15mins, stirring occasionally. Take out of oven and let cool COMPLETELY.

Now (after its cooled) add the chocolate chips and peanut butter chips. You can also add almonds or any other kind of nut(I would add the nuts before you cook it). I've also added sunflower seeds to mine and it tasted great! 

Enjoy! 

Cinnamon Raisin Granola Cookies

Cinnamon Raisin Granola Cookies

2 sticks Butter (salted) Softened

1/2 cup Sugar

1-1/2 cup Brown Sugar

2 whole Eggs

1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract

1-1/2 cup All-purpose Flour

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

2 Tsp cinnamon 

1 teaspoons Sea Salt

1-1/2 cup rolled oats

1 cup organic California raisins 

1/2 cups  organic Chocolate Chips (I used mini organic semi-sweet)

2 cups organic Krispy rice cereal (or Rice Krispies)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream butter with sugars until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla and mix until blended.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and kosher salt. Add to mixing bowl and mix till combined. 

After that, add in remaining ingredients in whatever quantity you prefer. Add more chocolate chips and raisins if you want, or you can add nuts if you would like(mine are nut free)

last add Krispy rice cereal(rice Krispies) mixing until just combined.

scoop balls of dough onto a cookie sheet. Bake until golden brown, then allow to cool on a rack.

Enjoy!

Freezer tip!

After you make your dough, save some for the freezer! Line a baking sheet with wax paper, scoop balls out onto pan and place another sheet of wax paper over top. Put into freezer until frozen, then pop them out into ziplock bags and save for another day! When you are ready to bake them, just place the frozen cookie dough onto a baking sheet and bake at 375 until golden brown :) 

Homemade cinnamon swirl bread

We love to eat cinnamon toast for breakfast. I have tried a few recipes for cinnamon bread, but didnt care for them, then I came across this recipe. I have made it three times now and it is wonderful! My husband almost ate the whole loaf the first day I made it! If you can be patient and give it plenty of rising time, then it turns out fluffy and delicious! Just thought I would pass along the recipe :)

(I also made French toast with this bread and it was Amazing!)

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/08/homemade-cinnamon-bread/


I made a loaf for my freezer, I just let it cool and slice it, wrap it in Reynolds wrap, then place
It in a old bread bag I keep. Freeze it and when you are ready to eat it just take a couple slices
Out and pop them in the toaster!

Enjoy!

Italian herb and cheese biscuits

In my family we love bread! We love to eat bread with our soups, chicken and dumplings and pastas. A couple years ago I started making biscuits out of bisquick when I made chicken and dumplings, I basically just followed the biscuit recipe on the box and then topped them with 
cheese. We liked it and it paired well with the dumplings. 

Then one day I made pasta and didn't have garlic bread, so I made canned biscuits and added 
garlic salt and cheese to the top, they were also good. I eventually quit buying garlic bread and just doing this method.

 So over the course of two years I have evolved those two quick biscuit recipes and created my own Italian herb and cheese biscuits from scratch. They are amazing!! Everyone who eats them loves them and always asks me for the recipe. We eat them with chicken and dumplings, soup, pasta, spaghetti, they go good with a lot of meals!
 I also have a second version that I call cheddar biscuits and they are very similar but without the herbs and I put more cheese in those. They both taste different even though they have almost the same ingredients. Both are equally excellent! So I thought I would share my famous biscuit recipes with ya"ll(don't you feel special?).  I usually double the recipe because my family of five inhales these things fast! 


Italian herb and cheese biscuits:

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose WHITE flour(I use hodgson mills all natural)
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 Teaspoon sea salt
2 Tablespoon of sugar
1/4 cup butter (stick butter, salted)
1 Tablespoon of Extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup of 2% milk
1 Tablespoon of Italian seasoning blend
1/2 Teaspoon of garlic powder
1/2 cup of thick shredded cheddar cheese(I use mild cheddar)
Pinch of parsley (for top)

Directions:

Combine all dry ingredient and and cheese and blend well with whisk.

Cut butter into cubes and cut in butter until resembles coarse bread crumbs(leaving small chunks of butter in the dough, this is important)

Slowly stir in milk and oil until all of it comes together to form a dough ball.

Turn out dough ball onto a heavily floured surface.

 Let rest for a couple of minutes and then knead for about a minute 

re-flour surface and roll out to about 1/2″ thick.

 Cut biscuits with floured biscuit cutter (I use a drinking glass)and place onto a buttered baking pan.

Form remaining dough into ball and repeat until all dough is made into biscuits. 

 Bake on 375 degrees in the oven for 15 minutes or so, or until the top is golden brown.