Ben's Beginners Contest

Ben's Beginners Contest



My daughter and I entered this contest, you may view the short 2 minute video and vote for us. Search under Fish we made Rice fish cakes w/ a mango salsa...delicious!

Easy Apple Cookies

I made these cookies tonight and they were a hit:
I used the basic recipe off the box of EnerG Rice Bran and added to it.

1 C Rice Bran
1 1/2 C white rice flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 C brown sugar
1/2 C margarine
3 tsp egg replacer plus 2 T water
1/2 C apple sauce
1 tsp cinnamon

Optional: 1/4 C Enjoy Life( allergy free) chocolate chips
1/4 C Perky's crunchy rice cereal

Combine margarine and brown sugar until smooth. Combine dry ingredients and add with egg replacer and apple sauce. Form into small balls and flatten on clay or well greased cookies sheet. Cook at 350 for 10-13 minutes.

Dinner 5 of the 5 Nights of Dinners

Tonight I am making a chicken dish. This is one of my favorites and it changes often depending what I have in my cabinet and refrigerator.

Moroccan Chicken in a dutch oven:

6 chicken thighs with the skin removed
3 T olive oil
1 onion
3 cloves of garlic
1 C of chicken or vegtable stock
1 15 oz can of crushed tomatoes
3 carrots peeled and chopped
3 parsnips peeled and chopped
2 turnips peeled and chopped
2 zucchini chopped
1 can of chick peas/optional
1 C of raisins

Spice mixture:
2 tsp currry powder
4 tsp cumin
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp tumeric
2 tsp cinnamon

Brown onions in olive oil. Combine spice mixture in a bowl and dredge each piece of chicken and then bown in the dutch oven with the onion. Add remaining ingredients except raisins and zucchini. Cook covered for 1 hour, 15 minutes before serving add zucchini and raisins. Serve over rice.

I hope these dinners will help families out there looking for something new. Please share your recipes as well!

Dinner 4 of the 5 Nights of Cooking

Tonight is an easy kids night dinner....Tacos

1 lb. of hamburger, although you can do these without any meat as well.
Cook beef and sprinkle 1T chilli powder 1/2 C salsa

Other goodies we stuff in our tacos:

Black beans with 1T lime juice in cuisinart, add fresh cilantro
Lettuce
Tomatoes
1 Avocado mashed up, add 1 T yogurt, plain soy or coconut is fine
Any type of cheese. My daughter is allergic to peas, but I hear great things about Daiya which is a cheese substitute free of the top 8.