Raw Strawberry Cheesecake

Here is another thing we made with our friends while up north. This was so yummy, everyone was raving about it!

Raw Strawberry Cheesecake

1 1/2c. cashews

2T. honey

2T coconut oil

1/2c. walnuts

2T. dried cranberries or raisins

1/2 c. raw macadamia nuts

1/4c. lemon juice

1/2t. vanilla

1/4t. salt

Cover the cashew in water and soak for 3 hours or over night.

Grease the bottom and sides of an 8in. pan with coconut oil. Process walnuts, cranberries, and 1/2c. of cashews in a blender, until mixture begins to stick together. Press into the greased pan. Chill 30min. or over night. Puree the drained remaining cashews, macadamia nuts, lemon juice, 2T. coconut oil, 2T. honey, vanilla and salt, and 1 1/2T. water. Process for 5min. or till smooth and creamy. Spoon cashew mixture over crust, spread evenly. Freeze 1 hour before serving. Thaw 5min. before topping with fresh slices strawberries. Cut and serve!

Yields: 8 bars.

Spelt Blueberry Muffins

Blueberry Muffins

1 1/2 c. milk

1/2 c. butter, melted

1/2 c. applesauce

2/3c. honey

2 eggs

4 lemons peel grated

2t. vanilla

4c. spelt or whole wheat flour

2T. baking powder

2t. salt

1 1/2 c. fresh or frozen blueberries

Mix the wet ingredients in a large bowl. Add the dry ingredients, then fold in blueberries, reserve 1/2 cup for top. Put into greased muffin tins, sprinkle with remaining blueberries and bake at 375 for 17min.

Yield: 2 dozen muffins

Oatmeal Pudding Bake

Ah, we are back in thte warmer state! We miss our dear friends that we stayed half our time with ( Kathryn and Tara in the picture below the oatmeal) We have tons of fun eating, talking, eating, playing music together, eating, taking picture, eating, taking pictures..........well I guess you figured out that we did lots of eating and taking pictures while we were up there!

Here is the list of new foods we tried while we were up there

Since our friends are Chinese and Dutch, they had a cultural foods for us to try, we throughly enjoyed each one!

The Asian Foods we tried!

Mooshu ( Chinese beef and cabbage you put in a tortilla like wrapper served with plum sauce)
Crispy Duck
Beef Ho Fun (the wide noodles w/ beef)
Chicken w/ black bean sauce
Hot & Sour soup
Egg drop soup
Seafood soup

We also had never tried;

Beets

Jicama

Thieves oil :-)

The Dutch foods we tried

Droppjes (pronounced Dropees – the cat licorice)

Speculaas (spay-cu-lahs - spice cookies)
Hagelslag (ha-hal-slach – throat clearing sound at the end – chocolate sprinkles :-)

Here we are outside in the freezing cold! Smile every one!

Oatmeal Pudding Bake

2 cups rolled oats
2 cups cottage cheese
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon of cinnamon and nutmeg

Mix together all the ingredients, pour into a greased 9x9in. pan. Bake at 350 for 40min.

Its in!

Yes, the cook book is in! We have a few pics to re -take this week, then a bulk order, and then we'll be ready to ship them out to our customers!

Great job Es!

Ah! Today was Esther's violin recital with her teacher Matthew Zerweck. All went well, and we all are very proud of her! She performed a Tango by Kreisler.


Love ya sis!
Hannah

Blueberry Oat Pancakes

3 1/2 c. milk

1/4c. melted butter

2 eggs

1/4c. applesauce

2 T. honey

2c. wheat flour

2c. rolled oats

1T. baking powder

1t. baking soda

1t. salt

3 lemons zested

1c. blueberries

Mix together all the ingredients except the blueberries.

Pour batter by 1/4c. onto a hot griddle. Sprinkle with about 5 blueberries. Cook the first side for about 2 min. then flip and give the other side about 2 min. as well.

Serve warm with butter and maple syrup!

Makes 1 1/2-2 dozen pancakes

No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars

Well, our oven still is not working! Today I made some sourdough in the roaster oven and it turned out fantastic, this time it's really sour! YUM!!! Okay, well I'm supposed to be talking about these cookie bars......Phil my little brother said he wanted to make some cookies( we have already made no bakes twice:) So I went online to see if I could come up with something else and I found this recipe off someone else's cooking website and thought I'd give them a try. By the time I started making them Phil was now watching a movie and no longer wanted to help......so I just made them by my lone some self, just kidding I do like to bake by myself sometimes:) Wait I guess you wouldn't call it baking....putting together?!?! Now that kind of sounds funny:)

Esther

No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups quick cooking oats( I used rolled Oats)
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup peanut butter (smooth or chunky)

1. Melt butter in a large sauce pan over low heat. Stir in brown sugar, vanilla, and oats. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Press half of mixture in to the bottom of a buttered 8 x 8 dish.

2. In a microwave safe bowl, microwave the chocolate and peanut butter, stirring every 30 seconds until melted and blended. Pour the chocolate peanut butter mixture over the crust, reserving a couple of spoonfuls to drizzle over the top.

3. Sprinkle the remaining oat mixture over the chocolate and peanut butter, pressing gently to form a crust. Drizzle the remaining chocolate and peanut butter over the top of the bars.

4. Refrigerate for 3 hours before cutting and serving.