Showing posts with label Snacks and Such. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snacks and Such. Show all posts

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Banana Bread Muffins


Ingredients:
6 Medium Bananas, very ripe
2 Tablespoons Vanilla Extract
2 Cups Brown Sugar, firmly packed
1 1/2 Cups Apple Sauce
1 Cup Sour Cream
4 Large Eggs
3 1/2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
2 Teaspoons Baking Soda
2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 Cups Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
1 Cup Pecans, finely chopped (optional)

Preheat oven to 350.  Put cupcake liners in muffin tins.

In a small bowl, mash bananas together with vanilla.

In the bowl of a mixer combine brown sugar, apple sauce, sour cream, and eggs.  Stir until combined.

In a medium bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.  Gradually add the flour to the sugar mixture, mixing just until combined.  Stir in bananas, chocolate morsels, and pecans (if using).

Pour into muffin tins.  Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.

Yield:  42 muffins

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Guacamole

Ingredients

2-3 Fresh Avocados - remove the seed and scoop out meat
2 Tomatoes- chopped
1-2 Jalapeños- chopped
1 Red Onion - chopped
1 Handful of Cilantro- chopped
1 Lime - juiced (or use the bottled stuff- it works too)
1 Teaspoon Cumin
Salt & Pepper to taste

In one bowl place the avocado meat and mash.  In another bowl add tomatoes, jalapeños, onion, and cilantro- toss together.  Add to the avocado.  Then season with lime juice, cumin, and salt & pepper.

Salsa

Ingredients

1-2 Jalapeños (depending on how much heat you like)
1 Onion (red is pretty, Vidalia is fabulous if they are in season, but any old onion will do)
Handful of Cilantro -  again just use according to taste
28 oz. can Whole Tomatoes, drained  (I use a quart of tomatoes I canned from our garden)
2 cans Rotel Tomatoes - drain one can, use the liquid from the other
1 pinch of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of cumin
1 teaspoon of pepper
Juice of 1 lime - I use a squirt of bottle key lime juice ALL the time

Add all ingredients to a food processor and process.

DONE!
 
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