Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts

Monday, December 27, 2010

Iced Oatmeal Cookies

Iced Oatmeal Cookies
If I could "can" these to have on hand it would be awesome......

Adapted from Good to the Grain


Yield: 13 4-inch cookies (with a 2 tablespoon or #40 scoop)
Butter for baking sheets or parchment
2 1/2 cups old fashioned oats (or Oat Flour if you already have it made)
1/2 cup white flour
1 cup rice flour
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoons salt
1 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar  ( I used Splenda)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
2 large eggs
Icing:
2 1/4  cups powdered sugar  ( made my own again by putting 2 1/4 Cups of Splenda in the Blender to make powdered suger)
5 to 6 tablespoons whole milk ( I used Vanilla Soy)
3/4 tablespoon cinnamon
Pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 350°.
In a food processor, mix all dry ingrediants including sugars and baking powder, etc. and mix well.

Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl, pouring back any bits of grains or other ingredients that remain in the sifter. In a small bowl or mixer, blend butter and eggs until combined. Using a spatula, fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. (Or add them slowly to the wet in the mixer bowl.)

Scoop balls of dough about 2 to 3 tablespoons in size (I used a #40 cookie scoop, which scooped 2 tablespoon-sized balls) onto cookie sheets about 3 inches apart. Bake for 16 to 20 minutes.  When tops are evenly brown, take them out and transfer them to a cooling rack. Repeat with remaining cookie dough. Let cookies cool completely before icing.
In a bowl, whisk icing ingredients together until smooth. It should have a honey-like consistency. Drizzle the frosting over the cookies. Let the frosting set for 30 minutes (or more; it took longer at my place but by the next day, was fully firmed up) before eating. The cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to a week.
Very healthy and yummy, great for breakfast on the go and almost sugar free!

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Spicy Manhattan Style Clam Chowder

This will not be your Grandma's Clam Chowder.  It's got a kick to it that balances out the potatoes and blandness of the clams.

I canned the vegetables separately to avoid using the space in my quart jars for the clams.  Will store cans of clams as I see them on sale and then add them to the soup when I do use the base.  I had enough in this recipe for 6 Quarts and some left over for dinner.  I would serve this with crackers or hot bread and adjust the vegetable amounts to your own tastes.  Leave the spicy stuff out even and it's still good, just not as kickin!

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