cellophane_star's Journal

Weekend Eats
Nov 09 2009 08:01

Good morning! How was everyone's weekend? I took it easy. Did a bit of Christmas shopping. Saw Michael Jackson's "This Is It"... that was really good. The dancing was incredible! Ate some peanut M&Ms. I caved.

Anyway, on Friday, I did some baking. I finally broke out the new Eat Clean Diet Cookbook to make Mocha Protein Bars. I used two things for the first time: Coconut oil & Starbuck's VIA instant coffee. The bars were pretty good, though the serving size of 24 bars from a 9x12 pan was totally unrealistic. I halved the recipe, baked it in a loaf pan and cut 8 bars (squares, really). They were tasty though!

Before that, I made a root vegetable medley: purple potatoes, parsnips, yams & carrots. I cut them all up, tossed with olive oil & added fresh rosemary & parsley, garlic salt, pepper and baked them all. Very nice. First time using parsnip... will use again! It has a nice sweetness. 

Sunday morning: I know I've posted this one before but it's too good: This Zucchini Bread Oatmeal is such a good breakfast! Just try it.

Last night, I made the Spicy Turkey Meatloaf Muffins I posted. SO GOOD. Wow. Very easy, very tasty.

I started indexing all my Clean Eating magazine & cookbook recipes so prepare to see a few meals coming from there in the future! I have Wednesday off (Rememberance Day) so I'm already planning to make Kasha (Buckwheat) Breakfast Pudding from the cookbook. It uses Kefir... Oooo...

A few recipe I had bookmarked (mostly sweets!):

Saag Aloo (Potatoes with Spiced Spinach)

Chicken Tajine with Honey & Apricots

Various Cottage Cheese Recipes

Pumpkin Pie Bites (Fat Free Vegan blog)

Pumpkin Pie Granola Bars

Raisin & Almond Cookies

Vegan Gingerbread

Almond Lime Cake

Gingerbread Pancakes (woo hoo!)

How to Make Your Own Brown Sugar

I think that's all for today!