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Tasty Treat: The Honey Sweetened Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe

May 24, 2012 By 9 Comments

By Summer:

I always make chocolate chip cookies, so I wanted to try something a little different when my 5YO requested cookies as dessert one evening. These are not particularly sweet, but we really enjoyed them.

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Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

2 eggs
¾ cup honey
¼ cup butter
½ cup apple sauce
2 Tablespoons ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups oat flour
¼ cup ground flaxseed
1 cup quick oats
2 cups Sun-Maid raisins

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350oF. Lightly butter a cookie sheet.

* I made my own oat flour in my Vita-mix dry container. I used steal cut oats and ground them on speed 7 until the grains where powder.

2. In a stand mixer combine ingredients in order of appearance.

3. Spoon mixture onto cookie sheet and cook for 10 minutes. Remove from the cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool at least 3 minutes before serving.

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About Summer:

Summer is very active in our Local MOMS Club chapter, she is the mother of two adorable active boys, and is always thinking of ways to help others. She is a friend, a wife, and always busy as all mommies are. She is very active on Facebook, addicted to Geocaching and very interested in organic and green living while cooking up a storm.

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Lawry’s Dinnertisement: Santa Fe Chili Marinade Recipe #LawrysMoms

May 23, 2012 By 17 Comments

You may already know that Lawry’s makes marinades and spice mixes. I grew up with Lawry’s spaghetti spices, for a very long time it was the only seasoning packet my stepdad would use. So much so that when they moved from Texas to Florida and could no longer find Lawry’s he special ordered it on-line. When I started cooking for my own family I knew it was good so I would use it to marinade my meet.

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I took my kids to the grocery store to pick out some vegetables and while we were there the red cabbage (we call it purple in our house) caught my eye. I asked my daughter if she wanted me to buy it, so I did. We used it with our Santa Fe Chili Marinade Recipe. Letting your kids participate in the shopping experience makes it more likely that they will eat what you make. It also helps to let them help in the kitchen (not my best quality but we try to cook together).Lawry’s took the fun in the kitchen one step further. You can create a dinnertisement video. Now, What is a dinnertisement you might ask? I had to ask myself the same question. Dinnertising is all about making meals interactive and fun for kids. You pick a recipe, add your name and Lawry’s creates a fun video for you to share with your family and friends. You could be features on Rachel Ray. IMG_2184

Our actual dinner was created with pork chops. I cut them into cubes marinated it for 30 minutes and then cooked it on the stove top.

Pork Santa Fe Chili Marinade On Bed of Cabbage Recipe:

Ingredients:

Two large Pork Chops
half a bottle of Lawry’s Santa Fe Chili Marinade
Sliced Cabbage
Ponzu sauce

Directions:

Cut up the pork
Marinate for at least 30 minutes no longer than 24 hours
Cook until pork is done
Serve over a bed of cabbage

If desired use Ponzu sauce to enhance flavor (not that it’s needed) or as a dressing for the cabbage. Now if you go and make your own video like we did

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Hats Roses & A Honey-Roasted Ham Biscuits Recipe #HormelFamily

May 22, 2012 By 11 Comments

Looks like the Kentucky Derby was May 5th but that’s no reason not to continue with the southern goodness of baking and eating Kentucky Derby themed food, but before we get to the great recipe today I thought I would share with you a few hats found on pinterest perfect for the Kentucky Derby.

 

Source: rufflemint.com via Jenny on Pinterest

 

 

· The Derby is frequently referred to as "The Run for the Roses" because a garland of red roses is awarded to the Kentucky Derby winner each year. The horse’s garland is made up of 554 roses, but you’ll only need a few to set the pace. Show off a dozen long-stemmed beauties in a treasured vase, or cut your roses short, in the French style, to keep a low profile among your food presentation. Carry out the theme with red napkins, candles, or paper party ware.

Hats with roses

 

Source: blog.zap2it.com via Lena on Pinterest

Source: flickr.com via Dana on Pinterest


 

Honey Roasted HamHoney-Roasted Ham Biscuits

Ingredients:

  1. 1 (10-ounce) can refrigerated buttermilk biscuit dough
  2. 2 cups Hormel® Cure 81® diced ham
  3. 1/2 cup honey mustard
  4. 1/4 cup finely chopped honey-roasted peanuts, divided

Directions:

  1. Heat oven to 400°F.
  2. Separate biscuits. Place in muffin pans, pressing gently into bottom and up sides of pan.
  3. In bowl, combine ham, mustard and 2 tablespoons peanuts; mix well. Spoon ham mixture evenly into biscuit cups. Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons peanuts.
  4. Bake biscuits 15 to 17 minutes or until golden brown

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Fun Hormel Ham Southern Kentucky Derby Ham Cups Recipe #HormelFamily

May 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

We’re still sharing recipes from Hormel this week with the Kentucky Derby theme and as I said I’m not Kentucky Derby expert. My knowledge extends to knowing that horses are involved and I think it’s a race. Am I right? Well Hormel has more to say about the Kentucky Derby and it starts with fun……

Kentucky Derby Cups

The Derby isn’t just about horse racing and southern comfort food. It’s also about sporting classy, fashionable styles in headwear. Encourage your guests, young and old, male and female, to don hats, just like the spectators live at Louisville’s Churchill Downs racetrack. Fancy or homemade, the bigger and funnier the better!

Then it gest better with this recipe:

Hormel Ham Southern Kentucky Derby Ham Cups Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 8 slices dark rye bread, crusts removed
  • 2 cups Hormel® Cure 81® Sliced Ham, cut into cubes
  • 8 large eggs, beaten
  • 2 cups CHI-CHI’S® Thick & Chunky Salsa Mild

Directions

1 Heat oven to 400ºF. Coat 8 muffin cups with cooking spray.

2 Line each muffin cup with 1 slice bread.

3 In bowl, stir together ham and eggs. Pour 1/4 cup ham mixture into each bread cup. Loosely tent muffin cups with aluminum foil.

4 Bake ham cups 20 minutes or until eggs are set. Top each with heaping spoonful salsa.

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Cherry Almond Hormel Ham Bundles Recipe #HormelFamily

May 20, 2012 By 15 Comments

Well it’s Sunday and I needed another recipe to share with you guys. I’m trying to do one photo a day and one recipe a day and it’s a lot to keep up with so I’ve recruited the help of another company that I work with regularly to help me out this week. As you may know, I’m a Hormel Family Ambassador and they send me monthly information to share with you guys. This month everything revolves around the Kentucky Derby which is something I really don’t know anything about. But I do understand good recipes.

Cherry Almond Ham Bundles

Hormel® Cure 81® hams the perfect southern centerpiece for your Derby get-together. Varieties like the flavored ham steaks, and cubed/diced packages make for fast and easy delicious dishes like this one here. 

 Cherry Almond Ham Bundles Recipe

Main Ingredients:

  • 1/3 cup slivered almonds
  • 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
  • 1 1/2 cups finely chopped pitted fresh dark sweet cherries
  • 1/4 cup amaretto
  • 2 tablespoons dried cherries or cranberries, finely chopped
  • 2 tablespoons sour cream
  • 1 Hormel® Cure 81® Sliced Ham
  • 1 (17.25-ounce) package frozen puff pastry sheets, thawed
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tablespoon milk

Directions

  1. 1 Heat oven to 375°F.

  2. 2 In small skillet, sauté almonds in butter until toasted; remove almonds with slotted spoon. Add fresh cherries, amaretto and dried cherries; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer until liquid is evaporated. Remove from heat; cool.

  3. 3 Stir almonds and sour cream into cooled cherry mixture.

  4. 4 Slice ham into 8 (1/4-inch-thick) slices. Cut each slice in half again. Divide cherry mixture evenly among slices ham. Top with remaining 8 slices ham.

  5. 5 On lightly floured surface, unfold pastry sheet. Roll into 14×14-inch square. Cut into 4 (7-inch) squares; repeat with remaining pastry sheet.

  6. 6 Place 1 ham stack on 1 pastry square. Bring all 4 corners of pastry together; twist to form bag. Seal edges. Repeat with remaining ham and pastry.

  7. 7 In bowl, beat together egg and milk; brush over pastry. Place filled pastries on baking sheet. Bake 55 minutes. (If pastry begins to brown too quickly, cover loosely with aluminum foil.) Cool 10 minutes before serving.

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Pepperoni Macaroni & Cheese Recipe #HormelFamily

May 19, 2012 By 7 Comments

How do you spice up something you eat regularly? Just add Hormel’s pepperoni to any normal dish. I’ve used it in salad, tomato soup, and recently we used it in macaroni & cheese.

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chop up the pepperoni into little pieces and add it to your favorite version of macaroni & cheese.

 

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Pepperoni Macaroni & Cheese Recipe

Ingredients

 

  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 8 ounces macaroni
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 cups cheddar cheese
  • 10 pieces of Hormel’s Pepperoni

Directions

 

  1. Boil the Macaroni 8 minutes set aside and drain
  2. Melt the butter in a sauce pan and add the flour and salt
  3. Cook on medium heat for 2 minutes stirring constantly
  4. Add the milk and stir. Cook until thickens stirring constantly over medium heat
  5. Once thick add the cheese and take off the heat.
  6. Return the pasta to the cheese mixture and then add the beef mixture and serve.
  7. Stir in the chopped up pepperoni

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Crab & Veggie Omelet Recipe

May 18, 2012 By 22 Comments

And the final recipe brought to you by Teflon are these wonderful Omelets. Omelets, such as this one, offer the opportunity for a complete meal in an egg pocket. Serve with English muffins or toast.

Crab & Veggie Omelet Recipe

imageIngredients
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 green onions chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium tomato, cut into a small dice
8 ounces (2 cups) cleaned and torn
spinach leaves
1 red bell pepper, chopped
Salt and pepper
8 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 cup grated Monterey Jack cheese
1/2 pound fresh backfin crabmeat
4 tablespoons butter, divided

Directions
In a medium skillet coated with DuPont™ Teflon® nonstick coating, heat the olive oil over medium heat.
Cook the onions and garlic until tender, about 5 minutes.

Stir in the tomatoes and cook another 2 minutes. Add the spinach and red bell pepper; stir and cook another 2 minutes.

Season with salt and pepper. Then add the crabmeat and cook another minute. Transfer the mixture to a plate.

Crack the eggs into a large mixing bowl and pour in the milk. Beat the eggs with an electric mixer on
medium to light and fluffy, a few minutes.

Heat a tablespoon of butter in a small skillet coated with DuPont™ Teflon® nonstick coating. When the pan is hot, pour in enough egg to cover the bottom.

Cook until the eggs set, 2 to 3 minutes. Don’t stir but let the bottom set. With a rubber spatula, gently push an edge of the egg into the center of the pan, tilting the pan to allow the egg to flow underneath the cooked
egg.

Repeat with the other edges until no liquid remains. Eggs should look like a flat pancake. Sprinkle in
1/4 cup of the cheese and add a fourth of the crabmeat filling.

Fold the egg over the mixture. Slide out of the pan with the help of the spatula and place on a warmed plate; keep warm and repeat the technique until all 4 omelets are cooked. Serve with desired toast.

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Almond Breeze Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake Recipe

May 17, 2012 By 22 Comments

I’m working with Almond Breeze and they asked me to come up with a recipe where I use Almond Breeze as one of the ingredients. I was going to make muffins but then I was inspired to make coffee cake with home made streusel. Almond Breeze can be used in any recipe in the place of milk and you can find it at your local grocery store in the refrigerated aisle and also in shelf stable varieties. It is all natural, free of lactose, soy, gluten and cholesterol,and is available in Original, Vanilla and Chocolate as well as in a variety of unsweetened flavors. Almond Breeze is an excellent source of calcium, vitamins D & E is vegan and does not contain any animal products, by-products or derivatives.

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Almond Breeze Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

2 ¼ cups flour
¾ cup quick cooking oats
¾ cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons butter
1 cup Almond Breeze
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup canola oil
1 egg
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 F. Coat 9/5/3 inch loaf pan with none stick cooking spray

Combine ¼ cup all-purpose flour, oats, brown sugar and butter in a small bowl. Mix with fork until crumbly; set aside.

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Combine remaining 1 cup all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, milk, granulated sugar, oil, egg, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl. Beat with mixer or whisk 1 to 2 minutes until well blended. Fold in chocolate chips

Spread batter in prepared pan. Sprinkle evenly with reserved oat mixture. Bake 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

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Tasty Treat: Snack Happy Bars Recipe A Salty Sweet Snack

May 17, 2012 By 28 Comments

By Summer:

Who doesn’t love a salty sweet snack? That’s where this creation came from! I thought about adding other ingredients, but this is all I did. I was thinking of peanuts, peanut butter, white chocolate chips, or coconut; all of which I think would be nice additions.IMG_2403

Snack Happy Bars Recipe

Ingredients:

6 cups chocolate cereal*
2 cups crushed pretzels
20 (5.5 ounces) caramel cubes, chopped (or if you can find the bite size nibs)
¼ cup butter + extra to grease dishes
40 ounces marshmallows

1. In an extremely-large buttered bowl, combine cereal, pretzels, and caramel and mix.

2. Over medium-low heat melt butter and marshmallows together. When melted together and gooey pour into dry mixture.

3. Stir until dry mix is coated in marshmallow cream. Dump into buttered glassware to set. Firmly press into glassware to cohesive bars form. Allow to cool 30-minutes and cut into bars. Allow to continue to cool and harden together. Serve when desired.

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* I used Three Sisters’ Cocoa-Snapz because I was shopping at Whole Foods and that’s what they had. Three Sisters does use corn syrup. Cocoa-Snapz is similar to Cocoa Pebbles, which to me looks like chocolate covered corn flakes.

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About Summer:

Summer is very active in our Local MOMS Club chapter, she is the mother of two adorable active boys, and is always thinking of ways to help others. She is a friend, a wife, and always busy as all mommies are. She is very active on Facebook, addicted to Geocaching and very interested in organic and green living while cooking up a storm.

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Mushroom and Basil Baked-Egg Frittata Recipe

May 16, 2012 By 17 Comments

If pressed for time, begin preparing this quiche-like egg dish the night before serving. Wrap the skillet with foil and store in the fridge. Next morning, set it out for 10 minutes to warm a bit before broiling it.

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Mushroom and Basil Baked-Egg Frittata Recipe

Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large leek, cut into thin rings (white part only)
1 green pepper, seeded and cut into a small dice
2 cups sliced baby portobello mushrooms
2 medium whole tomatoes, cored, seeded, and cut into a small dice
6 eggs
1/4 cup milk
3 tablespoons basil pesto Salt and pepper
1/2 cup shredded Gruyere cheese

Directions
In a medium skillet coated with DuPont™ Teflon® non-stick coating, heat the oil and sauté the leek rings until translucent, about 3 minutes.

Add the green pepper and sliced mushrooms and cook until the mushrooms are browned, stirring frequently. Stir in the tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat.

Preheat the broiler.

Beat the eggs lightly and stir in the milk, blending well.

Stir in the pesto.

Add a seasoning of salt and pepper.

Pour into the vegetable mixture and sprinkle the Gruyere cheese generously over the top. Add more if desired.

Place the pan on the second rack down from the broiler for about 8 minutes, then check to see if the middle is cooked.

Continue broiling as the edges brown and the center cooks.

Let sit on the counter for 5 minutes before slicing and serving.

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