Miss Cala Nooyus
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Easy chocolate chip scones
This recipe is super easy, quick and uses one bowl. I've used chocolate chips in it here, but you can just as easily substitute other stuff like 1/2 cup dried cranberries and 1/2 cup white chocolate chips, or 1/2 cup (or more) raisins, etc.
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup white sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup margarine or butter
7/8 cups of milk
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Blend dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Cut in margarine with a pastry blender.
Dump milk all at once into bowl and combine with a fork to form a ball. Turn out on a floured board, need a couple of times. Flatten with a rolling pin to make a circle about one inch thick. Score round into 8 or 10 pieces. Place onto a greased pan or use parchment.
Bake at 400 for 12-15 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Johanna's scrumptious speedy simple summer salad
Barb won't like it the way I made it because it has the dreaded goat feta cheese in it. If you don't like goat feta use the cow feta. I actually thought I had bought the cow feta but didn't read the package too closely and only realized when I got home that it was the goat feta. (Sorry about all the feta talk)
I don't give quantities because I have no idea of the quantities. Look at the picture and figure it out. Don't put in too much feta because it will be overpowering. Think of the olives and feta almost as a garnish.
I also added a very tiny splash of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Maybe 1/4 or 1/2 of a teaspoon of each. Just to give it a bit of smoothness to the salad. Johanna doesn't add these two ingredients. (More feta talk)
Make it just before eating. I like the chopped tomatoes and cucumbers to be fairly small pieces, not crazy about big chunks.
- Halved grape tomatoes (or chopped tomatoes)
- English cucumber (diced small)
- Crumbled Feta
- Kalamata olives
- Olive oil
- Balsamic vinegar
Friday, June 26, 2020
Dad's kitchen sink cookies (my version of)
It sounded interesting so I decided to make them. Upon reading the ingredient list I thought good grief these are sweet. So I cut back on the sugar which called for 1 cup brown and 1 cup white sugar. I used 3/4 cup brown and 1/2 cup white. I also cut out the M&Ms as there was also a cup of chocolate chips in them. The fruits were apricots and cranberries, which are also laden with sugar. That is a lot of sugar. One of my bugaboos about sugar is that gobs of of sugar does not make something taste better. For instance, I find most commercial cereals way too sweet. Which is why I make my own granola. Homemade also tastes way better. (Will post recipe next time I make it.)
So these cookies as I made them, still have 1 1/4 cups of sugar plus a cup of chocolate chips, 1 cup of apricots and 1 cup of sweetened cranberries. That's enough sugar. They were good but not spectacular. Now I also substituted the butter with margarine, which I realize reduces the buttery taste which I love. Next time I'll try exchanging the 3/4 butter with peanut butter. Will report back later once I try that.
UPDATE: For some reason these cookies taste better than when I first made them. I orginally thought they were kind of boring. I froze them, and thawed out they are actually pretty darned good. Still too sweet, so I think the sugar could be dropped by another 1/4 cup maybe.
Ingredients I used:
1 cup
2 large eggs
2 tsp (10 mL) vanilla extract
2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
2 1/2 cups (225 g) old-fashioned oats, pulverized in a blender for 30 seconds until smooth
1 tsp (5 mL) baking soda
1 tsp (5 mL) baking powder
1 tsp (5 mL) kosher salt
1 cup (175 g) semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup (140 g) dried cranberries
1 cup (130 g) chopped dried apricots
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Step 2
In a large stand mixer (I used a hand mixer), cream together the butter and both sugars for 2 to 3 minutes, until fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula in between additions. Add the vanilla and mix to incorporate.
I baked for about 12 minutes until they started to brown.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Rhubarb strawberry crisp
3 cups strawberries, cut into small pieces
1 cup sugar
1 1⁄3 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup old fashioned oats
1⁄2 cup butter
In a large bowl combine rhubarb, strawberries, sugar, 1/3 cup flour and cinnamon. Put into a greased 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
In another bowl combine with brown sugar, oats. Cut butter into flour mixture. Sprinkle over rhubarb/strawberry mixture pat gently.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes in preheated oven.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Easy vegetarian chili
Combine
4 tsp chili powder
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Curried (pretend it's not) squash, lentil and coconut soup
Then I remembered my kids make squash soup. My kids like squash. They get those genes from Fred's family. Luckily my mother shielded me from squash growing up. Fred wasn't so lucky.
So I asked my girls for a recipe. Johanna sent me hers. She said it was great. I believed her. Except there was nothing in it to hide the squash taste. Except garlic. We don't eat garlic.
Then I thought. Curry. Coconut milk. Lentils. Okay maybe I can save this squash from an early death. I googled some recipes. Found a couple. Combined and modified the recipes. And voila. Curried lentil squash soup. The best part is. It's good. I am. Not. Kidding. I know you won't believe me. After all, it's still squash.
PS. I forgot to take a picture. Who posts a recipe on the Internet without a picture? Me apparently.
Curried squash, lentil and coconut soup
Olive oil
2 diced onions
1/2 tsp dried ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
1 acorn squash (halved and with seeds removed) roasted in oven with salt and pepper and olive oil, covered with aluminum foil for about 1 hour in 400 degree oven until soft.
2 cups can diced tomatoes with liquid
3 cups water
1 14-ounce can lite coconut milk
3/4 veggie large broth cube
Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add onion, garlic, ginger and curry powder, and garam masala; cook, stirring often, until the onion is starting to soften, 2 to 3 minutes. Let squash cool, then scoop out flesh and add to pot.
Add coconut milk and simmer until heated through, about 1 minute. Blend with hand blender.
Eat.