Substitute Shortbread

I did it! Matt pushed me to be healthier, plus i don't want a tummy for the wedding (his sister's), so i made a substitution list. I 5hen got this aborable heart cookie cutter with a cut-out to put on a coffee cup. It came with a recipe for shortbread. I subbed ground oats for flour, honey for sugar and bannanas for butter.

2 cups mashed bananas
1 teaspoon rum extract
1/4 cup honey
4 cups oats

Warning: these cookies taste too healthy.  Matt and I will figure it outn but in the meantime I suggest 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas and 1/2 cup butter or slathing the cookie with jam. Perhaps both.

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Grind oats in food processor and mash bananas.
3. Mix all together and roll out to disired thickness.
4. Cut and bake 14 mins.

Try this at home

Salsa di vino bianco con arancio dolce

Mom gave me white wine and dad doesn't like fish.

1 cup heavy cream
1/2 fruity white wine
2 tablespoons sweet orange marmalade
1 teaspoon rosemary
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon marjoram
1/2 teaspoon salt

1. Boil ingredients in saucepan stirring constantly.
2. Simmer.

Super quadruple tropical

1/2 cup olive oil
1/8 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup fresh pinapple juice
1 tablespoon rosemary
1 tablespoon fresh ginger
3 large skinless boneless chicken breast halves
3 ounces plain, 0% yogurt
2 tablespoons guava paste
1 large mango, halved, pitted, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices

1. Whisk first 5 ingredients in large bowl. Add chicken breasts; turn to coat. Cover chicken breasts and chill 3 to 4 hours, turning occasionally.
2. Preheat oven to 350 F.
3. Blend yogurt and guava paste.
4. Bake chicken for an hour.
5. Meanwhile, melt butter in another heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add mango slices and sauté until brown, about 2 minutes per side.
6. Drizzle sauce over chicken and surround with mango.

 

Northern Dark and Stormy

We didn't have rum, only cheap whiskey

1 bottle Reed's Ginger Beer
1.5 ounces whiskey (exept bourbon)

Central Florida

1 bag key limes
1 can sweeted condensed milk
3 egg yolks
2 oz. Ginger preserves
1 prepared pie crust
2 oz. Guava paste

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Juice all limes and add to eggs and condensed milk. Whisk all together. Set aside.
3. Spread ginger preserves on pie crust and pour in filling.
4. Bake pie for 10 mins. Meanwhile,  heat paste in saucepan until it's a liquid. Swirl  in pie with knife tip.
5. Bake pie 5 more minutes then place in fridge 1/2 hour

Fig

I was searching on what to put on my chicken dinner and came across a fig sauce I knew my mom would adore.  But, I had just run out of fresh figs.

2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 1/2 tablespoons fig butter
1/2 cup coursely chopped dates
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup pomegranate balsalmic

1. Throw everything in a pot and simmer covered. 15 mins.

Healthy Pan- Asian Peanut

3 Chicken breasts

Kasha:
1 cup Kasha
2 cups miso broth
1 egg white

Sauce
2 tablespoons peanut butter
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 garlic glove
1 tablespoon honey
1/2 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
1 teaspoon Japanese sesame oil
2 teaspoons peanut oil

1 bunch broccoli

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare cookie sheet.
2. Place chicken on sheet and bake for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile:
3. Mix all sauce ingredients together.Set aside.
4. In separate bowl, coat kasha kernels with egg white.
5. In a medium saucepan, heat broth to boiling. Once boiling, stir in kasha and cook covered for 10 minutes.
6. Steam broccoli.
7. When chicken is done, get a large saucepan and mix all components together for a one bowl dish or just chicken and sauce accompanied by the sides.