Asian Fish Stir Fry

This has to be one of the best ways to eat fish! In a delicious stir fry!

Ingredients:

Coconut oil

Hoisin sauce

Sweet soy glaze (or soy sauce)

Dried or fresh diced onion

Rice vinegar

Pineapple slices

Fresh ginger

Brown sugar

Salmon

Sriracha

Green Beans

Brown rice

1. First cook 1 c. brown rice with 1 1/2 c. water.
2. Put sweet soy glaze in a pan with pineapple juice (from the canned sliced pineapple), and fresh grated ginger. Simmer on low.
3. After the juices have combined, add this pineapple juice mixture to brown rice as it cooks. I usually eyeball it, depending on close the rice is to done.
4. Add to the pan diced onion and minced garlic, with some coconut oil. Scrape up the drippings and add to your rice.
5. The pan will be perfect for searing your salmon, now. Add salmon to pan and some chopped green beans.
6. Sear the salmon on both sides, then leave on low to cook green beans for a little while. (You might want to cover the pan at this point).
7. Add pineapple chunks, and more grated ginger. Add other seasonings and toppings as desired (sriracha, hoisin sauce, cayenne pepper, brown sugar, etc). Stir it all together in the pan. .
8. Serve stir fry over rice. YUM!

Beck Family Pumpkin Bread

This is a family favorite. Stephen loves to make it with the kids every Fall.

Ingredients:

1 15. oz. can pumpkin (we use Libby's)

4 eggs

3/4 c. oil

3 c. flour

 1 1/2 c. sugar

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

3 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. nutmeg (opt.)

1 tsp. ground cloves

1 tsp. ginger (opt.)

1 c. chocolate chips

Mix dry

mix wet

add dry to wet

Fold in chocolate chips

bake 1 hr. on 350º

 or until toothpick inserted

comes out clean!

It will smell very good in your house all day when you make this!

Notes: adding a tiny touch more oil will make it more moist.

Extra chocolate chips also welcome. They make it yummy.

makes 2 loaves

For a healthier alteration, substitute 1/3 c. coconut oil and 2/3 c. applesauce for the oil.

Chocolate Coconut Crunch Cookies

Lower Sugar Chocolate Coconut Crunch Cookies... inspired by the Gaia cookies from Bread and Wine
1 stick butter
1/4 c. coconut oil, softened (maybe a touch more)
2 eggs
1 1/2 c. flour
1 c. rolled oats
a pinch of cinnamon
1/4 c. sugar
1/4 c. honey
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. chocolate chips
handful chopped walnuts

soften butter and coconut oil, combine with sugar and honey, then add eggs.
add all dry ingredients one at a time. Stir, adding chocolate chips and walnuts at the end.

preheat oven to 350 and refrigerate dough while it preheats.

Bake 14-16 min. or until browned around the edges.

Beef Bourgignon

photo credit*

I finally treated Beef Bourgignon the way I wanted to be treated-- the Golden Rule of cooking. And guess what? If you want a friend (in B.B), then be a friend (to B.B.).

ingreedientos: (Yes, there are a lot of ingredients!)

-bacon 3-4 sliced, chopped
-stew beef (I would cut the pieces even smaller than the way they come from the grocery store)
-mushrooms (optional, but very tasty--- didn't include this time)
-small onion- even half a small onion will do, minced well (minced celery would be a nice touch, but not necessary at all in this recipe)
-flour mixed with seasoning salt
-2-3 c. water
-3-4 beef bouillon cubes-
-1 small can of tomato paste
-carrots, chopped- 2 big carrots will do
-3 cloves crushed garlic
-pinch or two brown sugar
-any red wine
-salt and pepper


Start simmering the bacon on low. Meanwhile, coat the beef pieces in the flour mixture.  Put beef and chopped onion into the bacon grease and fry until browned on both sides. Add crushed garlic and saute another minute or so. Add water, bouillon cubes, dash of wine, carrots.... cook until carrots are tender. Add tomato paste, brown sugar, and a little more wine to taste. (I use red wine vinegar sometimes, too.) Simmer on low until beef is tender.

Serve over mashed potatoes (I make mine yummy with sour cream, pinch of salt, milk, half and half, and butter, of course), rice, or egg noodles.

I recommend mashed potatoes-- it is like the yummiest gravy you ever did taste!

ENJOY-- the yummiest.

**Inspired by this post.

Twice-baked Spaghetti Squash... how do I love thee.

What do you do with two adult palates in need of 

a little 

something more interesting?

Bake on 375 for about an hour--- these squash are big!

Use a fork to put into a baking dish like so....

Dot with butter. Bake again for about 30 minutes on 350 in a baking dish.

Just look at that squash glow.... :)

Mix this with a little sour cream...perfect topping for spaghetti squash.  You don't even need cheese (especially if you are serving it with Annie's Lasagna.... :)  YUM!

Ok.... I put some cinnamon-brown-sugar (OOPSIE) on one corner, for the kiddos.

Put back in the oven until hot... broil on hi for another minute or couple.

Pineapple/Raspberry Upside Down Cake

Ok... this is definitely one you want to try!

First, use whatever fruit you have- it will be yummo.

I had - get this- frozen fruit - strawberries, pineapple, mango... and yes, it was still getting rave compliments at the potluck I took it to.

Grease pan- I alllllways forget to do this.

Everything else you need to know is right...

HERE

I have also made it with raspberries- delish.

Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup!

We boiled a chicken and the steam loosened the chicken right up. Stephen helped pick the meat off the bone... it smelled tasty. We did one canned chicken noodle soup added carrots chopped, I LOVE sriracha so I added it to my bowl.... and voila! Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup... DELISH.