Moore to Less

I'm all about basic recipes that are able to be tweaked and altered to my heart's content. So tonight I found a basic recipe for muffins, and I'm giving it a try for snack for Mairi's preschool tomorrow. I probably won't eat one (being on JC and all) but I'll have Keith taste test it and report back as soon as they are out of the oven (5m or so) Basic Muffin Recipe 2 cups all-purpose flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup white sugar 1 egg 1 cup milk 1/4 cup vegetable oil Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Stir together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Make a well in the center. In a small bowl or 2 cup measuring cup, beat egg with a fork. Stir in milk and oil. Pour all at once into the well in the flour mixture. Mix quickly and lightly with a fork until moistened, but do not beat. The batter will be lumpy. Pour the batter into paper lined muffin pan cups. Bake for 25 minutes, or until golden. Here are my t...

2 Cup Oats 1 cup brown sugar 1 Cup whole wheat flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 Cup honey Any dried fruit, nuts, seeds, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, etc. Mix all ingredients and press into greased pan, 11 X 13. Dough will be very dry and crumbly, but press until dough forms with pan.. Bake at 325 for 20 minutes or until edges are browned. Take out and let cool entirely. Cut into strips and store in snack size bags.

This is incredible. Mairi scarfed it down, Keith's still eating it, and I'm thinking about more veggies. So good, SO SO easy, and very healthy! http://crepesofwrath.net/?p=1329

I've had this recipe hanging around since I was doing WW Core last year, and never got around to making it. Keith and Mairi both adore couscous, and we are trying to be more meatless, so tonight was the night. It was delish! I'm back on JC so I just had a couple try it bites, but for such a simple recipe, it blended together fabulously! It would taste good with some chicken in it too though :D CousCous Lasagna 1C couscous 1 1/2C boiling broth 1/2t salt 1T EVOO lg diced onion 3 garlic cloves minced 28oz can diced tomatoes, drained (reserve 1/3C of the juice) 1t dried basil 5C finely chopped spinach pepper 1C mozz. cheese Combine couscous and broth let stand 5 minutes preheat oven to 375 saute onion and garlic in EVOO add tomatoes, cook 10m stir mix into couscous add reserved juice, basil, pepper and spinach mix til combined spread half in a 9x13 pan sprinkle mozz top with more couscous cover and bake 30m

I made these a few days ago, and was pretty impressed. I like PB cookies but I don't like crunchy cookies, which seems to be par for the course when it comes to PB cookies. They aren't flat, crispy or dry, they are really good. I used crunchy PB. Honey Peanut Butter Cookies 1/2 cup shortening ( I used butter, see note below) 1 cup crunchy peanut butter (the original recipe called for creamy, but crunchy is SO much better) 1 cup honey 2 eggs 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt sugar for rolling (preferably raw sugar, but granulated works well too, it's what I used) 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt, and set aside. In a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or a mixing bowl and hand mixer), beat the shortening, peanut butter and honey together for 3-5 minutes. Add in the eggs one at a time and mix well. Next add the dr...

So I was playing around with my zucchini bread recipe, and here is what I did tonight. First of all, I used summer squash. Don't really know the difference, but it's yellow, so whatever, wasn't sure if that was ok, but, it was. In case you are a squash dummy like me. Next, I did 1/2C quinoa flour (on the halved recipe) to pack a nice protein punch in there. OMG Vegetable and protein, and it tastes good??? LOL Then, I wasn't sure about the quinoa flour, if it'd have a weird taste, and I had no more nuts. So I had a tiny bit of dark cocoa powder left, and I threw it in the batter (maybe ~1/4C?) and then I had a few dark chocolate chips left (like 20) and I put them in my magic bullet and ground them up kinda fine, to make them go farther. Threw them in. Um, OMG. It's like a chocolate cupcake but FREE b/c it has veggies and protein, hahaa! It wasn't dense at all (as quinoa flour is wont to do) and is amazingly delicious.

So last night we got a ton of free organic veggies off of Craigslist, what an awesome blessing!! There was a big old zucchini in there, and since no one in my family really likes to eat it straight up, into a baked good it went. I actually made zucchini muffins, b/c well, I'm a muffin kinda girl :) I halved the recipe, since I had a smaller zucchini and 24 servings is a LOT anyway, esp for muffins ;) It ended up making 16 muffins in my wilton silicone muffin cups filled 3/4 of the way, so there's that for whatever it's worth. This was a great recipe, sooo moist and yummy that I really can't believe there is yucky zucchini in it, LMAO. It's more that I think zucchini is bland, and has a weird texture (i feel that way about all squash in general :D) than it tasting bad. And I used almonds, b/c I had no walnuts, which actually tasted great! Zucchini Bread (24 servings) 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 3 teaspoons ...