Smoothies

We are trying to be healthier so for treats we have been drinking a lot of smoothies. Besides the classic of throwing frozen fruit and milk into a blender we have been enjoying these. Super Yum!

Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie

1 frozen banana, sliced

¾ cups milk

2 TB peanut butter

1/3 cup crushed ice or 2 ice cubes

1/8 tsp vanilla

1.) place all ingredients in blender

2.) Cover and blend until smooth.

3.) serve immediately.

Yields: Four ½ cup servings, 96 calories per serving

Orange- Banana Milk

1 2/3 cups milk

1/3 forzen orange juice concentrate

½ medium banana

1 TB wheat germ (optional)

1.) place in blender.

2.) Cover and blend until foamy.

3.) Serve immediately.

Yields: Six ½ cup servings, 68 calories preserving

Fruity Juice

1 cup chilled pineapple juice

1 cup frozen frozen peaches

1.) place all ingredients in blender.

2.) Cover and blend until smooth.

Yields: Four ½ cup servings, 40 calories per serving

Halloween Monster Pancakes

On Halloween morning I thought I would start our day off with a spooky grouse monster breakfast. The kids thought it was great but that snot buttermilk syrup was bit too real in consistency for me to really enjoy it. It was thick and gooey and I really did have a hard time eating it. But he kids thought it was great fun!

"Monster Snot"
Green Buttermilk Syrup

"Monster Head"
Our died Orange German Pancake

The monster combo! Yum!

Bread Pudding!

I found this on AllRecipes.com the commenters gave a lot of good suggests: use half white chips, use half and half instead of milk, use less sugar, add raisins, use raisin bread and cinnamon chips, use really nice french bread,...all sorts of things. So follow your heart if you don't like butterscotch then use something else. I used this recipes because I had a bunch of old bread to use up and Stew told me he did not like bread pudding. I thought this one could win him over. I am not sure if it did. Next time I think I will use thicker bread, add a few dashes of cinnamon, and let it sit for an hour before serving. I melted the leftover butterscotch chips and drizzled it on top. I think it could be a good breakfast for Christmas morning or something.

*I love the thigh comment. I think after making this one a few times we'll know exactly what she means by a "well endowed thigh".

Ingredients:

1 (10.75 ounce) loaf day-old bread, torn into

small pieces

4 cups milk

2 cups brown sugar

1/2 cup butter, melted

3 eggs, beaten

2 tsp. Vanilla extract

1 cup butterscotch chips

Directions:

1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9x13 inch baking dish.

2.) In a large bowl, combine bread, milk, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and butterscotch chips; mixture should be the consistency of oatmeal. pour into prepared pan.

3.)Bake in preheated oven 1 hour, until nearly set. (It should have a "thigh wiggle" or wiggle as much as a well endowed thigh.) Serve warm or cold.

Fruit Pizza

I made this one up the other day and we really liked it. Ever other time I have made this I have used cookie dough to make the crust but as we are trying to be healthy and I wanted this it be our dinner I did this instead.

*PS the pic is not mine I stole it of some other gals blog. :)

2 cups reduced fat Bisquick
1/3 cup Splenda
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 small carton of raspberry or strawberry cream cheese spread
1 tub low fat whipped cream
your favorite fruits( we used blueberries, strawberries, black berries, and banana)

Mix Bisquick, Splenda, vanilla together will enough water to make the consistency of a thick pancake batter. Pour and spread on a prepared cookies sheet and bake at 350 degrees until cooked through. About 10 minutes

When the pancake like "pizza crust" is done let cool on the counter. In a medium bowl whip together half the whipped cream and the cream cheese until well incorporated and set in fridge until the "crust" is completely cooled.

In the mean time chop up your desired fruit.

When the "crust" in cooled spread the cream cheese mixture evenly on top of the "crust" then place the fruit on it in a repeating pattern across the top.

You can serve with remaining whipped cream. My kids loved helping me make this and each had like three servings. Super yummy fun spring time dinner, treat, or breakfast!

Do Ahead Strawberry Danish Bake

Okay so this was supposed to be an easy meal and it once was but I ended up creating my own thing and totally changing the recipe I started out with it. It was originally called "Blueberry Breakfast Bake". So bear with me I seem to complicate recipes as I make them my own. But honestly so dang good!!! An instant family favorite.

Casserole

8 slices white bread, cut into 1-inch pieces (I think I used 10 slices)
1 package cream cheese, chilled and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
1 1/2 cups diced fresh strawberries
1/4 cup sugar
8 eggs
1/2 cup water
1 small container of vanilla yogurt (6 oz.)

1.) Dice strawberries and put in a bowl and add the sugar and stir to coat. Set aside. Grease a 9 x 13 pan. Spread half of the bread pieces evenly in baking dish. Top with cream cheese and then sprinkle with strawberries. Top with the remaining bread. Beat eggs, water, and yogurt together. Pour over bread.

2.) Covered with aluminum foil and refrigerate at least 8 hours but no longer then 24 hours.

3.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake in covered pan for 30 minutes. Then uncover it and bake for another 30 minutes. Serves slices drizzled with the special syrup.

Syrup

1 cube butter
1/2 buttermilk (if you don't have any on hand use milk with a few drops of vinegar instead)
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla

Melt butter add sugar, baking soda, buttermilk and heat to a boil stirring regularly. It becomes pretty foamy. Let it boil for one minute. Then remove from heat and add vanilla.