It's been kind of hot this week, and that makes me want to eat salad. Leave out any of the ingredients that you don't like.
Ingredients:
Romaine lettuce or baby spinach
Crumbled blue cheese
Red grapes, cut in half
A couple of pears, cut into chunks about the same size as the grape halves
Chopped walnuts
Raspberry or balsamic vinaigrette (read the ingredients to make sure, but most are gluten-free)
Mix everything together and enjoy not turning your oven on! You can add pieces of chicken or tofu if you want to make this a bit more substantial.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Chocolate Chickpea Cake
It's Wednesday, kids. Let's make some cake. This is a recipe my mom found somewhere and I've modified it a bit.
Ingredients
1/2 cups of chocolate (I use dark chocolate, but it's okay to use milk chocolate if you don't like dark chocolate. Obviously, it will not be dairy-free if you use milk chocolate.)
1 19oz can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
4 eggs
3/4 cup brown sugar (you can use white sugar, but brown sugar tastes so much better)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Melt the chocolate over low heat in a saucepan (you can also use a microwave, if you have one. I don't.). Find some way to liquefy the chickpeas and eggs. You can use a food processor if you have one, but I do not, so I just put a little bit at a time in my magic bullet and blend it. Mix in the chocolate and other ingredients. Pour into a greased 9 inch cake pan and bake for 40 minutes, until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Let it rest in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring it to a plate. You can also make this recipe into cupcakes, just decrease the cooking time a bit (more like 20-30 minutes).
Ingredients
1/2 cups of chocolate (I use dark chocolate, but it's okay to use milk chocolate if you don't like dark chocolate. Obviously, it will not be dairy-free if you use milk chocolate.)
1 19oz can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
4 eggs
3/4 cup brown sugar (you can use white sugar, but brown sugar tastes so much better)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Melt the chocolate over low heat in a saucepan (you can also use a microwave, if you have one. I don't.). Find some way to liquefy the chickpeas and eggs. You can use a food processor if you have one, but I do not, so I just put a little bit at a time in my magic bullet and blend it. Mix in the chocolate and other ingredients. Pour into a greased 9 inch cake pan and bake for 40 minutes, until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Let it rest in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring it to a plate. You can also make this recipe into cupcakes, just decrease the cooking time a bit (more like 20-30 minutes).
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Banana Raspberry Pudding
Just a little thing I invented with some fruit that needed to be eaten.
2 bananas
1 cup raspberries
3-4 egg whites
Mix everything in a mixer until it is fluffy and pink (takes about 10 minutes, maybe a bit less). Pour into 4-6 individual ramekins (don't fill them up too much or they will explode). Set the ramekins on a cookie sheet or a cake pan. Bake at 325F for about 10 minutes, until they puff up a bit and the edges turn slightly golden.
2 bananas
1 cup raspberries
3-4 egg whites
Mix everything in a mixer until it is fluffy and pink (takes about 10 minutes, maybe a bit less). Pour into 4-6 individual ramekins (don't fill them up too much or they will explode). Set the ramekins on a cookie sheet or a cake pan. Bake at 325F for about 10 minutes, until they puff up a bit and the edges turn slightly golden.
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