Strawberry Basil Fruit Leather. You can find numerous recipes for fruit leather on the internet.
It’s been around forever. The best thing about this simple treat is that if you make it at home you don’t need chemical preservatives, you can control the amount of sugar, and best of all you can be as creative as you want to be. I have yet to see strawberry basil fruit leather and after tasting it we are all missing out! The sweetness of the strawberries and the fresh almost licorice taste of the basil makes a unique and amazingly flavorful treat for everyone! I’ve got many different flavor combos to share with you in the near future. Strawberry Basil Fruit Leather 1 1/2 pound strawberries1 cup fresh basil (about 40 leaves)1/2 cup sugar1 Tbs lemon juice Combine all ingredients in a food processor and puree for 1 minute until smooth.
Pour the puree into a pot or saucepan and bring to a boil. Line a 17″x 11″ baking sheet with parchment paper and pour the puree onto it. Once cool, remove from the pan with the paper intact. NO TITLE. Photo: William Dickey; Styling: Margaret Dickey Ingredients 1 cup sliced ripe banana 1 cup 1% chocolate low-fat milk 1/2 cup vanilla low-fat frozen yogurt 2 tablespoons natural-style peanut butter 1 (8-ounce) carton vanilla low-fat yogurt Preparation Place banana in freezer; freeze until firm (about an hour).
Remove from freezer; let stand 5 minutes. The perfect snack: Homemade kettle corn « Life has been changed forever.
Probably in a bad way, since my days will now be consumed by popcorn eating. I’ve always loved popcorn. Just ask the good folks at the Mayfair who always bare witness to an ecstatic Hilary running towards them as they give away gigantic bags of end-of-the-night popcorn. Ask anyone who goes to the fair with me. Ask Ariel who was nearly trampled to death at Bluesfest this year when I ran through the crowd in search of a popcorn seller. Copycat Starbuck’s Low Fat Blueberry Muffins : The Restaurant Recipe Blog. We all know that Starbucks coffee and baked goods are amazing, but who can afford it in today’s economy?
Make these delicious muffins at home for a fraction of the price. 3 cups unbleached flour 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup skim milk 2 egg whites 2/3 cup applesauce 1 1/2 cup fresh blueberries non-stick cooking spray Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a bowl, blend together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, combine the milk, applesauce and egg whites; mix well. Homemade Fruit Leather. 2011 has been all about stepping outside the box. I’ve made risotto with fruit, homemade naan, bacon granola bars, chocolate chip cookie dough stuffed cinnamon rolls, plus a slew of other recipes I probably wouldn’t have attempted if it wasn’t for this site. I even roasted a chicken. And I definitely didn’t think I’d ever find myself making homemade fruit leather. The-Bananarama.jpg.
Sweet saturday: chocolate peanut butter banana pops « Desserts « back to her roots. On Monday, while we were in New York, we stopped into the NBC Experience store.
For those of you that have never been there, it is basically an awesome store where you can buy a ton of fun souvenirs related to your favorite NBC shows. There were quite a few fun shirts and knickknacks I wanted, but the shirt that I almost walked out of there with was this one: In Erika's Kitchen: The best blueberry muffin recipe in the world.
Every so often Clemence Gossett, a fabulous baking instructor and co-founder of The Gourmandise School of Sweets and Savories in Santa Monica, sends one of her recipes out to her email list.
Clemence's recipes are exactly my kinds of sweets: never fussy, always achievable and truly delicious. Last year Clemence sent a message titled "The Muffin Method" detailing her general muffin philosophies and proportions. Fruity Cones. Here's the perfect hold-on-to-summer-as-long-as-possible treat for you!
I diced up some strawberries, apricots, and peaches then combined that with some frozen blueberries in ice cream cones and voila! Adorable deliciousness. My kids were ecstatic. (And very messy by the time we were finished eating them--18 months is a wee bit on the too young side in my experience. Of course if she had been sitting in her high chair rather than walking around the yard dropping things out left and right, picking them up, plopping them in her mouth and then wiping her hands on her shirt, it might be a different story). Strawberry Oat-Almond Bars. You know what is cool?
Besides being beautiful and delicious, these babies have no sugar. Zero. Well, of course unless you want to get all technical--they have no refined sugars, only the sugars found naturally in the ingredients. As nature intended sugar to be eaten I say. Also, they are raw.