Black Bean Burgers and Potato Wedges

We tried the Black Bean Burger recipe from Safely Gathered In last night. I'll let you look up the recipe there, if you're so inclined. They were pretty yummy, although (surprise) tasted nothing like burgers. We tried them with a few different toppings and salsa was definitely the best.

We've also had these potato wedges a few times. They are way easy and really good: Wash and DRY 4 med potatoes, then cut into wedges. Coat in egg whites, place skin side down in a greased pan and sprinkle with coarse salt. Bake at 400 for 20-25 minutes.

Baked Oatmeal

Betsy and I discussed Baked Oatmeal this week and I tried it for breakfast this morning. Here is the recipe I used:

3 cups rolled oats
1 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cup raisins



DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large bowl, mix together oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. Beat in milk, eggs, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Stir in dried cranberries. Spread into a 9x13 inch baking dish.
Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes.

It was really good and super easy. Everyone liked it. I'm going to try to find another recipe that would be food storage suitable. When I do I"ll let you know.

My Minestrone

I tried Kris' minestrone soup recipe and it was delicious. Thought I'd show you a photo...

I was missing a spice or two and (gasp) was out of parmesan cheese, but it was still great. A good way too for Harrison to have carrots and celery since they're still a little too much for him to chew.

Peanut Butter Brownies

This recipe requires a couple bowls but is totally worth the clean up. It is best eaten cooled down, not right out of the oven. A brownie mix could be substituted for bowl 2 and 3 but I have never tried it that way.


mix until smooth in bowl 1:
6 oz cream cheese softened
3/4 c peanut butter
1/4 c sugar
1 egg
2 T milk

in bowl 2 mix:
1 c butter, melted
2 c sugar
2 t vanilla
3 egg

in bowl 3 combine:
3/4 c cocoa powder
1 1/4 c flour
1/2 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
1 c semi-sweet chocolate chips

add bowl 3 to bowl 2.

spread all but 1 c of chocolate mixture into 9x13 pan
spread peanut butter filling on top
drop remaining chocolate mixture over top
mix with knife for marbled or desired effect

bake at 350 for about 40 minutes.

Cabbage Rolls

This may be cheating, but we just tried a new recipe that I got from allrecipes.com for cabbage rolls. We've been trying some new meals and this one was pretty good. It was nice to put it in the crockpot and just have it ready at dinner time. We had it with a green salad. (I would double the sauce recipe)