Blueberry Flax Hot Cereal with Quinoa

                Blueberry Flax Hot Cereal with Quinoa

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup water
• 3 tablespoons quinoa
• 2 tablespoons quick-cooking oatmeal
• 1 -2 tablespoon maple syrup or 1 -2 tablespoon honey or 1 -2 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons flax seeds ( ground or whole)
• 2 tablespoons blueberries, fresh or 2 tablespoons blueberries, frozen and thawed
• milk (optional) or half-and-half cream (optional) or vanilla yogurt (optional) or soymilk (optional) or almond milk (optional)

Directions

1. Rinse quinoa well with water to remove bitter coating; drain.
2. Place the water and quinoa in a small saucepan, bring to a boil, and cover. Reduce to a simmer and cook for ten minutes. Stir in the oats, cover and continue to cook for another five minutes, until the oats are tender. Remove from heat. Stir in the maple syrup and flax. Fold in the blueberries and top with milk, cream or yogurt, if using. Serve immedietely.

Recipe found at http://www.food.com/recipe/blueberry-flax-hot-cereal-with-quinoa-426336.

What Went Well?

The things that went well with this recipe was almost everything, almost. When were done before the bell! Hooray!! We made our hot breakfast and it was delicious. I was like a parfait but with oatmeal. I really enjoyed making and consuming this recipe.

What Didn’t Go Well?

.Things that did not go so well were when I went to take the lid of the pot, the steam rose to my face. It wasn’t the best feeling. Another thing was when I was washing the dishes I forgot to wear rubber gloves and my hand got really dry because of the bleach.

What Would You Do Differently?

I think I would do differently was maybe to make some more cause that was delicious. I’d probably add more yogurt and fruit. This is definitely a recipe I will make in the future.

What Did You Learn?

When making this recipe I learned what quinoa is, and how to cook it. I also learned that this recipe can also be made with honey or brown sugar and different fruits. I guess it all depends on what you like.

 

Jiffy Cinnamon Rolls

                             Jiffy Cinnamon Rolls

Ingredients
2 cups all purpose flour
2 tbsp granulated sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tspsalt
1/4 cup cold butter
1 cup milk

Cinnamon Filling
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon

222 cups all-purpose fl2 tbsp granulated sugar4 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1/4 cup cold butter 1 cup milk , (1/4 cup butter , softene1/2 cup packed brown sugar bsp cinnamoPreparation

In large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Using pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Pour in milk, stirring lightly with fork, and adding a little more milk if needed to make dough soft. Turn out onto lightly floured surface; knead gently 8 to 10 times. Roll into 12- x 8-inch (30 x 20 cm) rectangle.

Cinnamon Filling: Spread butter onto dough; cover with brown sugar; sprinkle on cinnamon. Roll up, jelly roll style, from short side. Cut into 12 equal slices. Place in greased muffin cups.

Bake in 400°F (200°C) oven until golden brown and cinnamon filling is bubbling, about 20 minutes. Turn out immediately onto a wire rack and serve warm.

Recipe adapted from Jean Pare's, Company Coming: Muffins and More

What Went Well?

Things that went well with these Jiffy Cinnamon Rolls are that we all took turn kneading the dough and washing the dishes. We all did out counter jobs and in the end our kitchen looked spotless.

What Didn’t Go Well?

Some things that didn’t go so well were when we were making our dough it came out really sticky and when we tried rolling it out it kept sticking to the rolling pin. This is because we didn’t add enough flower to the dough. We eventually added enough to the dough and it came out perfect.

What Would You Do Differently?

One thing I would have done differently would probably be to add more flower to the dough because that caused us to stay after the bell. That didn’t give us enough time to make glaze for our rolls.

 What Did You Learn?

From doing this recipe I learned that you don’t have to add that much flower to stick dough to make it not sticky. I also learned that if you eat cinnamon by its it could clogged your throat and kill you.

 

Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

2 tbsp butter or margarine

¾ cup sugar

¼ cup canola oil

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

¼ cup buttermilk

1 ¼ cups white flour or 1 cups whole wheat flour - sifted

¼ tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

¼ cup cocoa

½ tsp cinnamon

½ tsp ground cloves

½ tsp salt

1 cup zucchini – grated

½ cup chocolate chips

1)   Preheat oven to 325 F, set the oven racks to the center and line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.

2)   To a large bowl add the dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, cinnamon, cloves and salt.  Mix.

3)   To the bowl for the mixer add butter and sugar, cream until smooth.  Add oil, eggs, vanilla and buttermilk, mix until smooth.  Add dry ingredients; mix only until the flour is wet.

4)   Fold in zucchini and chocolate chips.

5)   Bake in for 30 minutes.

 

This recipe is taken from Mrs. Gelowitz's personal collection.

What Went Well?

Some things than did go well are that you all took turn getting the ingredients and adding and mixing them. We used great teamwork. I think our batter came out pretty good it smelled delightful. The muffins came out beautifully in the end and tasted delicious.

What Didn’t Go Well?

Things that didn’t go so well was that when we took the muffins out we didn’t let them sit. So some of us ended up burning ourselves in the process. Another thing was that when we took a bit long to bake our muffin, so we ended up staying a bit late after school…again. Oh well it was definitely worth it!

What Would You Do Differently?

Some things that I would of done differently was to maybe a bit more batter or distribute the batter more evenly throughout the pan because out muffins weren’t all the same size and some we lopsided.

 What Did You Learn?

I learned that when you make muffins you can make them with zucchini. When I first heard what we were making I didn’t really think it would taste than great but in the end they were so amzing!