Snobby Joes

Wes even liked this recipe! He did ask, "where's the meat?" But, he did say, "this is really good!" Wes LOVES his meat, so if he says it's really good, it must be true!
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This recipe is from Post Punk Kitchen.

Ingredients
1 cup uncooked lentils
4 cups water
or one can of beans

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium yellow onion, diced small
1 green pepper, diced small
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 Tablespoons chili powder
2 teaspoons oregano
1 teaspoon salt
8 oz can tomato sauce
1/4 cup tomato paste
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1 tablespoon yellow mustard (wet mustard)

4 to 6 kaiser rolls or sesame buns or any type of bread

Directions
Put the lentils in a small sauce pot and pour in 4 cups water. Cover and bring to a boil. Once boiling, lower heat and simmer for about 20 minutes, until lentils are soft. Drain and set aside.

About 10 minutes before the lentils are done boiling, preheat a medium soup pot over medium heat. Saute the onion and pepper in the oil for about 7 minutes, until softened. Add the garlic and saute a minute more.

Add the cooked lentils, the chili powder, oregano and salt and mix. Add the tomato sauce and tomato paste. Cook for about 10 minutes. Add the maple syrup and mustard and heat through.

Turn the heat off and let sit for about 10 minutes, so that the flavors can meld, or go ahead and eat immediately if you can't wait. I like to serve these open faced, with a scoop of snobby joe on each slice of the bun.

Emmy's Chocolate Joy's

My friend, Emily, came up with this delicious recipe! I made these and even gave one to a 10-year-old boy and he loved them as well!
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This treat is 100% healthily for your body. It doesn't matter if you are vegetarian, vegan, eat raw or just eating a well balanced diet because you too can it this.

You need a food processor to make this or a really really good blender.

The Glue

3/4 cup coconut milk (comes in a can, usually found by the Asian food).
1/2 cup cocoa powder or carob powder (I use cocoa)
1/2 cup honey or Agave (I use both, 1/4 c honey and 1/4 c agave)
1 tsp pure vanilla
3 cups coconut
2 dates
1/4 cup raisins (if you don't want dates just use more raisins)

Nuts and Seed

You can use whatever nuts and seed that you want. Just make sure that the measurements stay about the same as mine. You may need to add more or even a little less depending on what nuts and seeds you choose to use. You do not want this runny.

1 cup Almonds
1/4 cup Pecans
1/4 cup Cashews
1/2 cup Sunflower seeds
1/4 cup Pumpkin seeds

Throw all of the ingredients in your food processor and let it rip. Make sure it is nice and blended.

Get your cookie sheet and cookie scoop out. Plop the batter on the cookies sheet and refrigerator for at least one hour. You can even freeze these.

Again, these are so yummy and good for you. Feel free to mix things up to your own preference's.

Agave is at any grocery store. You can get twice as much (literally) for $1 less at costco. Unlike honey, maple syrup and sugar Agave is gluten friendly. It does not mess with your blood sugars. When eating it they will stay the same. You can also use Agave in place of honey when eating a sandwdich, on waffles or in yogurt etc. (I am not diabetic.These are just some fun the facts).

Raw Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are SO GODD! I made them today and I love them!! They are 100% good for you. I found them on this website. Enjoy!!!

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Ingredients:

Cookie dough:

• 1 3/4 cups ground raw cashews
• 3/4 cup ground raw oats
• 1/4 cup Agave Nectar
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup coconut oil

Raw chocolate chips:

• 2 Tablespoon coconut oil
• 1/2 cup carob powder
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 4 T agave nectar
• 2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

Dough: Grind up raw cashews and raw oats in a food processor or blender. Place all cookie dough ingredients into a large bowl and mix by hand or with a spoon. OR simply place all ingredients in the processor and blend (why didn’t I do this!? lol). Mix until a dough forms and you can make a large ball. Refrigerate dough while you make the chocolate chips.

Chips: Mix all chocolate chip ingredients together in a medium sized bowl. Roll the dough out onto parchment paper and place in the freezer for about 30 minutes. Optional: Half way through at 15 mins., flip the chocolate sheet over for even freezing.

When chocolate is frozen, cut into chips. This is the fun part! I used a pastry slicer and it was SO fun making the chips.

Mix chips into dough and have fun!

Place in fridge (if you have any left that is) to harden for about 30 mins. They get real hard! Make sure to refrigerate them on parchment paper or they will stick to the plate.

Notes: If you don’t have carob powder you can substitute it for cocoa powder just as easily. Alternatively, you may be able to sub the agave nectar for maple syrup or honey. If you try this and it turns out let me know!

Also note, I cut the recipe in half to make a smaller batch. Don’t be too worried about getting exact measurements here. They will still turn out, promise.

The best part is the total prep time (not including freezing and refrigerating) was 10 minutes! So quick and easy. These would be amazing to whip up before guests come over or for a quick birthday gift.

I adapted this recipe found here. I used much less coconut oil in both mixtures, substituted raw oats for groats, and I added vanilla and agave in the chocolate chips.

Banana Bread can be 1/2 - makes two pans

1 c shortening 2 c sugar
4 eggs 5 larg ripe banana's crushed
3 1/2c flour 2tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt bag of chocolate chips and a handful of nuts ( all opitnal)

Combine shortening and sugarm then add eggs and bananas mix well.
stir in dry ingredients and mix well.

Put into 2 well greased loaf pans bak at 300 for 75min
Very good.. and easy.!!

Creamy Chicken with Bacon and Penne

4 slices of bacon 4 bonless skinless chicken breasts
2 c penne pasta, uncooked 1/2 c philadelphia herb and garlic cream cheese
3/4 c chicken broth 1/2 c cherry tomatoes, halved
2 green onions chopped

Wrap bacon around chicken breast. Heat larg skillet on medium-high heat. Add chicken, cover and cook till no longer pink. Remove chicken from skillet, keep warm. Discard drippings from skillet.
Cook pasta in large saucepan as to directions. Meanwhile, cook cream cheese spread and broth in skillet untill cream cheese is melted and sauce is thickened, stirring constantly with whisk. Stir in tomatoes and onions, cook for 2 minuets or till heated stirring occasionally
Drain pasta, return to pan add sauce mix, serve topped with chicken..
very YUMMY!!!

Brushetta'n Cheese stuffed Chicken - VERY GOOD

1 can (540ml) diced tomatoes 1/4 c mozzerella shreded cheese divided
1/4 c chopped fresh basil 1 pkg stove top stuffing
8 chicken breasts bonless and skinless 1/3 c Roasted red pepper with parmesan dressing

Combine tomatoes - 1/2c cheese, basil- and stuffing stir all together

Flatten chicken ( place in baggie and smash with rolling pin - thats how I do it)

Put a spoonfull fo mixture on chicken and roll place ends down so they stay together
Place in a 9x13 pan pour over the dressing and bake at 350 for 40min. sprinkle with remainig cheese and bake for 5 min longer
Enjoy

Sex in a Pan

Crust - 1 c chopped peacans
1 c - 1 1/2c flour
1 c marg/butter
3 tbsp sugar
mix all together and back at 350 - 25min take out and cool

Middle - 8oz cream cheese
1 c icing sugar
1/2 c cool whip (thawed)
mix all together and spread on cooled crust - let stand in fridge for 2hrs

Top - 1/2 c cool whip
2 c milk
2 larg pkgs of instand chocolate pudding
Beat together and spread on top
put on remaing cool whip on top of chocolate, add grated chocolate, let stand in frige for 2 hrs and serve..

Bacon Dip

1 package cream cheese 1 tsp dry mustard
1 c sour cream 1/4 c green onions or chives chopped
1 c shedded cheese 1 lb bacon cooked and crubled
1 tsp garlic powder 1 loaf sour dough bread

Mix all ingredients together, cut our the middle of the loaf of bread, make sure to keep the inside to cut up for dipping. Gill the loaf with the mixture. Wrap in tinfoil and bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees. serve. Can be backed in a bowl and then just break up the bread around it... either or is great...

Vientartre: by Cheryl

Ok..this is a recipe that we cannot loose. This is Grandma Isfeld [Nanny's] recipe for Vientartre. This is an old Icelandic recipe she made all the time and Grandpa Isfeld loved it.
The dessert is a layered recipe of dates and dough....

The crust [or dough]

1/2 pound of margarine
1 1/2 cups of white sugar
2 eggs beaten
3 tbsp of cream
4 cups of flour
1 tsp of cardomun [did I spell that wrong?]

Mix together, will look dry.
roll out about as flat as you would for pie pastry, make several rounds..then put each on in the bottom of a pie plate [do not go up the sides of pie pan.
Bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees

Filling:
1 pound of stoned prunes [ ya I know..what is that] I use 1 pound of prunes...works the same
1 tsp of cinnamon
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp vanilla
boil together for about 2 minutes until thick.

spread the prune mixture over the cooked dough and layer up several times...depends on how many dough round you have..
tip..I put some wax paper or foil under the first layer..then when I am done I pick it up and lower into an ice cream pail and put the lid on.

Let it sit in your cupboard at room temperature for a least three days ...dust with icing sugar and slice straigh across into many 1/2 inch by 2 inch slices.....very yummy

Love ya Cheryl Shaw

Play Dough: By Cheryl

Here is a recipe for the best play dough.

Put in pot

1/4 cup of salt
1 cup of flour
1 tsp creme of tartar

Add to pot

1 cup of water
1 tbsp oil
add desired color

cook on med/high till it forms a ball that looks like a weird mass of goop.
Take out of pan, sprinkle flour on counter top and knead the dough till smooth and not sticky.

Store in air tight container..ie: ziplock.. in the cupboard, do not refrigerate this will ruin it.

I made this for the kids when they were little...it is like the play dough you buy in the store...does not stick to your hand ect..

Love ya Cheryl Shaw

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