Bean Quinoa

Okay, this one is made up, so you can truly add anything you like. It is super easy, nutritous, filling, and delicious.

1 cup quinoa
2 cup water
vegetable broth
1 can black beans
1 can garbanzo beans
small can of corn kernels
chopped green or red bell pepper
chopped onion
several cloves of garlic

1. Bring the water and quinoa to a boil. Add the vegtable broth for flavah!
2. One the quinoa is done, drain the beans and corn and add them.
3. Add the chopped veggies.
4. Use a garlic press and mix in the garlic.

Roasted Red Pepper Salmon

Yep another Salmon recipe, this one is for the grill (baking it would probably work too).

Ingredients:

Salmon

Red Pepper

EVOO

Salt

Any spices you want to season the salmon with

Prep/Cooking:

1. Cut red pepper into strips and coat in olive oil, then salt and place on baking sheet.

2. Bake in oven at 350 until soft (if you jab it with a fork it should show little resistance).

3. Season salmon however you want, I usually just use some salt and pepper for this recipe.

4. Place a bed of the roasted peppers on aluminum foil, place salmon on bed of peppers, then cover the salmon with more peppers.

5. Use the aluminum foil to wrap your salmon/pepper concoction into a little packet.

6. Put packet on grill for about 10 minutes

7. Take packet off grill unwrap and eat.

Baked Salmon

An easy and delicious salmon recipe.

Ingredients:

Salmon

Dill Weed

Lemon

Extra Virgin olive oil

Prep:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350.

2. Lightly coat the salmon in olive oil and sprinkle with dill weed.

3. Place salmon on baking sheet, cut lemon in wedges and place atop the salmon

4. Place in oven for 10-15 minutes (If you use a fork to "scrape" the salmon it should easily flake when finished, if you don't have any idea what I mean you will if you try it)

5. Eat and enjoy

The Baumgardner Pancakes

A simple and delicious pancake recipe given to me by Jean. If you make these once you will likely never want boxed mix again.

Ingredients:

2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour

2 Tsp Baking Powder

1 Tsp Salt

2 Eggs, Beaten

2 C Milk

2 Tbsp Vegetable Oil (Olive Oil can also be used)

Optional ingredients:

Honey- about 2 Tbsp (or however much you want really)

Vanilla extract- about 1 Tsp

Any kind of fruit (Strawberries, Blueberries, Banana, Whatever)

Chocolate chips

(for Fruit and chips add however much you want. I'd suggest for Blueberries and chocolate chips adding these after you have put the batter on the griddle instead of directly to the batter)

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, stir dry ingredients together

2. Add eggs, milk, oil [add honey and vanilla if you're using them] and stir (for fluffier pancakes only stir for 10 to 15 seconds, batter should still be lumpy)

3. Cook on griddle

4. Flip

5. Enjoy

~M

Terese's Birthday Cake!

For a full recipe go here.

I took this recipe from one of my favorite baking websites, bake or break. It was my first time ever making a layer cake . The recipe is for a triple layer chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. It is one of the richest cakes that I have ever tasted. It is well worth the time it takes to put this together.

This is the melting of the bakers chocolate that would go into the mix to make the cake batter.

This is the cake before I had frosted the outside.
The cream cheese frosting recipe called for a Frangelican but we didn't have any. We did however have Disarono (thanks Jordan) and we substituted that instead.

And here is the chocolate frosting that was used to finish off the cake.

Home made Oreos

This recipe seems to be common in the world of online delectables- here's my variation:

For the chocolate cookies:
1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup sugar
1 stick room-temperature, unsalted butter
1 large egg

For the frosting:
1/2 stick room-temperature, unsalted butter
2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.

2. In a large bowl thoroughly mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda and powder, salt, and sugar. While stirring add the butter, and then the egg. Continue mixing until dough comes together in a mass.

3. Take rounded teaspoons of batter and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet approximately two inches apart. With moistened hands, slightly flatten the dough. Bake for 9 minutes, rotating once for even baking. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool.

4. To make the frosting, place butter in a mixing bowl, and gradually beat in the sugar and vanilla. Mix until filling is light and fluffy.

5. Sandwich the frosting between the cookies.

Apartment H Hummus

So this is our premier post and I figured what better to use than the first recipe that we ever made together. This is a variation on garrett's original hummus recipe and is fittingly called APT H hummus. No pictures but next time we make this I will put some up.

So here it is
29 oz. Garbanzo beans (1 large can but not to large)
0.5 cup liquid from the beans
4 Tbsp lemon juice
3 Tbsp tahini
4 Clove garlic
1 tsp salt
4 Tbsp oil
1 roasted red pepper (if you want plain hummus leave this out)

Add all ingredients into a blender or food processor and blend with love.

It should be a hummusy consistency.
There you have it APT H hummus possibly one of the easiest recipes ever.

-M