Weird food combos

They make you happy, other people's make you squirm and it's time to share 'em. It's time for weird food combos time. I have a couple that come to mind. They aren't my fault. I could place blame on a certain couple people, but I won't. ;)

This is one I still eat. I had it for lunch today. I try to push it on people. One person that is expected to eat it at this point is my father-in-law. He acts like he doesn't love it, but I know he does. Right Dad K?

Here it is:

 

Baked beans and cottage cheese. Yes together. The hot and cold together is amazing. If you like both, try it.

Another one that I remember, was mayo on grilled cheese. Mmmmm healthy!

Now it's your turn! Talk me onto trying your favorite weird food combos!

 

Molasses Cookies

   I think I have found a new favorite smell.  

Warm molasses cookies. 

 They are the most perfect winter smell.  

And have them with a mug of milk.  

Perfection.

 

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3/4 cup margarine, melted

1 cup white sugar

1 egg

1/4 cup of molasses

2 cups all-purpose flour

 2 teaspoons baking soda

 1/2 teaspoon salt

1 t ground cinnamon

1/2 t ground cloves

1/2 t ground ginger

1/2 cup white sugar 

1. In a medium bowl, mix together the melted margarine, 1 cup sugar, and egg until smooth. Stir in the molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger; blend into the molasses mixture. Cover, and chill dough for 1 hour.
2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Roll dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining white sugar. Place cookies 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until tops are cracked. Cool on wire racks.

Pancake muffins

I saw this little diddy on Pinterest, but the link didn't work. But it's super easy! I love cooking/baking with Ella and she loves doing it. It makes her proud to be a part of the process.

So here ya go!

Preheat the oven to 350

Make your pancake batter

Put 1/4 cup of batter into a sprayed muffin tin

Then put your toppings into the batter

Fruit, nuts, chocolate chips, etc

Bake for 12-14 minutes.

Enjoy!

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The only things I would add are to mix the toppings down into the batter, then it is thru the muffin and not just sitting on the top.

And maybe some vanilla or cinnamon might give it a little somethin!

Thumbs up and food-cheek from E!

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Day 31: Baked Pumpkin Donuts

Welcome to Day 31 of "31 Days of Pinterest"!

Today was one of my favorites! Maybe because it turned out...unlike "Day 3" or "Day 18"? :)

There were 6. But I took care of that!

Yum right? Can you go wrong in the fall with cinnamon-sugar covered baked pumpkin donuts? With some apple cider or milk?

Place the following in a mixing bowl:

1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups pumpkin purée (canned pumpkin)
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice, or 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon plus a heaping 1/4 teaspoon each ground nutmeg and ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Beat everything together until smooth.

Add 1 3/4 cups + 2 tsp of flour, stirring just until smooth.

Fill the wells of the doughnut pans about 3/4 full, using a 1/4 cup works.

If you’re making muffins, fill each well about 3/4 full; the recipe makes about 15, so you’ll need to bake in two batches (unless you have two muffin pans).

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Bake the doughnuts for 15 to 18 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the center of one comes out clean. If you’re using self-rising flour, bake for the longer amount of time.

Remove the doughnuts from the oven, and after about 5 minutes, loosen their edges, and transfer them to a rack to cool.

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While the doughnuts are still warm (but no longer fragile), gently shake them in a bag with cinnamon-sugar. Or better yet, pumpkin-spice sugar, made by combining the aforementioned pumpkin pie spice (or substitute) with granulated sugar.

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Thanks for the last 31 Days!

 

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Day 28: Cresent roll mummies

I'm about to share something with you all.

When this comes out of the oven at Christmas, you better be next to the oven ready or you won't get any. They are that hot...as in the "it" appetizer. We don't make them look like mummies though, no time for fooling around when it comes to these.

You will need cocktail weenies (or a vegetarian alternative), dough and mustard.

Unroll and take a long strip of cresent dough and wrap the weenie to look like a mummie.

If you don't want the mummy look, just cut triangles out and wrap away.

Super hard right!

You can then add little dots of mustard for eyes if you want. Or have a bowl of mustard on the side for double dipping.

 

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Day 18: Fruit Roll-Ups

Welcome to Day 18 of my 31 days of Pinterest projects. Here is an example of me keepin' it real.

Oh wait, I always do. ;)

Let's pretend that the picture below is my final picture.

Because this DIY was an epic

FAIL.

F-A-I-L

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But we will look at my pretty pictures and pretend that it was awesome!

Instructions

Cut up your strawberries

Stew them in water. Add a bit of lemon juice. They will get super mushy.

Put them in your food processor or blender for a couple minutes.

Put Saran Wrap on a baking sheet and brush it with olive oil.

This is the end of my pics.

Preheat the oven to 170. Yes, 170.

Pour the berries onto the sheet and put it in the oven.

I would like to tell you know that this next part is not a joke.

Set your timer for 6-8 HOURS.

I need to pick shorter projects or actually read them!

What did we learn here?

Read first. ;)

My fruit leather never set. It was just liquid. :(

Tomorrow will be a quick one. ;)

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Day 12: No bake energy balls

Happy Friday friends! Here is a fun one if you need little helpers to do something in the kitchen with you.;)

 

Thanks for joining me for

{No-Bake Energy Bites Recipe}-aka "unless you eat 1/2 of the batch you will not have energy" bites

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Ingredients:

1 cup (dry) oatmeal (I used old-fashioned oats)

2/3 cup toasted coconut flakes

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup ground flaxseed or wheat germ

1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)

1/3 cup honey

1 tsp. vanilla

Method:

Stir all ingredients together in a medium bowl until thoroughly mixed. Let chill in the refrigerator for half an hour. Once chilled, roll into balls of whatever size you would like. (Mine were about 1″ in diameter.) Store in an airtight container and keep refrigerated for up to 1 week.

Makes about 20-25 balls.

 

Verdict: SOOOOO GOOOOOOD.

Have a great weekend!

See you tomorrow!

 

 

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Day 3: Frozen yogurt drops

Day 3 of Pinterest!

I am linking up with over 1000 bloggers at The Nester.   

Check it out.  

Find some new blogs with awesome ideas!(after you see my train-wreck frozen yogurt dots)

 

Ok, first I want to show you how this post should look.  

Pretty frozen yogurt dots.  

Then you will see real life.

Take yogurt, put it in a baggy and cut the corner of the bag.  

Don't cut a lot, just a little bit.  

Then make little dots on the pan.

  Pop it into the freezer for an hour.  

Then enjoy!

Here is the Trixiegirl version.

 

Um, isn't it supposed to be frozen?  

Am I too hasty?  

Maybe....But, I'm sure it's going to be a fun treat because it's in a mason jar!

It looks like butter.  

RE-DO.