Sweet and Sour Meat Balls

Ingredients:

Meat balls:

1/4c water chestnuts, chopped

1 grated onion

3 garlic cloves, diced

salt

Pepper

turmeric

1 tbls tomato paste

1 package ground round

1/2 egg

Sauce:

1 can (14oz, 398ml) Crushed pineapple(with juice)

1-2 tbls apricot jam

2 tbls rice vinegar

2tbls soy sauce

2 tsp grated ginger

1 tbls cornstarch

Method:

Mix first 7 ingredients in bowl.

Add ground round, egg white and some bread crumbs

Form into balls and bake on cookie sheet 15-20 min at 400

For sauce:

Combine all ingredients in larger sauce pan.

Bring to Boil

reduce heat to med-low and boil gently, uncovered for 5 min

stir often.

Add meatballs and stir until they are coated.

**Dont cook too long or meat balls fall apart!!!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good.

Maple Walnuts Blueberry Scones

Makes 4 Scones:

Ingredients:

3/4c flour

1/4c oats

1/8 tsp salt

poppyseeds

1/4c yogurt

1 tbls cream cheese

1/2 egg

1 tbls sugar

1/6c maple syrup

1 tbls + buttermilk

dried blueberries

roasted nuts

Method:

Beat yogurt, cream cheese, egg, sugar and maple syrup.

Mix dry ingredients and add to wet.

beat for a min or two and add buttermilk and blueberries.

Close ot the end add nuts.

beat until slightly sticky but mostly comes of bowl.

form into ball and put onto oiled parchment on a pan.

With floured hands, flatten slightly (inch thick)

Bake 404 for 10-15 min.

Better slightly undercooked and not dry

Babas Cabbage Rolls

Makes about 18-20 rolls

Ingredients:

1 1/2 Onions

4 Garlic

2 Carrots, grated

1/2c celery (2-4 stalks)

1 can mushrooms ( I would add more fresh next time)

2 crushed bay leaves

Dill

Tumeric

Pepper

salt

3/4 pack Ground Round

*I would add more herbs to the filling

1/2c Quinoa, uncooked (Use less quinoa if using ground round/beef)

(-) 3/4c water

2-4 egg whites

Some bread crumbs

1 cabbage(baba says use savoy)

1-2 cans tomato sauce

1 can V8

*1 can diced toms (I didn't have so i used V8 and tom sauce)

*ketchup ( I forgot so I added it ontop afterwards)

Method:

Cook Quinoa with little less than 3/4c water for 6-8 minutes. undercooked is best because it has to bake in the oven. Let cool.

Chop onions, garlic and celery and fry together.

Add carrots, shrooms (fresh and canned) and Tumeric, pepper, herbs.

When cooked added ground round.

Mix in quinoa and let cool.

Cut core out of your cabbage as best as possible.

Put some water in a pot and place cabbage coreside down. Boil until tender....15 min I think, then cool.

When ground round mix is cool add egg whites and mix. If needed add bread crumbs.

I used the black roaster pan. Pour sauce and V8 on bottom of the pan.

Peel cooked cabbage leaves off and slice off a bit of the back of the leave stem where it attaches to the core.

Put stuffing in and roll (fold sides in and roll from bottom up).

When all rolls are in pan pour more sauce over and perhaps ketchup.

Baba says she adds cream/milk and tomato juice.

Put foil ontop or lid and bake at 350 until bubbles then turn down to 300 for 45min-ish.

Amazing Onion rings

NGREDIENTS

• 3 medium yellow onions
• 
  
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 
  
• 6 large egg white and some milk
• 
  
• 1 cups fine dry breadcrumbs, preferably whole-wheat (see Note)
• 1 tablespoon seasoning blend (I used taco, seasoning salt, tumeric, chili powder and some of that garlic one)
  
• Olive oil
  

PREPARATION

1. Position racks in upper and lower thirds of oven; preheat to 450°F.
   
2. Coast one large pan with olive oil
   
3. Cut off both ends of each onion and peel. Slice into 1/2-inch-thick slices; separate into rings. Place the rings in a medium bowl; cover with cold water.
4. Combine flour and baking powder in a shallow dish.
   
5. Lightly beat eggs and milk in another shallow dish.
   
6. Combine breadcrumbs and seasoning in a third shallow dish.
   
7. Working with one ring at time, remove from the water, letting any excess drip off.
   
8. Coat in flour, shaking off any excess.
9. Dip in egg and let any excess drip off.
   
10. Then coat in the breadcrumb mixture, shaking off any excess.
    
11. Place on the prepared baking sheets.
12. Bake for 10 minutes. Turn each onion ring over and return to the oven
13. Continue baking until brown and very crispy, 8 to 10 minutes more.

TIPS & NOTES

• Ingredient note: Look for fine dry whole-wheat breadcrumbs in the natural-foods section of large supermarkets or natural-foods stores. To make your own, trim crusts from firm sandwich bread. Tear the bread into pieces and process in a food processor until very fine. Spread on a baking sheet and bake at 250°F until dry, about 10 to 15 minutes. One slice of bread makes about 1/3 cup dry breadcrumbs.

1 Hour Buns

Ingredients:

1/2c buttermilk

1/4c water

1/2 tbls honey/molasses

1/8c butter

1/2 egg

2 1/4c flour

1/4c oats

1 1/4 (-) tsp yeast

3/4 tsp salt

3 tbls flax

1/8c toasted sunflower seeds

1/8c Toasted mixed nuts, crushed

Top:

Flax

Poppyseed

Sesame seed

Method:

Heat first 4 ingredients until butter melts

When cool, add 1/2 egg and mix

Pour into mixer

Mixx dry ingredients and add slowly to wet (in the mixer).

Beat until slightly sticky, at least 5 minutes

Divide dough into about 6 or so and flatten/ rolls to desired size and place on pan with parchment

Sprinkle topping seeds and press in gently

Let rise about 35 min

Bake 10ish minutes at 400F-- This was slightly underbaked and sooo good.

No Bake Peanut Butter, Chocolate, Banana Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup peanut butter ( I used some almond butter)
½ banana, mashed (plus some)
3/4 cups sugar
1/4 c honey
½ cup milk and some buttermilk
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
2.5 cups quick-cooking oats
1/2 c crispy rice
1/8 tsp salt
handful Choc chips
1/4c crushed mixed nuts

Method:
1.Put mashed banana and peanut butter together in a large
skillet and cook over medium-low heat, stirring until peanut
butter and banana are combined.

2.Once the peanut butter is melted, take the skillet off
the heat and add choc chips.

Stir and add a it of vanilla and the rest of the ingredients, stirring until
everything is well combined.

3.Drop cookie dough on a baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray, patting cookies into desired shape. Place in freezer until cookies are set.