Sunday, November 18, 2007

Good for You! Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Good for You! Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees

Mix together:
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour (or white)
1teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups dry oatmeal

Mix together:
2 eggs
½ cup fresh maple syrup (honey can be substituted)
½ cup corn oil
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix well wet and dry ingredients above and add:
1 cup of chopped walnuts
½ package or 1/2 cup of chocolate chips

Drop heaping tablespoons full of batter onto lightly oiled baking try. Press cookies down to flatten and bake 20 minutes till lightly browned.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

cookies!

Congratulations to all 40 dayers- at our closing pot luck folks asked for the recipe of the cookies.
here are two (I did not bring the walnut ones- but they are worth trying) I will post the chocolate chip one tomorrow. Joan
Raspberry Jam Dot Cookies
Ingredients
raspberry jam ( any flavor can be substituted)
Dry: 1 cup almonds
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
a pinch of salt
Wet: ½ cup maple syrup
½ cup canola oil

Procedure
1. Process almonds in food processor into a coarse nut flour.
2. Process oats in food processor into a coarse oat flour.
3. Combine all dry ingredients together.
4. Mix oil and maple syrup together.
5. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well.
6. Form walnut size balls, flatten a bit, and put a thumb print in middle.
7. Fill each thumb print with ½ teaspoon of raspberry jam.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until golden colored.
Natural Gourmet Cook School/ All That Matters 99


Maple Walnut Cookies
Ingredients
1 ¼ cup of walnuts
¾ cup of rolled oats
½ cup of flour ( try brown rice or ww pastry)
¼ cup oil
1/3 cup maple syrup

Procedure
1.Place the walnuts, oats and flour in the food processor. Grind till coarse flour texture.
2. Pour in oil blend- pour in syrup blend. Dough will be thick.
3. Oil a cookie tray- drop the dough by the teaspoons full on tray.
4. Flatten with a wet fork.
5. Bake at 375 for about 15 minutes or until golden.
6. They will become crisp as they cool. Cooking with the Right Side of Your Brain

Raspberry Vinaigrette
Ingredients:

3 Tablespoons red wine vinegar / 5 Tablespoons olive oil / 1 teaspoon whole grain mustard
1 Tablespoon raspberry jelly / salt and ground pepper to taste

Procedure: Mix all ingredients together and add salt and pepper to taste

Thursday, November 1, 2007

So- some of you are starting to wonder about how to keep this up after the 40 days.
Here are two things we can suggest...

Nov 14th at 7:15(after yoga) we will have a closing celebration (pot luck optional) Please join us!

ATM will offer all 40 day folks an unlimited yoga pass for $99 a month. This pass does not include yoga immersion and has to be purchased by the first of each month.