A SUPER easy peanut butter cookie with an easier clean up I recently discovered is....
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
Yep, that's it. Simply mix all the ingredients, roll into small balls, drop on a cookie sheet and cross criss each ball with a fork to smash down. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes. Makes 18-24 cookies.
I love this recipe....fresh, homemade cookies in less than 20 minutes from start to clean up.
Here is my super-fast (and tasty) spicy, Amatriciana (sp?) pasta sauce:
1 medium onion - finely chopped
smoked bacon (I don't measure it) - cubed
chilli flakes (to taste)
tin of chopped tomatoes
freshly ground black pepper (to taste)
grated parmesan
Heat the oil in a largeish pan (once the sauce is ready, you will mix the cooked pasta into it so it can infuse for a minute or two) put in the onion, stir then add the bacon. Sprinkle
the chilli flakes and pepper over the bacon and stir for a minute or two. Then pour in the tomatoes, turn the heat down a little and simmer. Turn the heat low and stir in the parmesan, let it simmer for a few minutes. The cooking takes about 15 minutes so you should put the pasta on around the same time.
super easy banana bread:
Ingredients
4 Ripe bananas, mashed
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup castor (or superfine) sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
Pinch of salt
Directions
1. Preheat your oven to 180º Celsius (or 350 Fahrenheit).
2. Combine mashed bananas and melted butter in a bowl.
3. Add beaten eggs one at a time and vanilla essence. Mix well.
4. Mix in sugar, baking soda and salt. Last of all mix in the flour.
5. Pour the mixture into a greased loaf tin and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out of the loaf clean.
it looks long but i can whip the entire thing and throw it in the oven in 10 min! its so good with coffee/tea or as a morning snack!
Pumpkin "Mousse"
Mix 1 can of pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling - just canned pumpkin) with 1 box of sugar free non-cook instant butterscotch pudding (just the dry mix) and fold in a tub of fat free cool whip. Put in the fridge and chill.
Tastes just like Pumpkin Mousse with no fat, very few calories and TONS of flavor!!!!
My grandma didn't use ratios. She would just put the mustard on the chop, followed by the ketchup and then finally the brown sugar. Then she flipped it over and did the other side.
(And the actual temperature and time is at 350 degrees for an hour.)
Pumpkin "Mousse"
Mix 1 can of pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling - just canned pumpkin) with 1 box of sugar free non-cook instant butterscotch pudding (just the dry mix) and fold in a tub of fat free cool whip. Put in the fridge and chill.
Tastes just like Pumpkin Mousse with no fat, very few calories and TONS of flavor!!!!