Brownies and more cheesecake

so I made brownies the other day without oil.

I used a Namaste mix, added 1/2 cup low fat sour cream, 1 cup water and 4 eggs.














Baked it in mini muffin tins, made about 36 of those, then I had about a cup or so of mix left, and so I poured it into a greased spring form pan, then layered it with cheesecake mix (one brick of cream cheese, softened, 1 egg, 1/3 cup sugar and a splash vanilla, beat it 'till smooth)

Pour the cheesecake mix on top of brownie mix, use knife to swirl a little bit and bake in 350 oven until set.....of course I didn't use a timer, so I am thinking it was about 20-30 minutes, but watch it, just in case I am way off.

I grated some more fresh chocolate on top and served it with some whipped cream. WAY yummy.........

Orange cheesecake with Raspberry sauce pics

here's a pic of my orange cheesecake with raspberry sauce. I made it for a friend for her birthday and it turned out beautiful, so I had to take pics to share!

PBBOCC

Peanut

Butter

Banana

Oatmeal

Chocolate

Chip

Got a little carried away experimenting. Had some banana's that needed to be used, so I decided to try them in a Namaste Blondie mix. And then I added peanut butter chips and chocolate chips and at the very end I added oats.

1 Namaste Blondi mix

3 eggs

3 small ripe banana's

handful of chocolate chips

handful of peanut butter chips

mix first 3 ingredients together, then stir in chips. At this point I spooned most of the mix into mini muffin tins, sprayed with canola oil. There was about 1 1/2 cups mix left so then I added 2/3 cup Bob's Red Mill rolled oats and more chips, I spooned that onto a cookie sheet.

Bake in 325 preheated oven for about 20-25 minutes for the muffins and 10-15 minutes for the cookies.

the muffins are very dense (since I didn't add oil), but tasty.....a little on the sweet side for me, the blondies are sweet anyway, and then add the natural sweetness of the ripe banana's.

Haven't tried the cookies yet, but I imagine they will be tasty too!

I think next time I will add a little oil (1/4 cup maybe) and one less egg.

***FYI**** the boys (from age 4 to 40) loved 'em.......

trying new things.....

Went shopping today and found some new yummy gluten free goodies. The following are WAY yummy!!! Another Pamela's product.....haven't been dissapointed yet!

These chicken nuggets from Ian's....not so yummy. The texture was off. Kinda grainy, sort of, or I don't know, taste was okay, but the texture just turned me off.....so try at your own risk!

And these were ok. Had a packaged taste to them....if you know what I mean. Their granola I LOVE, especially the one I pictured, but the bars were just so-so.

"Beanless" white Chicken Chili

SO.....I've got several boys who will not eat beans, in any thing. And I really wanted to make a big pot of soup with beans.....and somehow or other I got the great idea to puree the beans.....then they won't know they are in the soup!!!

I'm a genius!

And modest too!!! HA!



1 rotisserie chicken, deboned, skinned and cut into small pcs
3 cans white beans, pureed with chicken broth if needed
3 cans water
3-4 tbsp Better than Bouillon Chicken flavor
3-4 cans diced green chili's

about 1 cup chopped white onion, 3-4 cloves garlic, sauteed in olive oil until soft and transparent.

1 Tbsp ground cumin
1-2 tsp cayenne pepper

Mix all that up in a crockpot and set on low for several hours until heated through. Serve with shredded Monterrey Jack cheese, and/or sour cream.

Enjoy!!!