The best part is, with a few variations this cookie recipe can become just about anything you want it to. These have some of my favorites in them, Earth Balance Vegan Butter and Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips. I also made ours with my favorite gluten free flour blend from A Little Insanity, and I bought my flour ingredients and chocolate chips from Vitacost.
Who doesn't love a chocolate chip cookie? The kids beg me to make these, and I could easily double the batch but I'm afraid I'll eat them all. No joke. That's how good they are. I just made a triple batch so we could bring them to allergy friendly festivities at school and still have some leftover at home.
The best part is, with a few variations this cookie recipe can become just about anything you want it to. These have some of my favorites in them, Earth Balance Vegan Butter and Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips. I also made ours with my favorite gluten free flour blend from A Little Insanity, and I bought my flour ingredients and chocolate chips from Vitacost.
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Since we went orange picking over Thanksgiving weekend, I've been digging out all our saved recipes containing orange or juice, plus coming up with a few others. This is inspired by a recipe I made years ago, with ingredients from our fresh produce delivery and using our delicious oranges. The best way to describe this is light and refreshing. The delicate bite of the cabbage and radishes combined with the sweet fruits, along with the burst of the pomegranate arils in your mouth is to die for.
This makes a great side dish, or if you're having it as your entire meal I'd add a protein topper such as chicken, fish, tofu or beans. I had some leftover lemon pepper chicken and it went perfectly with this tasty salad. This comes together very quickly, with the exception of cleaning out the pomegranate. You can buy a package of them already cleaned to save time if you wish. Orange Juice Pancakes are an absolute treasure in this family. The recipe is so simple, the kids can help make it and it's fool proof. They are loved so much, that the kids literally stand at our feet holding up a plate so we can drop fresh, piping hot pancakes on them, and they are demolished before the next round is finished cooking. Even the baby has started standing near the stove, begging for another. The ingredients are things we usually have on hand, and now that we've picked our fresh Merrill oranges the kids are begging for pancakes and a glass of freshly squeezed juice. I wanted to get this up quickly, so I didn't take a bunch of pictures of the step by step, but you won't need them. It's that easy! This time we used oat flour since I'm in the middle of a 12 day detox with my Juice Plus+ group. For the kids, I tossed in a few of our favorite allergy friendly Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips as a treat instead of syrup. We always double the recipe on this because we usually have a grandparent or two pop in for breakfast when we're making these. Even if they don't, the leftovers reheat nicely the next morning for the kiddos. Either way they always get eaten!
I've tried quite a few variations on this recipe and this one was our personal family favorite - as in, everyone ate it! Many had seconds! Success! We typically eat brown rice, but in the hopes of wooing my pickiest eater to try this chicken teriyaki, I made organic white rice. Winner winner.
Since Earth Fare had boneless skinless chicken thighs on sale the week I made this, I used those, and don't you know I stocked up! So, I doubled the recipe below and half went into the crock with that night's dinner and the other half went into a freezer bag for a future crock pot meal. We fed four adults, three kids and still had leftovers for lunch the next day. I love it when a meal plan comes together. |
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