Spicy Soba Noodle Salad

hot hot hot cool salad for the summer



all ingredients are approximate & to taste

salad:
a nice heap of chopped nappa cabbage and/or bok choy
cooked soba noodles (cold or still warm)
carrots cut into matchsticks
sliced green onions
handful of cashews

dressing ~ measure ingredients to taste:
1 T. peanut butter
1 generous T. honey
1 scant T. sriracha sauce * this is pretty spicy, so use less if you don't like hot
2 T. soy sauce
1 T. rice vinegar
1 T. cooking sherry
1 T. minced garlic

blend dressing together, pour over salad, mix & enjoy

Yogurt Chocolate Chip Muffins

A little tangy, a little sweet, rather dense in a good way, a lot of chocolatey



wet ingredients:
2 c. plain fat free yogurt
1/4 cup water + 1 T. Ener-G egg replacer (or substitute 2 eggs)
2 c. vanilla rice milk (or substitute regular milk)
2 t. vanilla

dry ingredients:
3 c. all purpose flour
3 c. white whole wheat flour
1 cup sugar (actually, use 1.5 ~ I'd use a little more if I did it again)
1 c. chocolate chips
3 T. baking powder
1 t. salt

preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease (or use nonstick liner) a 9x13 pan

blend together wet ingredients, then dry ingredients separately, then mix until well incorporated. Add a little more rice milk if necessary. Pour into prepared pan and bake ~35 minutes until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.

The above recipe is modified several times from this one:

Chocolate Chip Muffins II

Cranberry White Chocolate Muffins

INGREDIENTS
4 cups white whole wheat flour
1-1/2 cups white sugar
1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
4 T. flax seed, ground, plus 1/2 cup water (or sub 4 eggs)
2 cups plain, fat free yogurt
1/2 cup applesauce
2 tablespoons grated lemon zest
2/3 cup lemon juice
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup white chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 pan.
Combine the dry ingredients.
In a separate bowl mix the water, yogurt, apple sauce, lemon juice and lemon zest. Blend well and pour over the flour mixture. Mix until just combined. Do no overmix!
Spread batter evenly in the prepared pan. Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 30-35 minutes.
Let muffins cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing them from the pan.

For muffin pans bake ~20 minutes.

Makes 24 muffins.

Chocolate Chip Banana Squares

Modified from a banana bread recipe.

Recipe to follow, I'm just posting the pic to remind myself.

Actually, it's the same base recipe as posted here: http://slugrecipes.blogspot.com/2007/07/banana-chocolate-chip-bars.html

main difference was oats instead of oat bran, I believe.

Cinnamon Toast Cake

Careful, it's still kind of hot.



Modified from a Real Food Digest recipe

2 cups white whole wheat flour (substitute AP flour to unhealthify)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 T. cinnamon
1 cup brown sugar, loosely packed
1 cup rice milk (or regular milk)
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup applesauce (oil, to unhealthify)
1 Tbsp flax, ground + 2 T. water (or sub 1 egg)

~3 T. granulated sugar for topping
cinnamon for topping

preheat oven to 350 degress.
combine dry ingredients & wet ingredients separately. Mix together until well incorporated. Pour into a greased 9x13 pan (or use an excellent nonstick liner!) and sprinkle cinnamon and granulated sugar over the top.
Bake for ~25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

less healthified topping: instead of topping as above, use 2 T. butter. While cake is hot, poke all over with a toothpick or fork and rub butter over the top. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.