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5 Şubat 2013 Salı

Bodum BISTRO Electric Blender Stick {Giveaway}

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I have a fun giveaway for you today… for a Bodum brand BISTRO Electric Blender Stick. Three people will win… since Bodum has provided three blender sticks (in the color of your choice) to give to three lucky RecipeGirl readers. Yahoo!

What would you use a blender stick for? Well, the stick comes with three attachments that will help you puree things like soups, mashed potatoes, smoothies and even baby food! If you’re into lattes, you can use the beater attachment to foam up your own milk, or you can also use it to quickly whip cream! The cool thing about it is that you don’t have to put your ingredients in any sort of special mixing bowl or anything. Just plug in the blender stick and blend whatever you’d like right there in the bowl that you prepared it in. The little container you see in the photos below is for storing anything you’ve blended up… just pop the lid on and store it in the refrigerator. Unlike many kitchen gadgets, this one is easy to clean too… just run the stick under some hot water, set it on a towel to dry, and it has cleaned itself. Pretty cool, eh?

So what color do you want: Edgy Black, Super Cool Red, Limey Green, or Neat Freak White? Okay, so I made up the names of those colors, but I do think they’re all pretty cool. I opted for Limey Green myself.

Enter via the Rafflecopter below! Open to USA only (18 and over). Contest is open 1/30 and ends on 2/5. See Terms & Conditions on the Rafflecopter if you have any more questions. Good luck!

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Disclosure: Bodum sent me a blender stick to sample and test out on my own, but all opinions shared about this product on this post are my own. Bodum is supplying three blender sticks to give away to three lucky RecipeGirl readers.

Skinny Chocolate- Caramel Banana Bread

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As I continue on my lifelong quest to be “skinny,” I’ve come to realize there are some things that I really cannot live without. Cheese and wine are a given. Although I can limit them (or even eliminate them) when I’m watching my intake of calories, I will never choose to give them up completely. Another can’t-live-without is bread… of all kinds. French bread, soft rolls, crusty baguettes and banana bread. And finally… I’ll never lose that irresistible craving for sweets, so I’ll need to continue to include a few sweets where I can- like in this Skinny Chocolate- Caramel Banana Bread

The great thing about turning banana bread into dessert is that you can get a good deal of sweetness from the bananas themselves. Hang on to your bananas until they’re almost black. The sweetness of those ugly, black bananas will be a heartsong in your banana bread.

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Chocolate- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles

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Dear Cookie Dough- Loving Friends Who Love Chocolate too,

Here’s another recipe created just for you. It’s chocolate cookie dough in its purest form (with added chocolate chips). I left out the eggs in the dough, so it’s okay for munching. I rolled them into bite-sized balls and covered them with a layer of more chocolate. How’s that sound? I hope you like these: Chocolate- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles

A few lovely sprinkles on top makes them festive enough for perhaps… Valentine’s Day. And a few miniature chocolate chips sprinkled on top gives people a hint as to what’s inside.

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Movie Date To The Hobbit

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In A Spring Kind Of Mood

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Even though it is gray and ugly out side it is warm and cozy in here and for that I am grateful. These tulips are helping inspire that mood. I picked them up at the grocery store at the beginning of the week and they are still fresh and perky. There are two bundles in this vase.

Blake's birthday is today. Dana has a party planned for him tonight out at the hunt camp that should be fun. Hopefully the weather will clear up so we can get outside for a bonfire later tonight.

Wishing you blue sky's and sunshine where ever you are and where ever you roam.

3 Ocak 2013 Perşembe

Secretly Vegan Carrot and Plum Cake- Eggless and Dairy free

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All is quiet, the little one is fast asleep, snug between his two cousins, and dreaming of Santa. I am writing this post quickly just to share with you a quick and super easy recipe for a plum cake that happens to be vegan. But you really shouldn't label it a vegan cake and it's not really a traditional Christmas cake. It's just a really good moist cake that happens to be vegan- mahed bananas replace the eggs and most of the fat, with grated carrots and enough chopped dried plums to make it Christmassy
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After complaining about my dislike for fruitcake in my guest post for Shulie, you must be wondering why I am here with a fruit cake recipe right? Well I do want to give fruit cake one more try, and also wanted my little one to get a taste of some Christmas-time traditions that his mom grew up with! Since he is allergice to dairy and eggs, I just adapted his favourite banana cake into something more Christmassy and quite healthy yet delicious too!
You can soak the fruits in brandy or rum and spices as in traditional fruitcake if you like, but as I have mentioned (repeatedly here ), I am not a fan, so I just soaked the plums in warm water to soften it and it really did the trick, making them plump and moist.

Merry Christmas!

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Carrot Banana Plum Cake

Ingredients ( The order in which these ingredients are added is important):

4 medium very ripe bananas peeled and mashed well till no lumps remain ( the riper the bananas the stronger the banana flavour.)
1/4 cup oil
1 cup sugar ( I have halved this amount too and it works- just made the cake a little drier)
2 cups flour
3 TBSP water, 3 TBSP oil, 2 tsp baking powder (all mixed together in that order and kept aside for about 5 minutes prior, not much more ahead else it may lose some of the fizz require to make the cake rise)
1/4 tsp, baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla essence ( optional)
1 cup chopped dried plums or prunes ( soak the fruits in warm water or just put them in a bowl of water and heat in the microwave for 15 secons to make them moist)
1 cup grated carrots

Method:
Preheat oven to 350 F degrees or 325 F if using a glass pyrex dish
Grease and flour a 9X5 inch loaf pan, or a pyrex bowl as I used in the photos above, to give it a traditional Christmas pudding look ( I used vegetable oil to grease the pan and didn't flour it, but lined the bottom with parchment paper, cutting the paper where it bent and creased and overlapping it to make it as smooth as possible to fit the curved shape of the bowl)In large mixing bowl, mix all ingredients in order given ( if you don't follow the order, things may not work so its VERY IMPORTANT!). Pour into pan and bake 40 to 50 minutes. Let it cool in the pan for about 10-15 mins. Then run a knife around the sides of the pan.
Invert it onto a plate or cooling rack and let cool completelyYou can also bake this in muffin or cup cake tins and it would be perfect for breakfast
Am sending this cake over to Simone of Junglefrog Cooking who is hosting the Monthly Mingle as well as a sparkling photo challengeTweetPin It

Gluten Free Orange- Almond Snowballs

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A couple of days ago it was my Mom’s 75th birthday. My sister and I flew her to New York City with my aunt and cousin to celebrate. Mom loves New York, so we did it up right and took in a couple of shows while we were there. The big challenge was trying to find places to eat gluten-free. Mom was diagnosed with Celiac disease just a couple of years ago, so she’s been maneuvering this world full of gluten and trying to figure out how to eat without it, how to order in restaurants and how to enjoy food again. Here’s my holiday treat for Mom: Gluten-Free Orange- Almond Snowballs

Mom is a big reason why I have a pretty large section on my site dedicated to gluten-free (or adaptable) recipes, and she’s a big reason why I’ll be including some gluten-free options in my cookbook too. I’ve learned that it’s awfully helpful for gluten-free folks to find their way around if we make it easier for them by labeling, offering alternatives to ingredients, etc. Eating gluten-free doesn’t mean eating icky ingredients or strange things that no one else eats. It just means eating things that don’t contain gluten (a protein found in wheat, barley, rye and other things). If you’re gluten-free, you can still eat a lot of normal everyday things, but with baking you have to be a bit creative since you cannot eat regular wheat-derived flour.

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