Cooking Lessons for Dad

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Couscous

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Yield: 6 servings

Couscous

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup, regular or whole wheat couscous, dry

Instructions

  1. Combine water and salt in a medium sauce pan.
  2. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
  3. Add couscous to the pan and stir well.
  4. Cover pan and let stand 5 minutes.
  5. Fluff with a fork and serve.

Notes

You can add 1 tablespoon butter or olive oil to the water if desired.

Adjust salt to taste.

© Karen Breyer

 

Crockpot Sweet Potato Burritos

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Yield: 8 burritos

Crockpot Sweet Potato Burritos

Ingredients

  • 8 whole wheat, flour or corn tortillas
  • 1 - 15 ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 4 cups sweet potatoes, diced in 1 inch cubes
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried vegetable broth/seasoning
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1- 2 teaspoons cumin, ground
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
  • Cooking spray

Instructions

  1. Spray a crockpot or slow cooker with cooking spray.
  2. Add all ingredients to the crockpot and stir.
  3. Cook on high for 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours or until the sweet potatoes are as soft as desired.
  4. Add more salt if desired and stir.
  5. Spoon about 3/4 cup of sweet potato mixture into tortilla. Add additional optional ingredients like salsa, guacamole, and sour cream if desired.
  6. Fold the bottom edge of the tortilla up and over the sweet potato mixture. Next, fold in each side edge to form and open pocket. Serve.

Notes

These burritos are delicious topped with salsa, guacamole, sour cream, green onions and sliced or diced avocado.

If desired, you can warm the tortilla in the microwave for about 10 seconds or heat it in a skillet. before adding the sweet potato mixture.

You may use 1/4 cup of liquid vegetable broth in place of the water and dried vegetable broth/seasoning if you would like.

You can adjust any of the seasonings to taste.

This burrito mixture is also good served in crispy taco shells.

I recommend my Tofu Sour Cream recipe as an excellent topping for this burrito. You can find this recipe at Cookinglessonfordad.com.

© Karen Breyer

 

Two Ingredient Oatmeal Banana Cookies

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Try this amazing Oatmeal Banana Cookie recipe with only two ingredients!! In this cooking video Karen Breyer will show you step by step how to make these delicious, healthy cookies. These cookies are so easy to make! I think this cookie recipe will become one of your favorite healthy desserts and snack recipes. This Oatmeal Banana Cookie recipe is so healthy you can even eat it for breakfast!

Looking for healthy recipes you can make with your ripe bananas? If so, this is the perfect recipe for you.  You can also make healthy, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies by adding a some chocolate chips to this recipe. There are also many other tasty variations for this oatmeal banana cookie recipe. Watch this video and try these delicious, easy Two Ingredient Oatmeal Banana Cookies today!

Yield: 8 - 12 cookies

Two Ingredient Oatmeal Banana Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup ripe bananas, mashed
  • 1 cup Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
  • Cooking spray

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray baking sheet with cooking spray.
  2. Mash bananas with a fork or the back of a spoon.
  3. Mix together the bananas and oats.
  4. Drop by tablespoonfuls on the cookie sheet.
  5. Bake for about 12 to 15 minutes or until cookies become a golden brown color.
  6. Remove cookies from the pan. Cool and serve.

Notes

You can add optional ingredients to the oat-banana mixture such as a dash of salt, vanilla, raisins, dried fruit, nuts, chocolate chips, dried cranberries, and coconut.

Cookies are best eaten the same day. You can store the cookies in an airtight container for a few days.

You can flatten the cookies with a fork to make them the shape you would like.

You can make the cookies bigger or smaller. Smaller cookies will cook faster so keep an eye on them so they don’t burn.

See a cooking demonstration of these Two Ingredient Oatmeal Banana Cookies on the Cooking Lessons for Dad YouTube channel.

© Karen Breyer

 

Orange Cake

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Yield: 2 - 8 inch cakes

Orange Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1/4 cup white flour, unbleached
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup coconut milk, unsweetened
  • 1/4 cup orange juice concentrate, thawed
  • 1/2 orange, large
  • 1/4 peel from large orange
  • 1/2 cup water, approximately

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line 8 inch pans with parchment paper (cut to fit the pans).
  2. In a bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  3. Blend together the coconut milk, orange juice concentrate, orange, and orange peel.
  4. Blend in enough water to make the liquid mixture 2 1/2 cups total.
  5. Add the liquid into the dry ingredients and mix well. You can mix the batter by hand quickly or use an electric hand mixture and beat for it 20 to 25 seconds.
  6. Immediately pour the cake mixture into two 8 - inch round or square baking pans.
  7. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 - 30 minutes. The cakes are done when they begin to brown and pull away from the sides of the pan. As well, a knife inserted into the center of the cakes should come out clean.
  8. When the cakes are done, let them cool about 10 minutes in the pan. Next remove the cakes from the pans. Store the cakes in plastic bags or plastic wrap to keep them moist. Decorate the cooled cakes as desired.

Notes

You can use all whole wheat flour (no white flour) and the cake will be denser.

For a lighter cake, use 1/2 cup unbleached white flour and 1 cup whole wheat flour.

You can also use white whole wheat flour for a lighter color cake.

Wash the orange well since you are going to use part of the peel.

You can freeze these cakes in plastic bags. When you are ready to decorate the cake, remove them from the freezer and decorate.

For an amazing dessert, try the Pineapple-Orange Cake Filling recipe with this cake. Spread the filling between the layers. Top of the cake with whipped topping or more orange filling (or both!).

© Karen Breyer

 

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