Friday, July 22, 2011

Lasagna Cupcakes

These mini lasagnas are so cute and a perfect serving size, although I admit to eating more than one of them at a time because they are just so yummy! You can add whatever ingredients you want to this recipe, I just used what I had on hand at the time.

Ingredients:

1 small red onion
3 or 4 chopped mushrooms
1/2 jar or tomato sauce
1 chopped garlic clove
1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
I pkg fresh spinach
1-1/2 cups ricotta cheese
1 egg
24 square wonton wrappers
1/2 cup mozzerella cheese
olive oil
butter

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375

2. In a sauce pan with a tbs. or so of olive oil cook your onions until they start to soften up and then add the italian spices and garlic in with the mushrooms and add in the tomato sauce and let it simmer.

3. In a separate pan cook the spinach in with a bit of olive oil until it cooks down, then let it cool a few minutes

4. In a bowl add ricota cheese and an egg with the cooled off spinach.

5. Get out your muffin pan and grease it with butter then add a wonton wrapper into each muffin cup.

6. fill the wonton wrappers evenly with half of the ricotta mixture on the bottom and half the tomato sauce mixture on top. Then sprinkle with mozzerella cheese.

7. Bake for about 12 minutes or until the edges start to brown.


Monday, July 18, 2011

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins!

Lately I've been so ready for the fall season to get here, this Texas heat is icky! So I was inspired to make pumpkin muffins which are my favorite and remind me of the cooler weather, I had some chocolate chips left over from a previous recipe so I added them into the muffin mixture. I also made them a  tad healthier by substituting in a half a cup of oat flour rather than using all bleached white flour, you could also use apple sauce instead of the vegetable oil to make them even healthier but I was out of apple sauce. I could eat these muffins all day long they are so yummy and I'll pretend it's not over 100 degress outside, think cool thoughts. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Ingredients:

2 eggs
1 cup sugar
8 oz canned pumpkin
3/4 cup vegetable oil (or apple sauce)
1 cup white flour
1/2 cup oat flour
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees

2. Mix the eggs, sugar, pumpkin and oil together

3. Add all the dry ingredients and mix it all together

4. Fold in the chocolate chips and pour into muffin tins

5. Cook for about 15 minutes or until they look slightly golden on top