Madhu Knits and Cooks

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Tag: Cooking — Breakfast

  • Andy’s Papaya Shakes (Vegan and Wonderful!)

    This weekend, Andy made some Papaya shakes with soy milk.  They were incredibly tasty and healthy, so I asked him to email the recipe to me for madhuknitsandcooks.com.  They are not too sweet and wonderfully creamy.  I highly recommend you try them! 

    Papaya_shake_with_cinnamon

    Here is the recipe, which makes 4 large servings or 8 smaller (approx. 8 oz.) servings:

    • 1 ripened papaya that is skinned, pitted and cubed
    • 1/2 large carton of cold vanilla soy milk (approx. 4 cups)
    • 3-4 tablespoons of sugar
    • 1 teaspoon of vanilla
    • Ground cinnamon

    Note:  If you have a standard size blender, you will probably be able to only make two shakes at a time so just halve the ingredients for each blend cycle.  These directions reflect usage of a standard size blender.

    Directions:

    • Place half of cubed papaya in the blender
    • Cover the papaya with soy milk
    • Add 1-2 tablespoons of sugar
    • Add 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
    • Blend until there are no more papaya chunks (the mixture is smooth)
    • Pour into glasses
    • Add some ground cinnamon as a garnish.  Although you may think that cinnamon makes no sense at all in this recipe (as I did), just try it — you won’t regret it!
    • Serve immediately

    Papaya_shake

  • Mouthwatering Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

    I’ve made a positive life change recently — I’ve been buying fruit on a regular basis.  Unfortunately though I have not been eating my fruit before it ripens too much, but this has created a whole new baking opportunity for me with bananas which I ALWAYS buy too many of than I can eat! 

    So I recently made fabulous banana chocolate chip muffins, using the Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home Muffin Madness recipe.  I highly recommend picking up this book, especially for vegetarians.  All of the recipes I have made thus are easy and very tasty, including these muffins which I could not keep my hands off of!  And as you can tell, others also couldn’t keep their hands off of them because the banana smell out of the oven will make your mouth water.

    Banana_chocolate_chip_muffins

  • Chocolate Chip Scones

    Last week I made some chocolate chip scones for my law school "small group" using an altered recipe from the February 2006 edition of Vegetarian Times.   They turned out to be fairly moist and ridiculously good.

    Chocolate_chip_scones

    I wish I could provide a link to this recipe, but unfortunately it is not available online (and I don’t want to violate copyright laws), so please so to your local library to get that edition.  In general, I would highly suggest that magazine — it’s full of recipes that are simple, healthy and really tasty.