The Best Cookies I’ve Had in AGES!!
January 25, 2009 at 1:13 pm | In PDD-NOS, cooking, food, housework, motherhood, parenthood, sensory processing dysfunction | 2 CommentsPart of my weekend alone project was to bake something. Even though everyone is home now, I still am working through my list. I did get my house cleaned, really clean. It looks pretty good, if I do say so myself. 
So it was time to bake!
I had a bag of butterscotch chips, so I surfed the web looking for an oatmeal butterscotch chip recipe. I found one, but altered it so much that I am now calling it mine. However, I like you, so I will share.
Banana Oatmeal Scotchies
[this makes 4 dozen cookies]
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (I actually use a flour mixture, see below)
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 bananas
3 cups quick or old-fashioned oats
1 2/3 cups (11 oz. package) NESTLE TOLL HOUSE Butterscotch Flavored Morsels
1/4 pecans (optional)
Preheat oven to 375.
Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, and banans extract in large mixer bowl. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in oats,pecans, and morsels. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
Bake for 7 to 8 minutes for chewy cookies; 9 to 10 minutes for crisp cookies. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
They are wonderful! Even my picky sensory child liked them!
Flour mixture (from The Sneaky Chef by Missy Chase Lapine)
1 Cup White Flour
1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
1 Cup Wheat Germ
Mix it up and use it any time the recipe calls for flour. I use it all the time. My kids don’t even notice it anymore. Even texture sensitive boy!
My cat enjoyed my day as well.
OK I just stuck that in, because I thought Stitch was cute.
Thanksgiving
November 25, 2008 at 9:45 pm | In cooking, family, food, motherhood | Leave a CommentThis year I am responsible for making sweet potatoes, mocha pecan pie, and a French silk pie. The mocha pecan pie is a yearly favorite. It is from the cookbook, Sundays at Moosewood. It is an amazing pie! Even those that don’t like pecan pie, love this recipe.
The sweet potato recipe that I am using this year is from the Ocean Spray website. It looks interesting and uses bananas. I will let you know how it tastes.
Ok and I admit the French Silk is from a mix.
How about you? What are your favorite recipes for Thanksgiving?
Yummy recipe–OK kids aren’t into it, but…
November 13, 2008 at 7:17 pm | In Autism, PDD-NOS, cooking, family, food, kids, motherhood, parenthood, sensory processing dysfunction | 1 CommentI made an acorn squash tonight with applesauce, brown sugar, and raisins. It was really good.
I left out the nuts as I knew my texture boy would hate that. We can’t mix textures too much and nuts are a no-no. Todd and I like the squash. The boys made an instant judgement call and had to be forced to try it.
They didn’t die from it, but they were very dramatic in their interpretations. I won’t share those as my BOYS have gotten into gross bathroom humor lately.
To be honest, I think they will eventually eat it. It is just one of those things they will have to see again and again. They will have to get used to the smell, sight, and eventually they will eat it. It takes E a lot longer than his older brother, but sometimes we get there.
At least E tried it. I couldn’t get him to try a beet.
E says try these “delecioso” pumpkin chocolate chip muffins!
September 30, 2008 at 8:04 pm | In Autism, PDD-NOS, family, food, kids, motherhood | Leave a CommentWe know a recipe is a winner when Mr. Picky will eat it. E loved these muffins tonight. I loved that Amy at Angry Chicken had done all the hard work of making it pretty healthy for me! (Thanks Amy!)
The only thing that I modified at all was I put the flour mix from The Sneaky Chef instead of the other flour. That mix is here. I also added walnuts and extra chocolate chips (OK I had to make certain E would try them. )
It was such a crisp cool day and with pumpkin muffins baking in my oven—mmmmmm!!!!! I love fall!
Apples and Pears
September 12, 2008 at 6:48 pm | In cooking, kids, motherhood | 2 CommentsI’m bummed. We have the opportunity to take our children over to pick apples and pears off of our friends fruit trees. I really wanted to do it tomorrow. However, it looks like rain, rain, and more rain! I had been envisioning a feast of fruit pies, tarts, and whatever else I could dream up.
I guess I will have to make due with this recipe for homemade poptarts, oh and the revisionwhich uses Nutella. Shucks! I will let you know how they taste tomorrow!
Back to School Lunches for My Picky Eater
September 6, 2008 at 4:37 pm | In ADHD, Autism, PDD-NOS, Working mom, cooking, family, kids, motherhood, parenthood, school, sensory processing dysfunction | 2 CommentsI have been searching far and wide for recipes for my son’s lunch. His food choices are more limited than the average kid’s. I typically have to send lunch with him 3-4 times a week. My friend Suzanne started me thinking about this. After I read her blog entry about lunches this summer, I realized I send Uncrustables almost every day he takes a cold lunch. I say ALMOST. I did send a few other things, but not many.
So I have been doing some research of some lunches my boys would eat. Here is what I have come up with.
- pizza bread cut to fit in a thermos
- chicken nuggets
- ravioli
- grilled cheese cut to fit in a thermos
- pinwheel tortilla sandwiches (I haven’t tried this yet. It could go both ways. I will start with pbj).
- dip (I didn’t think of sending dip with his veggies–again peanut butter or catalina dressing.)
- bugs on a log (E won’t eat raisins, but he will eat choc chips on it.)
- Meatball sandwich (put meatballs in thermos, so bread isn’t soggy)
- macaroni and cheese
- yogurt with vanilla wafers or animal crackers to dip in it
- Anything resembling pizza–pizza quesadilla or pizza pita
- ramen noodles (older son only)-put leftover chicken in and veggies
- cold meat sandwich
- hot dog
- banana dog-pb on a hot dog bun take a banana and put it inside (shocked me that he would eat this)
- spaghetti
There were a lot of ideas that basically were about presentation. Cutting the sandwiches with cookie cutters or into puzzle pieces. Getting fun napkins on clearance from Target or the party store. Using stickers on their bags. I have used this book, Lunch Box Letters, since kindergarten to send little notes in the lunch. My kids love it because it comes with a joke. We have went through two of these books.
As I write this I feel as if I am possibly opening up myself to some criticism. I am a little granola crunchy, and have long given up the complete healthy and organic menu for my kids. The reason? E wouldn’t eat. I mean truly wouldn’t eat even though he was hungry. He has sensory issues. Lots of people write his response to things as him being a spoiled brat. Sensory issues are very real and often physically painful to the children that have them. His motor development also changes his diet. His chewing muscles aren’t quite as developed as most. He tends to choose softer things. Not always, but he will never choose a chewy piece of meat. I have to insist.
My kids seem to like their new menu this year. I will add new things when I find them. If you find something yummy, let me know!
Resources I used:
I wanted to share this recipe!
August 18, 2008 at 6:25 am | In cooking, family, kids | 1 CommentOk these are the most wonderful cookies! I just loved them when a grandma at the theatre made them for intermission treats. She shared the recipe with me, and I am sharing with you.
Cowboy Cookies
- 2 sticks of room temp oleo
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1tsp soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup coconut
- 2 cups oatmeal
- 2 cups flour
- bag of choc chips
- nuts of choice
“Oven at 325 degrees. Cream oleo, sugars, and eggs–add other ingredients. Might need more flour. Sometimes I use half choc chips and half peanut butter chips. I put the cookies in the freezer after baking–they are always just like the first day! “
Now those are her directions. The bottoms of my cookies were burning before the tops were done, so I upped it to 350 degrees. Then it worked fine. I may try to cut down the sugar the next time I make them. These are the cookies that I made this weekend to freeze.
Muffins..mmm…yummy!
June 30, 2008 at 10:52 am | In cooking, kids | 1 CommentThis morning I realized that I had bananas, strawberries, and some raspberries that no one was going to be eating anytime soon. So I decided to make muffins for breakfast and the freezer. I found this delicious recipe for strawberry-banana muffins. They are wonderful!!! For my raspberry muffins I tried a different recipe, but it wasn’t quite as yummy as the first recipe. Next time I will probably use the first recipe, but switch out the fruits. The second recipe had a slight aftertaste that the first didn’t have.
I also used the flour mixture from Sneaky Chef. It is a combination of white and whole wheat flour as well as wheat germ. My super picky eater ate the strawberry-banana muffins!
Not to mention my house smelled so good!
Um…Ok…not quite what I imagined, but my own fault
June 18, 2008 at 3:27 pm | In cooking, family, housework, motherhood | 7 CommentsSo I read all of these amazing women’s blogs. They homeschool, do art with their children, make their own clothes, can jelly, and are very hands on moms. Lots of them put pictures and recipes on their blogs. In fact they were who inspired me to blog my own little life adventure.
That being said, I made bread today. From scratch, not frozen from Hy-Vee’s frozen bread aisle. Really… I did. Want to see the picture?
Shut up Suzanne! 
Quit it.
Stop laughing at me.
Judy, Julie, you quit laughing too.
Hmmmpphhhfff
I love The Sneaky Chef! Picky son ate spinach, broccoli, peas, and squash tonight!
June 6, 2008 at 8:41 pm | In ADHD, Autism, PDD-NOS, cooking, family, motherhood, sensory processing dysfunction | 2 CommentsFeeding a child on the autism spectrum can be quite a challenge. OK sometimes just feeding kids can be a challenge. However, tonight I got him to eat bbq meatballs and mac and cheese. Mac and cheese is really a no brainer, but he had no idea that I loaded it up with squash (baby food in this case.) He can tell when I put carrots in it, but not squash.
The meatballs were wonderful, but a little time consuming. I made enough for spaghetti later this week. They were a hit with both of my boys and their visiting friend! I used the recipe for the meatballs from The Sneaky Chef. They were loaded with spinach, broccoli, and peas. They also had wheat germ in them. I used half ground turkey and half hamburger, but my kids are used to that. If you are going to try to switch to ground turkey go slowly in the combination.
The bbq sauce that I made is actually one that I normally use for parties, but it was requested. It is 3 tablespoons of grape jelly and 3/4 cup of bbq sauce melted in the skillet. I was so surprised that they ate ALL of the food. I had no leftovers! It was a hit and definitely a make again!
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