Monday, March 5, 2012

Pinterest Food

I like pictures. It is very, very rare that I will cook something if I do not have a picture of the food I am supposed to be making. 90% of all things I cook these days are recipes off of Pinterest because of the lovely photos. Juvenile? Maybe. The point is, it causes me to cook food so that is a big plus. This weekend I tried three recipes. That's a lot of cooking for me in a 2 day span!

1. Brussel sprouts and lemon garlic sauce

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Verdict: Pretty good! It fit nicely into my diet and was surprisingly tasty. Would I normally choose this over a burger and fries? No way. But because I have to eat veggies, I must say this was way better than I thought it would be and did the job.

2. Light Banana Bread

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Verdict: Nasty as hell! You replace sugar with honey, but that wasn't really the problem. Instead of oil you use applesauce, which I always do anyway when baking things, and I didn't right down the amount and was too lazy to get on the iPad to find out so I guessed. That was strike one. Secondly, due to my diet, I bought I ridiculously expensive bag of gluten free all purpose flour that smelled like crap and tasted even worse. Nasty, nasty, nasty. It might be okay with regular flour though.

3. Mini cherry pies

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The nuggets helped with this one!

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Verdict: Delicious. Can you really go wrong with hot cherry pie, smothered in ice cream and made by the most adorable twins in the world? Too easy! But so fun for the kids!

4 comments:

  1. Nice job making healthy food! Those mini cherry pies really got my interest :)~

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  2. Nice! I like to have pictures with my recipes too:)...

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  3. Mmm, those brussel sprouts look great. Ok, so do the pies, but I need the sprouts more than the pie ; )

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  4. I want the recipe for those cherry pies - but I can't find it attached to the interest image. Where can I find it??? (can you tell my desperation in needing baked goods?!?!)

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