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No bake Oatmeal Raisin Protein Bites

Hannah Lucio

My husband and I absolutely loves Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. I was about to make my normal Healthy No-bake Energy Bites and Simple To Make and thought….hmm maybe I can try to make a different version that everyone would love. Ya’ll!! They are SO good! They taste like oatmeal raisin cookie dough. De-licious!! I really hope you get to try them and let me know how you like them.

So I started out with the typical Oatmeal, peanut butter, flaxseed, honey, vanilla but this time I added; raisins and cinnamon. This time around I did not add a lot of cinnamon because I’ve done that before in recipes and it was not good. So to keep it on the “safe side” I added just enough. You can also tweak the recipe if you like more raisins and cinnamon. Oh and next time I’ll add my typical walnuts, I am out of those currently. 

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Ingredients: 

1 cup Oatmeal

1/2 cup Natural Peanut Butter (smooth this time) 

1/2 cup Flaxseed

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/3 cup Organic Honey

2 tsp Vanilla

1/2 cup Organic Raisins

1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon 

Directions:

Put all ingredients in a food processor (I use a Ninja) and mix together. You’ll probably have to stop the mixer to scrap the sides to get it completely mixed together.

Once all mixed together, put it in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes and then form them into little bites. 

I store them in a glass container and leave them in the fridge until I eat them. 
Enjoy!!

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Pizza recipe revised and absolutely perfect! 

Hannah Lucio

When I first set out to make pizza at home from scratch I found one recipe and kept tweaking it. I now have the best and most delicious recipe that I want to share. I love simple, I love easy and I love good food! I also found a pizza sauce without sugar added and without other junk added. It was maybe a dollar more but gosh, for $2.50 and using only half the bottle is darn cheap. Picture is down below.  Also, I cut out the oil out in the recipe and the crust is spot on amazing! I hope you get to try this recipe out, we absolutely loved it. 

Ingredients:

1 cup warm water

2 1/2 tsp yeast (I only use Fleischmann’s brand)

1/2 tsp raw sugar or regular sugar if that’s all you have 

1 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp salt

2 1/2 Cups White whole wheat flour (I only use King Arthur brand)or just regular white flour if that’s all you have

Shredded cheese

Pepperoni or whatever topping you like

Pizza pan
Directions:

Warm you mixing bowl by adding hot water and let it sit for 1 minute. Pour out the water and then start your first ingredient.

Add 1 cup of warm water to mixing bowl, yeast and sugar. Mix the yeast mixture enough to make sure all the ingredients are wet. Let it sit for about 5 minutes until yeast rises. 

Add flour, salt and garlic powder and mix the ingredients with a dough hook until all are mixed together. 

Lightly flour a counter and put dough on it. Let it sit for about 10 minutes. Sometimes I let it sit more if I get sidetracked, which is very easy with kids. Ha! 

Now is the time to preheat your oven to 425 degrees. 

Once the dough is done sitting, roll the dough out into a circle or whatever shape you need for your pan. I make sure the dough is about an inch over on the sides so I can roll it up to make crust. 

Lightly spay your pan with cooking spray.

Put the pizza dough on pan and roll the sides up two times. Make a small crust border. Not sure how else to explain it, ha! 

Set aside and let it sit for about 10 minutes. I know, sounds like a lot of waiting…..but you want a really good tasting homemade pizza right? It also gives me time to clean up the kitchen and tend to my boys. That way I don’t have a mess to clean up after dinner is done. 

After the 10 minutes, add the pizza sauce.

Add the desired amount of cheese

Add your toppings. Our favorite is pepperoni. I use the Applegate pepperoni brand. It’s way healthier than other brand. And they do not have nitrates in it. Thank goodness for that. 

Put in your preheated oven for 20 minutes. Check the pizza to see if it is brown on the edges. If not keep in the oven for 5 more minutes. Our pizza came out perfect in 25 minutes. 

Cut and enjoy! Try not to eat the whole pizza at once. Hehe! 
If you have any questions just ask me! 

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Homemade Tortilla’s

Hannah Lucio

Making tortillas at home is super easy. I also really love the fact that you know every ingredient that is in them. Takes about 30 minutes from beginning to end so you can make them last minute.

 

Ingredients:

4 Cups All-Purpose Flour

1 tsp Salt

2 tsp Baking Powder

2 Tbsp softened butter (I used salted)

1 1/2 Cup Water

Directions:

Put flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl and whisk together. Put the softened butter in and whisk together well. Add the water in slowly and mix together. Place onto a lightly floured counter. Knead the dough for a minute or two and then divide into 20 pieces. Roll each piece into a ball.

Preheat a large cast iron pan (Or skillet pan) over medium heat. Roll a ball into a thin round tortilla. Place onto the preheated pan and cook until it bubbles, about 1-2 minutes. Flip to the other side and cook for another minute. Place warm tortilla onto a plate covered with parchment paper. I place a dry and clean kitchen towel over the cooked tortillas.

And, enjoy!

 

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Simple Homemade Bread Recipe

Hannah Lucio

This bread recipe I have been making for a really long time. I just started to make it again because it is way cheaper, you know all the ingredients and it is super yummy! Homemade bread just tastes SO much better than store bought. In my opinion. It is super easy and there are not a ton of ingredients.

Here are a few tips to start out with: I make it with almond milk. Almond milk? Last night when I made it, I swear it actually tastes better than when I used regular milk. Try it out! I used Silk almond milk Regular. Im sure you can use any kind but that is what I used. If you want to use cow milk that is perfectly fine also, just giving you an option. I also used salted butter last night, I really do not like salt but when I went to Costco and bought butter…..I accidentally bought salted :(((  So if all you have is salted, It’ll still taste yummy! Also, this time around I used unbleached white flour, that was all I had in the house. I have used whole wheat also and it tastes great! If you want to try to have whole wheat flour I suggest starting with 50/50 blend. 50% white, 50% whole wheat. Whole wheat flour bakes a little differently so the bread texture is a little different. I have found that you may need more of less whole wheat flour versus white flour alone.

What you need: 2 bread pans or just cut the recipe in half to make 1 loaf. Easy. Cooking spray or just use butter in the loaf pan(s) so the bread does not stick. And of course the ingredients 🙂

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup Silk Almond milk

3 Tbsp Sugar

2 tsp salt

3 Tbsp melted butter

5 tsp yeast (I only use fleischmann’s yeast=amazing)

1 cup warm water

7 cups flour

Warm up your mixing bowl by filling the bottom up with warm/hot water. Let it sit for a minute and pour out.

  1. In warm mixing bowl add 1 cup warm water, yeast and 1 tsp of the 3 Tbsp. Set the rest of the sugar aside for later. Let yeast rise for about 5 minutes.
  2. Add melted butter, almond milk, sugar and salt to the yeast mixture. Mix until just mixed together.
  3. Add 4 cups of flour and mix with bread hook.
  4. Add 1 cup of flour at a time until your dough is sticky but not stuck to your finger when you touch it.
  5. Once you are done adding the flour mix the dough on low for 10 minutes.
  6. Take dough out and place onto a lightly floured surface.
  7. Grease the mixing bowl, I used butter to lightly grease the bowl. You can also you cooking spray if you like.
  8. Put the dough back into the greased bowl and place a clean and dry kitchen towel over the top. Let it rise for 1 hour. While you are waiting I suggest greasing the bread pans. Again, I use butter to grease the pans but you can use cooking spray. Clean up and relax and drink some coffee while your at it 🙂
  9. Once the hour is up; punch the dough down 2-3 times. Put the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Cut the dough in half and set one-half aside. Roll one-half of the dough into a rectangle. Make sure the length is not longer than the bread pan. Tightly roll the dough (width wise) and pinch together so there is no seem. Place the bread into the greased bread pan.
  10. Repeat with the other half of the dough.
  11. Cover the bread pans with a clean and dry kitchen towel and let it rise for one hour.
  12. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. I normally turn the oven on when I have 15 minutes left to wait.
  13. Place the bread carefully onto the middle rack in the oven and close the oven door super slowly so the bread does not collapse.
  14. Bake for 30 minutes
  15. What I’m going to tell you will sound painful but I honestly have never burnt may finger and I’ve done this A LOT. Put spit onto your finger and tap the middle of the pan to see if it sizzles. If it does then your bread is done. I was taught to test bread and rolls that way since I can even remember.
  16. Take bread out of pans right away. Let it cool on a cooling rack before slicing (good luck with that, HA) I love fresh out of the oven bread. Yum Yum

 

Enjoy!! I hope you love the bread as much as we do. We are already more than halfway done with the first loaf and I just made it last night.

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Pizza night!

Hannah Lucio

Since our “vacation” ended on Sunday, we are getting back to our normal routine. Saving, saving and more saving. Pizza Fridays are one of the main things. Well….homemade pizza that is. I have been taking a break and we have been eating out and ordering pizza instead. It was a nice break but I have to be honest, I love making homemade stuff. It just tastes different and better, in my opinion. I had been experimenting with recipes for pizza and its been OK. But, I finally found my old recipe that I used to make in California. I used it tonight and was so thankful to be able to find it again. I absolutely love it and am going to share the recipe with you all.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 tsp (1 (.25 ounce) pack) Active dry yeast

1 tsp White sugar

1 cup Warm water

2 1/2 cups White flour

2 Tbsp Olive Oil

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Garlic powder

 

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees

In medium bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Let it stand till creamy, about 10 minutes

Stir in flour, salt, garlic powder and oil. Beat until smooth. Let it rest for 5 minutes.

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat or roll into a round. Transfer crust to a lightly greased pizza pan. Put in preheated oven for 10 minutes to get the bottom crust cooked a little bit.  Take out and put on your sauce and toppings. Bake in preheated oven for 10-20 more minutes until golden brown. Let pizza cool for 5 minutes before serving.

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Yummy!!

 

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