Raw chocolate banana bars

With the whole "RAW" craze going on I was bound to end up eating something deemed raw eventually, but I was pleasantly surprised that, That something was absolutely delicious! It was a brownie of all things and the best brownie I have ever had.....Seriously!  My sister in-law is the one who concocted this lovely desert ( you can visit her blog here  on raw and healthy eating) and now I decided to give er a go myself.  However, I must say that my desert is not truly "raw" because I did not have raw cacao or raw peanut butter.

1/2 cup oatmeal

1/2 walnuts (or your fave nut)

1/4 unsweetened peanut butter

10-12 dates

2 tbs cacao powder

1 banana 

Combine all ingredients except banana in food processor until they can be formed.  Press in a cookie sheet and top with banana!  Easy and pretty good. Now I must say that after my daughter picked her bananas off she wouldn't touch the "raw crust" not even after I made it into a turtle..........

Enjoy!!!

Rhubarb Fool

Easy refreshing summer desert, what more could you ask for?

1 Pound rhubarb chopped

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup cream

1/8 cup powdered sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

Boil rhubarb with 1/2 cup sugar, cinnamon and 1 cup water.  Let simmer for about 10 minutes or until rhubarb is tender.  Let cool.

Whip cream and powdered sugar together.  

Layer rhubarb and cream in glass dish and serve!

Peanut butter parfait bars

I made these bars to cure a peanut butter craving and I think I'll keep the recipe around for a while

Frosting

1 can sweet and condensed milk

1 pckge cream cheese

3/4 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup powdered sugar

Batter

1 1/2 cups flower

3/4 cups sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup nuts ( any kind you like)

1 tbs vanilla

1/4 cup milk

Extra nuts for topping

Mix batter ingredients together.  Put in baking dish and bake at 350 for 25 minutes.  Let cool.  Whip cream cheese and peanut butter together, slowly add condensed milk then sugar.  Put on top of your cake....YUM!

Green Chile Halibut

On the 4th of July I was lucky enough to go out on a skiff with the family and check out another Island.  We set out some halibut gear and caught seven!!!  We let three go though because they were about 70 pounds each!

After and exhausting 4th I did not want to cook a big meal let alone go to the grocery store, so I used what I had and made a delic quick meal with fresh halibut that I helped pull in!

Ok, so after that most appetizing picture; I'll get to the recipe...

1 pound cubed halibut

1- 8 oz can diced green chiles

salt and pepper

onion powder

rice or mexi rice

black beans 

corn

tortillas

Put your fish in a baking dish, salt, pepper and onion powder it and cover with the can of green chiles.  Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.  Serve with your sides and tortillas....Told you I was being lazy, but this turned out delicious and will definitely be one of my Go-To dishes.

  

1st place in the Seafood Cook Off!

Here in Kodiak, AK we have an annual festival with rides and games and a Sea food cook off , which I decided to enter......and won 1st place!  Woo Hoo!  Anyways that was actually back in May and well, I kinda forgot about it.  Until now, and I want to share my recipe with you.  This is a great appetizer dish that almost everyone enjoys.

Smoked Salmon Flower

1#  Kodiak Island Smokehouse smoked red salmon

1 pkge. cream cheese ( softened)

1 small onion ( minced)

2 cloves pressed garlic

3 Tbs milk

1 cup cheddar cheese (grated) and divided in 2

6 jalapenos sliced

1/2 cup vinegar

2 cups sugar 

2 large apples cut into small pieces 

Break up the salmon and put into a stand up mixer.  Add cream cheese, onion, milk and garlic.  Mix on low until well combined.  Incorporate 1/2 cup of cheese.  Form into a ball and place on a piece of plastic wrap.  Cover with the remaining cheese (like you would a cheese ball) .  Wrap up and refrigerate for one hour. 

*In a sauce bring jalapenos,apples, vinegar and sugar to a boil.  Reduce to  a simmer and let go until it has thickened.  Let cool.

Unwrap the salmon ball and place on plate put jalapeno mixture on top and surround with crackers. 

4th of July food: "hot dog" cookies

HOT DOG, its the 4th of July!

These cookies are easy to make and even the kids can help!

1 C. butter

1/2 Powdered sugar

2 C. flour

1 Tsp. vanilla

red food coloring

Yellow frosting

Beat butter and sugar then vanilla and flower.  Take 1 cup of dough and dye it red ( about 6 drops).  Chill all dough for one hour.  Cut the red dough in 16 equal pieces and shape into the 2 1/2 inch dogs.  Take the remaining dough and form into 3 inch logs and place a slit down the middle and spread apart with your fingers.  Insert the dog and bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes.   When cool squeeze a line of yellow frosting "mustard" down the middle.  Wa la! You have hot dogs!  

Note:  I always make my own frosting, but I couldn't see making a whole batch of buttercream for such a small amount of frosting....so I just bough a tube of yellow decorator frosting.