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I'm still trying to use up my bushel of pears! We will be sharing a couple more pear recipes with you because between Lindsey and I, we had two big boxes of these juicy things! But today, I'm going to share my version of these fairly healthy muffins!
I didn't have any wheat ground, or I may have made them with whole wheat flour. I love the warm taste of whole wheat and honey together. Even so, made with white flour, they are delicious and taste a little bit like Fall! Honey Pear Muffins make a perfect light breakfast or a snack anytime of the day.
As the name Honey Pear Muffins lets you know, there are no refined sugars in this recipe, only honey. Plus good things like oatmeal, juicy pears and warm spices. When your pears are getting a little ripe and you need to use them up, this is the perfect go to recipe. I hope you enjoy them!
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I'm making cinnamon rolls with this recipe right now! I'm so excited to bite into one when they are finished baking!
I love potato bread and it has always been a favorite with my family as well. It is always so moist and fluffy. I had never attempted to make it before this week. But, when I was looking through some old recipe books, I came across this recipe for Potato Rolls and I decided to make a few adaptations and give it a try. The original recipe called for butter, but I substituted coconut oil. When I mashed the potatoes, I used a little almond milk in them instead of regular milk. I wasn't sure if the mashed potatoes had to have milk or anything in them, but I put some in just to make sure that they were smooth and well mashed.
The result was perfect! The rolls are so tall, light, fluffy and moist! My husband and I ate them warm from the oven with butter and honey.
You may remember that a while ago I was able to get a bunch of potatoes and can them. That made it super easy to make my mashed potatoes for this recipe this time around!
I used the Bosch to mix my dough. It is still super hot here in Phoenix, so I waited until evening to make these so my house wouldn't get to hot during the daytime. The Bosch helps to speed up the process of bread making so that I wasn't up all night finishing these.
I was able to put 24 rolls in my extra long Pyrex baking pan. Then, there was a little dough left over, so I turned that dough into about 8 cinnamon rolls!
This recipe is very simple to make and I am sure this is going to become my new go to roll recipe! I hope you will give them a try and you will see why!
The recipe calls for 8 cups of flour. I have found that flour amounts in bread can vary up to 2 cups! Today I only used 6-1/2 cups and the dough was perfect! So, the lesson is, don't add the flour all at once. Put in about half and start mixing it in and then add more as needed a cup or two at a time.
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You may remember reading about the giant zucchini I had growing in my garden when I came home from my recent trip to California. Here is a reminder:
Generally, zucchini that large aren't as good to eat as their smaller versions are. So, I decided to dehydrate this one and try my hand at making zucchini flour!
My friend Rhonda, who is my go to fountain of knowledge, told me about having read about zucchini flour and when I looked it up, I was intrigued, so I had to give it a try. Then, I found out that Anita, my other go to fountain of knowledge, had been making different types of vegetable flours for quite some time! Have you guys heard of it or tried it? Tell me about your experience in the comments! It took me two dehydrator loads to get this giant thing totally dehydrated.
I also included a little yellow squash in my dehydrator loads.
After I had completed 2 loads, I decided to blend the squash into flour using my food processor. The idea of using zucchini squash flour is not to completely eliminate the regular all purpose flour, but to use less of the all purpose flour and add the zucchini flour as a replacement. So, when my blending of the squash yielded 1/2 cup of flour, I decided to go with that for my first try. Click on the pictures below to get more information.
I probably could have put the larger bits into the bread because it should rehydrate in liquid, but for this first time, I wanted the flour to be as fine as possible.
Now that I had this 1/2 cup of zucchini flour, I decided to adapt a zucchini recipe that I have to use the zucchini flour to make zucchini bread! This recipe makes two loaves and I have to say that this is the BEST zucchini bread that I have ever eaten! The texture is perfect, moist but not too moist. The flavor is amazing! I may have eaten half of the first loaf by myself. I don't know if it would have been this fantastic without the zucchini flour added to the recipe, but I'm going to start dehydrating more of my over abundance of zucchini to make it again! I also think that since the zucchini was fresh from my garden, the flavor of it was better to begin with. Finally, I believe the addition of the almond flavoring, though the almond flavor isn't that noticeable, really enhanced the flavor as well. All in all, this bread is terrific! *Side Note: I made this recipe again, without the zucchini flour because I hadn't gotten any ready yet. The bread is still delicious. So, if you don't have zucchini flour, you can still make it!
If you have an over abundance of zucchini in your garden, this is a great way to use it and store it for future use! Just use a vacuum sealer or O2 packets to keep the moisture out. You can also make flour out of other vegetables in the same way. What a great way to sneak in veggies into your family's diet!
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This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support. On my calendar of obscure holidays, I noticed that Friday is Make a Gift Day! Well, I've already been making gifts, but I took this as a challenge and decided to come up with something different to make. I perused Pinterest and as I looked through my own board of gift ideas, I saw this adorable treat basket that I had almost forgotten about! The directions for this basket made from 1 sheet of paper can be found on downhomeinspiration.com. This basket is made so simply and inexpensively with 1 sheet of 12 x 12 decorative paper and some ribbon! You can use paper, or in my case I used decorative cardstock. And, because it is the holidays, I added a larger bow at the top! I love how these paper baskets turned out, and you can fill them with any treats that you would like! Kristen filled hers with mini-muffins. I thought that the 4 slots would be perfect for mini loaves of bread or different candies or cookies. In the end, I ended up filling mine with fudge, a Pumpkin Gingerbread mini-loaf, Hot Cocoa Bombs and some Hershey's Kisses! (I feel like I copped out with the Kisses, but I didn't have time to bake the cookies that I had planned on.) But, who wouldn't love to receive a cute little basket filled with treats like this? Here are a few tips that I found when making the basket:
And one more idea, these would make adorable Easter Baskets in the Spring with pastel papers! Oh! I almost forgot! I wanted to share the Pumpkin Gingerbread Recipe with you! It is delicious! I baked these in the 8 cavity mini loaf pan that I have. You can purchase it here. Here is the recipe: We wrapped them in little cellophane bags that came with to-from tags that will be great to write the recipients name on, plus the name of the bread! (I still think that 4 different mini loaves would be adorable.) I picked up my bags and tags after Christmas last year. But here is a sweet set on Amazon. I hope that you will try your hand at this cute little basket to fill with treats this year! What will you fill yours with? Here are some more ideas:
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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