Posts tagged ‘blueberry’

Oct 4

Muffins You Can Enjoy With Coffee

Soon after my third child was born, I had went a couple of weeks, maybe three?, where I didn’t bake anything. I was experiencing withdrawal symptoms! I found that cookies were easiest and quickest for me to bake, so I entered a cookie phase. A couple of good cookies from the cookie phase were the cowboy cookies, which were laughably easy, and the chocolate chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.

After the cookie phase ended, I entered a muffin phase! Muffins from this phase were jumbo cinnamon struesel coffee cake muffins…

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This was the second time I had made these; for some reason, I can’t fill the muffin tins with the right amount of batter and both times the batter overflowed. That’s fine, they were still really satisfying with my morning coffee. Read more

Jul 13

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Mixed Berry Iced Tea

Besides lemonade, one of the main drinks I associate with summer is iced tea. I decided to make a pitcher of mixed berry iced tea to help cool off on these warm summer afternoons.

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The mixed berries I used were a frozen mix of blackberries, blueberries and raspberries. I used ice cubes and frozen cranberries for extra cool-ness. The original recipe comes from Taste of Home and used just raspberries instead of mixed berries.

Raspberry Iced Tea
Adapted from Taste of Home
Makes 4 quarts

Ingredients
4 quarts water
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 package (12 ounces) frozen unsweetened raspberries
10 individual tea bags
1/4 cup lemon juice

Method
In a Dutch oven, bring water and sugar to a boil. Remove from the heat; stir until sugar is dissolved. Add the raspberries, tea bags and lemon juice. Cover and steep for 3 minutes.

Strain; discard berries and tea bags. Refrigerate until chilled. Serve over ice.

Apr 2

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Strawberry-Blueberry-Banana Smoothie

We recently purchased a popsicle mold and have been drowning in frozen smoothie pops ever since. The following recipe has been my favorite so far, which is adapted from a bag of frozen strawberries.

Personally, I prefer unfrozen smoothies, but my daughter prefers them in frozen form, which is just as well. I’m glad she likes this healthy treat – she can barely even wait for them to freeze!

Strawberry-Blueberry-Banana Smoothies
Can be frozen or simply drank fresh from the blender!
Makes approximately 3-4 cups

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups whole, fresh or frozen strawberries, mostly thawed
1 banana, sliced
1/2 cup fresh or frozen blueberries, mostly thawed
1 1/2 cups low fat milk
1 cup low fat yogurt, any flavor (I used vanilla)
3 teaspoons sugar

Method
Place all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Immediately enjoy, or pour into popsicle molds to freeze for a cold treat.