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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThey are made with honey so can’t be considered truly vegan although they would be vegetarian, BUT regardless so SO delicious.<\/p>\n
Here is the recipe…<\/p>\n
Zucchini Oatmeal Cookies<\/u><\/p>\n
Pre-heat oven to 375*F
\nCook for 10-12 minutes<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00bd cup \t\tButter (I use Earth Balance)
\n\u00c2\u00be cup\t\tHoney
\n1\t\t Banana
\n2 cups\t\tFlour
\n1 tsp\t\t Baking Soda
\n1 tsp\t\t Cinnamon
\n\u00c2\u00bd tsp\t\tNutmeg
\n\u00c2\u00bc tsp\t\tSalt
\n1 cup\t\tGrated Zucchini
\n1 cup\t\tOatmeal<\/p>\n
1.\tCream the butter & Honey together
\n2.\tAdd the Banana and Beat well
\n3.\tCombine Dry ingredients and add alternating with the zucchini into the mixture
\n4.\tStir in the Oatmeal
\n5.\tDrop by teaspoons onto greased cookie sheet
\n6.\tBake for 10-12 mins<\/p>\n
They are chewy and moist and almost muffin like. In fact, I have just dumped the batter into muffin tins before and they are equally delicious, just bigger.<\/p>\n
While our cookies were baking, we decided to throw together a Hot and Sour Soup that I’ve been meaning to try out.<\/p>\n
<\/center> I’d link to the recipe, BUT….i have no idea where I got the recipe from….I was looking for crockpot soup ideas and found this one and cut and paste it into a word doc and well…..ya!<\/p>\n But, here is the recipe that I used, which was slightly (well, actually – significantly<\/em>) adapted from the original.<\/p>\n Hot and Sour Soup<\/p>\n 4 cups of Chicken Broth I’d have added green onions if I had any, but I didn’t….so this is what we threw together.<\/p>\n It simmered for a while and was AMAZING. Siah thought it was a bit spicy, but you could reduce the pepper flakes if you didn’t want it too spicy. If you like Hot and Sour soup, try it….so easy. Just throw together and let simmer….then serve.<\/p>\n We had a great time baking and cooking together. I love spending time with my kids and I feel like involving them in the “making” process gives them buy in especially when it comes to food.<\/p>\n I find that they feel a sense of ownership regarding what they’ve created and so its a great way to introduce new tastes, smells and textures.<\/p>\n And even though Siah is only two, he was a great help. He stirred the cookie batter in between additions and only once stuck the spoon to my shirt….and he dumped all the liquids into the pot after I measured them out and then added the tofu, zucchini and carrots in for me.<\/p>\n Yes, there was mess, but I find that it really wasn’t that big of a mess, took little to no effort to clean up (above and beyond what I would have created in making the cookies and soup<\/em>), it’s quality time together AND….I’m teaching him from a young age to enjoy cooking; and to cook delicious, healthy foods.<\/p>\n Those things are well worth any amount of mess that the two of us might create together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday Siah and I had an “at home” day. There was a big important meeting at the office and while I could have gone in and taken Siah with me – I believe the stress level would have been quite high and having an active two year old racing around would have only added to … Continue reading “Cooking With Siah”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-josiah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"100_5861\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4581398451_1440599064.jpg?resize=500%2C333\")
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\n4 cups of Water
\n4 T of Soy Sauce
\n4 T of Rice Wine Vinegar
\n1 T of Sesame Oil
\n1\/2 t of Red Pepper Flakes
\n1 can drained sliced water chesnuts
\nhalf a medium zucchini
\n2 carrots
\n1 package of firm tofu cut into cubes (approx 1.5 cups)<\/p>\n