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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Dinner: Chicken Ranch Tacos
Cravebox: Coffee Lovers (Limited Edition)
Triple Berry Crumble
I made a triple berry crumble for Thanksgiving to bring as a dessert to my boyfriend’s aunt’s house for his side of the families Thanksgiving celebration. Secretly, this was a Weight Watchers recipe – but I’ve made it once before last summer or the summer before and I knew it was really yummy. The only thing I switched up in this recipe was that I used a frozen triple berry mix (blueberries, blackberries and raspberries) instead of two different fresh berries (blueberries and raspberries). I also made 1 ½ times the recipe so I could spread it a little further incase it was a hit on the dessert table.
Here’s the recipe that I used (brought back down to a single recipe, not 1 1/2):
4 cups triple mixed frozen berries
¾ cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup unpacked light brown sugar
6 tablespoons butter, melted
Mix flour and brown sugar in a medium bowl and mix together. Remove 3 tablespoons of the mixture.
Place berries in a medium bowl, sprinkle with the set aside 3 tablespoons of flour/sugar mixture. Gently toss the berries to coat.
Add the melted butter into the flour/sugar mixture and stir continuously until combined. It’ll look a little lumpy, but the more you stir, the wetter the mixture gets. It’ll look like a very loose, raw cookie dough.
Place the berries in the bottom of a baking dish (you can spray with Pam if you wish) then crumble the topping onto the berries.
Bake in a 350 degree oven – yields 8 servings.
Homemade Beef Stew w/ Jamaican Dumplings
Dessert: Pumpkin Pie Dip
This is one of the desserts I made for Thanksgiving this year. I love pumpkin pie, but pumpkin pie is bogged down with a lot of unnecessary sugars. So to have something pumpkin and to not have to deal with the points (Weight Watchers) I decided to make something that was light and a dip rather than a pie that could turn into a trigger food.
I found this recipe on Skinnytaste.com and thought it sounded so good. I had all the ingredients in my cabinet, except I did not have the fat free Greek yogurt so I picked that up on my trip to the store and off and running I went.
I will say I would serve this with graham cracker squares or cinnamon squares. I know apples is a healthy way but the sweetness of the apple makes the dip almost ungodly sweet. You are putting brown sugar in the dip so it increases the sweetness in it anyway – but the apple slices, in my opinion, put it over the top. Perhaps if you do want apples I would suggest something tart, like a Granny Smith. Nonetheless it was a pretty yummy dip.
If you want to try this recipe for yourself, you can find it here: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2010/11/pumpkin-pie-dip.html