Egg Bake with Cream Cheese, Bell Peppers, and Spinach (for Bible study)

O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for You.
Be their strength every morning,
Our salvation also in the time of distress. Is 33:2

Ingredients:

7 eggs
8 oz cream cheese softened
1 tsp salt

3 cloves garlic minced
1 cup chopped raw spinach
1/2 cup diced bell peppers

1 tbsp olive oil
1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions:

1. preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. beat together the eggs, cream cheese, and salt
3. stir in the garlic, spinach, and peppers
4. coat a shallow cake pan with the olive oil
5. pour the egg mixture into the pan
6. sprinkle with cheese
7. bake for ~ 30 minutes

Rhubarb Cheesecake

¹¹ Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences. ¹² We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart. ¹³ For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. ¹⁴ For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; ¹⁵ and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. 2 Cor 5

Ingredients:

Crust

1/4 stick butter (2 oz.) softened
1/4 cup water
~1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup sugar

Cheesecake

2 eggs
8 oz cream cheese softened
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Rhubarb

2 cups fresh chopped Rhubarb 
1/2 cup sugar

Directions:

1. boil the rhubarb and sugar on medium heat for ~ 10 minutes or until cooked thoroughly
2. preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
3. use an egg beater to mix the crust ingredients and spread onto the bottom and sides of a large pie pan
4. use an egg beater to blend the cheesecake ingredients and pour over crust
5. spread the rhubarb over the cheesecake batter (some of it will sink)
6. bake uncovered for ~35 minutes

Chicken Wild Rice Garbanzo Bean Casserole

O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger,

Nor chasten me in Your wrath.

² Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am pining away;

Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed.

³ And my soul is greatly dismayed;

But You, O Lord— how long? Ps 6

Ingredients:

1 cup wild rice cooked in 4 cups chicken broth

8 oz chicken cooked and cubed
1 cup cooked garbanzo beans

1/2 cup butter (1 stick)

2 large carrots peeled and diced

1 onion diced

3 cloves garlic minced

2 apples diced (I used pink lady apples)

2 tsp salt

1/4 cup fresh rosemary leaves

1/3 cup white whole wheat flour

2 cups milk

1/4 cup shredded cheese

Directions:

1. heat the butter on medium heat in a large pot

2. add carrots, onion, garlic, apples, rosemary, and salt and cook for ~ 10 minutes on medium heat while stirring

3. add flour and cook for ~ 2 minutes while stirring

4. add milk and bring to a boil while stirring

5. add the rice and chicken and bring to a boil

6. simmer on low heat for ~ 15 minutes

7. pour into large baking tray and sprinkle with cheese; cover with aluminum foil

8. bake for ~ 15 minutes at 350 degrees F (optional; if prepared ahead of time)

Cake Roll with Peanut Cream (Korean Mozart Cake)

 ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. ⁴ He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. Rev 21


Ingredients:


6 eggs (separated)
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup honey
1.5 cups whole wheat flour

2 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp salt

Peanut Cream

2 tbsp butter softened

1/4 cup honey

1/4 cup peanut flour (or 3 tbsp peanut butter)

Directions: preheat oven to 325 degrees F

1. beat the egg yolks, water, and honey on medium speed for 5 minutes

2. beat in the flour and salt

3. beat the egg white until stiff peaks form

4. fold the egg white into the batter

5. pour onto an olive oil-sprayed foil lined tray

6. bake for 25 minutes at 325 degrees F

Meanwhile, I was giving the blessed and brilliant Selah a science lesson (and my first middle school science tutoring experience)

mom already ate a piece :)

7. roll up with foil into a scroll, let cool, unroll and peel off foil

8. beat together the peanut cream ingredients and spread over entire surface of cake

9. roll up like a scroll again

Minced Meat and Cabbage Stir-fry

 ⁸ But about the Son he says,

   “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever,
   and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom.
⁹ You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
   therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
   by anointing you with the oil of joy.” Heb 1

Ingredients:

1/4 cup olive oil

1 onion diced

2 lb raw lean ground beef or turkey

1 tbsp salt

1 head cabbage chopped 

1/2 cup bell pepper diced

Directions:

1. fry the onions in the oil for ~ 5 minutes on medium heat

2. add the meat and salt and continue frying while stirring until the meat is brown (~5-7 minutes)

3. cover lid and cook for ~ 10 minutes

4. add the remaining ingredients and fry while stirring for ~ 3 minutes

5. cover lid and cook for another 5 minutes

Crepe-like Chicken

⁴³ Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king; and besides, we have a greater claim on David than you have. So why do you treat us with contempt? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?”2 Sam 19


Ingredients:


4 eggs
1/2 cup cooked chicken cut into small pieces
1/2 tsp salt
milk
olive oil


Directions:


1. heat a shallow pan to medium heat
2. in a blender or food processor, puree the chicken with the eggs and salt
3. pour the chicken mixture into a bowl and add enough milk to make a pancake consistency batter
4. coat pan lightly with olive oil
5. drop batter by tspfuls onto the pan and wait until bubbles start to form (as you would when making pancakes)
6. flip once and wait ~ 30 secs.

7. repeat steps 4-6 with remaining batter

You can use these the make wraps with whole wheat tortillas, Provolone cheese, and "Crepe-like" chicken.

Mom's 50th Birthday Pistachio Strawberry Cake

6 “‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. 7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. 8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.Lev 26


Ingredients:


3 eggs
1 cup evaporated cane juice
1/2 cup butter  (1 stick) softened
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup pistachio flour (pistachios powdered in the blender)
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt


Frosting


8 oz Neufchatel cheese softened
1/4 cup evaporated cane juice
2 tbsp butter softened


1/4 cup chopped pistachios
sliced strawberries for lining the sides of the cake


Directions


1. use an egg beater to mix the eggs, evaporated cane juice, butter, milk, and vanilla
2. beat in the pistachio flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, and salt
3. pour into a round olive oil-sprayed cake pan
4. bake for ~ 45 minutes at 350 degrees F
5. let cool and remove from pan
6. beat together the frosting ingredients and frost the top and sides of cake
7. sprinkle the chopped pistachios on top of the cake
8. line the sides of the cake with sliced strawberries

Strawberry Sweet Potato Scones

²² Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. ²³ For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴ For,

   “All people are like grass,
   and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
 ²⁵ but the word of the Lord endures forever.” I Peter 1

Ingredients:

1 egg

1/2 cup honey

1/3 cup olive oil

mashed flesh from 1 large cooked orange sweet potato

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup fresh diced strawberries

Directions:

1. beat together the egg, honey, oil, sweet potato, and vanilla

2. beat in the flour, baking powder, and salt

3. stir in the strawberries and drop by tablespoonfuls on a baking tray

4. bake for ~ 25 minutes at 350 degrees F

Honey, Lemon, and Olive Oil Squares

¹ “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. ² But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. ³ Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things,” says the LORD Almighty.Mal 4


Ingredients:


3 eggs
1 cup honey
1/2 tsp lemon oil
1/2 cup olive oil

2 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup milk

1 cup whole wheat flour

2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

Directions:

1. beat together the eggs, honey, oils, vanilla, and milk

2. beat in the flour, baking soda, and salt

3. pour into an olive oil-sprayed cake pan

4. bake for ~ 45-50 minutes at 350 degrees F

Rosemary Scalloped Potatoes and Turkey (for potluck)

²³ I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes. Ez 36

Ingredients:

7 medium potatoes sliced into 1/4" slices
3 cups cooked cubed turkey
2 oz butter cut into small pieces
1 tbsp salt
2 tsp white pepper
1 onion sliced
2 tbsp fresh rosemary leaves
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
3 cups milk

Directions:

1. stir together the first 7 ingredients
2. mix in the flour and arrange on a large baking tray
3. pour milk over the other ingredients
4. bake for ~ 2.5 hours covered at 350 degrees F (it took this long for the potatoes to cook!...but you could keep checking every 30 min)

Cranberry Walnut Bread

⁸ “‘But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home. ⁹ I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown, ¹⁰ and I will multiply the number of people upon you, even the whole house of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. ¹¹ I will increase the number of men and animals upon you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD. ¹² I will cause people, my people Israel, to walk upon you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children. Ez 36

Ingredients:

4 eggs
4 oz butter softened (1 stick)
1 cup honey
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

1. use an egg beater to beat together the liquid ingredients
2. beat in the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon
3. stir in the cranberries and walnuts
4. pour into an olive oil-sprayed cake pan
5. bake for ~ 45 minutes @ 350 degrees F

Whole Grain Crackers and Almond-coated Cheese Ball

 ¹ Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan—

 ² The people walking in darkness
   have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death^[o]
   a light has dawned.
³ You have enlarged the nation
   and increased their joy;
they rejoice before you
   as people rejoice at the harvest,
as men rejoice
   when dividing the plunder.
⁴ For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,
   you have shattered
the yoke that burdens them,
   the bar across their shoulders,
   the rod of their oppressor.
⁵ Every warrior’s boot used in battle
   and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning,
   will be fuel for the fire.
⁶ For to us a child is born,
   to us a son is given,
   and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
   Wonderful Counselor,^[p] Mighty God,
   Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
⁷ Of the increase of his government and peace
   there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
   and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
   with justice and righteousness
   from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the LORD Almighty
   will accomplish this.Is 9

Ingredients:

Crackers

1/4 cup olive oil

3 egg yolks

1/3 cup water

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

~2.5 cups whole wheat flour

Cheeseball

5 oz Neufchatel cheese

2 tbsp grated gouda cheese

2 tbsp grated cheddar cheese

2 tbsp grated provolone cheese

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 cup chopped almonds

Directions:

1. combine yolks, oil, water, salt, and baking soda

2. knead in the flour (add more if necessary) to achieve a soft rollable dough

3. use a rolling pin to roll pieces of dough very thin (~ 1/8")

4. use a pizza cutter to cut squares and arrange on a baking tray

5. bake for 12-15 minutes @ 350 degrees F

6. combine cheeses and salt and put onto a sheet of plastic wrap

7. use the plastic wrap to form the cheese into a ball

8. remove wrap and roll the ball in chopped almonds

9. arrange crackers and ball on a tray

Angel Cinnamon Cream Rolls

 ¹ In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. ² Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. ³ And they were calling to one another:

   “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
   the whole earth is full of his glory.”

 ⁴ At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

 ⁵ “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”

 ⁶ Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”Is 6

Ingredients:

Cake

3 egg white beaten until stiff peaks form

1/3 cup whole wheat flour

1/3 cup evaporated cane juice

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

Cinnamon Cream

2 tbsp Neufchatel cheese softened

2 tbsp evaporated cane juice

1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

1. combine cake ingredients and spread onto a buttter-sprayed foil-lined tray

2. bake for ~ 15 min at 350 degrees F

3. roll up like a scroll with the foil still attached and unroll

4. use a thin spatula to remove the cake from the foil and let cool

5. combine cream ingredients and spread over cake

6. roll up like a scroll and slice 

Sunflower Seed and Cranberry Sweet Potato Casserole

 ¹ Have mercy on me, O God,
   according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
   blot out my transgressions.
² Wash away all my iniquity
   and cleanse me from my sin.

 ³ For I know my transgressions,
   and my sin is always before me.
⁴ Against you, you only, have I sinned
   and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are proved right when you speak
   and justified when you judge.
⁵ Surely I was sinful at birth,
   sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
⁶ Surely you desire truth in the inner parts;
   you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.Ps 51

Ingredients:

2 cups cooked and mashed sweet potato

2 eggs

4 oz Neufchatel cheese (1/2 package)

8 oz evaporated milk

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp whole wheat flour

1/2 cup honey

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

1/4 cup dried cranberries

1/4 cup sunflower seeds

Directions:

1. blend together all ingredients

2. pour into an olive oil-sprayed cake pan

3. bake for ~45 min at 350 degrees F

Plantain Potatoes

 ⁴ Show me your ways, LORD, 
   teach me your paths. 
⁵ Guide me in your truth and teach me, 
   for you are God my Savior, 
   and my hope is in you all day long. 
⁶ Remember, LORD, your great mercy and love, 
   for they are from of old. 
⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth 
   and my rebellious ways; 
according to your love remember me, 
   for you, LORD, are good.Ps 25


Ingredients:


3 large potatoes cooked and diced
1 plantain cooked and diced
1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
1 cup milk
1 tsp salt


Directions:


1. bring the milk, salt, and cheese to a boil
2. combine with potatoes and plaintain

Cinnamon Oat and Flax seed Bars with Pear Topping

¹³ Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? ¹⁴ But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear^[b]; do not be frightened.” ¹⁵ But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, ¹⁶ keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. ¹⁷ It is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. ¹⁸For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, ¹⁹ through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison ²⁰ who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, ²¹ and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²² who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. I Peter 3


Ingredients:


Bars
1/2 cup honey
1 egg
2 oz butter (1/2 stick)
2 cups oats
1/4 cup flax seeds
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon


Pear Topping
3 pears cored and sliced
juice from 1/2 lemon
1/4 cup evaporated cane juice
1 egg
1 tsp cinnamon


Directions:


1. mix the bar ingredients together and spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
2. toss the pear topping ingredients and arrange on top of the bar batter

3. bake for ~ 40 minutes at 350 degrees F

Potato and Cheese Souffle Soup

⁸ Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.⁹ Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. ¹⁰ For,

   “Whoever would love life
   and see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
   and his lips from deceitful speech.
¹¹ He must turn from evil and do good;
   he must seek peace and pursue it.
¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
   and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” I Peter 3

Ingredients:

2 tbsp butter

1 cup diced broccoli

3 carrots peeled and diced

3 cloves garlic minced

1 tbsp salt

1 tsp curry powder

1 tsp white pepper

3/4 cup whole wheat flour

2 cups chicken broth

1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

4 cups milk

4 cups potatoes cooked and diced

4 eggs

Directions:

1. fry the broccoli, carrot, garlic, salt, pepper, and curry powder in the butter for ~ 5 minutes under medium-high heat

2. add the flour and continue cooking while stirring for ~ 3 minutes

3. add the rest of the ingredients and bring to a boil

4. cover lid, reduce heat to low, and simmer for ~ 15 minutes