Special Healthy Granola Bars for Prasanna and Baby

²¹ When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within,
²² Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.
²³ Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You have taken hold of my right hand.
²⁴ With Your counsel You will guide me,
And afterward receive me to glory.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but You?
And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.
²⁶ My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
²⁷ For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who  are unfaithful to You.
²⁸ But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
That I may tell of all Your works.Ps 73


Ingredients:


2 eggs (protein)
1 cup evaporated cane juice (or brown sugar)
1/4 cup molasses (iron, Mg)
1/2 cup powdered walnuts (omega 3)
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup softened butter (1/2 stick)
~ 3 cups rolled oats
1/3 cup naturally sweetened chocolate chips
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon


Directions:


1. preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. mix together all ingredients thoroughly 
3. spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray (~ 12"X16")
4. bake for ~ 30-40 minutes 

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

Mango, Peach, and Walnut Oat Bars

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. ⁴ Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.2 Thess 1

Ingredients:

1/4 cup butter softened (1/2 stick)

3/4 cup honey

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

1 cup walnut flour (powdered walnuts)

1.5 cups oat flour (powdered rolled oats)

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 mango, peeled and diced

2 peaches diced

Directions:

1. preheat oven to 350 degrees F

2. use an egg beater to mix the butter, honey, vanilla, and eggs

3. beat in the walnut and oats flours, baking soda, salt, and, cinnamon

4. use a large spoon to stir in the mango and nectarine

5. pour into an olive oil-sprayed cake pan

6. bake for ~ 45 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.

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

Chocolate Cookie Wedges

⁵ “My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name. ⁶ True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin.

 ⁷ “For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, and from his mouth men should seek instruction—because he is the messenger of the LORD Almighty. Mal 2

Ingredients:

2 eggs

3 tbsp butter softened

2 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup evaporated cane juice

1.5 cups white whole wheat flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/3 cup chocolate chips (naturally sweetened)

Directions:

1. beat together the eggs, butter, vanilla, and cane juice

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

3. divide the dough into two balls

4. press one ball onto a cookie sheet into a 6" diameter circle

5. spread chocolate chips over the circle

6. press and flatten the remaining dough ball over the chocolate chips

7. bake for ~ 25 minutes at 350 degrees F or until golden brown

8. let cool and cut into wedges

Persimmon Walnut Scones

²⁴ “‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. ²⁵ I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. ²⁶ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Ez 36

Ingredients:

1 egg
3/4 cup honey
3 oz butter softened (3/4 stick)
2 small ripe persimmon diced
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

1. use an egg beater to beat together the egg, honey, butter, and persimmon
2. beat in the other ingredients
3. drop by heaping tbspfuls onto a baking tray
4. bake for ~ 25 minutes @ 350 degrees F

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

Cranberry Oatmeal Crisps

¹⁷ But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. ¹⁸ They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” ¹⁹ These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

 ²⁰ But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

 ²² Be merciful to those who doubt; ²³ save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.^[f]

 ²⁴ To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— ²⁵ to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude 


Ingredients:

4 oz butter (1 stick) softened

2 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

1 cup evaporated cane juice

1/2 tsp salt

3 cups oats

1/2 cup whole wheat flour

1/3 cup dried cranberries

Directions:

1. combine all the ingredients

2. spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray

3. bake for ~ 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees F

Fudge Squares

³ Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. ⁴ For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about^[b] long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.Jude


Ingredients:

16 oz naturally sweetened chocolate chips

8 oz evaporated milk

1/4 cup evaporated cane juice

Directions:

1. heat all ingredients under low heat under chocolate chips melt

2. continue stirring until the mixture is smooth

3. spread onto a wax-lined pan and let cool in the fridge for ~ 4 hrs

4. cut into squares

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

Cinnamon Papaya Oat Bars

⁶ This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ For there are three that testify: ⁸ the^[a] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. ⁹ We accept man’s testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. ¹⁰ Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I John 5


Ingredients:

2 eggs

1 cup fresh pureed papaya 

3 tbsp butter softened

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup honey

3 cups oats

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp cinnamon (and more for sprinkling)

2 tbsp sesame seeds

Directions:

1. stir together all the ingredients except the sesame seeds

2. pour batter into an olive oil-sprayed foil lined cake pan

3. sprinkle sesame seeds and more cinnamon on top

4. bake for ~ 45 mintues at 350 degrees F

Potato Beef Croquettes

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. ² This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. ³ This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, ⁴ for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. ⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.I John 5


Ingredients:


2 eggs
1 cup cooked lean ground beef

2 cups mashed cooked potato (peeled)

2 tsp salt

3 green chillis sliced

3 red chillis sliced

1 tsp pepper

3 cloves garlic minced

2 tbsp minced fresh ginger root

1 carrot diced

Directions:

1. mix all the ingredients

2. form into balls/burgers and place onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray

3. bake for ~30 minutes @ 350 degrees F

Sweet Potato Sunflower Seed Honey Biscuit

¹⁸ “But will God really dwell on earth with men? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! ¹⁹ Yet give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence. ²⁰ May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. ²¹ Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.2 Chron 6


Ingredients:


1 egg
1 cup mashed sweet potato
1/2 cup honey
2 tsp vanilla
3 oz butter (3/4 stick)
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup sunflower seeds


Directions:
1. mix together the egg, honey, butter, sweet potato, and vanilla
2. stir in the rest of the ingredients
3. drop by heaping tbspfuls onto a foil-lined pan
4. bake for ~ 25 minutes @ 350 degrees F

Flax, Sesame, and Sunflower Seed Oat Bars

⁸ Come and see what the LORD has done,
   the desolations he has brought on the earth.
⁹ He makes wars cease
   to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
   he burns the shields with fire.
¹⁰ He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
   I will be exalted among the nations,
   I will be exalted in the earth.”

 ¹¹ The LORD Almighty is with us;
   the God of Jacob is our fortress.Ps 46

Ingredients:

1 egg

1/2 cup honey

1/3 cup olive oil

2 tsp vanilla

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

3 cups oats

3/4 cup whole wheat flour

1/4 cup sesame seeds

1/2 cup flax seeds

1/3 cup sunflower seeds

2 tsp cinnamon

Directions

1. mix all ingredients and press onto a pan

2. bake for ~ 30 minutes @ 350 degrees F

Chocolate Frosted Cupcakes

 ⁶ “Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. ⁷Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. ⁸ Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. ⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.Josh 1


Ingredients:


1 egg
5 oz butter softened
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup powdered evaporated cane juice
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking soda
 1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup naturally sweetened chocolate chips

2 tbsp colorful sprinkles (naturally sweetened preferable)

Frosting

2 tbsp Neufchatel cheese softened

2 tbsp butter softened

3/4 cup powdered evaporated cane juice

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup cocoa powder

Directions:


1. mix the egg, vanilla, butter, and sugar
2. stir in the flour, baking soda, salt, chocolate chips, and sprinkles

3. drop by heaping tbsp-fuls into a lined muffin tray (divide equally in 12 cups)

4. bake for ~ 30 min at 350 degrees F, let cool

5. blend together frosting ingredients and frost cupcakes