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

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 

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 

Sweet Potato Walnut Cocoa Dessert

⁶ The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. ⁷ The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. ⁸ You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today. ⁹ Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, ¹⁰ if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deut 30


Ingredients:


Crust
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup honey
1 cups walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)

2 cups oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Cocoa Layer

4 eggs

2 cups sweet potato pureed

1 cup honey

1 tsp vanilla

2 tbsp butter softened 

1/4 cup cocoa powder

Directions:

1. mix crust ingredients and pour onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan

2. mix cocoa layer ingredients and pour over crust

3. bake for ~ 45 minutes at 350 degrees F

Wild Rice Soup for "Jazzed Up"

⁷ Ascribe to the LORD, O families of nations,
   ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
⁸ Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;
   bring an offering and come into his courts.
⁹ Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness;
   tremble before him, all the earth.

 ¹⁰ Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.”
   The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;
   he will judge the peoples with equity.
¹¹ Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
   let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
 ¹² let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;
 ¹³ they will sing before the LORD, for he comes,
   he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
   and the peoples in his truth.Ps 96

Ingredients:


16 cups salted homemade chicken stock 
1.5 cup wild raw uncooked


2/3 cup butter
Vegetables
1 large green pepper diced
1 large red pepper diced
6 stalks celery diced
4 carrots peeled and diced
5 cloves garlic minced
2 medium onions diced

1 apple (I used "Harrold Red" a gift from dad's work friend)

2 tsp curry powder
2 tsp white pepper


1 cup white whole wheat flour


4 cups half and half
4 cups cooked chicken cut into pieces (I used drumstick meat after boiling the drumsticks for the stock)

1 cup slivered almonds




Directions: (directions are for half the recipe because the soup was made in two batches)


1. boil the rice in the stock until the rice is cooked (bring to a boil and let simmer for ~ 1 hr)
2. cook 1/2 the vegetables in 1/3 cup butter until the vegetables are cooked (~ 5 minutes under medium heat)

3. add 1/2 cup flour to the vegetables and continue cooking for ~ 2 minutes under medium heat

4. add 1/2 of the rice/stock, 2 cups of half and half, 1/2 cup almonds, and 2 cups chicken
5. bring to a boil 

6. repeat with other half of ingredients

Chocolate Pumpkin Soup

¹⁵ Then he blessed Joseph and said,

   “May the God before whom my fathers
   Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd
   all my life to this day,
¹⁶ the Angel who has delivered me from all harm
   —may he bless these boys.
May they be called by my name
   and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,
and may they increase greatly
   upon the earth.”Gen 48

Ingredients:
32 oz canned pumpkin
4 lb chocolate chips
8 cups milk
4 cups half and half


Directions:
1. bring milk to a boil
2. add the chocolate chip and continue stirring under medium heat under chocolate chips are melted
3. add the pumpkin and half and half and bring to a boil
4. serve warm

Creamy Peach Kiwi Walnut Oat Cake

⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. ⁶ So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. ⁸ But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. ⁹For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. ¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. I Thess 5


Ingredients:


Cake
2 eggs
3/4 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)
2 cups oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda

Cream
4 oz Neufchatel cheese (1/2 package)
1/2 cup honey
1 egg

Fruit
3 peaches diced
2 kiwi fruit diced

Directions:

1. mix together the cake ingredients and pour into an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
2. beat together the cream ingredients and pour over cake batter
3. mix the fruit and spoon over cream
4. bake for 45-60 minutes at 350 degrees F

Sweet Potato Pecan Brazil Nut Oat Bars

 ³ His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. ⁴ Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

 ⁵ For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. ⁸ For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

 ¹⁰ Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, ¹¹ and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1

Ingredients:
1 cup pecan flour (pecans powdered in the blender)
1/2 cup Brazil Nut Flour (brazil nuts powdered in the blender)
19 oz pureed tofu (I used 1 box of Trader Joe's)
1.5 cups honey
1.5 cups oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
flesh from 1 large baked sweet potato (mashed)


Directions:
1. mix all ingredients in a bowl
2. spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
3. bake for ~ 45-60 minutes 

Italian Pole Beans, Black-eyed Peas, Tomatoes, and Radish with Brown Rice Pasta

⁴ Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. ⁵ However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. ⁶ David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

 ⁷ “Blessed are they
   whose transgressions are forgiven,
   whose sins are covered.
⁸ Blessed is the man
   whose sin the Lord will never count against him.Romans 4

Ingredients:


Vegetable Mix
1/4 cup olive oil
1 onion diced
1 tbsp salt
1 cup chopped Italian pole beans
1 cup chopped white Daikon radish (or any radish)
1 cup diced tomatoes (I used Roma)
1/4 cup chopped basil


Pasta
8 oz dry brown rice pasta
1 quart water
2 cups cooked black-eye peas


Directions:
1. fry the onion and salt in the oil for ~ 5 minutes under medium-high heat
2. add the rest of the vegetable mix ingredients and continue frying for ~ 5 minutes under medium high heat

3. meanwhile boil the pasta in the water to the al dente state (~7-10 minutes) and drain if necessary

4. stir the peas and vegetable mix into the pasta

Almond Milk

¹⁴ Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— ¹⁵ and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. ¹⁶ For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. ¹⁷ For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. ¹⁸ Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Hebrews 2


Ingredients:
1 cup raw almonds
6 cups water
6 Calcium tablets (300 mg/tablet)
1 tsp vanilla (optional)
dates, honey, stevia (optional)

Directions:
1. Blanch the almonds by boiling them for a few minutes until skins are loosened

2. drain water and wait for almonds to cool, remove skins

3. add almonds, water, calcium, and optional ingredients (if you are using them) to a blender and blend for ~60 seconds
4. strain and keep the almond pulp for other recipes such as Cardamom Almond Candy

Cardamom Almond Candy

¹ We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. ² For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, ³ how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. ⁴ God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.Hebrews 2


Ingredients:
pulp from 1 cup of almond used to make almond milk (~1.5 cups)

1 tbsp butter
1/4 cup milk
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup honey

Directions:
1. bring all ingredients to a boil

2. simmer on medium heat for ~20 minutes stirring constantly until thick

3. pour onto olive oil sprayed foil-lined tray

4. cool before cutting into squares

Sorghum Chocolate Frosted Cake

Proverbs 8:14
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, I have strength.

Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.

Ingredients:
7 mozzarella string cheese sticks (made into powder using a blender or food processor)
1 egg
1 cup maple syrup
1 tbsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup sorghum flour
Frosting
1/3 cup peanut butter (no additives)
1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup cocoa powder


Directions
1. mix cheese powder, egg, maple syrup, vanilla, and baking soda
2. stir-in flour
3. pour batter into greased cake pan and bake for ~45 minutes at 350 degrees F
4. mix frosting ingredients and frost cooled cake