If you haven't given this a try, Pamela posted the recipe here and it is really good and healthy. Some of us have started playing around with the recipe and some have put in bits of zucchini and carrots. I added SF Monin Raspberry flavoring and really enjoyed that. I'm thinking about adding some little bits of banana. There is no flour and it is big and will do two meals. Hope you all give it a try and let me know if you make anything different with Pamela's recipe. The StarBuck knock off has been made here and we have come up with all kinds of changes for it. Hope you all are having a good summer. Mom was put on a ventilator last night. I have not done an overnighter for years and it was one rough ride. My little new RN niece was with me and she is such a joy to have around. We packed our buckets and she was amazed at how healthy mine was and she enjoyed having a one minute muffin in the ICU waiting room.
I posted it in the middle of a thread a few days ago. Here ya go...
1 Minute Flax Muffins
1/4 cup Flax Meal (available at health food stores or Netrition.com)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 individual packet of Splenda (not the big one I talked about yesterday!)
1 tsp cinnamon (experiment here if you want)
1 egg
1-2 tsp oil (I use olive oil)
Mix the dry ingredients in a large coffee mug. Add egg and oil and mix well. Microwave 45 seconds to 1 minute. This is the tricky part since everyone's oven is different. The muffin should rise way up. It is done when the top isn't wet looking anymore but still moist. You'll know the look after a time or two. Pop it out immediately and put the cup to soak or it'll be a b*t*h to clean. Enjoy plain or with a little butter or jam. I can only eat 1/2, the rest is great toasted.
This recipe has been around a while and has been experimented with a great deal. You can do pretty much anything with it. I've heard of people putting cocoa powder in for a chocolate one! You can sub the Davinci SF syrups, you can make it sweeter, it's all about what you like. Amost forgot, leave all the sweetness out and put in a seasoning you like like Italian and use if for sandwiches.
Savory, I don't know. I'm not really good at thinking outside the box, but I don't see why not. I wonder about some garlic/onion powder, parsley, etc and maybe cut back on the sweetener. I do know that they are very filling and that I can't eat it all in one setting. I don't know about styrofoam, sure would be nice to be be able to do at the office. I like them toasted with spray Olivo. I've also put a little ff cream cheese with sf strawberry jam mixed to gether. Wonder if you could steam a little zucchini, mash it, and mix it in with the flax muffin. Guess I got some cooking to do.
I just got back from walking and playing golf with my 16 y/o GS and I"m half dead, but think that the combo you just mentioned might be something to get me out of this chair and go try. I just had a big fat tomato with S&P and can just feel the cold sores waiting to attack. Should have done the 1 minute muffin.
My hat goes off to you for giving me this recipe as I gave it to my DH and it filled him up for ages. (ps his stomach is a bottomless pit )
I made the chocolate variety it tasted great, looked great and even better done in 1 minute or less. I will certainly be making this again it is great to have found something that is so filling but looks like and has the teture of a cake for my sweet toothed DH.
I never did get to try a savory one like Kiers suggested, but had extra pumpkin left from my DH Splenda Pumpkin Cake so decided to experiment:
1/4 c. Flax meal
1/2 tsp soda
Splenda to taste (I'm sorry, but probably a tsp or more)
1 generous tsp of cinnamon
1 egg
1 TBSP of pumpkin puree instead of the oil
Spray a large coffee mug with cooking spray; mix everything really well; microwave for 70 seconds (mine is 1,000 watt micro).
It was excellent! I cut it into four slices and had a couple with homemade splenda peach butter. Gonna toast the other tomorrow and share with grandson.
Cheese Chips
Grated cheese, I used a mix of parm and 2 % Kraft Mexican Blend
Dash of: onion powder and garlic powder
Mounded it on parchment paper and cooked in a 350 degree oven.
Now about how long? Don't know. Just kept checking my toaster oven and when they were bubbly and I could see little holes forming in the chip; I took them out and put them on a paper towel. Not the most non-fat thing I've every tried, but had to have a good amount of protein. If my family had left them alone long enough, I think they would have cooled enough to be stored. I'm wondering if they would need to be separate with something like wax paper? I took a tray out to early and there were kind of limp so put them back in for a few minutes longer. Parm is a little salty so wouldn't recommend onion or garlic salt. I wonder if you could form them over something and make a cheese turkey taco?
Turkey Pepperoni and Cheese Snacks (My grandkids favorite "tea party" item with apple slices.)
Put turkey pepperoni in a single layer on a plate (I only line them on the outside of the plate.) Then put a little lowfat mozzerella on the pepperoni and nuke. Don't know how long, but another good source of protein. I haven't tried FF cheese in any of these recipes, because frankly to me it is like eating little pieces of unmelting cardboard.
Next time I hit the store I'm goign to try them all
I'm a big fan of the turkey pepperoni!!
you can also make a meatloaf base and do "Pizza Toppings" on it
Nan how do you store the leftover pumpkin?
I store it in a lock 'n' lock (ones with the silicone around the lid) and try to use it in a few days after opening. I have never tried to freeze it, but I'm wondering about that because in the winter I buy frozen winter squash and can't really seem much of a difference. Also they freeze pumpkin pie. I'll have to give it a try next time I open a can. Seems like I've always got something left over in that darn frig. There is oven baked buttermilk chicken, cabbage rolls, BBQ ribs, etc. I couldn't sleep and got up this morning at 4:00 a.m. and cleaned out the darn frig. My DH got up at 5:30 and couldn't believe all the containers in the sink. He helped me clean up the dishes last night as we listened to the big band sound on the record player. He is the nicet guy, but I notice he didn't call off work to clean up all the containers~~ LOL~
Pamela's One minute Flax Muffin
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