Obviously I want to conquer the world like Pinky and The Brain, obviously. But in the meantime while I get all the blueprints of master conquery together I can conquer (or try to) the kitchen. I'll be a spinning in my mouse wheel creating and modifying recipes.
I aim to eat a lot of whole foods that are unprocessed, natural and fresh. Or at least if they are processed they are done so without adding preservatives or other additives. Adding high fructose corn syrup to jam and applesauce or adding oil and sugar to peanut butter is totally necessary It makes me so mad because I don't want to put those things in my body and there are sometimes little options to avoid these products. But aside from me, the sad thing is is that a lot of people are unaware or simply don't care about the extras in their foods. Because it can be hard to find pure or natural products in the stores, I have started to make a lot of these products myself. I've made applesauce, pearsauce, yamsauce, jam, canned fruit without sugar, cookies, muffins and breads without butter or oil, yogurt, soft serve frozen yogurt, biscotti, granola, and so much more like homemade healthier graham crackers.
Graham crackers are a recent obsession of mine. They are delicious with applesauce and/or peanut butter and a banana, which are all staples in my daily diet. I found a recipe a while ago that had homemade graham crackers in order to make your own graham cracker crust. I went ahead and made the crust recipe because I wanted to make a dessert, I didn't have store bought graham crackers and was too penny pinchery to go out and buy a box. I did a search on the internet (and in my cupboard) and had all the ingredients for this graham recipe. I was delighted, as I'm sure you can imagine.
I have now made the crackers a few times and each batch is pretty different, only because I play around with the ingredients a lot depending on what I have or what I want to try. But I posted a link to the original recipe below. I have had success replacing the oil with a mashed rip banana to make a little healthier. Other things I have tried was adding banana extract instead of vanilla, I've used whole wheat pastry flour and spelt flour rather than regular whole wheat because it's less dense. I almost always triple the amount of cinnamon and sometimes add nutmeg or cloves to create a little Fall cracker explosion. You could even add canned pumpkin instead of the oil (or my banana) for Fallish flavors! It's all your choice. Have fun, have a ball, bake 'em all!
You can roll out the dough on parchment paper and cook as one large sheet of dough. Then, after they are baked you just crack the sheet into pieces of any size. Or if you have a cookie cutter you can also do it that way like sugar cookies.
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