Breakfast In A Glass

This smoothie is a throw-back to my childhood; I'm not sure where the original recipe came from, but it truly is "Breakfast In a Glass": egg, fruit, milk, and juice!

1 cup milk
1 banana
1 raw egg
1 large spoonful OJ concentrate
1 squeeze honey
1 tsp vanilla
1 T wheat germ (optional)

Throw it all in a blender:

A word about raw eggs: People tend to freak out about salmonella whenever raw eggs are mentioned. It is extremely unlikely that you will get salmonella from eating a raw egg. The contamination rate of eggs with salmonella is 1 in 20,000-30,000 eggs. With average egg consumption, this comes out to a person maybe coming across a salmonella-contaminated egg once every 42 years!

Cranberry Feta Pinwheels

Found this recipe on Food TV's website. I was skeptical of cranberries and green onions together, but I figured I'd give it a whirl! Yummy! I took these to a family Christmas and they were a hit!

This is enough to make 8 tortillas worth of pinwheels.

Filling Ingredients: 2 8oz containers whipped cream cheese,
1 1/2  6oz containers feta cheese, 1 bunch green onions,
1 bag dried cranberries

Mix together all of the filling ingredients. Spread filling onto tortillas, it may be patchy due to the clumpy nature of the ingredients, but that's okay.

Tightly roll, then wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least an hour (I left mine in overnight because I got busy with other stuff).

Cut into pieces, I made mine about 3/4-inch big.

So pretty and festive!

Apple Dip

I love apples with dip, but most store-bought fruit dips are loaded up with high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, and other junk. Here's a healthy apple dip recipe, just in time for fall!

Ingredients

• 1 cup Greek yogurt, preferably the full-fat kind
• 2 spoonfuls almond butter (or peanut butter)
• 1 spoonful honey
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon cardamom

Stir together and enjoy!

Cooking: Waldorf Salad

Ok, not really "cooking", more just "mixing". But Waldorf Salad is awesome! I always add pomegranate seeds to mine because they are so pretty and tasty.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of recipes out there for Waldorf Salad. Here's mine:

Salad parts:
Apples (I used 2 of each: braeburn, pink lady, honeycrisp, and granny smith)
Grapes, whatever kind are your favorite
2-3 stalks of celery
Pomegranate seeds
Walnuts

Dressing:
1 cup mayo
lemon juice, to taste
sugar, to taste

Chop up a few stalks of celery.

Cube the apples. Give them a quick dip in lemon juice to prevent browning!

A little trick I learned from Alton Brown, seed the pomegranates in a bowl of water.
1. You don't get squirted by red juice.
2. The seeds sink, the pith floats. Much easier to separate them that way!

I missed getting a photo of the dressing!

Mix everything together.

Final step: Put the yummy in the tummy!

This picture was taken 2 days after the salad was made.
Note that the apples are still almost their original
color, thanks to the lemon-juice bath!