Rainy And Cool Holiday Monday Day

What to do on a rainy and cool holiday monday?  Well while my puppy was sleeping I was in the kitchen.  I made Gluten Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, Soup and muffins.

The Cookies are delicious and easy to make.  I found the recipe from another blogger.  Here is the link to the recipe. The only things I did differently was I added some ground cinnamon, a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract and used Kraft Peanut Butter.

 https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2014/03/23/flourless-peanut-butter-oatmeal-cookies/

Here are photos of them.

Ready for the oven.

Ready to be eaten. Great with a nice cup of tea

The soup was easy to make as well.  I used up cauliflower, broccoli and a bag of mini carrots. Added 1 onion , and veggie broth.  Once cooked I added one can of light coconut milk, salt and pepper, a dash of cinnamon and then pureed it using my immersion blender. Easy quick and delicious and vegan as well :)

Easiest soup ever. Just put ingredients in the pot and cook.

Pureed and ready to eat.

My attempt at making gluten free muffins didn't turn out and I didn't take any photos. I am determined to one day find a great all purpose gluten free muffin recipe that taste great and can easily be made with chocolate chips, blueberries, zucchini etc.

Thanks for stopping by.  Here is a photo of my puppy sleeping as I was in the kitchen she did wake up in time to sample the cooled soup. She loved it too :)

Tea Tea and more Tea

I never knew you could do so many things with tea other than having hot tea.  

The other day I made an assortment of teas.

  Cold Brew Peaches and Cream tea.  Steeped the tea overnight in the fridge with cold water. 

Laughter and lemonade green tea cold steeped overnight in lemonade. 

Unsweetened Iced English Breakfast Iced Tea with Lemon.

Pineapple Orange Cooler steeped in Gingerale for 20 mins or so. 

And of course hot earl grey de la creme tea.  

The teas become a wonderful colour after being steeped and very delicious

You can also steep tea using selzter water or juice I haven't tried the juice yet.

 Also made No Churn Vanilla Matcha Ice Cream. All was delicious. 

Assorted teas ready to be tasted

Ice Cream anyone. How about Vanilla Matcha Ice Cream

What is your favourite tea? 

Baking with Tea

Had a little get together and served tea but instead of just preparing tea as a beverage I made things with tea.

Made No Churn Banana Matcha Ice Cream and No Churn Chocolate Orange Mousse Ice Cream and some Carrot Cake muffins where Carrot Ginger Tea was steeped in the oil before the recipe was made and some cold brewed Carrot Ginger Tea was added to the icing for the cupcakes.

It was delicious.

Banana Green Matcha Ice Cream and Chocolate Orange Mousse Ice Cream

Gluten Free Carrot Cake Muffins

Also made some chocolate meringues for the tea drinking they turned out well :)

Just a quick blog entry.  More recipes and blog posts to come. Thanks for visiting my blog :)