Scones

Ingredients

* 2 cups flour
* 4 teaspoons baking powder
* 3/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/3 cup sugar
* 4 tablespoons butter
* 2 tablespoons shortening
* 3/4 cup cream
* 1 egg
* Handful dried currants or dried cranberries (optional)

Directions

Heat oven to 375 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Mix well. Cut in butter and shortening. In a separate bowl, combine cream with beaten egg then add to dry ingredients. Stir in fruit. *Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Roll dough out and cut into biscuit size rounds. Bake for 15 minutes or until brown.

* I'm sure following the recipe for rolling out the dough is best, but I just rolled the dough by hand into a ball, then flattened. (Try to be quick though, to avoid over-warming the dough)

Recipe: Alton Brown

Brown Rice Quinoa Hot Breakfast Cereal from Chef Brad

Ingredients

2 cups sweet brown rice, it is actually called sweet brown rice, Lundberg rice is the grower I love. Regular brown rice will also work for this recipe, but the sweet is wonderful
1 cup black quinoa, red will work
coconut oil
Agave Syrup
1 teaspoon sea salt
5.5 cups of water

Instructions

Turn on your cuisanart electric pressure cooker. Add grains, water, and salt. Cook on high pressure for 12 minutes. Let pressure drop, open and add unrefined coconut oil and Xagave to taste. I like about 1/4 cup of oil and 1/3 cup of Xagave. Your taste may be different, season to your liking. I also like to serve this with fresh raspberries, peaches, or strawberries and cream or milk.

note:

Sorry this is a pressure cooker specific recipe, I'm not quite sure how to convert it to a regular stove top recipe. Also, this makes SOOOOO much you may want to half it.

Easy Lemon/Cheese Danish

Ingredients
8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
1/3 cup sugar
2 extra-large egg yolks, at room temperature
2 tablespoons ricotta cheese
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon grated lemon zest (2 lemons)
2 sheets (1 box) frozen puff pastry, defrosted
1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon water, for egg wash
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
Place the cream cheese and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and cream them together on low speed until smooth. With the mixer still on low, add the egg yolks, ricotta, vanilla, salt, and lemon zest and mix until just combined. Don't whip!
Unfold 1 sheet of puff pastry onto a lightly floured board and roll it slightly with a floured rolling pin until it's a 10 by 10-inch square. Cut the sheet into quarters with a sharp knife. Place a heaping tablespoon of cheese filling into the middle of each of the 4 squares. Brush the border of each pastry with egg wash and fold 2 opposite corners to the center, brushing and overlapping the corners of each pastry so they firmly stick together. Brush the top of the pastries with egg wash. Place the pastries on the prepared sheet pan. Repeat with the second sheet of puff pastry and refrigerate the filled Danish for 15 minutes.
Bake the pastries for about 20 minutes, rotating the pan once during baking, until puffed and brown. Serve warm.

Crepes

4 eggs
2 c flour
1.5 c milk
1 c water
6 tbs melted butter

For sweeter crepes:
2 tbs vanilla
4 tbs sugar

Mix all ingredients in mixing bowl, (temper melted butter so it doesn't cook eggs before adding to mix) Whisk well. Rest in fridge for 20-30 minutes to let bubbles subside (I'm usually too lazy to do this, and haven't noticed a difference...but you probably should) Heat large frying pan to medium, and coat w/ cooking spray. Pour 1/2 c crepe batter in center of pan and swirl to coat. Cook until the crepe slips in pan when you give it a firm shake. (usually about 30-45 second) Slide spatula under crepe and slowly flip (crepes can easily tear at this point, so be careful) Let cook another 10-15 seconds to preferred doneness. Slide crepe out of pan to cool. COAT PAN W/ COOKING SPRAY AFTER EACH CREPE.


For me, this recipe make about a dozen large crepes. You may want to halve recipe.