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Recipe for Strawberry Shortcake

June 18, 2014 / Dragonfly Home Recipes / 1 Comment

Strawberry Shortcake

Servings: about 8
Time: approximately 30 minutes
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Ingredients:

2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon sugar, plus about 1/4 to1/2 cup for strawberries
3 Tablespoons butter
1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons buttermilk
2 quarts fresh strawberries

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Lightly grease a 9 inch pie plate.

Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and 1 Tablespoon of sugar in a large mixing bowl. Place the butter in the bowl, and with a fork or pastry cutter, press and cut it into the dry ingredients until it has the consistency of large crumbs. Pour the buttermilk (if you don’t have buttermilk, just use regular milk and substitute 1 of the Tablespoons of milk for 1 Tablespoon of white vinegar) into the bowl and stir with a fork just until a dough forms. When the dough holds together, spoon it into the pie plate and press it down so it is evenly distributed. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until shortcake is puffy and lightly browned.

Cut the shortcake into pieces, split the pieces in half, and top pieces with washed, sliced strawberries. Or if you want a sweeter topping, wash strawberries, remove stems, and mash them in a bowl. Add 1/4 to 1/2 half cup of sugar, depending on amount of strawberries mashed, and according to your taste. Pour the strawberry-sugar mixture over the shortcake pieces. Enjoy!

Kale-Banana Smoothie

June 17, 2014 / Dragonfly Home Recipes / 2 Comments

Smoothies are a fun and healthy way to be creative in the kitchen. You can mix and match fruits, vegetables, yogurts, juices, soy milk, and other things like wheat germ and ground flax seeds, just to name a few. I especially like to use fruits and vegetables that are in season, but in the middle of the winter, a smoothie with frozen fruit tastes great too. Right now, with kale in full swing in our garden, I have been making kale-banana smoothies. My kids love them. This smoothie is an easy way to get the powerhouse nutritional benefits of kale without really thinking about the fact that you are eating kale. The bananas, yogurt and honey make it creamy and sweet. I like to use Greek yogurt, which is high in protein. The wheat germ gives it a little extra substance and protein too. I am posting a recipe that we have created for a kale-banana smoothie. Smoothies are really flexible, so you can adjust the amounts of the ingredients to suit your tastes.

Recipe for Kale-Banana Smoothie

June 17, 2014 / Dragonfly Home Recipes / 0 Comments

Kale-Banana Smoothie

Servings: 2-4 depending on size of glass
Time: 15 minutes
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Ingredients:

a handful of kale
2 bananas
1 cup of plain, low-fat yogurt. If you use flavored, sweetened yogurt, omit the honey
1-2 Tablespoons honey
2 Tablespoons wheat germ
1 cup orange juice

Directions:

Thoroughly wash the kale and tear the leaves from the stems. Peel and chop the bananas. Place the kale leaves, banana pieces, yogurt, honey, wheat germ and orange juice in a blender. Puree until smooth. Pour into glasses. Enjoy!