Super Easy Banana Bread (dairy free, egg free) only 7 ingredients!

1/4 cup ground flax
1/2 cup warm water
3 bananas, mashed
scant 3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cup white whole wheat flour or AP flour

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flax and water. Set aside. Mash bananas in a mixing bowl. Add sugar and combine. Add in flax mixture. Combine dry ingredients into wet by gently folding with spatula. Do not over mix. Add batter to greased and floured loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes until golden on edges. Turn out of pan after 5 minutes. Cool, slice, serve.

Cranberry Jalapeno Appetizer

1 jalapeno, seeded and deveined

1/4 cup raw sugar

2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice

2 cups fresh cranberries, rinsed and drained
2 tbsp. minced green onions
2 tbsp. fresh cilantro leaves
1 8oz. package cream cheese

In a food processor, add jalapeno, sugar, & lemon juice. Pulse to mince the pepper. Add cranberries, green onion, and cilantro. Pulse until cranberries are minced and everything is combined. 

Place the cream cheese in the middle of a serving plate. 

Spoon the cranberry mixture over the cream cheese. 

Serve with a small spreading knife & crackers. 

To eat, spread a bit of cream cheese and cranberry mixture onto each cracker. 

*Thanks to my friend Gail for introducing this to me.

Cranberry Coffee Cake

1 cup white whole wheat flour
1 cup raw sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups fresh cranberries
1/2 cup chopped almonds
2 eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
1 tsp orange extract
1/2 tsp almond extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine flour, sugar, and salt in mixing bowl. Add cranberries and almonds. Stir to coat the berries. Add eggs, butter, and extracts. Fold until barely combined.

Spread mixture evenly in greased 9" pie pan or 8"x8" pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes- until golden brown on edges and cranberries are bubbling.

Cool before serving.

Freezes well.

Thanksgiving Dinner- Orange Cranberry Sauce

Nice as an accompaniment to your dinner or as a spread on scones or toast.

Makes about 1 1/2 cups

1 bag fresh cranberries
1 cup raw sugar
1/2 cup orange juice
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp orange zest (optional)

Place in sauce pan on medium heat. Stir occasionally, scraping sides each time. Lower/raise heat if necessary to keep a constant low boil.

Cooks down in about an hour, to a very thick consistency.

Serve warm or cold.

*I use my bread machine on "jam" setting to make this.*

Apple Chips

Simple snack that only uses on ingredient!

Cookie Sheet
3 small apples per cookie sheet
Parchment Paper

Preheat oven to 250 degrees, 235 if you have a convection oven.

Use apple slicer to core and slice apples. I have this one. If you don't have this tool, just core and thinly slice apples.

Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Arrange apple slices very closely on pan, being careful not to overlap. Bake for 2 hours. Let cool and store in an air tight container.