Oh dear. I don’t even know if I have words for this. This recipe is SO easy. There are only 2 main ingredients – pumpkin and flour. I made this pumpkin gnocchi with whole wheat flour, mainly because our favorite gnocchi is made out of sweet potato and whole wheat flour. I thought it would add a nice, nutty flavor, and it totally did. I also added just a sprinkling of pumpkin pie spice. Thought it would add a nice touch. Who doesn’t need more spice in their life? I used about 1 cup of pumpkin, but as you can see, this is a hefty 1 cup. Probably more like 1 and 1/4 cups pumpkin. Just throw the pumpkin in with the flour, and it’s time to rock and roll. You may need to add some additional handfuls of flour. The mixture shouldn’t be too sticky, but also shouldn’t [...]
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One day, my husband whined ‘can’t you make any healthy cookies?’ with a very pouty look on his face. So cute and so pouty that I had to try and come up with something. I love peanut butter cookies, and he loves chocolate chip, so I combined them into one, made with whole wheat flour. Now I DO use regular sugar, as I do not really believe in using such an enormous amount of a sugar substitute. A cookie is a cookie is a cookie, and either way, we shouldn’t be consuming 10 of them at once, whether it be made with real or ‘fake’ sugar. Right? I apparently never remember that, and also like to think ‘the more, the merrier’ applies to food. Yum. I start with 100% whole wheat flour, which does add a nice, nutty taste. This is our favorite peanut butter by far, and you must try it. It gives an additional ‘crunch’ to the cookies because it had flaxseeds [...]
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