Pumkin Oatmeal Cups From: *Stella's Kitchen

Hello Readers!

I have another recipe to share with you this week.  It is very simple and has a delicious result!

We love these for either a yummy breakfast, or a lunch with some eggs or something like that.  We make them once a week.

 Ingredients:
1 15 oz. can of pumpkin
1/2 cup vanilla almond milk (I usually just use regular.  It tastes about the same ;)  )
2 eggs
1 tablespoon baking powder
3 cups oats (technically you are supposed to use old fashioned, but I always use quick oats and they work fine)
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
1/3 cup brown sugar
Chocolate Chips (however much you prefer ;) )

1.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2.  Mix all the ingredients together. 
Note my little helper in the background =)
3.  Get muffin tins and spray with nonstick spray.*
4.  Put muffins in oven and bake for 20-30 minutes.
*Note: Though you are putting them in muffin tins, the texture will NOT be like muffins.  Once you mix everything together, you may be a little concerned about how thick it is, but keep this in mind.

 Here's the finished product...(sorry it's a bit blurry)

Happy Baking!

LOTW-Letter N with Tert and Stella

More and more letters in our LOTW curriculum!  

 Tert does a fabulous job with his Magnet Page

 Next comes Uppercase and Lowercase Nn sort and Nest Size Sort

 Poke Pages and Puzzles

:P Crazy student :P

LOTW-Letter M with Tert and Stella

 Tert loves his new Do-A-Dot markers ;) We bought him blue, orange, yellow, green, red, and purple markers for Christmas! They work wonderfully AND (most importantly) are washable :P

 Filia HAS to be involved in whatever Tert and I do, so I've started photo-copying some of his pages so that she can work on them with us =)

 M&M Counting Practice

 Tert loves his Patterns and Pre-Letter Writing

 Uppercase and Lowercase Match, and M&M Building+Tert=the above picture

Mm Tracing Page, Poke Page, Number Tracing, and Magnet Page (phew!)

Great Job Tert!

Original Nilla Banana Pudding From: *Stella's Kitchen*

Hello All!

I haven't posted a recipe in...well, let's just say a long time!
We made a really yummy recipe the other day and I wanted to share it with you.  I found it on the side of a Nilla wafers box and since we had milk and eggs to use up (and are always looking for fun new recipes to try ;) ) we decided to try it.
So, enough talk.  Here is the recipe!  If you decide to try it-let us know how it turns out!

Ingredients:
3/4 cup sugar, divided (1/2 cup and 1/4 cup)
1/3 cup flour
dash salt
3 eggs, separated
2 cups milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla
45 Nilla Wafers, divided (33 and 12 wafers)
5 bananas, sliced

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix 1/2 cup sugar, flour, and salt in top of double boiler.  (We didn't have a double boiler so we just put two pots on the stove, one on top of the other)
3. Blend in 3 egg yolks and milk.  Cook uncovered over boiling water for 10-12 minutes or until mixture is thickened. (We used real cow's milk in this, so our custard came out really nice and thick because the cream wasn't skimmed off the milk!)
4. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla
5. Keeping the 12 wafers for garnish, spread small amount of custard on the bottom of a 1 1/2 quart baking dish.  Cover with layers of 1/3 each of the remaining 33 wafers, bananas, and custard.  Repeat layers two times.  You will end with the custard.

 

(This is about how thick the bananas should be)

6. Beat egg whites on high speed of mixer until soft peaks form.  Gradually beat in remaining sugar until stiff peaks form.  Spread over custard sealing well to the edge of the dish.
7. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
8.  Just before serving, top with remaining wafers (and if you'd like some more banana slices)

The recipe said to cool only slightly, but we baked this around lunch time and served this for dessert.  We let the custard cool, and then we chilled it in the fridge until we were ready to serve it.

 Here is the finished product!

I hope you enjoyed this recipe.  Happy Baking, and if you have any recipes to send our way we would love them! Please comment with any of your favorites ;)