Recipes

Sugar Cookies

Easy, fragrant with butter, and topped with colourful sprinkles, these three-ingredient cookies are perfect for any day and make a fantastic Holiday sweet treat!

Ingredients 

• 1 stick of room temperature butter (114g) 

• ⅓ cup granulated sugar 

• 1 cup all-purpose flour 

Recipe 

1. Preheat the oven to 325℉. 

2. Add the butter and granulated sugar in a large mixing bowl. 

3. Cream the butter and sugar using a hand mixer until light and fluffy (you can also do this by hand with a whisk) 

4. Now add the all-purpose flour and mix until combined. The texture will be slightly crumbly, but that’s okay. 

5. Using your hands, form and roll around 1”  balls of dough and place them on a lined cookie sheet. 

6. Pat the balls down so they form a disk shape, and add sprinkles if you would like, or just leave them bare. 

7. Bake them for about 12-15 minutes until golden brown. Serve and enjoy! 

Banana Bread

This is a perfect, simple, and delicious recipe if you’re craving some banana bread but only have one or two bananas sitting in your kitchen! 

Ingredients 

• One large banana or two small bananas (ripened) 

• One egg 

• Milk 

• One teaspoon of vanilla extract

• One stick of butter 

• One cup of sugar 

• One and a half cups of all-purpose flour 

• One teaspoon of baking soda 

• ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder (optional) 

• ⅓ cup walnuts (optional) 

• ⅓ cup chocolate chips (optional) 

• Brown sugar (optional) 

Recipe

1. Preheat the oven to 350℉. 

2. Crack one egg in a measuring cup and fill it with milk until it reaches the one-cup mark. 

3. Put the egg & milk mixture in a mixing bowl, then add the butter & bananas to the mixing bowl. Use a hand mixer/food mixture until well combined. 

4. Add all the dry ingredients (sugar, all-purpose flour, baking soda) in a different bowl and stir them well. 

5. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix. Add the cinnamon powder and vanilla extract and combine well. 

6. Add crushed walnuts and chocolate chips and combine (optional)

7. Butter your loaf pan with melted butter and sprinkle some sugar and cinnamon powder inside the pan. Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 50-60 minutes (to check if the bread is baked insert a toothpick in the middle of the bread and take it out, if the toothpick is clean, the bread is baked). 

8. Serve fresh from the oven with a cup of hot chocolate or coffee!

Earlier in the school year, I remember walking into the nutrition for learning room and smelling the delicious, sweet, and nutty aroma of Thai coconut curry soup being served. After tasting it, I planned on finding a recipe as close to the real thing as soon as I got home! Here is that recipe, which I’ve been making for months and months. This is the perfect recipe for a fun meal at the end of the week or to bring to a potluck dinner.

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon or large drizzle of olive oil

• 1 ½ pounds or 2-3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2-inch cubes

• Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

• 1 onion, diced

• 1 red bell pepper, diced

• 3 cloves garlic, minced

• 3 tablespoons red curry paste

• 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger

• 3-6 cups chicken broth (depending on how thick you like your soup)

• 1 can coconut milk

• 4 ounces rice noodles

• 1 tablespoon fish sauce

• ½ cup or a handful of chopped fresh cilantro leaves

• 1 squeezed lime or 2 tablespoons lime juice

• 2 teaspoons brown sugar (optional)

Optionally, you can use other aromatics such as basil or spring onions!

1. In a large, hot dutch oven or pot, add oil and sautée the cubed chicken over medium-medium high heat for 4-5 minutes or until golden brown. Set aside.

2. Add garlic, onions and peppers and sautée over medium-high heat for three minutes, or until the onions become sweaty and aromatic. Then, add in the Thai red curry paste and ginger, then cook everything down until fragrant.

3. Add in the coconut milk and chicken broth and scrape any browned bits from the bottom of the pan.

4. Stir in the chicken which was set aside from before. Bring everything to a boil then reduce to a simmer and cover the dutch oven or pot with a lid and allow everything to reduce for 10-15 minutes while stirring occasionally.

5. Uncover and add in fish sauce, sugar and noodles; cook the noodles until tender.

6.  Cut the heat and add in the cilantro and squeezed lime juice and enjoy immediately!

In need of something to satisfy your sweet tooth? Below are several easy and tasty recipes to make for loved ones, special occasions, or when you have a craving!

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 ¾ cup flour

• ¾ cup cocoa powder

• 1 ½ tsp baking soda

• 1 ½ tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp salt

• 2 cups white sugar

• 2 eggs

• ½ vegetable oil

• 1 cup milk

• 2 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 cup boiling water

Instructions:

1. Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl.

2. Whisk in the sugar until well combined.

3. Add eggs, oil, milk and vanilla extract, then whisk until there’s no lumps.

4. Pour in the boiling water, the batter should be thin.

5. Bake.

Oven:

Temperature → 350°

Time → 30 - 35 min

Brownies

Ingredients:

• 5 tbsp melted butter

• 1 ¼ cups sugar

• 2 eggs + 1 egg yolk

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• ⅓ cup vegetable oil

• ¾ cup cocoa powder

• ½ cup flour

• 1 tbsp cornstarch

• ⅛ tsp baking soda

• ¼ tsp salt

• ¾ cup chocolate chips

Instructions:

1. Add melted butter and sugar to a bowl, whisk until well combined.

2. Add eggs, egg yolk and vanilla, whisk until there’s no lumps.

3. Add oil and cocoa powder and mix with a spatula gently.

4. Add flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt then stir gently with the spatula.

5. Mix in the chocolate chips.

6. Line/grease the baking pan.

Oven:

Temperature → 325°

Time → 18 - 22 min

Cookies

Ingredients:

• 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1 ½ tsp cornstarch

• ½ tsp salt

• ¾ cup unsalted butter (melted and cooled)

• ¾ cup brown sugar (packed light or dark brown)

• ½ cup white sugar

• 1 egg

• 1 egg yolk

• 2 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 ¼ cup chocolate chips/chunks

Instructions:

1. Whisk the flour, baking soda, cornstarch and salt together in a bowl. Set it aside.

2. Whisk the melted butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until there’s no lumps.

3. Add in the vanilla extract. The mixture should be thin.

4. Combine with the dry ingredients and mix with a spatula or large spoon. At this point, the dough will be soft, thick, and look greasy.

5. Fold in the chocolate chips with a spatula.

6. Cover the dough tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2-3 hours, overnight will help it set more (you can make the cookies immediately, but they may spread a lot in the sheet so be sure to take them out every few minutes and use a spatula to separate them if needed).

7. Make sure the dough is soft before forming them into small balls. Make them all the same size (you can do this with a spoon if you’d like). If you want to take an extra measure to prevent spreading while in the oven, form the pieces in a more cylinder shape–this will also make the centres of the cookies softer.

8. Line the baking sheets with parchment paper and space the dough balls apart from each other to keep them from combining in case they spread.

Oven:

Temperature → 325°

Time → 12 - 13 min