Bootcamp, New Year’s Resolutions & Cookies

January 7th and I’m still working on my New Year’s resolutions! Every year I seem to write the same thing i.e. eat better, exercise harder and lose weight.  So to help me with these goals I signed up for Bootcamp at 5:30 a.m.  Wow am I sore!  Today was an obstacle course of running, jumping, hopping, lifting and those hated stomach exercises.  I thought I was in better shape than I obviously am.  When I work this hard I’m supposed to want to eat better.  Which is true until I see the candy stash at work.  The same fitness friend who gave me the healthy muffin recipe gave me a high fiber, relatively healthy cookie recipe, so I made them. They were so good I wanted to eat more than my alloted two.  I wanted to eat 12.  I guess I can’t have cookies no matter what. But I’ll pass along the recipe anyway.  The rest of mine went in the freezer, they are harder to eat when they are frozen.  Out of sight, out of mind. Whoever came up with that saying was out of their mind. 

Carrot Nut Oatmeal Cookies

Cream Together:  3/4 cup butter and 2/3 cup honey.  Add 2 eggs, and 2 teaspoons vanilla.  Mix well.  Add 1 cup whole wheat flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 3 cups oatmeal.  Mix well.  Mix in 1 large carrot, grated, 1/2 cup walnuts and 1/2 cup coconut.

Drop by teaspoons on a prepared cookie sheet.  Bake at 325 degrees for 12-15 minutes.

100 calories per cookie

Enjoy.

Muffins and Artwork

I have a great muffin recipe that I got from a fitness buff friend.  They are perfect pre and post exercising fuel.  I made them today after our bike ride.  While I was out, riding up a steep grade, which I’m happy to say I accomplished without stopping, (those who have ever switched from a triple to a double chainring will understand) I started thinking about these muffins.  Mostly to take my mind off the hill I was climbing.  I had to come straight home and whip them up before I was off to work.  Here is the recipe:

Carrot Spice Muffins

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1 tsp baking pwdr., 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice, 1/3 cup brown sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 cup buttermilk, 1/3 cup oil, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/2 cup raisins, 1/2 cup coconut, 1/2 cup walnuts, 1 medium carrot peeled and grated

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  Mix flour, soda, baking powder, salt and pumpkin pie spice.  In another bowl mix brown sugar, egg, buttermilk, oil, vanilla with raisins, coconut, walnuts and grated carrot.  Add wet ingredients to dry, mix just until moistened.  If the mixture still seem dry add up to 1/4 cup more.  Spoon batter into a 12 cup muffin tin.  Bake for 15 minutes or until browned.  ENJOY!

Now I’m working on art show things and I’m looking at this image,

Emma

 debating it for a calendar.  This is Emma’s house, one of Robert’s favorite subjects