Strawberry Banana Ice Cream KYILEE WHITTINGTON Clark Elementary 4 s from the 2016-2017 Healthy Holiday Recipe Contest! 2 bananas 1/2 cup strawberries, frozen 1/2 tsp vanilla 2 tbls heavy cream 1. Place all of the ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth. The consistency should be like soft serve ice cream. 2. Transfer to a freezer-safe container large enough to hold 2 cups and freeze for at least 3 hours. 3. Scoop with an ice cream scoop and serve cold. 12
Fruit Pizza MADALYNN BLACKBURN Travis Elementary Pasta Salad JASON WHEELOCK Highlands Elementary 1 box Pillsbury pie crust 1 package of cream cheese (8 oz. 2 tablespoons of milk 1/4 cup powdered sugar 1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel 2-3 cups assorted fresh fruit Step 1 Soften crust as direction on box. Soften cream cheese. Step 2 Heat oven to 450. remove crust from pouch; roll on ungreased cookie sheet. Generously prick crust with fork on bottom. Bake for 9 mins or until light brown. Cool for 30 mins. Step 3 In small bowl beat cream cheese, milk, powdered sugar and orange peel with electric mixer on medium speed. Place cool baked crust on plate and cover in cream cheese. Arrange fruit and store in refrigerator. Noodles Alfredo Sauce Mozzarella Cheese Garlic Pepper Shrimp Salt Onions Salad Carrots Yellow Cheese Croutons 1. Boil Noodles 2. Drain Noodles 3. Alfredo Sauce 4. Cook shrimp in separate pots, onions 5. Garlic 6. Pepper 7. Salt and white cheese 8. Salad, carrots, yellow cheese, croutons and Ranch Ranch 2 11
Delicious and Healthy Carrot Cake ARIANA LIZETTE LOY San Jacinto Elementary Healthier Greek Yogurt Pumpkin Bread EVYN EDWARDS Austin Elementary Carrot Cake mix Eggs Oil Carrots Powdered sugar Milk Butter Cream Cheese Vanilla Extract Cinnamon Extract First, you have to mix your egg, oil and a little bit of milk to make it rise. Add some fresh carrots. For the cream cheese, add some powdered sugar, butter, cream cheese, vanilla extract, cinnamon extract. Then add some more fresh shredded carrots, then decorate. 1 C pumpkin (not filling) 1/2 C vanilla Greek yogurt (or pumpkin) 1 large egg 1 t vanilla extract 1/3 C coconut oil, melted 3/4 C brown sugar 1/4 t salt 2 t cinnamon 1 t pumpkin pie spice 1/2 t nutmeg 1 C flour 1. Gather all materials & ingredients 2. Preheat oven to 350, grease & flour bread pan. Set aside. 3. In a large bowl, stir together all dry ingredients except brown sugar and chocolate chips. 4. In another bowl, mix all wet ingredients & brown sugar. 5. Mix wet and dry together. Add chocolate chips (if desired.) 6. Pour in bread pan & bake for 55-65 min. or until inserted toothpick is clean. 1/2 oat flour (blended oats) 1/2 C dark chocolate chips 10 3
Chicken and Dumplings MADELINE GOMEZ Alamo Elementary Chicken Avocado Wraps in Spinach Herb Tortillas BRIYANA JAMES Harlem Elementary CHICKEN One whole chicken Two quarts of water Two Tbls of bouillon 1/4 tsp of pepper DUMPLINGS 1/4 cup of vegetable oil 1 cup of milk 2 1/2 cups of flour 1 Tbls of baking powder 1 tsp of salt 1 tsps of sugar Boil chicken until done. Remove chicken from water and debone. Combine dumpling ingredients together and knead. Roll out dough and cut into squares. Bring chicken and broth to a boil, then add dough squares to pot. Boil for about 10 min. And then enjoy! 2 cups cooked chicken 1/2 cup reduced fat Mexican cheese blend 1 avocado diced 1/2 bunch cilantro 1/2 cup onion 1 small garlic clove 2 tsp Ms. Dash seasoning 4 large spinach and herb tortilla wraps by Ole Mexican Xtreme Wellness 1 tablespoon virgin olive oil 1. Wash chicken tenderloins and season with Ms. Dash 2. Cut onions and garlic. Sautee in small saucer with olive oil. Set to side. 3. Cook chicken for about ten minutes. Add sautéed veggies mixture to low heat. 4. Peel avocados and dice. 5. Place spinach wraps flat. Add chicken mixture and cheese avocados and fold. 6. Heat griddle with olive oil and place wraps on pan. Cook for 2 minutes on each side or until they are slightly brown in color. 7. Serve warm. 8. Hint, my assistant was my mom, LaVonda Hildveth. You are gonna need one also. 9. Enjoy. 4 9
FRUIT SALAD ALEJANDRA HERRERA Ashbel Smith Elementary 2 bananas 1 big apple 2 peaches 2 yellow kiwis 1 big piece of watermelon 1 handful of cherries The juice of 2 oranges without sugar 1. Peel the bananas and cut in circles. In a bowl, put the juice of the two oranges with the bananas. 2. Peel then cut the apples in little pieces. 3. Peel the peaches and cut them in little pieces. 4. Peel the kiwis and then cut them into little pieces. 5. Cut the watermelon and add them. 6. Add the cherries. LIGHTENED UP CHERRY LEMON POUND CAKE ASANA GORDON Austin Elementary POUND CAKE 3/4 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup I Can t Believe It s Not Butter spread (original or light) 3 large eggs I used 3/4 cup applesauce instead 2 tsp lemon extract 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt (optional) 1 tbls of lemon zest 1 cup of cherries, fresh or frozen (do not thaw), tossed in 1 tbls flour LEMON GLAZE About 3 tbls of lemon juice About 1 to 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar 1. Preheat oven to 350 F and spray a 9x5 loaf pan with floured cooking spray. Set aside. 2. Pound cake to the bowl of a standard mixture fitted with the paddle attachment (or large mixing bowl and electric mixer) add the butter spread and sugar and beat until light and fluffy (about 3 mins.) 3. Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and with the mixer on low, add the eggs or applesauce one at a time, beating well after each addition. 4. Add the lemon extract and beat to incorporate. 5. Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl and add 1 1/2 cups flour, baking powder, optional salt, and beat on low until just incorporated. 6. Add the lemon zest and beat on low to incorporate. 7. To a small bowl, add the cherries, sprinkle with 1 tbls flour and toss with your fingers or a spoon to coat. Flouring the cherries helps prevent sinking while baking. 8. Layer batter by pouring half the portion of the bowl. Place the cherries and repeat the process. 9. Bake on 325 F for 90 minutes or until your toothpick is clean. (Tent foil over the cake until it has been a full 60 min of baking.) 10. Allow cake to cool for about 15 min before turning it out to cool completely on a rack before glazing. 11. Glaze to a small bowl add the lemon juice, confectioners sugar, and whisk until smooth and combined. 8 5
Pan Helado Grinch 6. Use the can opener on the peach and pineapples in light middle.) 15. Wash your fruits. VIRIDIANA NUNEZ syrup and get the container and pour all the juice out, and put the fruit in a different container. 16. Get a toothpick. Add first the grape. 17. Then cut the bananas and straw- Banuelos Elementary 7. Then, use butter on the refractory, and cover all of the inside neatly. berries in pieces. 18. Next add the banana, then the strawberry, and last, add marsh- 8. Next, we take out the cream out mallow (keep repeating pro- of the refrigerator. cess.) Maria s Cookies Sour Cream Lemon Juice Sweetened Condensed Milk Peaches in light syrup Pineapple in light syrup Grapes Strawberries Marshmallows (small) Cup container Toothpicks Bananas 18 in Refractory (9x11 pan) 4 Containers Can opener Butter 1 Spoon 1. First we cut open the lemons and cut them in half. 2. Get the container and squeeze the lemons really tight till all the juice comes out. 3. Get another container and put all of the sour cream in. 4. Next get the sweetened condensed milk and pour it inside the container that has the sour cream in it. 5. Then, carefully add the lemon juice and mix it until it gets creamy, and put the mix in the refrigerator for 5 min. 9. Open the cookies and dip them about 5 seconds in the light syrup. 10. Next put the cookies orderly horizontal laying down on the refractory. 11. Then get the spoon and spread the cream neatly down on the cookies. 12. Then add the peaches separated on top of the cream. 13. Keep repeating the process till it fills the refractory. 14. Use the pineapple and spread it out on the top of the cream. The rest goes on the middle. (If leftover peaches, put them in the 19. Put Grinch on each corner, or the middle. 20. Get a toothpick and put 4 small grapes on the bottom of the toothpick, facing horizontally. 21. Get another toothpick, add 3 grapes, but this time put it diagonally. 22. Do that to the other side of the fruit and add another grape in the middle. 23. Last but not least, add a toothpick on the middle of the strawberry and place it down on the grape. 24. Then add a toothpick back on the grape so it could hold up. 6 7