Strawberry Pastry Tart w/ Honey & Pistachio

Ingredients

1 (1/2 package) frozen puff pastry sheet, thawed
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup ground pistachios
1/4 cup honey
cup heavy whipped cream
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 pint strawberries, stems removed and cut in half vertically
cup chopped pistachios

Instructions
-Pre-heat the oven to 400°F.
Unfold and roll the pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface into a 12-inch square. Place the pastry sheet onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
-Bake for 15-18 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown. Allow the pastry to cool on the baking sheet.
While the puff pastry is baking, prepare the two different creams.
-Using an electric mixer, whip the cream cheese, pistachios, and honey until well combined. Set aside.
-In a different bowl, whip the heavy cream and sugar with an electric beater until firm peaks form.
-Evenly spread the pistachio cream layer over the pastry followed by a layer of the whipped cream.
-Sprinkle the tart with the shopped pistachios.

Serve immediately. :)

Strawberry lemonade

Recipe:

Ingredients

-1 ¼ lb strawberries, washed & cut in halves, about 4 cups
- 2 lemons, washed and quartered (use limes to make strawberry limeade)
- ½- ¾ cup honey or sugar to taste, adjust based on your preference and sweetness of strawberries
- 6 cups of water Ice
- Garnishes: Strawberry slices, lemon slices and/or fresh herbs


Instructions

Blend the strawberries, lemons and honey with 2 cups of water
Strain the strawberry lemon mix, add the additional 4 cups of water through the strainer
Taste and add additional honey/sugar if needed
Serve cold over ice and garnished with strawberry slices, lemon slices and herbs

Potato Puff Pastry

Ingredients
1 large potato
1 Egg
Salt to taste
Red chili pepper to taste


Method for Potato Puff Pastry

1) Take a pastry sheet from freezer and thaw for 40 minutes.
2) Boil and Mash Potato, add salt and red chili pepper according to taste.
3) Cut the pastry sheet into square pieces of 2 inches side.
4) Put small amount of potato stuffing (approx 1 tbsp) in each of them,close sides by applying little water over the edges.
5) Beat the egg and brush it over puff pastry before putting it in oven.

Preheat oven to 400°F. Place the prepared puffs on a baking tray and bake for 15-20minutes

Healthy Cheesy Pizza Panini Just 100 Calories

• 1 Whole Wheat English Muffin or Sandwich Thin
• 1 tbsp pizza sauce (you could use tomato paste, just be sure to sprinkle with salt and spices)
• 1 Mini Babybel Light
• Your fav pizza topics, optional of course (baby spinach, diced peppers)

If you like a crunchier muffin, pre-toast. I tend to like mine soft so I kept it raw.
Smear the sauce on the muffin, top with any toping and then place the cheese in the center.

Press in the George Foreman or a panini press.

Mine took exactly 4 minutes to melt through.

Here’s the one I made today with added spinach!

Crepes with cream filling

Crepes:

4 eggs

1/2 c butter, melted

1/3 c sugar

1 c pan cake mix

1 c milk

1/4 c water

1 tsp. vanilla

dash of salt

In a blender place all ingredients, except pan cake mix.  Blend.  Sprinkle in flour, blend until incorporated.  Refrigerate for at least one hour.  Remove from refrigerator and blend for about a minute.  Heat 8-inch non-stick skillet.  Butter pan (about a 1/2 tsp).  

Pour 1/4 cup of batter into skillet.  I pour straight from my blender container.  Just make sure there is enough batter to cover the bottom of the pan with a THIN, THIN, THIN layer of batter.

 SWIRL pan around until bottom of pan is covered with batter.

 COOK for about 30 seconds, or until edges easily lift up with spatula.  

FLIP, COOK for 5-10 seconds.  Crepe should slide right out of pan.

Use wax paper between crepes.  My crepes never actually make it to the plate.

Makes 18-20 crepes.

If you are making crepes for dessert...  make the cream.  It's worth the extra laps in the pool 

OR YOU MAY JUST SERVE IT WITH NUTELLA :) 

Cream Filling:

1 c sour cream

1 8oz pkg. cream cheese SOFTENED

1 c powdered sugar