Thursday, August 28, 2014

Frosted Zucchini Bread Muffins

3 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda 
3 cups flour
2 cups grated, unpeeled zucchini
3 teaspoons vanilla
Ground almonds for garnish

Beat eggs and sugar, add oil and spices, and blend. Add dry ingredients, flour and zucchini, and mix. Stir in vanilla. Scoop into greased muffin tins. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes for regular size muffins, 11 minutes for mini muffins. Allow to cool frost with cream cheese frosting, sprinkle with nuts. 
This gave me 12 regular muffins + 19 mini muffins, OR 1 loaf + 24 mini muffins.
  
  
Cream Cheese Frosting 
  
4 oz cream cheese, softened 
1/4 C butter, softened 
1/2 tsp vanilla 
1 1/2 C powdered sugar 
1-2 TBL milk 
  
Combine all until smooth. Frost muffins. 

Recipe from http://mommyimhungry.blogspot.com

Heavenly Halibut

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup butter, softened
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 tablespoons chopped green onions
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 dash hot pepper sauce
2 pounds skinless halibut fillets

DIRECTIONS:








1.Preheat the oven broiler. Grease a baking dish.
2.In a bowl, mix the Parmesan cheese, butter, mayonnaise, lemon juice, green onions, salt, and hot pepper sauce.
3.Arrange the halibut fillets in the prepared baking dish.
4.Broil halibut fillets 8 minutes in the prepared oven, or until easily flaked with a fork. Spread with the Parmesan cheese mixture, and continue broiling 2 minutes, or until topping is bubbly and lightly browned.
*I ended up baking the fish at 375 for about 15 minutes and then adding the topping and broiled it for 2 minutes. It just depends on how thick your cut of fish is.

(I used this recipe on the first fish I cooked that Don brought home from his trip to Alaska with my dad and brothers. It was very yummy!)