Roasted Chickpeas

Spray a pan with pam and put a single layer of cooked chickpeas. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic salt, paprika, chili powder, and any other spice you are in the mood for. Bake at 425 for 25 minutes or 350 for 35 minutes. Some people like them really crispy and some people like them just a bit done. Either way they are spicy and delicious.

Grilled salmon

1.Place salmon in a pan

2. Spray with Pam and sprinkle with salt and pepper

3. Broil for 10 minutes

4. drizzle with Tamari sauce (wheat free, sugar free soy sauce) and broil for another 2-3 minutes.

Garlic za'tar chicken and sweet potatoes:

1. Clean chickens and place in a pan surrounded by cubed sweet potatoes and garlic cloves still in their skin.

2. drizzle with balsamic vinegar

3. spray sweet potatoes with Pam

4. sprinkle chicken and potatoes with paprika, garlic powder, onion powder and za'tar

Bake uncovered at 350 for 1 1/2 hours (on convection bake, if your oven has that feature). Half way through cooking, toss potatoes in the chicken juice.

Italian Eggplant "Bread"

I got this recipe on a vacation in Italy 30 years ago, it is an interesting way to cook eggplant and it comes out with a texture like bread.

Slice eggplant very thin.  Heat a pan till it is evenly hot through. Sprinkle with coarse salt.  It has to be coarse because it does not get absorbed by the eggplant, it just keeps it from sticking to the pan.  "Fry" the slices in the salted pan, turn frequently to keep from burning.  When done the eggplant will be dried out and white with brown fry marks.

The original recipe calls for pouring oil over it and marinating it, if you want you can pour your oil portion on it, but I don't think that it is worth it.  I do make an attractive plate of this for my family and pour olive oil and parsley on it.

OA "Latkes"

Mix together your oatmeal (one or two ounces) with your eggs and salt, pepper, onion powder, garlice powder and parsley.  Let sit for ten minutes.

Preheat frying pan, spray with Pam and fry into pancakes.

Abstinent Cheesecake - this replaces a breakfast meal

Ingredients:



"Crust"

1 oz. of oats (1 1/2 oz. if that is your measurement)

cinnamon



Filling

1 egg

2 oz. cottage cheese

2 oz raisins or 6 oz cortlandt apple diced

or 1 oz raisins and 3 oz cortlandt apple diced

cinnamon - to taste (important)

(you can vary the fruit - drained pineapple is also good, as well as fresh cherries)



I use the smallest square aluminum foil baking dishes available (I think 4 X 4)



1) Toast oats/cinnamon in oven for about five minutes.

2) Spread half this mixture on botton of pan.

3) Mix the filling and spread over oats.

4) Top with remainder of oats.



Bake at 350 for about 35-45 minutes. Check for doneness.





I usually make six of these at the same time and freeze. First I measure out 6 oz. of oatmeal and toast, and then spread the 1/2 for botton crust in each of the six pans.

Then I do filling for each one separately in a bowl, using the same bowl consecutively and put that in each pan. Finally, I top each one with 1/2 oz of oats.



It is a little time consuming, but I do it occasionally for Shavuous or when I want to have a quick breakfast ready to pull from the freezer. Especially good for traveling.

Baked Chinese Veggies

Spray a pan with Pam:

chop and mix:
    Scallions
    Green and Red Pepper
    Mushrooms (fresh or canned)
    Bamboo Shoots (fresh or canned)
   any other Chinese vegetables that you like
   chopped fresh ginger and garlic

Sprinkle with salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder.

Bake in the oven for one hour at 350 degrees, stirring to prevent sticking. You can bake it at a lower temperature for longer if you are not going to to be home.