I've been pretty busy so lately I've been modifying our old recipes with healthier alternatives. For example, yesterday we made spaghetti but instead of using beef, we used ground turkey instead. In addition to the ground turkey we cooked with multi-grain noodles. Remember that in the past I've noted that the whole-wheat noodles are disgusting, but we cannot tell the different between multi-grain and "regular" noodles.
Today I had a friend come over so I decided to make a healthy treat instead of a dinner, I am getting tired of trying dinners, wanted to change up the menu a bit. I made Pumpkin-Pie Coffeecake from the American Heart Association book on page 284. I was nervous to try this because it calls for pumpkin from the vegetable section of the grocery store, not canned pumpkin pie filling, wheat-bran cereal (I used Grape Nuts--which I hate!), flour, buttermilk (I learned that you can buy this in a canister (made of cardboard in the baking isle near the canned milks), suger, spices, egg whites, flour and some powered sugar (for the topping).
Well, let me tell you this...the "cake" is delicious!!!!! It has the consistency and texture of a very moist banana bread but with a pumpkin pie taste. I would make this treat in a heartbeat again. I think it would be great for breakfasts. Madison gobbled it up like it was going out of style...that is a very good sign.
The recipe calls for it to be made in a 9 inch baking pan and to be cut into 12 pieces. At 12 pieces, each piece is 177 calories, 1 mg of cholesterol, and it says 6.5 grams fat ( I think that is because the recipe calls for pecans, but I did not use them...) This was an excellent recipe....try it out!
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