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Cherry Chocolate Freezer Roll

mywifecancook — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 02:00:00 +0000

This cherry chocolate freezer roll log cake is made with Nabisco’s famous chocolate wafer cookies and whip cream as the main ingredients. It ranks among our favorite desserts with things like this Heath Bar Cake which also feature cool whip and chocolate. It’s a cake by many names; We’ve heard it called log cake, zebra cake, icebox cake, among others. We’ve always known it as freezer roll or freezer log, but in the end, the name doesn’t matter. What matters is the taste, and on that front this cake delivers. This recipe has been a holiday favorite in our family for years. It often gets made as a Christmas dessert, but it’s so good that we find ourselves at other times of the year making it as well. Especially since it’s a no-bake dessert and relatively easy to make if you have a little bit of patience. Cherry Chocolate Freezer Log Roll Assembly Start with Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafer Cookies or another favorite chocolate wafer cookie Use whip cream (or another filling) as a binding agent to layer the cookies together into a log/roll. This can be a little tricky. We’ve found that a winning strategy is layering together smaller […]

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Instant Pot Twice-Baked Potatoes

mywifecancook — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 01:34:42 +0000

Instant Pot twice-baked potatoes good and they can also be a great way to get a serving of vegetables. We have been struggling to find filling and healthy dinner side dishes to fill up the whole family (holy smokes, growing kids can eat!). Recently, twice baked potatoes have become really popular. We’ve started mixing in chopped spinach to our twice-baked potato mixture. Adding the spinach is the perfect way to fill everyone up with vegetables and it eliminates huge after-dinner snacking (not completely, these kids eat every 2 hours). How do you pick the potatoes? I use russet potatoes. The larger russet potatoes that are about a half a pound each (8 ounces) are what we used in this recipe and are a perfect size. They usually take 15 to 16 minutes to pressure cook and then we do a 10 minutes natural release. I have used the monster-sized russet potatoes as well (closer to one pound) and cooked for 18 minutes with a 10 minutes natural pressure release. The smaller potatoes that come in a 5 lb bag are usually 5-6 ounces and only take 13-14 minutes. Basically, pick a uniform size and judge its size accordingly. For Baked […]

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Instant Pot Turkey Farro Soup

mywifecancook — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

This Instant Pot Turkey soup with farro is a great hearty recipe that’s perfect on a cold or rainy night. Or whenever. The holidays always equals turkey leftovers. This inspired us to come up with an Instant Pot Turkey Soup recipe. Soups are so easy in the Instant Pot, especially when you’re just repurposing leftovers. The past few years, rather than cooking an entire turkey, we have cooked a brined turkey breast. For Friendsgiving we ended up cooking two. No one complained about not having dark meat. And the bonus is that the turkey was moister and way more flavorful! For the soup, we throw in any leftover turkey we have with broth we make from the turkey bones (and cooked in the Instant Pot, of course!). If you are feeling less ambitious or don’t have any turkey bones, feel free to use chicken or vegetable broth. We tend to love lots of vegetables in our soups. The usual suspects — onions, celery, and carrots plus spinach for a healthier kick — but, we also wanted to feature a grain. In the end, we went with farro. Farro is an ancient grain often credited with having a “nutty flavor”. Check […]

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Dairy Free French Toast

mywifecancook — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

This dairy-free french toast recipe is made with almond milk and it’s a great easy breakfast when you’re in the mood for a little treat. Lately, we’ve been buying a lot of challah bread from our local bakery (which is dairy free, but not vegan because it is made with eggs) and using it to make french toast for breakfast on the weekends. Our kids love it, but I don’t do so well with dairy so I wanted to make dairy-free french toast so I could enjoy it as well! Keeping your French Toast Dairy-Free A lot of traditional french toast recipes call for both butter and milk. If you want to keep your french toast dairy free then you just need to substitute in your favorite non-dairy milk and then either drop the butter or again find a suitable dairy-free alternative. We love almond milk and it worked well so we used that instead of regular milk. When greasing the pan we use either coconut oil or vegan butter. Choosing your bread As stated above, we’ve been challah a lot for this recipe, but there are lots and LOTS of options when it comes to what bread you use […]

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Vegan Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie Bars

mywifecancook — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:05:48 +0000

These gluten-free and vegan pumpkin pie bars are a dessert we can get behind during the holidays or any time of year. Think of this recipe as a combination of pumpkin pie and pumpkin crisp. It’s like pumpkin pie in a cookie bar form with a crisp topping. They have a gluten-free oatmeal crust, a pumpkin custard middle, and an oatmeal crisp topping. These pumpkin pie bars are vegan and gluten-free making this a great dessert recipe for those with food restrictions. Rethinking Pumpkin Pie Pumpkin pie is a holiday tradition. If it’s not on your thanksgiving dessert table then you’re basically thumbing your nose at tradition. I can appreciate this. Who doesn’t love a good tradition? Still, I always sort of felt like pumpkin pie was missing something. I mean, I like it…but, it always felt like it could be better. Enter the crumble topping! The Crisp Topping and the crust As mentioned above, this recipe is like a marriage between pumpkin pie and pumpkin crisp. I like my crisp, guilty! In this recipe, the mixture for the topping also doubles as the crust. It’s a simple matter of mixing almond flour, baking soda, vegan butter, gluten-free oats, and […]

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Thai Salmon Bowl with Peanut Sauce

mywifecancook — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:09:08 +0000

This Thai Salmon Bowl with Peanut sauce is one of our favorite new recipes since discovering how easy it is to prepare salmon in our Instant Pot. We’ve recently made it a larger priority to batch meal prep a couple of times a week in order to have grab and go food on hand and ready for busy days or nights. Batch meal prep means choosing recipes that are easy to execute and that’s one of the reasons we love this Thai salmon bowl with peanut sauce. We cook both the quinoa and salmon in the Instant Pot (we have a small and large Instant Pot, so usually we do both at the same time). While it’s cooking we chop up the vegetables and microwave some edamame from the freezer. Once the salmon and quinoa are cooked and the vegetables chopped, we arrange the ingredients in our favorite meal prep containers for several meals. Sometimes we keep everything separate if we’re in a hurry and know we’ll have time the next day at lunchtime (it does last longer if separated). However, if we are all headed out for busy days, we just assemble everything so it’s all ready to go. […]

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Instant Pot Salmon from Fresh or Frozen

mywifecancook — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:55:27 +0000

Ever wondered how to cook salmon in the Instant Pot? It’s probably easier than you think! Read on for our tips for cooking fresh or frozen salmon in your Instant Pot. We love salmon for dinner, it’s a very quick and easy meal. Some of our favorite salmon recipes include our salmon mango salad and our spicy pan-seared chili salmon. We have discovered it is really easy to cook salmon in the Instant Pot. Serve it with a steamed vegetable and rice for a fast weeknight meal or use in meal prepping for the week. Another of our favorites is this Thai Salmon bowl served with quinoa, raw carrot, pepper, and spinach drizzled with peanut sauce. Salmon is perfect for meal planning in cold salads or bowls. We frequently cook a bunch of salmon on Sunday in the Instant Pot to be used for lunches over the beginning of our week. Who doesn’t love having an easy grab and go lunch? We love cooking it in the Instant Pot because we can even cook frozen portions of salmon while making dinner or meal prepping other things. Then we can either eat some of the salmon hot or save it all […]

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Instant Pot Zucchini Egg Bites

mywifecancook — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:57:25 +0000

These Instant Pot Egg Bites are a perfect make-ahead breakfast for those mornings when you need to eat breakfast on the go. Don’t get me wrong, We love slow weekend mornings. Enjoying a cup of coffee on the couch with a book. Spending time cooking a nice breakfast; maybe zucchini frittata — one of our favorites . Lazy weekend mornings are blissful. Weekday mornings on the other hand… Chaos! Weekday mornings are a race to get through breakfast and get everyone ready for the day. It’s not the day to chop and saute veggies and then make a frittata which you leisurely eat as you slow-sip your morning coffee. Nope! Gotta keep things rolling! That’s why make-ahead recipes like these Instant Pot Egg bites are so valuable. This recipe can be made Sunday afternoon and then pulled out of the fridge for easy reheating on busy weekday mornings. They reheat in about 20 seconds so you’ll have no excuse for skipping breakfast. These egg bites are basically a mix between a frittata and a hard-boiled egg. We like them simply because they make for a very easy make-ahead veggie and protein-packed breakfast. It’s also a recipe that very easy to […]

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Instant Pot Sloppy Joes

mywifecancook — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 15:04:59 +0000

Below we’re sharing our recipe and tips for Easy Instant Pot Sloppy Joes. Is anyone else in need of easy meals for back to school and activity nights? We are! On busy nights we find ourselves cooking a lot of easy prep meals. Often times we’ll even batch prep meals on the weekend so that meals are even easier during the week. One of our current favorite easy meals is sloppy joes made in our Instant Pot. Sloppy Joes is the perfect meal when no one has any energy to figure out a complicated meal. It’s perfect for nights when you are busy with sports practice or music lessons (or nights when you just want a break). Reasons to love Instant Pot Sloppy Joes It’s popular It works well for serving a crowd (or if you just want leftovers) It freezes, travels, and reheats well (been there, done that) the recipe is easily adaptable Using Ground Beef Instead of Ground Turkey For this Instant Pot Sloppy Joe’s recipe, we used ground turkey (I have the alpha-gal meat allergy), but ground beef would work just as well. The only additional thing you might have to do is drain off any extra […]

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Green Tahini Sauce

mywifecancook — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 22:32:37 +0000

This easy green tahini sauce is the perfect dip and also works great as a condiment on so many different items, from dinner bowls to omelettes.

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