Food Minia

After making a blueberry dessert pasta I couldn't stop and made several other types of pasta that are beautiful in color inspired by a website called Spoon Fork Bacon .  In addition to blueberry pasta made in a previous post I made tomato, spinach, saffron, and beet pasta. I hung the pasta to dry on clothes hangers and stored them in large Ziploc bags.  Ingredients: basic pasta dough: 2 eggs 1 cup all purpose flour 1 cup semolina flour 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil 1-2 tablespoons water, if needed for spinach: 1/2 cup canned spinach, purred until smooth for saffron: 1 pinch of saffron (soaked in 1/3 cup warm water for about 30 minutes) for beet: 1 small roasted red beet, pureed until smooth for tomato: 1 8oz canned tomato paste for blueberry: 1/2 cup tundra blueberries (store bought blueberries will not give you a vibrant purple color) Directions:   For dough: In a food processor combine flours, eggs, spinach, saffron, beet, tomato, or blueberry, followed by oil.  ...

Last Christmas I received a pasta attachment for my KitchenAid.  I've been making all sorts of pasta egg pasta, beet pasta, spinach pasta, etc.  I wanted to make a pasta that could somehow incorporate Alaska, therefore tundra blueberry pasta. To get this vibrant purple color you have to use tundra blueberries also called bilberries similar to huckleberries.  Blueberries from the grocery store just won't cut it. Ingredients: 1 cup semolina flour 1 cup all purpose flour 2 tbs. olive oil 1/2 cup tundra blueberry puree 2 tbs. sugar 1 tbs. lemon juice dash cinnamon Directions: Mix all ingredients in a your Kitchen aid mixer and finish off with your dough hook or used a food processor to blend all ingredients so that it forms into a solid ball.   Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface. Roll out dough or wind through your pasta machine. Cut into strips or wind through your pasta machine. Cook the pasta in boiling water until al dente…it will only take 3-4 m...

These muffins tastes so good and won't make you feel guilty for eating more than one. Ingredients 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour 3/4 cup Stevia 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/3 cup canola oil 1 egg 1/3 cup milk 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce 2 cups tundra blueberries   Directions Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease 12 muffin cups, or line with paper liners. Whisk together the flour, Stevia, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl. Whisk canola oil, egg, milk, and applesauce together in a separate bowl until smooth, and stir the liquid ingredients into the flour mixture until moistened. Lightly stir in the blueberries. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling them 2/3 full (ice cream scoop works well). Bake muffins in the preheated oven until they rise and the tops are golden bro...