Recipe Swap Hop-Homemade Hot Chocolate

NC Grown // Auteur Ariel

Tiffany from Sunglasses and Starbucks

Welcome to Recipe Swap Hop on Tasty Tuesdays!

Recipe Swap Hop is a fun link-up for all you chefs and cooks out there! If you have a yummy recipe you've posted in the past or have one you want to post now, link it up below! This is a great way to share your favorite recipes with fellow bloggers and to discover new ones! Also, every week we will spotlight our favorite recipes from the previous week so dust off those cookbooks and pick your best recipes to share!

BooBerry Smoothie

submitted by Moja from Four & Know More

--This recipe was perfect for Halloween last week! It's delicious and fun! Thanks for sharing Moja! 

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It's that time of year. Hot chocolate every night! What I love about hot chocolate is that you can do so many different things to it. Put peppermint in it, put marshmallows on top, or whipped cream. The possibilities are endless! I love mine with marshmallows and a sprinkle of cinnamon. It't perfect. This is HERSHEY'S hot chocolate, so yummy!

Ingredients

-4 cups milk

-3/4 tspn vanilla extract

-1/3 cup water

-1/4 cup HERSHEY'S cocoa

-1/2 cup sugar

-marshmallows

-dash salt

Directions

 1. Stir together sugar, cocoa and salt in medium saucepan; stir in water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Boil and stir 2 minutes. Add milk; stirring constantly, heat to serving temperature. Do Not Boil.

2. Remove from heat; add vanilla. Beat with rotary beater or whisk until foamy. Serve topped with marshmallows or whipped cream.

Recipe Swap Hop-Crock Pot Hawaiian Chicken

NC Grown // Auteur Ariel

Maria from Sewn by Maria

Welcome to Recipe Swap Hop on Tasty Tuesdays!

Recipe Swap Hop is a fun link-up for all you chefs and cooks out there! If you have a yummy recipe you've posted in the past or have one you want to post now, link it up below! This is a great way to share your favorite recipes with fellow bloggers and to discover new ones! Also, every week we will spotlight our favorite recipes from the previous week so dust off those cookbooks and pick your best recipes to share!

Healthy Spaghetti and Meat Sauce

submitted by Mindy from The Pinterest Mama

--You can never go wrong with a healthy version of a favorite dish! Thanks for sharing Mindy! 

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This meal was delicious! The chicken fell apart and was so moist. Easy crock pot recipe. Loved it! Definitely making this again!

Ingredients

(You will want to change it around some depending how much chicken you use. We did two big pieces)

-2 pieces of chicken

-1/3 cup soy sauce

-1/2 cup brown sugar

-1 can of pineapple chunks

1. Cut chicken into small pieces.

2. Add all ingredients in crock pot. Add the juice from the can of pineapple chunks, only the liquid!

3. Cook on low for 4 1/2 hours.

4. Add in pineapple from the can for the last 30 mins.

5. Serve over rice!

Recipe Swap Hop-Pumpkin Spice Muffins

NC Grown // Auteur Ariel

Sue from Chevron and Lace

Welcome to Recipe Swap Hop on Tasty Tuesdays!

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Pumpkin Dump Cake

submitted by Lex from The Ainscough Family

--This recipe is perfect for the upcoming Halloween festivities! Thanks for sharing Lex! 

How to join our link-up:

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I'm going to keep going on the Fall foods! Have to take advantage of them while I can! Now for a little pumpkin spice muffins with cream cheese frosting. Recipe from The Pioneer Woman. Seriously so yummy and addicting!

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon salt

4 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces

1 cup pumpkin puree

1/2 cup evaporated milk

1 egg

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Topping on Muffin:

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Frosting:

1/4 cup softened butter

4 ounces, weight cream cheese

1/2 pound powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease 12 muffin tins.

Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt. Cut in butter with two knives or a pastry blender until it is fully incorporated.

 In a separate bowl, mix together pumpkin, evaporated milk, egg, and vanilla. Pour pumpkin mixture into the flour mixture. Fold gently until mixture is just combined.

Pour into a greased muffin pan. Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon-sugar-nutmeg mixture over the top of each unbaked muffin.

Bake for 25 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes, 

 Ice with cream cheese frosting.

To make the frosting, mix all ingredients on high until soft and whipped. Spread onto cooled muffins.

There ya go!

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Recipe Swap Hop-Paleo Bread

NC Grown // Auteur Ariel

Welcome to Recipe Swap Hop on Tasty Tuesdays!

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Summer Spinach Salad

submitted by Kelsey from Stories of Kel

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My recipe of the week is some yummy paleo bread! Very healthy for you! No gluten or wheat. This recipe is super easy to make and doesn't take much time at all. My mom showed me this recipe when she was here visiting me this past week. I ended up making it the day after she left!

Ingredients

-1/2 cup creamy roasted almond butter (I got mine from Trader Joe's)

-2 eggs

-2 tablespoon honey

-1 teaspoon vanilla

-1/4 teaspoon stevia (Also from Trader Joe's)

-1/4 teaspoon celtic sea salt

-1/4 teaspoon baking soda

-1 tablespoon cinnamon

Directions

1.Mix almond butter with hand mixer until creamy.

2. Mix in eggs, honey, vanilla, and stevia.

3. Add salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.

4. Mix with blender until ingredients are combined.

5. Transfer batter into a well greased 8x8 dish.

6. Bake at 325 for 12-15 mins

And there you go! Delicious paleo bread! I like to eat it for breakfast!

Recipe Swap Hop-Hot Pink Breakfast Smoothie

Welcome to Recipe Swap Hop on Tasty Tuesdays!

Ariel from Auteur Ariel and I are co-hosting a new weekly link-up and we'd love for you to join in on the fun! If you have a yummy recipe you've posted in the past or have one you want to post now, link it up below! This is a great way to share your favorite recipes with fellow bloggers and to discover new ones! Also, every week we will spotlight our favorite recipes from the previous week so dust off those cookbooks and pick your best recipes to share!

How to join our link-up:

1) Follow NC Grown and Auteur Ariel via GFC

2) Link up your blog post below using the Inlinkz widget [must be recipe/food-related!]

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Soooo link up, grab a button, and share a recipe!

We are also looking for co-hosts for our future Recipe Swap Hops! Email either one of us and we'll set it all up.

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My recipe this week comes from Green Smoothie Girl. I actually went to one her classes this past weekend and it was just amazing! So inspiring and it really makes you want to make a difference in the way you eat. That is what I'm doing, taking small steps to eating more whole foods. And drinking a green smoothie everyday. I actually won a prize while I was there as well! A powder that she made that is just full of minerals, fruits, vegetables, and loads of nutrients!

Don't mind the wood/dirt taste of it! Haha well that's just what I thought I tasted. If you need it more sweet, just add some more strawberries or stevia.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups coconut liquid (I used coconut water from the store)

1 large carrot
1/4 of a beet, raw, peeled

1/4 cup of cashews

1/4 cup chopped dates 

2 tsp. vanilla

12 frozen strawberries


Mix together!! 

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