Honey Cinnamon Grilled Peaches with Italian Gelato

By Jodee Weiland

Grilled peaches are delicious for summer desserts and so easy to make! You can add Italian gelato or ice cream to grilled peaches and create a dessert that everyone will love. I like to add Vanilla Bean Italian Gelato to my grilled peaches because with the honey cinnamon grilled peaches, the creamy texture of vanilla gelato is outstanding. My Honey Cinnamon Grilled Peaches with Italian Gelato are absolutely delicious and a family favorite in our home!

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When preparing to grill my peaches, I mix together my basting sauce of cinnamon and honey with olive oil. The honey and olive oil would work fine on its own, but the addition of cinnamon takes it beyond delicious and adds something to the overall dessert, especially when you top the peaches off with vanilla bean Italian gelato or ice cream. I use vanilla bean because it enhances the cinnamon flavor of the basting sauce used on the peaches when grilling them and helps take my Honey Cinnamon Grilled Peaches with Italian Gelato to the next level of awesome!

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4 peaches halved with pit removed
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons pure organic honey
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

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With a whisk, mix the olive oil, honey, and cinnamon together until blended well to create your basting sauce. Wash your peaches, cut them in half, and remove the pit. Place the halves in a dish and with a basting brush, baste the sauce on to the pitted flesh side of the peaches.

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Bring your grill to medium heat and with tongs place the top basted peaches on the grill, skin side down. Cover and grill for about five minutes. With tongs, turn the peaches over, skin side up, and baste the skin side. Then cover and grill for about five more minutes or until you have grill lines on the flesh of your peaches. Turn them over once more and use up any basting sauce on the flesh side of the peaches. Close the grill for a one minute longer. Then remove the grilled peaches and get ready to serve your dessert.

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Serve my Honey Cinnamon Grilled Peaches with Italian Gelato! Just plate a peach and put a large scoop of Vanilla Bean Italian Gelato on top. You can use any flavor of gelato or ice cream, but this is my favorite. This dessert is so delicious because the peaches are grilled, but not mushy. They still have a slight firmness to them and with the gelato or ice cream added, the peaches are so delicious! Actually, they are so good, you can just eat the peaches by themselves, but either way you will love this dessert. So give it a try, and enjoy!

Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies with Walnuts

By Jodee Weiland

Homemade cookies are always so good when freshly baked. The whole house smells wonderful when baking, and cookies are no exception to that rule. That’s one of things I like best about baking a fresh batch of homemade cookies. I did this more often when my children were young, but they are grown now. Still, once in a while, I will bake some homemade cookies, and one of my favorite recipes is one that came from two different recipes I had used over the years. Both recipes had things I loved, so I took what I liked best from both, changed what I didn’t like, added another ingredient I liked but neither recipe had, and came up with a whole new recipe, my Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies with Walnuts.

https://learnfromyesterday.com In my recipe, I adjusted ingredients to my preferences for a cookie. Although my recipe is sweet, it is not overly sweet. If you add in semi-sweet chocolate chips and sweetened coconut, you don’t need to overdo the sugar by adding in too much or both brown and white sugar. I reduced the amount of chocolate chips as well, and it was more than enough. Also, if you are going to add chopped walnuts to a cookie with coconut and chocolate chips, you need more flour to hold the whole cookie together. Baking soda and salt are common ingredients in cookie recipes, but I prefer to use as little as possible. In the end, what’s important is the overall taste of the cookie, and my Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies with Walnuts are delicious and a family favorite!

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1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
3/4 cups sugar 1 egg
3/4 teaspoon coconut extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sweetened coconut flakes
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

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https://learnfromyesterday.com Once blended together, take enough to make about a one inch ball of dough. Place the balls on a prepared cookie sheet about two inches apart. I use parchment paper on my cookie sheets for a quicker clean-up process, but you do not need to do this. When you have a full cookie sheet ready, place it in the oven and bake at 375 degrees for 11 to 13 minutes or until they turn a light golden brown. When ready, set on a cooling rack. My cookies took 12 minutes to bake. This recipes makes about 28 cookies.

https://learnfromyesterday.com My Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies with Walnuts are delicious and so full of flavor! I love the flavors of coconut with chocolate and walnuts. The flavor in this cookie is the best and will remind you of warm cookies and milk from your childhood, only better. What a great feeling to have! Warm cookies remind me of home and family, and for me, that’s the best feeling ever. So try these cookies and see what they remind you of or make a new memory with those you love, and enjoy!

Delicious Berry Berry Vanilla Nonfat Frozen Yogurt

By Jodee Weiland

I love homemade nonfat frozen yogurt and enjoy coming up with new flavor combinations. Since I had recently frozen some fresh blueberries and had some fresh ripe strawberries, I decided that combining the two would make an awesome tasting nonfat frozen yogurt. I just needed to let the blueberries thaw slightly to puree them with the fresh strawberries. That’s how I came to make my Delicious Berry Berry Vanilla Nonfat Frozen Yogurt!

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Making frozen yogurt with my automatic frozen yogurt-ice cream and sorbet maker, makes this whole process very easy. The one thing I did differently this time, besides changing my fruit choices, was to use almond milk in place of fat-free milk. I wanted to change it up a little more. Then I just put together my ingredients, set up the machine with my pre-frozen bowl from the freezer, poured in my mixture, and let the machine do its job for the next 25 to 30 minutes. What could be easier than that? Making up new flavors of frozen yogurt was never easier than this, and I’m loving it!

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Delicious Berry Berry Vanilla Nonfat Frozen Yogurt

2 cups nonfat Greek yogurt
1/3 cup sugar (or the appropriate equivalent of non-sugar sweetener)
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup almond milk
1 cup fresh blueberries frozen and pureed (thaw slightly)
3/4 cup fresh strawberries cut up
Miniature dark chocolate chips to sprinkle on top (optional)

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Puree the slightly thawed frozen blueberries with the cut up fresh strawberries in a blender. Then blend together the yogurt, sugar, vanilla, and almond milk in a mixing bowl with a hand mixer on medium speed until the sugar is dissolved, about one to two minutes. Once done, blend the berry mixture puree into the yogurt mixture with the hand mixer on low for about one minute. Following the directions of your yogurt/ice cream maker, turn it on and slowly pour in the blended yogurt and berry mixture. Once it is all in the yogurt maker, let the mixture thicken into your creamy frozen yogurt as the machine works its magic, usually about thirty minutes. When ready, scoop the frozen yogurt into serving dishes, putting any leftover frozen yogurt into a freezer storage container and freeze for later.

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My Delicious Berry Berry Vanilla Nonfat Frozen Yogurt is a flavorful and healthy frozen treat that will cool off a hot day pleasantly! This nonfat frozen yogurt makes a tasty dessert choice during the warmer weather, but is so good tasting, you’ll be making it long into the fall as well. For a little something extra, sprinkle some miniature dark chocolate chips on top. Give it a try sometime soon, and enjoy!