Whole Wheat Goldfish Crackers

A couple months ago, I had a stinking major computer crash and lost mucho.  Among the forever-lost data, I thought I had lost these pictures!!  Guess not.  :)  Now you can enjoy one of my favorite snack recipes I've ever tasted...

Back in March, my friend Courtney and I were chatting about one of our favorite food bloggers and, in particular, about one of her posts - whole wheat goldfish crackers.  We had identical initial reactions..."Who in the world has tiny fish cookie cutters?!"

A few weeks later I had to buy some ingredients online for a "hired cake pop job" and decided to get them from the same website as SK's goldfish cookie cutter!  I ordered my sprinkles and my fishie and couldn't wait to show Courtney what I had done. haha.

Well, us being us, our schedules clashed until the very end of the summer.  Alas, we were able to meet and make cute little fishies!  She bought another cutter of a slightly different shape so we had two breeds.

I won't tell you what's so funny about this picture, but I had to put it
on here to give Courtney a laugh...plus she's cute!

Seriously, you have to make these.  They really taste like goldfish crackers!

apparently my wedding ring was still safely tucked away in my
pocket from messy dough rolling...

Here is the recipe.  Better print it now just in case.

Non-Vegan Vegan Pumpkin Muffins

Although I'm often attracted to healthier recipes, cookbooks and blogs, the word "vegan" always sounds like I'm-so-healthy-I-don't-taste-good food.  I know, that's probably wholly inaccurate and enraging some of you...and I'll be the first to admit I was wrong!

So, in search for some new and different pumpkin recipes, I came across one (okay, tons) that caught my eye. I ended up changing the recipe just slightly because I didn't have "vegan chocolate chips" and stuff like that, so maybe the flavor was altered a bit, but it was very pleasing to all my taste-testers... aka the husband's football buddies who came over for the Duck game.

Okay, totally off subject, but I sometimes wish football played every day.  Not because I understand a single part of it, but because it means PEOPLE to COOK for.  That is my favorite.

The time I spend in the kitchen is sporadic and entirely depends on a) our travel schedule for work and b) when we have people over.  It's not much fun cooking for just the two of us.  I do it occasionally of course, but it's way more fun to cook for groups, right??

I really enjoyed this recipe and would definitely double it in the future.  All that work for 12 muffins is sad!  But definitely a keeper.

Print it here.

Whole Wheat Bread

Don't let the "whole wheat" words fool you.  This tasted like no other store-bought, from-a-bag whole wheat bread that I'd ever tried.

I think the secret was the brown sugar.

If you thought consciously about it, you could detect the tiny bit of sweet the bread had to offer in each bite.  It was hardly noticeable and I think made all the difference.

I keep wanting to make this again but don't ever think about it in time.  When you print the recipe, notice that you need quite a bit of rising time, but it doesn't take too long to bake!

Enjoy!