Sugar free blueberry pie

I love fruit pie. I hate sugar and Splenda. So enter in the Stevia. It happens to be peek blueberry season here. Yum, yum yum. They are my favorite fruit. My taste buds are extremely excited but my butt is not. I guess I will work out harder tomorrow.

6 cups blueberry
Sweetener equal to 1 cup
1 T lemon juice
1/2 cup flour.
1/2 t cinnamon
1/8 salt
2 T butter cut into slices.
1 egg beaten.

Double recipe pie crust.

Mix the first 6 ingredients in a bowl.

Place bottom pie crust in pan. Pour blueberry mix in. Place butter on top. Place other pie crust on top. Cut off excess crust and press and seal edges.
Brush with egg.
Bake at 450 for 10 minutes. The at 350 for 50 minutes.
Cover the edges if needed. Remove from oven and let it cool at least an hour.

*note this pie needs to cool so it sets up!

Summer bread salad(It is tomato season)

My sister happens to be one of the pickiest people I know. I threw together this recipe in hopes she would like it.
My child still is on his vegetarian kick and he loves his tomatoes.
The base for this dressing is a vinegar and olive oil mix.
The key to this salad is fresh mozzarella.

1 loaf of day old French bread cubed and dried overnight
3 T olive oil

Mix bread cubes and olive oil. Bake at 300 until toasted.

1 cup halved cherry tomatoes
1 T chopped fresh basil
1 T olive oil
1T balsamic vinegar
1 tsp chopped garlic
Mix tomatoes, basil, oil, vinegar and garlic in a container. Chill at least 2 hours to blend.

1/2 cup mozzarella cubed
Salt and pepper to taste

Mix 1 cup of toasted bread cubes, tomato mix and the mozzarella. Season with salt and pepper.

You can save the rest of the bread cubes for salad.

Cucumber sandwiches

My sweet animal loving 6 year old has declared himself a vegetarian. So we have been struggling to come up with new, healthy tasty recipes.


8oz softened cream cheese
1 T Italian seasoning
2 T mayo

Mix together and chill over night.

1 English Cucumber
1 loaf of French bread
Dried dill weed

The next day. Wash and slice cucumbers.
Toast bread lightly. Spread cream cheese mixture on bread. Top with cucumbers and sprinkle with dill. Serve.

Fruit dip

Summer is upon us. Time for fresh fruit.
This recipe was given to me along time ago by my aunt.

Easy Fruit dip
1 8oz flavored softened cream cheese
1 7oz marshmallow cream

Mix those together. Chill and serve,

Try it with strawberry, pineapple or honeynut cream cheese.

As Aiden says it is Easy, Peasy, lemon squeezie!