More Sugar-free Recipes

It is summer, and the heat is on throughout most of the nation. You probably want to do cooking that requires less oven time, recipes that are quick and easy so that you can have more fun in the sun, or enjoy the relaxing comfort of your indoor environment. Maybe you want something more than Welsh rarebit, toasted bread seasoned with spices like dill, rosemary, thyme, basil, and/or oregano, and topped with cheese for your main meal today. Perhaps you cannot grill everything for your meal on the barbeque grill.

Sugar-free barbeque sauce

1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon splenda
1/4 cup tomato paste
1 tablespoon unsweetened white grape juice

Mix ingredients together and baste onto the chicken, fish, or meat fillet that you are going to be grilling on the barbeque, prior to grilling, with a basting brush.

Last night's dessert

Baking mix with 0 grams of sugar per serving

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon granulated Splenda

unwrap 10 - 12 hard chocolate candies, dissolve in 1/2 cup boiling water. Stir, cook in microwave another 40 seconds, stir, dissolve candies, carefully chop the sticky residue after the water is emptied into the baking mix.

1/4 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 diced apricot or 1/2 diced peach
1 tablespoon oil

Mix ingredients together, place in microwave souffle dish, or small microwave cake dish.

Microwave for 2 minutes, forty seconds (four pizza slices)

Topping

2 teaspoons whipped margarine or olive oil
1 teaspoon granulated Splenda
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Spread the "butter" on to the top of the "cake", then sprinkle on the cinnamon/sugar mix, and continue, melting the spread into the top of the "cake".Microwave 40 seconds, to completely cook the center and the "topping".Wait one minute, then serve with a plastic knife or plastic cake cutter.

Cooking in a conventional oven: cook in one 9" cake pan for 30 minutes at 325 degrees Fahrenheit, complete with topping.

Sugar-free iced tea recipes

Boil the water, place ingredients into uncovered clean tea pot needed to brew tea, such as tea bags, fresh mint leaves, or cinnamon stick.
Pour boiling water into tea pot carefully, place tea boiling implement back onto fixture, cover tea pot, allow hot tea to steep, let tea cool.
Remove tea bags from lukewarm or tepid tea, place lukewarm tea into pitcher, add ice to taste.

Sugar-free mint iced tea

4 ounces washed fresh mint leaves
4 cups boiling water
1 tablespoon Splenda

Sugar-free iced chamomile green tea

1 chamomile tea bag
1 green tea tea bag
4 cups boiling water
1 tablespoon Splenda

Sugar free mood mender iced tea

2 orange pekoe tea bags
1 Mood Mender (St. John's wort herbal tea) tea bag
4 cups water
1 tablespoon Splenda

Sugar free ginger mint tea

2 mint tea bags
8 slices ginger
4 cups boiling water
1 tablespoon Splenda

Pour boiled water onto previous ingredients, allow tea to cool, add Splenda.

I tried iced mint tea with Splenda, apricot iced tea with peach slices and Splenda, chamomile iced tea with splenda, orange pekoe tea bag tea with 1 spoonful of sugar-free jam and splenda on myself and other people - the teas went over well, and only required 3 spoonfuls of Splenda sweetener per 4 cups of tea; except for the orange pekoe variety, which required 1 spoonful of Splenda, plus 1 spoonful of sugar-free jam per serving. A tip, make the tea stronger, as it usually will be diluted with ice, plus, the tastebuds sense the taste of the iced tea more as a cool tea.

Iced mint coffee

Mint leaves fool the tastebuds, so that you might think that the iced coffee is a little bit more sweet than it actually is. Try brewing a pot of coffee with a mint tea bag, or a few springs of freshly washed and equally fresh mint leaves, and you will see what I mean. This mint coffee is so tasty that you might want to drink a cup or two while you are waiting for the brew to cool down. Remove the mint tea bag or the mint tea leaves when the mint flavored coffee is lukewarm, and add granulated Splenda to taste, then, pour into a pitcher, and place the pitcher into the refrigerator, and allow the iced mint coffee to become cold.

Sugar-free granola

2 cups oatmeal mixed in with 2 tablespoons softened butter
1/2 cup granulated Splenda mixed with 1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
1/4 cup sunflower meal
1/2 cup minced apple or 1/2 cup apple slices
1/4 cup golden raisins

Mix ingredients together, place on lightly greased 9" x 12" flat baking sheet, bake at 250 degrees Farhenheit for one hour. Stir ingredients, turn off oven, allow granola to cool inside oven, unless oven is going to be used again, then, wear oven mitts to remove granola from oven if oven is still hot, and place granola in tray onto trivets to allow to cool.

Serve or place into a sealed container for later use

Sugar-free baked apples with fresh berries

4 medium apples, cored
1/2 cup seasonal berries or 1/2 cup orange slices
4 tablespoons Splenda mixed with 1 tablespoon cinnamon and 1 tablespoon butter spread
4 sugar-free peppermint patties or 4 sugar-free hard candies or 4 sugar-free mints
1 tablespoon water

Place apples in shallow baking tray, or 9" round cake pan, fill with berries or orange slices, spread on the cinnamon Splenda butter,sprinkle with water and bake for one hour at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Add one sugar-free candy to the top of each baked apple, and allow to cool.

Sugar-free mint chocolate ice cream

Having trouble finding sugar-free ice cream in all your favorite flavors? Here's an idea for how you can make your favorite vanilla sugar-free ice cream become something special.

2 cups (1 pint) softened sugar-free ice cream
10 - 12 sugar-free unwrapped diced mint patties
10 - 12 sugar-free unwrapped mint chocolate hard candies, placed in a plastic bag, gently broken with a wooden mallet on a wooden bread board into tiny bits

Spoon the candy bits into the sugar-free ice cream, place the container back into the freezer, allow to harden to preferred texture, then serve in ice cream dishes.