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Vegetarian Sheet Pan Black Bean and Corn Quesadillas

Vegetarian Sheet Pan Black Bean and Corn Quesadillas

An easy weekday #meatless meal for #tacotuesday is this Vegetarian Sheet Pan Black Bean and Corn Quesadilla recipe. It’s kid-approved, easy to throw together, and utilizes some pantry and freezer staples. Try this recipe out today and let me know what you think!

Chocolate Mini Egg and Hemp Heart Cookies

Looking for a fun twist on chocolate chip cookies? Look no further than these can’t-keep-your-hands-off Chocolate Mini Egg and Hemp Heart Cookies. The recipe is just as easy as making with chocolate chips, but with an added crunch from the candy-coated chocolate eggs and nutty flavour and texture of the hemp hearts.

CHOCOLATE MINI EGG AND HEMP HEART COOKIES

Author: Andrea Carpenter, RD

Recipe Type: Desserts

Serving: 24 cookies

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1/2 cup salted butter, melted

  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar

  • 1/2 cup packed demerara sugar

  • 1 extra-large egg (or 2 small eggs)

  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

  • 1 1/2 TBSP liquid honey

  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1 1/4 cup unbleached flour

  • 1/2 cup hemp hearts

  • 3/4 cup mini chocolate eggs, crushed

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Cream together the butter with the sugar, honey, and vanilla in a large bowl.

  2. Beat in the eggs.

  3. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and hemp hearts. Stir to evenly combine.

  4. Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture and stir until just mixed. If batter appears wet, add additional flour, 1-2 TBSP at a time.

  5. Mix in the crushed mini eggs.

  6. Chill the batter in the fridge for 10 minutes.

  7. Roll approximately 1 1/2 TBSP of the cookie mixture into balls and drop them on a foil-lined cookie sheet.

  8. Bake at 340 degrees for 9-11 minutes.

  9. Allow to cool 1-2 minutes on the cookie sheet then transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely.

  10. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.

When your kid won't 'go': Managing Childhood Constipation

When your kid won't 'go': Managing Childhood Constipation

Constipation is a common childhood problem. It happens often at two points early in a child's life. The first time is generally around the time when baby starts eating solid foods and starts to shift from a full fluid diet to having milk/formula and solids. The second time it commonly occurs is around toilet training. Sometimes children don't like the experience of toilet training, start to hold their bowel movements, thereby causing constipation. Beyond these two more common times, constipation unfortunately, can strike at any point.