Taste Sensations!

Here are two new recipes you HAVE to try. The first, courtesy of Ms. Paula Deen, was originally much less healthy, but I tweaked it where I could and it still turned out great. I'll list the recipe as I made it, but I might still cut some more sugar next time around.

1 cup packed brown sugar
1 t cinnamon
1 can of reduced fat Grands buttermilk biscuits
3/4 stick of butter
1 1/2 cups blueberries
Less than 1/4 cup white sugar
1 cup quick oats

Preheat the oven to 375. Spray a 9x9 pan with cooking spray. Melt the butter. Combine the brown sugar and cinnamon in a separate bowl. Cut each of the 10 biscuits into quarters. Dip each quarter in the butter, then in the brown sugar/cinnamon mixture. Line the bottom of the pan with the 40 biscuit pieces. Cover with 1/2 cup oats. Toss all blueberries with as much of the 1/4 cup sugar as desired. I used about and 1/8 cup total. Pour over the oats and cover with the other half cup of oats. Sprinkle a little sugar and more cinnamon (both to taste) over the top layer of oats. Bake in the oven 30-40 minutes (or until the biscuits are cooked through). Let it cool for 20 minutes and serve warm. Fantastic!

The second is much easier:
1 packet Nestle hot chocolate
1/4 t cinnamon
1/4 t vanilla extract
1 cup milk

Heat the milk until almost boiling and pour over the other three ingredients. It's called Mexican hot cocoa, but I'm not sure why. Also fantastic!

I wouldn't recommend having both at the same time for risk of a sugar overload, but independently, both are repeatable winners.

I'm not sure why I started posting recipes, but I'm enjoying trying new things and always appreciate ideas myself, so I thought I'd pass them along. If you try them, or vary them, let me know how they turn out!