Coffee! I Need my Coffee!!!

Three days into this eating healthy venture and the one thing I miss more than anything is my coffee. I know you are sitting their saying, "Why can't you have coffee? Add a little splenda and you should be fine." Well, the reason I can't have coffee is because what I really drink is hazlenut creamer with a little coffee. Call me a whimp coffee drinker. I really don't care. I go absolutely crazy for frappicino's and vanilla lattes. The sweeter, the better! Even though I've been super restrictive for three days, I knew I had to have a little something tonight to fill my strong sweet tooth. While searching through an old "Self" magazine, I found this recipe. It is not only low in calories (139 per serving), but it is also has healthy ingredients. I think they're healthy anyway. I certainly didn't have these things currently on hand. Well, I had honey, cinnamon, and nutmeg, but that's about it.

Canola oil cooking spray
1 cup fresh blackberries
1 cup fresh peaches(pitted and sliced)
4 tsp. fresh orange juice
½ tsp vanilla extract
3 Tbsp whole wheat flour
3 Tbsp rolled oats
2 Tbsp brown sugar
4 tsp canola oil
2 tsp honey
1 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Coat four 4 oz. ramekins with cooking spray. Combine berries, peaches, juice, and vanilla in a bowl and mix well. In a separate bowl, combine remaining ingredients with hands until moist and crumbly. Spoon fruit mixture into ramekins; scatter crumb mixture evenly over the top of each. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until fruit bubbles and top is golden brown.


Have a look at how it turned out. I only used blackberries because I forgot to see if our store had frozen peaches. I'm definitely trying it with peaches next time.

It was pretty good. The only thing that would have made it a lot better was a huge scoop of Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Icecream, however, that IS what got me in trouble in the first place.

*In case you were wondering, Skip did make this for me. I could have, but he needed to get his chef skills working again. Salads aren't doing it for him.