Rainy Sunday

Every other Sunday, son comes for Sunday Dinner and today was the day.  Hubby set the alarm for
5:30 am, that is our regular arising time but someone changed the clock an hour ahead and I really got up at 4:30, I love the extra daylight but for the next couple of weeks I'm sure my sleep pattern will not be right with the world.  But that too will change given time.  Before I started my lunch preparations I was able to quilt a row on the Log Cabin and turn the quilt, woohoo one more row and the quilting will be half completed!  But after turning the quilt it was time to go cook, we had a nice lunch and visit and as we were putting away the leftovers I noticed there were enough sweet potatoes left to made cookies.  Hmmm, wonder if that is why I baked 5 sweet potatoes for the three of us, I'll never tell.
My doctor has recommended I eat no meat and no dairy, which I do find challenging at times and it has been difficult for me to find cake like items that I can eat without guilt.  Really, what can you make without eggs, oil,etc, you know all the good stuff.

In my research I came across this recipe:

Fruit Cookies

1 1/2 cups cooked mashed sweet potatoes

1/4 cup stevia

1 cup cinnamon applesauce

1 1/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice

a handful dried cranberries

a handful chopped walnuts

1 1/2 cup oatmeal

Place everything in mixer bowl and blend until mixed thoroughly

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.

The original recipe called for bananas and cinnamon instead of sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie spice  they are very good also. but I didn't have bananas but I did have sweet potatoes.  You can use sugar instead of stevia, I just try to stay away from processed sugar.  I used quick oats so they would be more cake like.  They are soft and chewy and very moist.  Old fashioned oats or steel cut oats would make them a little less moist.  A testimony that they taste pretty good is that hubby ate three out of the oven and he has no dietary issues.  I am kind of a watchdog over what he consumes and when I said I didn't care how many of these he ate, he then chose to go for the third one and we had just finished lunch.

Here they are cooling, a few less then what were baked.  They are fat free and healthy.

Don't think I will get anymore quilting completed today, I'm tired, sleepy and a little lazy this rainy Sunday, I learned some time ago that it is not wise for me to quilt when I am tired as I might just have to "unsew".  So I will relax this evening , try to adjust my biological clock and start my journey again tomorrow.