Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, peanut butter granola cookies. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Peanut Butter Granola Cookies is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Peanut Butter Granola Cookies is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook peanut butter granola cookies using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Peanut Butter Granola Cookies:
- Prepare 1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
- Get 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- Take 1/3 cup crunchy peanut butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- Take 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Take 1 egg
- Make ready 1/4 cup slivered almonds
- Take 1/4 cup shelled, dry roasted, sunflower seeds
- Make ready 1/3 cup raisins or dried cranberries or walnuts (your choice) I chose walnuts.
- Make ready 2 cup granola bits
Steps to make Peanut Butter Granola Cookies:
- preheat oven to 350°F. and prepare a large cookies sheet by lightly greasing it with cooking spray or butter.
- in a large bowl.. mix together melted butter, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and peanut butter. then add agg and mix well.
- add rest of ingredients and gently stir to coat.
- drop by rounded tablespoonful onto prepared cookie sheet.
- gently take back of the spoon and press down to spread each mound into a roundish cookie shape.
- bake for about 15 min. or until lightly colored.
- immedietly remove from cookie sheets with spatula onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- serve… makes about 18 or so cookies.
Use Food to Improve Your Mood
In general, people have been conditioned to believe that “comfort” foods are terrible for the body and need to be avoided. At times, if your comfort food is candy or some other junk food, this holds true. Soemtimes, comfort foods can be perfectly nourishing and good for us to consume. There are some foods that, when you eat them, can better your mood. If you feel a little bit down and you’re in need of a happiness pick me up, try a couple of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, can be actually wonderful at fighting back depression. Just make sure that you don’t toss out the egg yolk. When you would like to cheer yourself up, the egg yolk is the most vital part of the egg. Eggs, specifically the egg yolks, are loaded with B vitamins. These B vitamins are terrific for helping to improve your mood. This is because these vitamins help your neural transmitters–the parts of your brain that control your mood–work better. Eat an egg and be happy!
Make some trail mix of nuts or seeds. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and so on are all wonderful for raising your mood. This is because seeds and nuts have lots of magnesium which boosts your brain’s serotonin levels. Serotonin is a feel-good substance that tells the brain how to feel at any given time. The more of this chemical in your brain, the more pleasant you’ll feel. Nuts, in addition to elevating your mood, can be a great protein source.
Cold water fish are wonderful for eating if you are wanting to battle depression. Salmon, herring, tuna fish, mackerel, trout, etc, they’re all high in omega-3 fatty acids and DHA. DHA and omega-3s are two things that truly help the grey matter in your brain function a lot better. It’s true: eating a tuna fish sandwich can earnestly raise your mood.
Some grains are actually great for driving away bad moods. Barley, quinoa, millet, teff, etc are all good for helping you be in a happier state of mind. They can help you feel full for longer also, helping you feel better. It’s not difficult to feel low when you feel hungry! The reason these grains are so good for your mood is that they are not hard for your body to digest and process. They are easier to digest than other foods which helps kick up your blood sugar levels and that, in turn, elevates your mood.
Your mood can truly be helped by green tea. You were sure green tea had to be included in this article, right? Green tea is loaded with a specific amino acid called L-theanine. Research has discovered that this amino acid induces the production of brain waves. This helps raise your mental focus while having a relaxing effect on the rest of your body. You already knew that green tea helps you become a lot healthier. Now you know that green tea can elevate your mood also!
Now you can see that junk food isn’t necessarily what you need to eat when you want to help your moods get better. Try some of these suggestions instead.
