Lemon & Cherry Tart Cake

Lemon & Cherry Tart Cake

Solstice Pudding

Solstice Pudding

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Dear Readers,
I just wanted to wish you all a safe and wonderful Holiday Season. Hopefully not all of you are blizzard in away from your family like I currently am from mine. Don't worry though we got to spend Christmas Eve together yesterday and I got to share the sweetest gifts of all with my family, love! Love blended in a rather not-so-healthy form of Homemade Chocolates packaged in adorable Chinese Food take out boxes. But still fatty foods or not everyone needs something a little sweet every now and then.

Anyways, from my family to yours we wish you a Merry Holiday Season, and leave you today finally with a new photo of just some of the homemade goodies they got from me.

Crab Stuffed Noodles (Homemade version)

Crab & Cream Cheese Stuffed Homemade Noodles!
(Sorry for lack of pictures!)

Weekly Tip #2: Rice on hand

Do you eat a lot of rice?

Well I have a solution for you on how to keep rice on hand!

In my house rice is a staple of everyday meals, from lunchs, dinner to even dessert. Yes rice infused desserts. Being as yes rice may be one of those "STAY AWAY" foods after having the GBS, I find rice cooked even five minutes more than needed is easier to digest than noodles cooked any way.

So how do I keep rice fully cooked and on hand all the time? Well firstly I don't have a lot of time every day to cook rice for 30 minutes, so what I first do is on Sunday nights I like cook a large batch of PLAIN rice, meaning just rice and water, no butter (ew) or flavorings. And I will cook it throughly through then let it cool. THAT is the MOST important thing ever, is when you cook large batches of ANYTHING before you put it in the fridge or even the freezer it has to be cooled completely to room temp. Then what I do is section it off into quart size bags, normally ending up with 2-3 bags.. And it actually makes it easy for portion control because you can choose how much from the bag to reheat or add to your meal.

Just remember to cool, then put in the fridge.

TACO BAKED MESS!

Taco Pie/Lasagna
(image coming soon?)

Butter Rum Flavored Chocolate Truffles.

Chibi's Homemade Butter Rum- Redvelvet Cake Truffles

"No Bake" Orange and Peanut Butter Multi-grain bars

Image Coming Soon
(I promise!)

Vegetarian Chili

Vegetarian "Eggplant & Tofu" Chili

Silicone Mold Cleanup, made easy and quick.

Well now that we have made our delicious Apple & Flax seed muffins and everyone has had a chance to gobble up the two dozen delicious pastries.. All that's left is the clean up! (Oh noes!) Clean up of silicone molds up until recently has been pretty much the not so fun part of the whole baking process, but it is something that we ALL have to do if we're going to bake or cook.

The Apple & Flax Seed Muffins

Here at Chibi's Recipes I like to believe I am the new host of "Semi homemade", so bare with me because a lot of my stuff I do not make 100% from scratch (too lazy too).

About the blogger

Well hello again everyone. I just realized how impersonal the first blog post sounded so I want to give you all just a little bit of information about myself so we can all feel acquainted and then.. on to my very first food post *gasps* I'm so excited!

Hi friends! I'm Barb. I am currently 27 years old, Aquarius, living in South Dakota. I had my full Gastric Surgery done on March 7th, 2006. At the time I weighed 450+ pounds (it was not pretty either), but today my weight jumps between 245-270 depending on the moon cycles I swear it! *laughs*.

Welcome to Chibi's Recipes!

Hello Everyone and welcome to my food blog.
Firstly I want to explain this will be a blog to post recipes more directed and friendly to persons who've gone under the knife for the full Gastric Bypass Surgery. This is sort of a collection of meals I have found that I tend to have the least amount of side effects with when I have tried them. Sometimes I will post full recipes w/ photos, and sometimes I will just randomly go off about certain foods and how they effect me. Hopefully this helps everyone.

~Barb.