My Mama's Kitchen and Garden

My son has iron defeciency anemia and we've been using black strap molasses for at least 5 years and it helps him a lot. No more blood transfusion or high doses of iron supplements. He takes molasses with his oats. He loves to eat cookies and molasses cookies is another way to supplement his iron. I also make biko (sweet rice) using blackstrap molasses and I will be posting that next time. Air fry Molasses Cookies Author: Neliza Ly Yield: 30 cookies Equipment: Breville Smart Oven Air Parchment paper Plastic wrap Ingredients: 2 cups (280 grams) All Purpose Flour 1 tsp. Baking soda 2 tsp. cinnamon ½ tsp. salt ¾ cup (1 ½ stick) unsalted butter, room temperature 1 cup (135 grams) Brown sugar 1 XL egg ½ cup (120 ml) Blackstrap Unsulphured Molasses ½ cup granulated sugar for rolling Instructions: In a bowl, mix unsalted butter, brown sugar and egg until creamy. Add Blackstrap molasses and mix. Combine All Purpose Flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt...

I know you can cook this in a stove but I prefer using the Instant Pot. It save electricity compare with using the stove. Instant Pot Shrimp Stir Fry Author: Neliza Ly Equipments: Instant Pot Measuring spoon weighing scale Ingredients: Marinade: 2 tbsp. three crabs fish sauce 1 tbsp. granulated sugar ¼ tsp. whole black pepper, grind 2 cloves garlic, minced ½ shallot, minced 2 lbs. Jumbo peel-on shrimp, clean 2 cloves garlic, minced ½ shallot, minced 2 tbsp. vegetable oil Instructions: In a bowl, combine all marinade ingredients (fish sauce, sugar, pepper, garlic and shallot), mix and pour over shrimp. Marinate for 1 hour. Set the Instant Pot in a sauté mode. Heat vegetable oil. Sauté garlic and shallot for 1 minute until fragrant. Add marinated shrimp. Stir fry for 7 to 8 minutes until shrimp is cook. Garnish with green onion and pepper. Serve with steam rice. Enjoy.