Nikki's Healthy Cookies Recipe. I keep in touch with one of my best friends from high school. Her name is Nikki and she lives in rural Pennsylvania with her husband and four kids. Four! She's an inspired cook who can throw a meal together on a whim from a refrigerator she keeps packed with all manner of whole, natural foods. She's an enthusiastic supporter of local growers and producers and regularly sends me emails highlighting recent cooking triumphs and trials.
A few months back she emailed me her recipe for butter-less, flour-less, egg-less, and potentially sugar-less cookies - I promptly filed it under "can't possibly be good. " When I made a trip to Philadelphia a few weeks back and spent the day with Nikki the topic of the cookies was revisited. Wayne and his brother Greg drove me out to see Nikki in Kennett Square, and for those of you who find yourself in the area I'll list off a few of the places Nikki took me to visit that day.
Give the cookies a try and let me know if you like them as much as I did. Dairy Free Bean Fudge. Grain Free Butternut (or Sweet Potato) Flatbread. I know, that’s sounds like an extreme claim.
But if you follow a restricted diet, then you know just how liberating it is to have a never-fail staple recipe in your culinary arsenal. This grain free flatbread, a healthy bread alternative, fits the bill when you crave something–for lack of a better term–bready. Even better, it requires only about 5 minutes of prep! If you are on a grain free diet, then you know how comforting it is to have something that can be used for sandwiches. Sweet Potato Brownies. This weekend didn’t feel like a weekend.
Probably because I was stuck inside for most of it. It snowed like 3 feet. Not really, probably like 16 inches, but I’m pretty sure my car only comes 5 inches off the ground, no it’s not a ghetto low rider, well maybe, but I seriously couldn’t even pull onto the street. I spent 30 minutes cleaning off my car to only make it 2 feet into the street. Ok, that was an exaggeration. But the weekend still turned out pretty fun. See, even the guys are sporting the tanks. So I wore my big girl bra to a show we went to see downtown. Guess what else I did this weekend?! I’m watching Dirty Dancing. OH!!! Holy crap, huge butt. told you it was ginormous Sweet Potato Brownies 1 sweet potato3 eggs, whisked¼ cup Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil, melted⅓ cup raw honey¼ teaspoon vanilla extract3 tablespoons Coconut Flour2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder¼ teaspoon baking powder¼ teaspoon cinnamonpinch of salt½ cup Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips.
Homemade Grape Nuts Cereal – Paleo, GAPs, Grain Free, Dairy Free. Sometimes my kids want cereal for breakfast.
Heck, even I occasionally want a bowl. Unfortunately, I don’t know of a single minimally-processed cereal available at the grocery store that I feel comfortable feeding my kids. Even if the cereal only has a few ingredients, the high temperatures and pressures required to form long strands or puffy balls destroy many of the nutrients. Many cereals are expanded and then spayed with sugar and oil so they will keep their form and crunch while sitting in milk.
And the little flakes or rings? Now for the fun part. Homemade Grape Nuts Cereal (Paleo, Gaps, Primal, Grain Free, Dairy Free) I recommend making double the recipe, since it only serves four. Adapted from Good to the Grain Ingredients 2 cups almond flour (I used Honeyville) 2 tablespoons coconut flour1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon Celtic sea salt 1 cup coconut milk 3 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon vanilla. » Grain-free Sandwich Bread (Paleo and SCD) Against All Grain. Here’s the moment you have all been waiting patiently (and some not so patiently!)
For. And because I ♥ my readers, I’m giving it to you a week earlier than planned: Grain-free, yeast-free, dairy-free sandwich bread. It’s moist on the inside with a slight crust on the outside, has an amazing texture and taste when toasted, and can also be used straight from the fridge with some almond butter and jam. To achieve the moist white bread texture that you often miss with the use of almond flour or almond butter, I used raw organic cashew butter and beat the egg whites separately. Obviously, baking grain-free is much pricier than regular baking, but you can make a loaf of this bread for about $8.50. We’ve been having a bit of bread overload in our house lately. Grain-free Sandwich Bread (Paleo and SCD) Danielle Walker - AgainstAllGrain.com makes 1 8.5×4.5 loaf Ingredients: Instructions: Preheat your oven to 300 degrees. A couple of notes As for the cashew butter – I love Artisana’s product.