Just A Little While

Adventures of a wife and mother

May 15, 2012
by Allison
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Almond Flour Pizza (GAPS)

Pizza dough spread over coconut oil on pizza pan.

My husband called to say he was bringing home frozen pizza for after the game.  I didn’t want the kids to have the wheat so I quickly summoned an almond flour crust recipe from the web.  It turned out great and didn’t take very long to make.  The frozen pizza and homemade pizza were ready at the same time.  I found my recipe at Wringing Out My Sponge.  I followed her recipe exactly except I prepared my crust 20 min at 400 F, mixed all my ingredients in one bowl, and used coconut oil to grease my pizza pan.  I had no trouble with the crust sticking.

Kids cheese pizza, already half eaten.

May 9, 2012
by Allison
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Almond Flour Banana Bread Muffins

I modified my regular banana bread recipe to make it grain free and it turned out great.  The kids are already gobbling them up.  I  didn’t expect these to rise very much so I filled the muffin cups all the way.  Next time 2/3 full would be fine.

 

Ingredients:

  • 3-4 very ripe bananas
  • 2 eggs
  • 2/3 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup organic butter (room temp or softened)
  • 2 cups almond flour
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/3 cup chopped nuts (optional)

 

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
  2. Grease loaf pan or muffin tin with coconut oil.
  3. Combine all ingredients in mixer.
  4. Fill muffin cups or loaf pan and bake 25-30 min for muffins or 1 hour for loaf (until toothpick comes out clean).

May 3, 2012
by Allison
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Gluten free birthday cake

imageThanks to Betty Crocker Gluten Free devil’s food cake mix, this years baseball cake can be eaten by everyone (still totally junk food).  There is nothing I can do about all the sugar, but the Buttercream icing is full of sweet organic butter and was easy to make.  I made homemade vanilla ice cream as requested by my son to go with his cake.

April 30, 2012
by Allison
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Gluten Free Salisbury Steak

This turned out great for a wheat free, quick meal tonight.  We enjoyed this with a garden salad.  The kids ate buttered noodles with patties on the side, and my husband enjoyed the meat with gravy on his noodles.  I’ll post a picture next time.  There was no time for a “before” photo.

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. In a mixing bowl, combine with your hands: eggs, 1/3 can of soup, meat, onions, almond flour, and spices to taste.
  2. Shape meat mixture into patties and place in a deep skillet with a lid.
  3. Brown patties on each side uncovered.
  4. Combine remaining soup with one can of water and add to the skillet.
  5. Cover and cook on low until meat is done and sauce thickens.

Eat as an entre or serve with gluten free fusilli noodles, zucchini noodle, spaghetti squash noodles, or rice.

 

 

April 25, 2012
by Allison
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New York Pizzaria for gluten free pizza!

We enjoyed pizza together as a family, and were happy to see gluten free pizza on the menu at the New York Pizzaria (I10 and Westgreen).  My daughter didn’t have the usual stomach issues following a pizza splurge and it was a fun dinner on the patio, wih fountains and sunshine.

April 24, 2012
by Allison
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Audible.com for great read aloud books

We just activated our 30 day free trial of Audible.com and I love it.  My daughter can listen to digital audio books on her Kindle (the basic one) or my Kindle Fire.  I downloaded The Secret Garden for her first.  She had attempted to read this book before, but found it uninteresting, however, she is loving the audio book.  She and her sister sat and listened together.  I wish that the text displayed with the audio, but it doesn’t.  Since it is digital audio you could listen on a phone, ipod, or any other digital player.  Garmins and TomToms are even listed as compatible.

March 30, 2012
by Allison
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Almond Meal (Flour) GAPS Grain-free Pancakes

Now I think these pancakes taste much better than the coconut flour ones.  I seem to always prefer almond meal in recipes.

Ingredients:

  • 4 eggs (room temp.)
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups almond flour (meal)
  • 1 cup raw milk
  • 1 T honey
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 T butter (room temp.)

Directions:

  1. Preheat griddle to 350 F.
  2. Wisk eggs very well until frothy.
  3. Wisk in remaining ingredients and let sit for a few minutes to thicken.
  4. Melt butter on griddle and pour small pancakes.
  5. When brown on one side turn to the other.
  6. Use a spatula to turn, and a single rapid motion as these pancakes can be fragile.
  7. Batter can be thickened as needed with a little more almond meal.
  8. Serve hot with your choice of toppings.

 

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Almond flour pancakes with butter and maple syrup.

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Because they are delicate, make spatula size pancakes.

March 28, 2012
by Allison
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Foodwatch | Nutella. The full correct list of ingredients | Additives & labels

Here is an excerpt about the nutritional value of Nutella.  We have never purchased it, and so I wanted to know if it was a good nut butter like the all natural peanut butter we enjoy. There is nothng too bad, but it is definately a treat.-Allison

Conclusion No 2:

Think of Nutella as chocolate in spreadable form. With 30 per cent fat and almost 55 per cent sugar, Nutella almost mirrors chocolate in its composition. In fact, Nutella is more akin to milk chocolate with hazelnuts for fat, sugar and kilojoules, they’re so close. See my comparison of the two weight for weight: Nutella side by side with Cadbury Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts.

Nutella               Hazelnut chocolate

Energy                      2175kJ                2320kJ

Fat, total                  30.3g                  37.0g

Fat, saturated         10.0g                  14.6g

Carb, total               54.7g                  45.5g

Sugars                      54.7g                  44.4g%

hazelnuts                 13%                     23%

 

For the full article see below.

via Foodwatch | Nutella. The full correct list of ingredients | Additives & labels.

March 13, 2012
by Allison
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GAPS Apple Crisp

This recipe is an adaptation from a recipe on Elana’s Pantry.   We are trying this as an alternative to apple pie.  I suspect this will go marvelously with homemade vanilla ice cream.  The kids like the apple part more than the crisp.  They say the topping tastes like cinnamon apple bread.

Ingredients:

  1. 2 cups blanched almond flour
  2. ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
  3. 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  4. ½ teaspoon nutmeg
  5. ⅓ cup organic butter
  6. ¼ cup honey
  7.  1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  8. 5 medium apples, peeled, sliced, then chopped in half width-wise

Instructions:

  1. In a large bowl, combine almond flour, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg
  2. In a smaller bowl, combine butter, honey and vanilla
  3. Stir wet ingredients into dry
  4. Place apples in a 8 x 8 Pyrex baking dish (or equivalent)
  5. Crumble topping over the apples
  6. Cover and bake at 350° for 50 minutes on low rack
  7. When apples are soft and their juices bubble, remove cover and bake 10 more minutes to brown crisp
  8. Serve warm
Serves 6

March 13, 2012
by Allison
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Homemade Cold Breakfast Cereal Grain Free — The Healthy Home Economist

I started the cinnamon cereal in the morning and it was done by bedtime.   My son is the only one to try it so far (He is my cereal eater.) and he likes it . -Allison

Homemade Cold Breakfast Cereal Grain Free by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on June 16, 2011

A frequent question I’ve gotten from that post is how to make a grain free breakfast cereal for those who eat Primal or Paleo or are currently on the GAPS or SCD diets.Why would you ever want to make your own breakfast cereal when there are oodles of brands at the store, you might ask?The reason is because ALL boxed cereal from the store, even if organic, should be avoided due to the heavy processing that is used to make it. Called extrusion, this process liquifies the cereal grains into a slurry using very high temperatures and pressures to manufacture the desired shapes, puffs, and flakes. This violent processing denatures the proteins in the cereal grains leaving them toxic and allergenic.Making your own healthy breakfast cereal is clearly the way to go given the highly processed boxed versions at the store. For those of you seeking grain free alternatives, these two fantastic grain free breakfast cereal recipes were emailed to me by Heather. Thank you Heather for sharing…

via Homemade Cold Breakfast Cereal Grain Free — The Healthy Home Economist.

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