sounds like a fun way to make a muffin!

found on healthcastle.com

Dessert: Blueberry orange muffins

• Donna Kelly, a blogger for Utah Valley’s Daily Herald, suggests a simple recipe forcampfire-fresh muffins. Simply hollow out fresh oranges, fill one half with blueberry muffin batter, cover with the empty orange half, wrap in tin foil, and place directly in the fire (not on the grill) for about 10 minutes. For an even healthier treat, make your own muffin batter instead of using a mix.

Breads, custard, simple dinner

1 C almond butter, 1 C ricotta cheese, 1 C oat flour, 1 egg, 1 t baking powder

little bitty spoonfuls of batter for mini muffins

after they bake- testing doneness with the toothpick

Almond Butter Mini Muffins, ready for snacking- they go fast!

 Slight Revisions to the carrot bread... see labels for recipe

ginger with the nutmeg and cinnamon, oat flour instead of rice flour,
added whipping cream to make the batter not quite so thick

Baked in a cake pan, topped with shredded carrot, chopped walnuts,  cinnamon, 1 pkg stevia

 Apple Custard adapted from this recipe:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baked-Custard/Detail.aspx

Ingredients

• 4 large eggs
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar (I used Stevia)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can NESTLE® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk (I used whipping cream)
• 1 cup water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ground nutmeg

Apple wedgies in with custard

pouring in the custard

Apple Custard in a water bath

Sliced apples with 2 dips
Almond Butter (see labels for recipe)
Carrot Dip- Shredded carrots blended into 1/2 C ricotta cheese and 1/2 C sour cream, and a bit of nutmeg

Simple dinner- Guacamole salad- Assorted lettuce and spinach, chopped celery, alfalfa sprouts, chopped tomatoes, guacamole dressing (see labels for recipe)

Pesto flat bread, and icing for the cookies

We are having leftover lasagna tonight, so I made some bread to go with it. I'm not so sure I remember what all I put in it, or how much... Next time I will measure and pay better attention. I had too many distractions.

Pesto Flat Bread

1 c oat flour
1 c garbanzo bean flour
1 t salt
1 t baking soda
1 t baking powder
1 1/2 t xanthan powder
2 T flax meal

1/4 c pesto (I had some of my parsley pesto left)
1/4 c sour cream
1 1/2 T minced garlic
1 T minced sundried tomatoes
2 beaten eggs
1/2 c coconut milk

Spread on the stone pizza pan, press down with parchment paper- it's pretty sticky
Bake at 375 for 10-15 minutes

out of the oven

Cut into thin slices- Yum!

Yesterday's pretend oatmeal cookies needed a little something more...

Cream Cheese Icing 

beat together:  Cream Cheese, butter, cinnamon, stevia, lemon juice squeezed from 2 wedges

whip it up!

Wanna cookie? with icing? Nice treat for the sugar deprived!

Cheese biscuits

Gathering ingredients

 Cheese biscuits

3/4 c coconut flour
3/4 c oat flour
2 big t flaxseed meal
1 t xanthan gum
1 t baking soda
1 t baking powder
1 t kosher salt

mix dry ingredients together

1/2 c butter

cut in butter

1/2 c sour cream
1/2 c greek yogurt
1 t apple cider vinegar

mix in wet ingredients

bake in 350 oven for 30 minutes

remove from oven and brush on butter, sprinkle with garlic powder, sprinkle with cut up colby cheese

return to oven until cheese melts

Here's most of the stuff that goes in- I don't think I added the stevia however- changed my mind

Flour Tower

oven ready- Baked it like this for 30 min, then brushed with butter, sprinkled on garlic powder and a little bit of cheese

The results are in. It looks like it's had an oil spill, or it's been splatter painted. Next time I might try adding the cheese to the dough- I just didn't want to use a lot of cheese yet since that's a phase 2 item.

Carrot Bread ****WINNER***

Carrot Bread

1/2 cup butter
3 dropper fulls of stevia
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 cup coconut flour, 3/4 c brown rice flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1t baking powder
2 heaping t of flax meal
1/2 t xanthan powder
1t cinnamon
1 t nutmeg

1 1/2 cup shredded carrots
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup greek yogurt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts 

Takes 60 minutes at 350F in my oven
This is our favorite bread so far

Shred the carrots

Cutting in the butter

Mix it all together

Shape and decorate

Out of the oven- delicious!

Zucchini Bread

1/2 cup margarine or butter

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 dropper fulls of stevia

1 1/2 cups flour (3/4 cup oat flour, 3/4 c brown rice flour)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1t baking powder

2 heaping t of flax meal

1/2 t xanthan powder

1t cinnamon

1 t nutmeg

1 cup grated zucchini

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 cup chopped  pecans 

Takes 60 minutes at 350F in my oven. 

Our favorite bread so far!

gathering the ingredients

adding in the butter

careful not to over mix mix

sprinkle pecans, cinnamon, and stevia on top

The results! It turned out great!

dinner with cheese in it!

Macaroni and Cheese, please! 

Jena's favorite- first time in over a month!

*note that cheese is NOT in phase 1

Mac N Cheese Recipe

bake 350 for 30 minutes

Brown onions and green peppers in 1/2 stick of butter

Add 1/4 c brown rice flour

Add @ 1 c whipping cream and 1/2 c rice milk

bring to boil- thicken

stir in @ 4 ounces of cheese- monterey jack and colby

stir in cooked elbow macaroni noodles

bake in an oiled casserole dish

Make a rue: Butter, onion, green pepper- brown rice flour, then add whipping cream, rice milk- I added a bit of cheese, both colby and monterey jack- probably about 4 ounces

Mix in brown rice elbow noodles (already cooked and drained)

Mix together

oil a casserole dish with olive oil

Mac and cheese into casserole

top with paprika and pop in the oven for about 30 minutes or so

out of the oven! Looks and smells great!

Recipe for Sandwich Flat Bread


mix dry ingredients together
3/4 c oat flour
3/4 c brown rice flour
3 t baking powder
1 t kosher salt
3 packs of stevia
oops. I might have added a t of xanthan gum- I can't remember, sorry!


add 1 beaten egg
3/4 c homemade mayo
@ 3/4 c cold cooked rice cereal (leftover from brkfst)


mix each in
then add whipping cream until the right conistency- not too sticky
Press into an oiled pizza pan

I have quite a collection of alternative flours I'm learning to cook with!

press down dough into a pizza pan

Flatbread, scored, salted and ready for the oven

Flat bread with build your own sandwich fixings: homemade mayo, pesto, lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, tomatoes, chicken

This was so good!
2 kinds of coleslaw, spinach, pinto beans, green beans,  mac n cheese, open face chicken sandwich, 9 veggie soup

flat bread, pesto, tomatoes, chicken, sprouts- what a treat! We really miss sandwiches!

Coleslaw 2 ways


Cabbage shredded in food processor
divide into 2 bowls
Mayo added to one bowl-and a little more salt and pepper
Vinaigrette in other bowl- apple cider vinegar, olive oil, kosher salt, ground pepper, stevia

Fake Biscuits

Biscuits

400 degree oven
25-30 minutes

2 c. brown rice flour
1 t. baking soda
1/4 c coconut oil or olive oil
1/4 t sea salt
2 T flax meal
optional 2 t stevia, chopped walnuts

mix together
add water to form dough
press between parchment paper
cut into squares, or use round biscuit cutter

Crackers, sort of

Fake Crackers
bake at 400 for 25- 30 min

1 c. brown rice flour
1 c. chick pea flour
1/2 c. flax meal (this seemed like too much- try reducing to 1/4 c.)
1 t garlic powder
1/2 t koser salt
2 t baking powder
6 T olive oil (coconut oil, or ghee)
1/2 c. water (approx)

mix dry ingredients, slowly until right consistency- not sticky
spread on parchment paper on cookie sheet-
press down very thin
score and top with kosher salt

Muffins, and more muffins- no sugar, no milk, no wheat

Note to self: need to try cheese muffins, Jamie prefers blueberry muffins, Jena prefers Strawberry, pecan muffins

For all the muffin: You know the drill. Mix the dry stuff, mix the wet stuff. Mix them together (I use one of those pastry cutter things sometimes). Don't over mix- leave it a little lumpy. Oil the muffin tins a smidge. 


Apple Muffins


baked at 375 for 10-15 minutes (convection oven)

1 c. brown rice flour
1 c. oat flour
1/2 c. coconut flour
2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. cinnamon
1 t. allspice
1/2 t. kosher salt
2 t. xanthan gum
2 t. flax meal

1 beaten egg
1/2 c. rice milk
*1/4 c. coconut oil (I put it in as a liquid- and it solidified a bit when added to the milk and egg)
3/4 c. chopped green apples


Oatmeal Muffins

375 for 15-20 minutes

1 c. flour (used 1/2 c. oat flour 1/2 c. brown rice)
2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. kosher salt
pinch of xanthan
3 pks of stevia
1 T. flaxmeal

1 egg beaten
1/2 c. rice milk
1/4 c. olive oil



Strawberry Muffins

375 for 25 min.

1/2 t. kosher salt
2 t. baking powder
3 pk stevia

1/4 c. oil
1/2 c. rice milk
1 t apple cider vinegar
1 egg or 1/4 c greek yogurt
1 c. chopped strawberries