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)

Lasagna and Pretend Oatmeal Cookies

add the rice lasagna

mix the ricotta with the egg

shred the cheese

ingredients ready to layer

Lasagna *reminder- cheese is phase 2*

Rice Lasagna noodles-  boil for @ 10 minutes

Ricotta Cheese- mix with 1 egg

Shredded Monterey Jack Cheese

Tomato Sauce

Saute 2 green peppers, garlic, 1 sweet onion, 1 lb. ground turkey, add 6 tomatoes cook some more

Pour in 1 can diced tomatoes, and 1 small can tomato paste

Spice it up with salt, pepper, basil, oregano, 2 bay leaves

Layer it all together

Pop into 350 oven for 30 minutes

Turned out great!

bubbling in the oven

ready to eat- it's best if you let it sit for a bit before cutting into it

cookies on the rack

Fresh out of the oven- they smell so good.

Pretend Oatmeal Cookies


1/2 c butter
2 eggs
1 t  vanilla
1/2 c greek yogurt
3 droppers full of stevia

3/4 c coconut flour
3/4 c brown rice flour
1 c oatmeal
2 t flax meal
1 t salt
1 t baking powder
1 t baking soda
1 t cinnamon
1 t nutmeg
1 t ginger

mix
blob small spoonfuls on cookie sheets
Bake at 375 for 8 minutes

comments: I may have accidently put in the salt twice :) Next time I will try to remember to add xanthan gum, and maybe some sour cream or apple sauce for more moisture. Maybe I could make shift some kind of cream cheese frosting.