I am a dessert girl. I would rather go to a wedding or gala and just eat dessert. I get my sweet tooth from my Dad and I really do not mind. Rylan has also inherited that sweet tooth and that brings on the challenge of making him delicious desserts free of his allergens. I do have to say that I am getting quite good at it. Most come over and have no clue that what there eating is so pure and basic. I have often said that real food speaks for itself and when used it makes amazing things.
Most desserts in our house need to have chocolate. Chocolate is my weakness and anytime that I can pair it with fruit is a great situation to be in. This tart was work to put together but tasted so good that it took all my will power not to eat the entire thing in one sitting. This is the dessert you make when company is coming or to celebrate something big.
Strawberry Tart
1 oat crust (recipe in my blog) plus 1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup flour
2 cups whole milk
5 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla
3 tbsp. coconut oil
1 quart strawberries, washed and sliced
1/4 cup melted chocolate
Mix together the sugar and the flour in a pot. Over medium heat add the milk and the egg yolks. Stir constantly. Bring to a boil and cook for one minute. Remove from the heat and add the vanilla and coconut oil. Pour into the crust and refrigerate for several hours. Place the sliced strawberries on the top and drizzle with the melted chocolate. Refrigerate until the chocolate hardens. Enjoy!!
There is something about homemade soup that just grounds a person. No matter how sick I get soup from a can just tastes horrible and tends to not do anything for me. I always try to have a large container of soup frozen - enough to feed us all for a meal. Brayden loves this soup and devours it whenever I make it.
Soup is such a simple thing to learn to make and can easily be frozen in smaller portions to be pulled out as needed. This soup uses homemade broth. I make my broth by throwing the turkey in the slow cooker with some leeks and seasoning overnight. In the morning you have thick broth and deliciously cooked meat. I peel the meat off and save some for soup and the rest I freeze in small bags to pull out as needed.
Turkey Vegetable Soup
6 cups homemade turkey broth
2 cups water
1 cup chopped turkey meat
5-6 chopped carrots
2 cups chopped green beans
3 cups noodles ( I used kamut noodles in this pic)
1 leek chopped
salt and pepper to taste
Mix all the ingredients together in a large pot and let simmer until the veggies are tender. Serve and enjoy.
Kevin started the GAPS diet just after Christmas. In sheer desperation to get more health and add more foods to his diet he finely agreed GAPS was the way to go. The diet is designed to heal the gut and reintroduce the good bacteria needed for gut health. His progress has been slower then we thought but there still is progress.
A month ago we had a wedding to attend and he really wanted food that looked like everyone else's meal so I decided to make GAPS compliant cabbage rolls. They would look like a regular meal and still be easy on his gut. There is not a huge difference between them and regular cabbage rolls. The biggest difference is that I had to cook the ground beef slowly in the slow cooker for hours before putting it into the cabbage.
Cabbage Rolls
1 head of cabbage blanched
1 pack of ground beef cooked
salt and pepper to taste
2-3 leeks chopped
Mix the spices with the cooked beef. Once the cabbage leaves have cooled down fill with the beef mixture and roll up. Place in a casserole dish with the seam side down. Once the dish is filled top with the chopped leeks and fill with some water. Cover the casserole dish with foil and bake for about 45 min to an hour at 375 F. Eat right away or freeze in smaller portions for easy eating.
