Gluten, dairy, soy-free banana bread

Ingredients:

1 cup millet flour(I use Bob's Red Mill)
1 large overripe mashed banana
1/4 cup tapioca flour
1/2 cup organic sugar
1/4 tsp apple cider vinegar
1/2 tbsp baking powder(there is a corn free baking powder you can buy at Whole Foods if corn is an issue)
1/4 cup oil(I use sunflower oil), you can substitute for any safe oil
2 eggs

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix all wet and dry ingredients separately. Then add together and mix. Pour over a greased loaf pan and bake for 15-20 minutes or until toothpick test comes out dry :).

We like this, it's so easy to make and so good!

Gluten-free Turon

Turon is a popular Filipino sweet, sort of like a lumpia-wrapped banana or plantain.  I am used to it being a plantain lumpia.  I grew up eating it but since going gluten-free 5 years ago, I've had to figure out how to make it okay for us to eat.  While the lumpia wrapper is made of wheat, the wrap I used is made of rice.  I made these several times until I decided why not post it, maybe someone else might like it.  My family loves it.

You can purchase the rice wraps at Kroger and Asian and Filipino stores.  Follow the instructions that comes with it.

Ingredients:

1 large very ripe plantain
1/4 cup organic sugar
Sunflower oil or use coconut oil if you're able to tolerate it(I can't)
Sliced jackfruit (optional)

Cut the plantain in thin small sizes.  Get the rice wraps ready.  Lay the plantain on the wrap, add a little bit of the sugar and fold it in sideways and roll it all the way. Seal the end with a little water.

Heat oil in medium on a frying pan.  When it's hot then you can slowly put the turon to fry. They tend to stick to make sure they are spaced apart.  Cook until both sides are light brown and crispy. Drain. You can serve it with ice cream or just eat it by itself.

Enjoy!

(Non-dairy) Cheesy and crumbly chicken

I am missing breaded chicken so I came  up with this recipe.  This is an easy dish and you don't need a lot of prep time and cooking time either.

Ingredients:

4 pieces of chicken breasts, thawed
1/2 cup of shredded  Daiya cheese mozarella flavor
1/2 cup of crushed Nature's Path rice cereal
2 tablespoon of organic Spectrum shortening (not melted)

Preheat the stove at 425 degrees F.  Cover the chicken with the shortening, then roll around the crushed rice cereal and Daiya (cheese substitute).   Make sure it's covered.   Bake for approximately 12 minutes or until done.

For the side dish:

1 package of organic green beans
1/2 cup water
Leftover bacon fat(from frying bacon), you can use any animal fat you have such as tallow or duck.

In a frying pan, put the green beans and the water. Bring to a boil. Let it boil for 5 minutes or until tender. Then when the water is nearly gone, add the bacon fat and stir it around.  Serve hot with the chicken.

My daughter loved this, she was begging me to make more later.

Buckwheat banana muffins

I bought raw organic buckwheat grouts from Whole Foods, sprouted them and after that I ground it into flour.  I received a manual grain mill for Christmas from my sister and have been putting it to use.  I've mainly used it for buckwheat.

I took some pictures can't find them. I'll post some pictures later.

Ingredients:

1 cup sprouted buckwheat flour.

1 large ripe mashed banana

1/4 cup partially melted Spectrum Palm Shortening

1/4 tsp aluminum-free baking soda

1/4 cup agave nectar (or honey if you can tolerate it)

1/4 cup hemp milk

If you are able to sprout your own flour that would be great, otherwise just use regular buckwheat flour. The point is sprouting is to make it easier to digest.

Mix all the ingredients.  Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes or until done. Please check since every oven is different.

My daughter loves this muffin, she a bunch in one sitting :).  Enjoy!

Kare-Kare paleo style (Filipino dish)

Kare-kare

I apologize for the lack of picture but every time I make this it gets snatched so fast. I don't even get a chance to take pictures.  This is a Filipino dish that I've changed a bit to make it paleo.  I hope you like it. I grew up eating it.  My dad made this with peanut butter and I changed it to cashew butter to make it low salicylate and also paleo.

As always I don't ever measure when cooking(aside from baking).

Ingredients:

4 or 5 pieces of ox tail (yes you read it right!)
a dash of black pepper(optional, omit if low salicylate)
a dash of sea salt
1 tablespoon (eyeballing this) of cashew butter or almond butter(if not low salicylate)
3 or 4 cloves of crushed garlic
a handful of chopped bok choy
A cup or two of filtered water

Put everything except the boy choy in a pot to cook until the meat softens.  After oxtail is soft which takes about an hour for me, add the bok choy. Cook for another 15 minutes until bok choy is soft.  Then it's done!  I grew up eating this with boiled white rice.   I also omitted the shrimp paste because I'm severely allergic to shrimp.

Nibmor chocolate review

Who doesn't want chocolate? I don't know anyone who doesn't.  Anyway, hubby was browsing at our Whole Foods and found this chocolate and bought it for me. I had to share my thoughts about it.  It's not exactly paleo or GAPS-friendly due to the fact that it has agave nectar, but I was willing to try it.  It has a different taste, a slightly different feel and texture. It's softer than regular chocolate. I like that it has 65% cacao and it's been crafted at low temperatures to minimize the loss of nutrients and flavonoids.  It's also non-GMO which is a huge deal for me.

There are several flavors but I prefer the plain one.  At 3.99 a bar it costs more than regular store-bought chocolate but it's worth it.

I like this chocolate and I will continue to buy it!

Craving for Chocolate

I've been craving for chocolate and just happened to have some Enjoy Life chocolate baking chips at home.  So this is my really simple, easy creation.  Just 1 cup of dark chocolate chips and 1 tbsp virgin coconut oil melted and mixed together and poured in a mold.  You can even use this concoction to dip fruits in.  Kind of like a fondue.  You can add nuts, shredded coconut....go wild with it!

Put them in the freezer for 15 minutes or til it gets hard. Then enjoy!

Comfort Food

I've been the worst blogger. I haven't updated in so long.  The truth is I have tons of new recipes but just haven't had the time to go here and update.   We're not really on strict GAPS anymore. We're more paleo again. We're still doing all the fermented foods and broths but I've added digestive enzymes into my daughter's regime.  I still take digestive enzymes too.

Anyway it's been raining quite a bit here and so I made this comfort food.  I cheated a little and added peas(that I found in the freezer) and potatoes that I bought from a local farmers market.

Ingredients:

A pound of grass-fed beef
1/2 onion
garlic, maybe about 1/2 head
black pepper
1 bay leaf
Sea salt
peas
organic red bell peppers
organic Brussel sprouts
organic potatoes, washed, peeled and diced
water
pork lard

Heat large skillet, add pork lard.  Add garlic and onions.  Saute. Add all other remaining ingredients and cover to boil.

I cook mine til the water dries out a little.  You can add as much water as you like. This would all depend on if you want a dry or a soupy consistency.

Enjoy!