Easy, Breezy Crock pot Roast

 

Ingredients

3-5 pound roast

4-5 carrots, washed and cut

5-6 potatoes (or enough to serve each member in your family)

1/2 box Imagine Portobello Mushroom soup

3-4 stalks celery, washed and cut

1 diced yellow onion

2 tsp garlic

2 tsp sea salt

Directions

Assemble all ingredients in crock pot. Cook on low for 8-10 hours.

The End. (see, how much easier can it get?) :) 

Everything is BETTER with Chocolate

My boys aren't super big Larabar fans.  Which bums me out.  The bars are packed with nutrition.  The dates (which are the basic base of the bars) are sweet but ubber healthy.  A date contains only 23 calories and are loaded with carbs.  They have NO cholesterol, are high in fiber (who doesn't need more fiber, right?) and contain nutrients like Maganese, Copper, Iron, Zinc, Phosphorous, Potssium, Magnesium and Calcium (32 mg per serving!!!).  They are great pre and post workout too.  Other important things they contain are vitamens such at A1, B1, B2, B3, B5, C.  There are also over 20 different amino acids which our bodies need.  Amino acids to things like regulate blood sugar, help with digestion/assimiltation of carbs, and regultate fatty acids.  Don't you love dates even more now?!?!?  Plus, they have such sugary, brown sugar taste that I love!

And I haven't even gotten started on the benefits of the nuts used!  Or the cinnamon!  Or any of the other ingredients!

Ingredients:
1 cups walnuts (I think cashews would be to die for, but all I had was walnuts on hand)
1 1/2 cup pitted dates
4 TBSP Ghirardelli Unsweetened Cocoa powder (I used regular, but dark chocolate would be yummy too!)
1 tsp Frontier vanilla
1/4 tsp. sea salt (or to taste)

I used my Ninja to whip up this bit of heaven.  The pulsing feature worked great!  I was happy with the consistency of these.  Press in to a bar pan to thickness desired.  Refrigerate and cut.  This recipe should make about 6 bars the size of regular Larabars.  Wrap in parchment paper or put in a sealed glass container.  Keep refrigerated.

I tried this chocolate version entice my boys to give them a whirl.  They passed my taste test... how about yours?

A Nameless Food for Breakfast

When I saw this "recipe" posted, I thought my boys might like it.  They LOVE peppers, they kinda like eggs, and they (of course, who doesn't???) love bacon.

These cute eggs were called flowers in the post, but for my boys, I didn't think that would fly.  I just plain didn't name them.  Hence, the nameless egg thing...

Ingredients

Eggs
peppers in different colors cut crosswise (thickly, 1 1/2 inch to 2 inches)
Coconut oil

Directions

Preheat a cast iron pan, preheat pan with a bit of coconut oil.  Lay the washed and cut peppers in the pan.  Crack ONE egg at time into the opening and press down hard with your spatula so the egg doesn't seep out underneath.  If it does, oh well, cut off the seeped egg before you flip it.  Let the nameless pepper/egg thing sit for a 3-5 minutes until it seems to begin to solidify.  CAREFULLY flip over.  I had about a 50/50 chance of getting it.  I think I could have cooked the first side longer.  Let the nameless thing cook about 3-5 minutes more and then serve.

I don't know if I would make them again, but they sure were cute, well, the ones that turned out, anyways.

Monk's Lunch part 2

We recently spent a few days learning about monks of the dark ages.  One of the things we learned about was what monks ate.  I heard split pea soup and brown bread and my mind immediately jumped to two recipes I wanted to make.  One was (of course) split pea soup.  We recently had a ham and I saved a ham bone with some ham still attached and had been trying to get up the courage wanting to use it.  The other recipe was one for a flax seed bread, which is probably as close to brown bread as a gluten free person can get.  We enjoyed the bread dunked into the soup.

Flax Bread  "Focaccia"

 2 cups flax seed meal
1 Tbsp Hain baking powder
1 teaspoon sea salt
1-2 TBSP Turbinado or cane sugar
5 beaten eggs (or equivalent alternative like EnerG Egg Replacer)
1/2 cup water
1/3  coconut oil, melted 

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F

I used stonewear and lightly greased it using Spectrum Palm Shortening.

1.  Mix all dry ingredients together.

2.  Add in eggs, water and oil.  Combine well. (make sure there aren't any signs of egg strings.)

3.  Let the batter sit for a short time (2-3 minutes) to thicken up.

4.   Spread batter into pan and spread out about 1 inch high.

5.   Bake for about 18-22 minutes.  It is done when it springs back when touched or is visibly browned.

 6.   Cool and cut into whatever size slices you want.

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