Raw Chocolate Chip Cookies

So since I made raw chocolate I thought I would go ahead and make the raw chocolate cookies, since the boys were drooling over the page. These were very easy I think 10 minutes tops and they were in the dehydrator. I can't wait for the boys to try them. Ethan cleaned the bowl for me and said they were the best cookie I ever made?

raw chocolate chip cookies
by Matthew Kenney his book here

2 1/2 cups fine cashew flour (I used almond flour)
1 3/4 cups oat flour (I used bob's red mill)
1/2 cup raw cocao powder
1/4 cup water
3/4 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup raw chocolate chips (I skipped this)

Mix all ingredients except chocolate chips in a medium sized bowl by hand. Stir in 1 cup chocolate chips. Form into 3-inch cookies and press a few extra chocolate chips into the top of each cookie. Dehydrate on screens overnight at 118 degrees. Yield 22-24.

Raw Chocolate

So I made this recipe awhile back and I had a 3 year old eat every bite of it. He would NOT share one bite. I have to say I have been loving this book by Matthew Kenney I have to get my hands on the rest of his books they are amazing. But this recipe came from everyday raw.

Now I do not have a vitamix, although I dream nightly about having a vitamix. I was able to mix this by hand.

Well this is why you need a vitamix.

This is after lots of mixing.

Now I roll into a ball and squish to make flat disks. If you want to go to the trouble of making chocolate chips, well more power to you. I like to crumble it up through for cookies.

Raw Chocolate Chips
By Mattew Kenney

1 3/4 cups cashews soaked for 1-2 hours (honestly I use sun butter)
1 cup maple syrup
1 cup raw cacao powder
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt.

Place all ingredients in a Vita-Mix until smooth. Place in piping bag and pipe chocolate chips onto Teflex sheet. Dehydrate overnight at 118 degrees. Keep in the refrigerator in a sealed container until ready to use. (did I mention I have three kids? These don't make it to the fridge)

Apple Cobbler Cupcake

So December's Cupcake of the month is Apple Cobbler Cupcake. I got the recipe from here and I changed nearly all the ingredients. They turned out good, good enough to be eaten before I got to frost them. So no frosting this month.

Apple Cobbler Cupcakes

About 12 Cupcakes

1 1/2 cups gf flour mix
1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon guar gum
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 cup canola oil
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
8 ounces of pumpkin puree
1/2 cup mayo (or yogurt)
1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
1 diced apple

1. In a medium-sized bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, guar gum, and ginger. Set Aside.
2. Beat in oil and sugars in a large bowl until light and fluffly.
3. Beat in pumpkin, mayo, and lemon until blended.
4. Mix in flour mixture.
5. Fold in apples.
6. Divide evenly among 12 cupcakes.
7. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.

Everyone loved the cupcakes here. I need to tweak the recipe a wee bit. It's still not 100% but that will come with time.

The Happiest Kid

Is this not the happiest child in the world at this moment? Santa came to preschool tonight to say hi to the kids. All the kids got to hop on his lap to say hi and to tell him what they wanted for Christmas.

What a smile.

Do You Prep?

Are you a prep-per?

So a few months ago, I was thinking, well wondering if there could be a better way at making dinner and baking. And thought about how easy it is to line up your ingredients, and then just be able to dump and dump and dump. Trying to cook dinner with three kids running around is HARD. I am always called away for this or that, and it puts me behind on dinner. Now I prep, and then I start cooking. It seems to be going a lot faster, which is good news here. Because you don't want hungry kids. They turn on your, and not in a good way.

I got these prep bowls and I went to town.

So take tonight's dinner. This is called Beef Bop. Got this recipe from a friend. We make this at least once a week here, if not more. I use 1 pound of organic hamburger, I get that started on low heat. I get about 2 cups of rice going as well and set that aside. Then I start prepping.

You get a three year old actually to do the prepping, but since I can't let him use a knife yet, I have to help him prep. But he can ground a mean ginger.

You can add almost anything to this dish and make it work. Tonight we used garlic, fresh ginger, leeks, green peppers.

Once the ground beef is brown, turn off the heat and start the wok. Let the oil warm up, add in garlic, ginger, leeks, and green peppers. After a few minutes, you add in the ground beef, and fish sauce, salt and a sprinkle of sugar. Let it cook down.

Serve over rice.

This is a type of recipe you don't need measurements. Honestly just dump what you want in it. You can do any sorts of veggies. I just had green peppers and leeks tonight. I love fresh ginger in a recipe. Depending on kids I can usually have this on the table in about 30 minutes.

Gluten Free Girl

If you ever get a chance to meet or hear Shauna talk, then GO. It was great meeting here, it was great hearing her talk, and wish it lasted longer.

A photo of me and Shauna.

Ethan snuck in and wanted a photo.

Check out her blog here.

Gluten Free Mobile Two

Well sadly Gluten Free Mobile retired about 3 weeks ago. It was very sad and very sudden, but not totally unexpected. So here enters Gluten Free Mobile Two. I can't tell you how many times I have lost this van all ready. It was time to decorate it.

Here is the back of the van, very settle. I have more to add so give me time. I have just started.

Isn't this pretty? I'm so in love with my circut. It's amazing how much joy that machine has brought me.

Here is a close up. I have this on both sides.

More to come....

November Cupcake Of The Month

I FOUGHT THE CUPCAKE AND THE CUPCAKE WON!

Well I came to tell you, I totally bombed cupcake of the month, this month. I have attempted this recipe three different times. Three totally different recipes, for the same cupcake, and all three failed. So I am setting this idea aside and will try it again down the road.

Ok I should mention how much I LOVE both of my mixers. One to mix the crust and one to mix the batter.

These were suppose to be pumpkin pie cupcakes.In the midst of this I have found a pie crust recipe that I utterly love. If you don't have this book, you really need this book. I am using Cybel's Pumpkin Pie Crust. It is beyond dreamy.

So I rolled out twelve mini crusts and put them into a cupcake tin. I filled with batter.

And baked, and baked, and baked, and baked, and brunt. And they still didn't turn out.

And because I have been working so hard on this idea, I have not gotten to the potm, (pie of the month). So hoping tomorrow with my awesome new crust to make a cranberry apple pie....Stay tuned.

OMG To Die For Fries

Kind of an oops tonight in making dinner and I honestly thought I had died and gone to heaven. So I got a new Jamie Oliver cookbook and he had a recipe in there, where you cut up potatoes really finely and fry them up. I was suppose to add like lemon peel or something but I didn't have it so skipped it, and really looking at things I did not cut up the potatoes so finely.

But any who. I cut them up as finely as I would say McDonald's fries. As I cut I put them into a bowl of ice cold water well the oil was warming up. I cooked these in my cast iron dutch oven. Man I love that pan, how did I ever live without it?

So once the temp hit 350 I started frying, I took a handful of potatoes out of the ice water and dried them the best I could and put them in the oil. It was Canola Oil tonight. I let them fry until they were golden brown. The first batch took forever, but every batch after that took 8-10 minutes.

I have never been able to make fries like this. Honestly they tasted like McDonald's french fries. Do you know how long it has been since I have had McDonald's fries?

Enjoy....

Apple and Sasuage Stuffing

So the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I realized there is really nothing at the dinner table that my hubby could eat. He had just given up potatoes, on top of being gluten, dairy, soy free. So me starting to freak out, he said a good stuffing would work.

So I went on the hunt for a good stuffing. And found one in the Joy of Cooking Cookbook.

It came out Amazing. It smelled awesome, and hubby loved it.

1 pound sausage
4 cups apples peeled and diced

I browned the sausage, once browned I mixed in the apples and let it sit on low and soak.

4 to 8 tablespoons Earth Balance Butter
2 cups chopped onions
1 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup parsley
1 teaspoon thyme
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/3 to 1 cup chicken stock
1 pound or about 10 cups of gf bread crumbs

In a pan melt the butter, add in onions, celery. Once cooked and tender add in the rest of the ingredients, except chicken stock, and bread crumbs. Let cook up for a few minutes. Once done, in a big bowl combine sausage, apples, cooked up stuffing mixture and bread crumbs. Add in chicken stock until happy, mix well. I did use 1 cup. Once fully mixed put into a baking pan and bake at 350 for 25-40 minutes.

This will now be something I do at every big get together meal. It was amazing.