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Category: Breakfast

  • Blueberry Banana Muffins

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    Makes 8- 10

    These are the best muffins I’ve made to date. They are super healthy and super delicious.

    Ingredients

    • 1 1/2 cup gluten-free flour blend – 1/2 cup oat flour, 1/2 cup buck wheat, 1/4 cup coconut flour, 1/4 cup tapioca*
    • 1/4 cup palm sugar (any sugar is OK)
    • 1 t baking soda
    • pinch salt
    • 2 eggs
    • 2 T coconut oil, melted
    • 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk or rice milk (any milk will work)
    • 1 t vanilla extract
    • 1 ½ T maple syrup
    • 1/2 cup blueberries
    • 1 smashed very ripe banana

    * You can substitute almond flour, garbanzo flour, or whatever you have – I mix it up according to what I have on hand. The oat flour I have is not totally gluten-free, so if you are gluten-intolerant, make sure you get GF oat flour or grind GF oats.

    Instructions

    1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and lightly grease 12 muffin tins or line with paper baking cups.
    2. In a small bowl combine flour blend, brown sugar, baking soda, and salt. Whisk together.
    3. Beat eggs, either by mixer or by hand. Add almond milk, vanilla, coconut oil, and mix. Add dry ingredients and mix until combined.
    4. Add well-smashed banana and mix well.
    5. Fold in 1/4 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen).
    6. Divide batter evenly into the muffin tins: about 2/3 – 3/4 full.
    7. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the tops are golden brown and a toothpick or knife inserted comes out clean.
    8. Let cool for a few minutes, then serve warm.

    Will keep in an airtight container for a couple days. Freeze to keep longer.

  • Cornmeal and Buckwheat Pancakes

    IMG_6954This is one of those gluten-free recipes that doesn’t taste like a gluten-free recipe. It is just plain good. My family loves ‘em.

    I like to make a big batch of this pancake mix and keep it in the fridge so when Saturday morning all I have to do is mix up the eggs and liquid and toss in the dry mix.

    Beat together:
    4 eggs
    1 cup almond milk (or any milk, buttermilk, yoghurt, kefir)

    Whisk in:
    ½ pancake mix (see below)

    Adjust with more water or more mix if too dry or too wet.

    Add:
    ½ – 1 cup chopped fruit and/or nuts (either mix into the batter now, or drop in when you put the batter in the pan) (more…)

  • Buckwheat Crepes

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    We love these crepes. They are made with 100% buckwheat flour and no dairy. They can be served with savory ingredients for dinner, or enjoyed for breakfast with fruit and maple syrup, or with cottage cheese or yoghurt. They are pictured here with a drizzle of kefir and warmed frozen berries. When we are finished making the crepes, we pour the frozen berries right into the warm cast iron pan for a few minutes.

    This recipe makes about a dozen crepes.

    3 eggs
    1/4 cup olive oil (or melted butter)
    1 1/2 cups almond milk (or any milk)
    1/2 cup water
    1 t almond extract

    1 1/4 cups buckwheat flour
    1/4 t salt

    Beat the eggs and mix in the rest of the liquids. Then whisk in the flour and salt slowly to avoid clumps. (more…)

  • Slow Cooked Steel Cut Oats

    Get this together before you go to bed and you will wake up to the BEST oatmeal.

    In a pyrex, ceramic or metal bowl, combine:

    1 cup steel cut oats

    4 cups water

    pinch of salt

    Put the bowl in the slow cooker. Add enough water in the bottom of the slow cooker (under the bowl) to cover the water/oatmeal line in the bowl. If you have a programmable slow cooker like mine, set it on low for 7-8 hours and it will go to warm after that (which makes getting the bowl of oats out of the hot water bath easier). Otherwise cook it on low overnight, turn it off as soon as you get up.

    In the morning you can top with whatever you like: the traditional raisons, maple syrup, milk and cinnamon or try it straight up with a fried egg.

    Now that you have had breakfast and your slow cooker is till clean, make dinner. Prep the veg the night before so you can throw this together in the morning.