Category: Nourishing Foods

• Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

  We have a slight cookie fetish here. I find they are great snack, travel easily, and with just a couple cups of sucanat and palm sugar, they’re not overly sweet. I guess they’d more qualify for “energy bars” then a cookie treat. I ran out of blanched almonds for almond flour, so I thought I…

  Gina

  October 22, 2011

  Recipes

  almond butter, coconut flour, coconut sugar, cookies, gluten free

• Veggie Pizza Sauce

  It’s pizza night! I had been experimenting with putting all different kinds of vegetables into our pizza sauce. Though, after several months of doing so, I think the children missed the basic pizza sauce. Tonight I tried to make a minimal veggie sauce. I picked some tomatoes, peppers, and basil from the garden and prepared…

  Gina

  October 21, 2011

  Recipes

  pizza sauce

• Blackberry Muffins

  Upon rising before most of my children this morning, I thought I would make something different. We usually just have something light for a quick breakfast in the mornings, with a bigger meal to follow after major subjects are out of the way. Today, though, I’ve been missing muffins. scones, breakfast cakes, and all those…

  Gina

  October 17, 2011

  Recipes

  blackberry muffins, breakfast, coconut flour

• Apple Ginger Kefir

  Tonight is our in between night before our kombucha is ready for the week. Kombucha is a great probiotic, fermented tea that takes about 7-10 days to culture. It’s slightly carbonated when finished, and teeters between slightly sweet and vinegary sour. My children have grown to love this stuff. I have found the tutorials at…

  Gina

  October 12, 2011

  Recipes

  kombucha, water kefir