White Chocolate Filled Holiday Cookies
My older daughter has been on a gluten free diet since she was 2 and grain free most of that time. My younger daughter has been grain free her entire life. While they think certain treat foods look tasty they have no experience with them and so they don’t really long for old favorites for me to emulate. That is a nice relief in many ways since it means I don’t have to try to emulate something impossible with our limited diet. It also means that my recipes don’t have those inspired names from other cultures and times long past like Snickerdoodles or Grasshoppers. This year my older daughter was inspired to make our cut out cookies and layer them with some sort of filling. We talked several options over and settled on white chocolate for the...
Read MoreLast Minute GAPS Gifts!!!
It is crunch time! Christmas is almost here! Do you have a GAPS person in your life that you simply don’t know how to shop for? Or perhaps you are a GAPS person and someone in your life just let you know that they are still stumped. I’ve got some ideas for you here. If you order them with Amazon Prime by the end of Thursday they should make it just barely in time so get going! 1. I’ll start with one that makes an excellent gift and isn’t going to break the bank. We love our spiral cutter for making spaghetti from zucchini (Zucchini Noodles). That alone makes it worth it for my family. Paderno World Cuisine Tri-Blade Plastic Spiral Vegetable 2. Next up is a great knife. The better the knife the easier all of your prep...
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Savory Lentil Stew with Smoked Ham Hock
This is my children’s favorite soup of all time. Tonight when I served it my praises were sung over and over again. Every family member asked for seconds and both kids had thirds! They love this soup! Lucky me it is super easy to make thanks to a ready supply of GAPS legal ham hocks from The Farmer’s Larder. This is a local business and unfortunately they do not ship but hopefully you can find something similar in your area. It really lends a ton of great flavor to the soup. I make this using Red Lentils because they are lower oxalate than the others. I have also made it with Sprouted Green Lentils and it tastes great but is higher oxalate. Savory Lentil Stew with Smoked Ham Hock lard or bacon fat 3 cloves of garlic 1 large onion, diced...
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Date and Nut Bars
This holiday season I set a goal for myself to figure out 2 new cookie recipes. This one took a couple of tries but I think I got it. It is very versatile. Use any nuts you have on hand to mix it up or even shredded coconut for a different texture and very low oxalate count. You can also replace the dates with other dried fruit to change the flavor. As written this recipe has less than 3 mg of oxalate per bar! Over half of the oxalate in these bars comes from the nuts so replacing them with shredded coconut will drop it much lower. I hope you enjoy them! We sure like them! Date and Nut Bars 2 tbsp melted butter 1/3 cup Honey 3 eggs 4 tbsp Coconut Flour 1/8 tsp baking soda dash of salt...
Read MoreGinger Spice Bread
I discovered this recipe last fall and have made it many times. Everyone who has eaten it has loved it no matter what they usually eat. I like to bring this to get togethers this time of year because it is popular with a wide spectrum of tastes. Also everything in it is a staple in my pantry so I always have the ingredients on hand to throw it together if I haven’t planned anything for a party. I hope you enjoy it! Ginger Spice Bread 8 eggs 1/2 cup melted Expeller Pressed Coconut Oil, butter or Palm Shortening 1/2 cup Coconut Milk about 8 Medjool Dates 1 tspVanilla 1 tsp Ground Ginger 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon or 1 drop cinnamon essential oil* 1/4 tsp Ground Cloves or 1 drop clove essential oil* 2/3 cup Coconut Flour 1/8 tsp baking soda *Use essential oils for the cinnamon and...
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Healthy Play Food Give Away!
I know that many of my readers are parents. Even those who aren’t probably have children in their life that they love. This give away is going to make the children in someone’s life very happy. One of the first “big” gifts that I gave to my older daughter was a play kitchen. She was not quite two when we got it for her for Christmas. She immediately loved that kitchen and still plays with it at nearly 9 years old. One conundrum that I faced with that play kitchen however was how to stock it. My daughter is allergic to wheat and I have always tried to feed her healthy foods. I didn’t want to give her a bunch of fake processed foods that she couldn’t even eat to play with in her kitchen. Unfortunately that seems to...
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Peppermint White Hot Chocolate
Those who are on the Low Oxalate Diet know that chocolate is not allowed. It sadly has far too many oxalates. However, white chocolate is allowed! It isn’t the same thing but it is rich and tasty and makes a great hot winter drink. I almost don’t miss the brown stuff. My kids had this for the first time today. I made it for them last week but drank it all before they appeared. Oops! They liked it a lot and I love how quick and easy it is and it is filled with healthy foods and even some sneaky gelatin! Peppermint White Hot Chocolate 1 oz Cocoa Butter Wafers(my wafers were 13 to an oz. These may be different.) 1/8 tsp Ground Vanilla Beans 1-2 drops Be Young Peppermint Essential Oil (How to order) 2 eggs...
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Winter Cranberry Roast
Turkey Day is over and you may be finding yourself longing for some different flavors. You may also find that you still have some cranberries in your fridge or at least they are still plentiful in the store. This roast is very popular with my children and it gives a new twist of flavor to a plain old roast. Best of all it doesn’t take very long to get ready and then sits in the oven for hours breaking up the chores of making dinner. Serve this with some sauteed kale and winter squash and you have a perfect hearty winter meal. I hope you enjoy it! Winter Cranberry Roast 3-4 lb chuck roast or other similar roast. I get mine from Missouri Grassfed Beef 3 tablespoons lard or other healthy fat 1 teaspoon salt pepper to taste (use...
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Thanksgiving Menu on GAPS
I’m going to go ahead and put this up and pretty it up and add a few more links later. We are getting close to the big day and I hope that my plans will inspire some of you.-PattyLA This is last year’s turkey. It was a 32lb monster bird! It was hard to cook it evenly because of the size hence the burnt parts. I know how difficult it can be to plan holiday menu when you can eat anything you want. It is even more difficult to plan them when you are on a special diet like GAPS. For me, consider what foods mean the most to me for that holiday and try to emulate them and any foods that we don’t really love (or that are too difficult to make with our current diet restrictions) I...
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Grateful GAPS Holiday Foods
The holidays are here and we’d love to compile a collection of all your GAPS-Legal favorites for every fall and winter holiday we can think of. This blog hop is also hosted by Starlene at GAPS Diet Journey and Joy at The Liberated Kitchen PDX. We are all grateful for GAPS. I hope you will go to each of their pages to find out how GAPS has helped them! As many of you know my family started GAPS in November 2009 (Why We Started the GAPS Diet). It was just 11 days before Thanksgiving, which is a major food holiday here in the US. We celebrated that year, out of state, at my parents home. Our impetus was my youngest daughters health crisis. It was crazy, but even on intro we were able to celebrate this major food holiday...
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