Hummus

The favorite hummus at our house is from Costco.  So, I tried to combine a few recipes to get the same flavor.  My family thinks it's close.  Test it for yourself.

1 can garbanzo beans

1 tsp cumin

½ tbsp lemon juice

1 tbsp tahini

1 clove garlic

½ tsp salt

1 tbsp olive oil

Puree until in a blender or food processor until smooth.

Mediterranean Flat Bread

This was a new discovery today.  I was looking around again flat bread recipe after I saw some Greek pita bread at the store.  I found a recipe for a yeast free pita bread from yeastfreediet.com that I made gluten free by using sorghum and garbanzo-fava bean flour.  I pick up the garbanzo-fava flour at the health food store  because it was on sale and I heard it was great in making gluten free bread.   The recipe looked good and I thought," This is going to be great!" and it was awful.  It needed more salt and I decided to put in some Italian seasoning to see if I could save it.   The test results came back as a winner from my mother, husband and children.  They all loved it especially with the hummus I made. 

1 tablespoon of olive oil

1 cup of sorghum flour

1 cup garbanzo/fava bean flour

¼ tsp sea salt

1 ½ tsp Italian Seasoning

1 egg (or 2 ½ tbsp flax + 3 tbsp water)

1 1/2  cups of distilled or purified water

Pre-heat a frying pan with olive oil on medium/low heat. Mix the rest of the ingredients together.  Pour a large spoonful of batter into frying pan.  Cook like a pancake on medium/low heat.  The batter will be very thick and you will have to spread it out with a spoon or a spatula.  I spread it as thin as I can.  Turn it over when it appears to be cooked.  Once turned over, flatten the bread with a spatula and cook for a few more minutes. Serve with homemade hummus, rice, lettuce, avocado, etc.

Ham Fried Rice (or Just Fried Rice)

                                                  

You can choose if you want meat or not with this one.  I got this recipe off of Allrecipes.com. My husband suggest at our meal planning time that he wanted ham fried rice and I wasn't so sure because I had never made it before--all the excuses to not try something new.  This was one of the first recipes I looked at and it is still a hit with everyone in the family.  It is also a quick go to meal if you have some cooked rice in the refrigerator.

By Joyce Scholten
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min

2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 tsp canola, olive, or vegetable oil
1 1/2 cup cooked rice
2/3 cup diced, cooked ham (optional)
1 to 2 cups vegetables
3/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 cup ground ginger
Dash of pepper
Dash of chili powder
1 1/2 tsp soy sauce

In a skillet, stir eggs and cook them in oil until they are scrambled.  Remove and set aside.  In the same skillet, heat the rice, ham, garlic powder, ginger, pepper and chili powder until warmed through.  Stir in the soy sauce and eggs.  I use Bragg's Liquid Aminos for a soy sauce replacement and keep the ham out of my portion because of the sugar it contains.  Use whichever vegetables you have on hand.  I have used frozen or fresh from green beans, broccoli, and cauliflower to frozen mixed veggies.  I estimated on the amount of rice.  We needed it to spread out among 2 adults and 4 children especially because they liked it.
Ham fried rice

Non Dairy Ice Cream

One of the my favorite things that I have found on this candida diet is coconut cream and I am finding many ways to use it.  I was so excited one day when I made ice cream with it that I ran over to my friend's house to have her try it.  I said, "I just made ice cream!"  She laughed at me and said, "I can tell!"  In my exuberance I forgot to wash my face and must have looked like a little child that licked the bowl clean--which I did.

The recipe is simple:

1 cup frozen blueberries
1/3 cup cold coconut cream
1 tbsp agave nectar
1/4 cup rice milk

Blend until you get the consistency you want.  I have a Blendtec and pushed the milkshake setting.

These are the ingredients that I am allowed to have.  You can choose whatever fruit you desire (I have even made it with cocoa--my daughter says it tastes like a Frosty from Wendy's).  I use agave but have used xylitol or choose your sweetener and milk source.  Enjoy! Let me know what variations you use.

Teff Breakfast Muffins

I made these muffins for breakfast this morning with one of my sons.  I hurt my back and he was quite the helper bending when I couldn't.  He squeezed fresh orange juice and helped add ingredients.  I was and am so grateful for his help.

Of course this is another recipe with teff.  I just love the flavor.  This recipe contains a lot of good foods that even kids will eat.  I was surprised when all of my children tasted them because 100% of them like the muffins.  That is 25% more than usual.  My daughter asked if they had brown sugar in them because of the good taste.  Little did they know that they ate flax and shredded carrots too.  This will be one I will save in my cook book and add to the make a double batch list so I can freeze the extras for future breakfasts.

The substitutions I made were guar gum for the xanthan gum.  My children usually do not like nuts in things so I left those out.  I also left out the dried fruit and put in blueberries (I thawed the Costco ones in the microwave and drained the excess juice).  There is a note at the bottom of the recipe if you cannot have citrus you can replace it with apple juice.  Teff Breakfast Muffins

Curried Root Vegetables

So I have been trying quite a few recipes from The Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen and I have loved each one.  This one sounded good because I love curry and it is.  It is very flavorful.  I didn't get to try it out on the kids because I started it too late to have for dinner and I don't know if it will last for them to have a taste.  My husband thinks it's a nice side dish  because it doesn't have meat.  He thought some beef strips would taste good and my friend Randi suggested using lamb.  My husband thought that would be great.  He did eat it for dinner tonight (a day after) and he added some Costco meatballs which completed the meal for him.  I don't mind having just vegetables and to me, having this over sweet brown rice is great.  The original recipe puts it over quinoa for more protein but I just used what was already cooked  Let me know if you like it.

Recipe: Curried Root Vegetables

Teff Pancakes YUMMY!

I tried the teff pancakes from The Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen this morning and they are so yummy!  I have a son home with a sore throat so he was my guinea pig too.  He loved them.  I was doing the happy dance inside.  I gave this plate in the picture to my mom, who lives with us, and she thought they were amazing especially because it has all of the stuff she can eat (needless-to-say I am my mother's daughter and we have similar food issues).  The pancakes definitely stick to your ribs because I still feel full.  Make sure you follow all of the directions so they turn out.  I did substitute the applesauce for the bananas and topped it with coconut cream and blueberry syrup Enjoy!