Gluten & Egg Free Banana Muffins.

After our morning walk today my son (18 months) and I decided to bake some muffins.  Let me tell you he bakes like he is playing in a sand box so my kitchen and both of us are a mess.  This is also why there are no "in the process" pictures.  I used sorghum flour for this recipe, I love the taste and it is the closest in texture and taste to traditional wheat flour of any of the gluten-free flours.  You can use any flour you want though, brown rice, buckwheat (ground from raw groats is nice) or even almond.  I also choose sorghum because it is a little cheaper and baking with the wee one half of the ingredients are on the floor. 

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Enjoy!

3 Ingredients Cookie

It's been a busy week around here at Appreciating Health.  I had two meet and greets and met some lovely people and let them try a yummy smoothie.  recipe coming soon.  I also made some fantastic business connections that I will be telling you all about next Monday.  I'm so excited to tell you about it but better wait till everything is finalized, so next week it is. 

On to this week.  On Saturday we had my brother and his beautiful girlfriend over for dinner.  It wasn't till after dinner was over we realized we had no dessert so in 15 minutes from start to finish this is what we came up with.  You must see a theme here with me and desserts. 

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Yummy Raw Cacao Cups.

Over the weekend my husband, son and I went to a friends Christmas party.  I love to go places or have people over for dinner and introduce something new to them (food wise), usually it's a super food, or a gluten free dish or dessert.  I like to show healthy food can be delicious and simple, bonus part my son can have some too :)

I love chocolate, it's sort of an obsession so I figure healthy versions are the best route to take. Yummy Raw Cacao Cups seem to be the solution.

What is raw cacao you might ask, well to quote David Wolfe from his book Superfoods;

"All chocolate is made from cacao beans (also known as cocoa beans).  Cacao is chocolate.  All the antioxidant value, mineral benefits, neurotransmitter rejuvenating properties, and overall health-giving qualities of chocolate are found in original cacao." 

There is only one ingredient which is cacao so always purchase it in it's raw form.

All melted, add more coconut oil if you want it thinner. Melting the goodness in my "double boiler"

So Friday night I was poking around and found this recipe from the The Living Kitchen Wellness Group, I was about to make it and realized I didn't have cacao butter, but I did have coconut butter.  Yummy!  I added in a little coconut oil as well so it was a little runny after all the ingredients were melted.  I was happy to use the blueberries me and the wee man picked in the summer with our friend Jamie and her little lady.  Please Enjoy!

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Gluten-Free Pumpkin CupCakes!!!

Can you say yummy! These babies are moist and soooo flipping good.  I had two small pumpkins just sitting in my kitchen so last-night I baked them up and pureed them.  With my fresh pumpkin puree I was looking for a quick recipe to use it in.  I adapted this recipe from Nourishing Meals by Alissa Segersten & Tom Malterre, MS, CN.  I changed it up with what I had in the cupboard.  There is a Dairy Free Cream Cheese Frosting that can go with these.  I just didn't have the sweet potatoes to do it (while my son was sleeping), next batch!!

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