Allergen-friendly Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Let me preface this by saying: CONTAINS TREE NUTS.

FREE OF gluten, egg, dairy, soy, peanut, cane sugar, corn

INGREDIENTS
2 c almond meal/flour
1 c rice flour
1 c quinoa flour (do another cup of rice flour if you don't have this)
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
2 bananas
1 pear
1 carrot, shredded/grated
1/4 c coconut oil
1 sq inch ginger root, shredded/grated
1/3 c spiced apple cider (or juice)
1/2 raw pineapple
Honey
Optional spice mix -nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, allspice
Optional fruit/nuts - chopped almonds, pecans; poppy seeds;

Preheat oven to 350. Combine dry ingredients in bowl and stir. Put fruit, carrot, coconut oil, ginger, & cider in a blender or food processor, and combine until smooth. Line a 10x10 (?) glass baking pan with coconut oil. Slice pineapple thin and line the bottom of the pan. Spread honey over pineapple. Add batter. Bake 30 mins. Let cool then turn it upside down.

I ended up with a little extra so I also made 10 mini muffins too.

Tastes great. The banana sweetens without adding a distinctive banana flavor.

Cranberry Breakfast

I eat this for breakfast. It is delicious.

Whole Cranberry Sauce ( I pre-make a batch or two of this):
1 lb cranberries
1 c water
spices - clove, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg, dash turmeric
sweetener as desired (honey or agave)
1-2 diced apples (optional)

Bring water to a boil and simmer crans (& apples of applicable) for 10 minutes. I don't use any sweetener at all because I love the tart berries. This is not most people's preference.

CRANBERRY BREAKFAST:
1/2 - 1 cup whole cranberry sauce
1 TBSP chia seeds
diced fresh fruit - citrus, banana, apple

Heat cranberry sauce on stove or microwave. Combine ingredients in a medium sized bowl . MMMMMM.

This breakfast gives me a TON of energy. I think it's those chia seeds. They really are super food.

The cranberry sauce is also good with the previously posted muffin/bread recipe.

Allergen friendly bread/muffin

But just so you know, it's a tree nut & legume flour base. You could probably replace the tree nut flour with legume flour, or vice versa, or replace both with quinoa flour. I have not yet tried this, so if you do, let me know how it turns out!!!

This bread/muffin recipe is quite delicious, and is free of: egg, soy, wheat, dairy, cane sugar. It is also low starch. I use BobsRedMill flour for my flours, except the almond flour, which I always get at Trader Joe's.

Ingredients:
3 c almond flour/meal
1 c hazelnut flour/meal
1 c garbanzo/fava flour
1 c quinoa flour
1/2 tsp sea salt
1.5 tsp baking soda
3 ripe pears, cored, chopped
1/4 c cranapple juice
1/3 c coconut oil

OPTIONAL ADD INS:
shredded carrots, bananas, chopped nuts, berries, spice blend (allspice, cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg), honey, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, chopped apples, pumpkin, shredded coconut, peanut butter

If you want a very moist sweet bread, I would add in a couple chopped or pureed bananas and some honey. Along with the spice blend, which I almost ALWAYS add. If you want a less sweet bread, and you have a good food processor, replace the pears with carrots, nix the juice, and take out 1-2 c of flour.

I usually make the basic bread recipe, then add in the extras at the end. You can make several differnt types of muffins with one batch of bread by adding different ingredients to sectioned off parts of the batter. MMM.

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl and mix. Put pears, coconut oil, and juice in a food processor or blender. (I only have a blender; I added the juice because it's a b*tch to blend the pears without a liquid. Blend until smooth. Add the blended pears to the flour mixture, and stir well. Pour mixture into muffin pans, quickbread pans, or 10x10 glass baking pan. Bake 30 mins.

MMM TEMPEH

CASHEW TEMPEH

Fry these things up in your pan:
sesame or olive oil
split garlic cloves (I used a whole head of garlic
Tempeh (I made sure to get the kind that doesn't have sugar added. Cane is gross)
raw cashews
fresh cilantro (add this at the very end)
hot sauce
paprika
turmeric
basil (fresh or dried)
liquid aminos (or soy sauce or sea salt)
ginger, sliced real thin

EAT IT.

Awesome steam

Put these things in a steamer:

brussel sprouts
chopped carrots
brazil nuts
LOTS of garlic cloves, split and peeled
basil
rosemary
fresh cilantro


Steam 10-15 minutes.


Add a touch of sea salt at the end when you've put it in your serving bowl.


MMMMM.


As a point of reference, I used two whole heads of garlic for this. Plus a little extra I had laying around. Garlic is awesome. Eat it like candy. Good for killing parasites.

(and vampires).

MMMango salad

Put this stuff together in a bowl, sliced up:
mango
kohlrabi (or cabbage, broccoli, radish)
avocado
cilantro
green papaya
nopal cactus

Dressing:
horseradish mustard
olive oil
chili sesame oil
ground coriander
hot sauce to taste

Probably also really good if you add:
salmon, pine nuts, pepper, spinach

Best thing I've made so far

Tropical Portobello

INGREDIENTS:
(makes 2-4)
2-4 large portobello caps (or small mushrooms of your choice)
1 mango
1 banana
1/2 small papaya
pine nuts
cilantro
hot peppers, peppers of your choice
hot sauce
black pepper, lemon pepper
chili powder or cajun seasoning
olive oil

Chop the fruit, and mix fruit, nuts, little bit of oil, and seasonings (excluding cilantro) in a bowl. Put a little oil in your fry pan and start heating up your portobello caps, whole or chopped (I did mine whole, and it turned out really well). Add fruit mixture, an cover and cook, stirring/turning occasionally, until cooked to your liking. Add cilantro at the end. Avocado is another delicious addition to this dish (which I excluded due to my suspicion that my body can't tolerate the starch/sugar content of avocado).


ALSO

PAPAYA SMOOTHIE:

BLEND:
frozen papaya
mango
apple juice
almond butter
hemp protein


Mmmm. Health.

Complete Salad

Put this stuff in a bowl:

salad greens/herb salad
spinach
fresh dill
chopped nuts (pecans, walnuts, brazil nuts)
copious amount of mixed Greek olives
carrot, sliced
radishes, sliced
raisins or dried cherries
clementine/orange/etc

Dress with red wine vinegar and olive oil.

Top it with some salmon.

Mmmmmm.

Orange paste

This paste is great to put on fish, veggies, or as a salad dressing, especially with added curry seasoning/curry paste or hot sauce.

Put in a blender:
carrots
almonds, almond butter
clementine (or orange, or other citrus)
touch of lemon juice
vinegar & olive oil to taste

Mmm....

I also made roasted almonds coated in veg oil, cajun seasoning, cinnamon, touch of salt. Mixed those with some greens, with the paste and a little bit of curry paste, really great salad.

Broccoli, alond & Chive soup

Another soup recipe, based on my standard formula, i.e. blended stuff + chopped stuff. I like chopping everything pretty small so it's easier to eat. So I threw all this stuff in a pot together, cooked it for 25 minutes, after blending the stuff on the first list. DELICIOUS!

Blend:
chives
tomatoes
olive oil
almond butter
herb seasoning
paprika
salt or liquid aminos

Chop:
carrots
NAPA cabbage
broccoli
cauliflower
chives (bottoms... tops go into blender)
chinese celery
almonds (I put in lots... or you could use chicken or fish for the protein source.... or beans if you eat starch, which I do not)

Add enough water to cover most of the veggies, and cook it. MMMM.

The trick to these soups is to use PLENTY of herb for the blend. The last recipe (cabbage soup) I used a lot of basil in the blend, this time I used a lot of tomatoes and chives. I even forgot to put in onions... But the soup ended up with an amazing amount of flavor. Once I discovered herbs, I realized that I never needed to buy a can of brother again!