I love to cook, travel and get dressed up. I am always looking for healthier versions of my favorite foods. I'll post all my successful recipes here for you to try. I'll also post about the places I will travel to with restaurant and attraction suggestions, beauty tips for nights out and more. Copy, have fun, smile and enjoy!
Monday, January 12, 2015
Chocolate Fudge Sundae Cupcake with Homemade eggless vanilla ice cream
Zucchini Lasagna
When my husband requested this dish for dinner, I have to admit that I wasn't that excited to make it or eat it. But it easily exceeded my expectations! This will be a staple in my house from now on and it doesn't hurt that it's healthier than it's original lasagna version. My secret ingredient for the meat sauce is one packet of Stevia. You don't have to add it, but I LOVE it in my marinara sauce. That and balsamic. Yum yum!
Ingredients:
1lb Ground turkey
2 T Olive oil
3 minced Garlic cloves
1/2 diced sweet Onion
1 stevia packet
2 T Balsamic
1 T Dried oregano
2 T Dried or fresh basil
S&P to taste
28 oz crushed tomatoes
3-4 zucchini
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
1 1/2 cup Ricotta
1 Eggs
16 oz Mozzarella
Preheat oven to 375
Cook the ground turkey in a large skillet. Then set aside.
Sauté onion and garlic in 1 T olive oil and then add meat again.
Add crushed tomatoes, oregano, basil, s&p, balsamic and stevia.
In a seperste bowl mix together ricotta, parm cheese and egg.
Sauté zucchini in olive oil until golden.
Spray a 9x13 baking dish with cooking oil.
Pour about 1/2 a cup of the meat sauce on the bottom of the dish, then a layer of zucchini and ricotta mix. (The ricotta was hard to spread, it's ok if it moves the zucchini around a little bit)
Sprinkle with mozzarella.
Repeat for 3 layers.
Bake covered for 30 minutes, then uncovered for 29 more minutes.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Strawberry Balsamic Coconut Ice-cream
Strawberry balsamic ice cream might sound weird to some people, but if you've lived in Seattle or worked for Whole Foods Market (which I have done both), then it's totally normal to you and you already know it's the best ice cream flavor EVER! This gourmet recipe is vegan, gluten free and has no refined sugars. It's as guilt free as it gets. Serve it with some chocolate chips if you want to spruce it up even more.
1 pint of strawberries
1/4 cup maple syrup
3 T balsamic vinegar
1-2 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 375
Clean and cut in half all strawberries
Mix syrup, balsamic and vanilla together
Coat all the strawberries in the balsamic mix
Bake for 30 minutes
Mix in a blender baked strawberries and juices with:
2 cans of coconut milk
1/3 cup maple syrup
Store in a container in the fridge until cold.
Make in your ice cream maker or place in freezer and stir every 30 minutes until the right texture.
NOTE: recipe from www.glutenfreeveganlove.com
Beer marinated Steak with tomato Chimichurri
Wondering what chimichurri is? It's a green sauce from Argentina made for grilling meats. Originally the base ingredients have been parsley, garlic, oregano and olive oil. This recipe's chimichurri is more like pico de gallo and chimichurri had a baby. It's SO good!
Ok ready? Here it is:
Ingredients:
Flank steak
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dash of pepper
3 diced green onions
Olive oil
2/3 light beer (I used Ommission Lager b/c it's gluten free 👏)
Score the steak in a criss cross pattern on both sides.
Rub a little olive oil on steaks then Dry rub all the seasonings on both sides.
Place in a shallow dish with beer and green onions.
Cover and marinade in fridge for 2-3 hours.
Grill each side for 3-4 minutes for medium rare.
Chimichurri:
2 diced plums
3-4 diced green onions
1/4 C chopped cilantro
1/2 tablespoon vinegar (white, red wine or apple cidar. You pick!)
Dash of salt
1-2 fresh squeezed lime juice
1 tablespoon pickled jalapeño relish
1 tablespoon olive oil
Mixed everything together and place in a jar in the fridge until you are ready to eat.
Scoop generous amount onto your steak.
Enjoy!
Served with a side of potatoes.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Snickerdoodle Cookies - gluten free
I want to start out by saying I am NOT trying out a gluten free diet for fun or to be trendy. I've been having stomach pain since September and I've seen a few doctors already. I've been putting this experiment off for a long time because I love food too much to want to change my diet just for fun.
My symptoms include migraines a few times a month and stomach pain EVERY day. Gluten can take several weeks to get out of your system, so if you try to go gluten free for real results give yourself 1-2 months.
Feeling depressed about this decision and how hard it's going to be, I decided to make a delicious dessert that's gluten free. Snickerdoodle cookies!!! I was skeptical and thought there was no way these would taste as good as the real deal. The cookies turned out so perfect that my husband says "whose to say what the real deal is?? These cookies ARE the real deal!" He also asked if they are considered healthy because they are gluten free. Which a lot of people think is true. Let me clarify what gluten is. Gluten is a protein found naturally in wheat, rye and barley. It helps food have structure to rise. When baking a gluten free recipe you need to add xanthan gum (found at whole foods market) I found a gluten free flour blend that already has xanthan gum in it. Which is awesome because it's going to make baking so much easier than I thought.
But, anyway back to my husbands question about gluten free bring healthy. These are cookies made out of real butter and sugar. Of course it's not healthy! But it's sooooo yummy! So, just because it doesn't have gluten doesn't mean it's healthy people! Ok enough with the gluten free educational lecture, here's the recipe. I hope you love it!
Ingredients:
3/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon + 2 tablespoon (mix together set aside)
1/2 cup soft butter
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400
Whisk together flour, xanthan gum, baking soda, cream or tartar and salt.
Cream sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla.
Slowing add in dry mix. It will be very thick when finished.
Chill covered in fridge for at least an hour.
Take 1" cookie balls and roll in cinnamon sugar mix
Bake for 10 minutes.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)