Making a quiche is always nice, hard boiling an egg is good too (if you don't have anger issues about the peels not coming off very well!....I might....). But when you have 8 beautiful hens who each lay an egg almost every day, you want something different than cooking them up in a pan, and easier than a quiche or hard boiled. So, I started baking eggs! This is really less of a 'recipe' and more of an idea, but gosh, it's easy. If you trust your muffins tin, don't use any liners. The end result will be a little different (that 'fried egg' type result on the entire outside). If you're like me, and don't trust your muffin tin & no matter how much you grease it, everything sticks, then grab yeerself some fancy Stay Bright muffin cups (I get mine from Dollarama), and get crackin'! Baked Eggs Ingredients:
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I make extra of these, and stick them in the fridge in an airtight container. Then we'll eat them here and there in a meal, as a snack, or on a salad.
Alrighty, that's it!
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Good day to one and all. I made this lovely coffee cake as part of a brunch when my in-laws came over, and it was such a nice treat, minus the guilt. Grain free, dairy free and sugar free does not mean yucky, and if you're a doubter, this coffee cake will convert you. I promise. Cinnamon Pecan Coffee Cake Ingredients: For the Cake
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This wonderful cake is really light and fluffy, it's moist and just sweet enough.
Happy Monday! Gosh, I'm having a hum-dinger of a time writing some sort of "intro" here......this happens from time to time, and when it does I like to resort to "what would my kids do?" "Hey, excuse me.....hey...Excuse me.....excuse me....hey, excuse me.....Um, look at my banana bread....." O.k, so none of them would say "look at my 'banana bread', but I hear "look at this (fill-in-the-blank)" all day from my sweet Keziah, so that oughtta do it here! :) Paleo Banana Bread Ingredients
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I like to let this bread cool, then cut it into slices, wrap up and put into a freezer bag, and stick it in the freezer. Then when I want some, I can just pull out one piece, put it onto a plate (covered with wrap), and let it thaw out (doesn't take too long). I've also taken out one piece from the freezer, stuck it into a plastic container, and packed it into lunches/snacks for myself or the kids as needed. By the time we get to eating it, it's no longer frozen.
Well now, I hope everyone has a good weekend! I plan on baking (obviously!), going out for dinner, and having the in-laws over, so, it'll be a busy and fun weekend! When we lived in Brantford we used to buy un-pasturized honey from a local beekeeper. One day she randomly gave me a cookbook, the "Ontario Honey Recipe Book", and I went home and tried a few of the recipes right away. Honey lends an unexpected flavour to foods, and I enjoyed using it. One of my favourite recipes though was this Date Orange Muffin recipe. I hadn't made these in a long time though, but want to try them again, only changing a few things to suit us now. They are gluten free, dairy free, and using half honey, half maple syrup (because my neighbour stopped by with syrup he had made!). The result was fantastic, and these muffins were as good as I remembered. Date Orange Muffins Adapted from the "Ontario Honey Recipe Book" Ingredients:
*If you don't have walnut meal, just make up the difference with more almond meal. * *If you are not gluten free, the original recipe calls for 3/4 cup of honey (I reduced the amount to suit us/the type of flours I was using), and 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour. Method:
A whole, fresh orange gives these muffins an incredible, bright taste. I hope these wonderful, fresh tasting muffins make it into your list of things-to-try!
Get ready for some Fig Newton history! You may not give a hoot, but the homeschooler in me likes to know the why's behind things, so that I have useless and random facts to share with others! So, bear with...bear with....bear with....(Miranda anyone?) O.k, never mind, moving on! Until the late 19th century, many physicians believed that most illnesses were related to digestion problems, and recommended a daily intake of biscuits and fruit (heck yes!). Fig rolls were the perfect solution to this advice, although they remained a locally-produced and handmade product. A Philadelphia baker and fig-lover Charles Roser in 1891 invented and then patented a machine which inserted fig paste into a thick pastry dough. Cambridgeport, Massachusetts-based Kennedy Biscuit Company purchased the Roser recipe and started mass production. The first Fig Newtons were baked at the F.A. Kennedy Steam Bakery in 1891. The product was named "Newton" after the town of Newton Massachusetts The Kennedy Biscuit Company had recently become associated with the New York Biscuit Company, and after the companies' merger to form Nabisco, the fig rolls were trademarked as "Fig Newtons". So, all that to say I love Fig Newtons (and I now also love the story behind them!)! I haven't had any in years though....when I'm eating well they clearly can't be involved, and when I would have a treat day, eating a Fig Newton seemed to loose out to my favourite Cadbury chocolate bars. :( Poor Fig Newton. But then, something magical happened....I was at Costco with my sister during Easter, and she grabbed a big ol' bag of dried figs. I suddenly thought, "why the heck have I never tried making a healthy version of the Fig Newton?", and I grabbed myself a bag and told her I was going to try to health-ify this delightful treat! Healthy Fig Newtons (the cookie dough requires an hour or more of refrigeration, fyi) Ingredients: For the cookie:
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Store these in an airtight container in the fridge with parchment between each layer. The cookie part of this treat is soft, just like a real Fig Newton. These would be great for a brunch or tea party, but I've just been keeping mine in the fridge, and pulling a piece or two out to have with my tea as a nice treat.
Have a great weekend everyone! A while back I posted a chocolate mug cake that needed to be microwaved. Two things happened though: One, people e-mailed to ask what they can do if they didn't have a micro-wave, and two: I personally found that I often couldn't actually eat the whole mug cake. Because I didn't want to waste, and I also didn't want to leave some random, useless amount of mug cake in the fridge, I would end up eating it all and feeling a smidge too full. So, to answer both problems, here are mini muffins (so you could eat as much or little as you want), made in the oven! Mini Chocolate Muffins Ingredients:
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These little gems have a moist, fluffy texture, and I'm sure you'll love 'em!
Our good friends moved recently, and gave us their laying hens. Well, they didn't lay a single egg for 2 weeks (because it was still so very cold), and then-wham! They were laying a million eggs every day!!! O.k, a million is an egg-xaggeration (see what I did there?), but we suddenly had more eggs than we could possibly eat. So, as the old saying goes, if you have too many eggs, make a quiche. That is 100% not a real saying, but it could be. Because we are largely gluten-free at our house, a "regular" crust was out, but I wasn't in the mood for a crustless quiche....with some inspiration from a favourite blog of mine, PaleOMG, a meat crust seemed genius, and I went for it! Meat Crust Quiche Ingredients
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This quiche is hearty (obviously!), and it makes some of the best leftovers ever.
Well, alrighty. Gosh, I'm pooped. It's a super terrific, sun-shiny day though (SpongeBob said it first, not me), so I'm hoping a nice walk with my youngest after the olders get on the bus will wake me up....fingers crossed! Happy Monday! This recipe may shock some of you, but I don't always eat junk! I know, you can't believe it! Well, it's true, and this recipe is one I will go to when during the week (when I try to eat better) I just need a little something that really feels like a treat. This thing is gluten free, paleo friendly, and really good! The banana taste is not too overpowering (in case you're not into banana), and the texture of this mug cake is a moist and fudgy (p.s., fudgy is not a real word!) : ) . Chocolate Fudge Mug Cake Ingredients:
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I just want to say that I thought March only had 30 days for some reason, so I thought today was April 1st (April Fools Day). So when I looked at my calendar and saw today was March 31st, well....my own brain played an early April Fool's joke on me. Sheesh. Happy NOT April Fools Day! :) Pancake Day, otherwise known as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday, is the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. The term Shrove Tuesday comes from the word shrive, meaning to "confess". Eating pancakes on this day came from using eggs and butter in the batter - as they were ingredients that weren't allowed during Lent, so they needed to use them all up. Truth is, we love pancakes in this house, and if there is another reason to eat them for dinner, I'm all over it! Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Pancakes
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I like to eat my pancakes by putting a bit of peanut butter on first, then my syrup. I also love making mine into Bacon Fritters! Do you have a favourite way of eating pancakes? Whatever you're style, have a good Shrove Tuesday!
So, a hand pie? Basically, it's a pie you can hold in your hand. I feel sure you figured that out on your own, but I wanted to fill you in just to be sure. Think of a customizable, homemade, in a flaky pie crust Pop Tart. Making hand pies this weekend came from having the kids home an extra day (snow/ice day on Friday=no school), and wanting to do something fun and different (and also easy) with them. I started with my basic pie crust recipe (it's also below), and went from there! Peanut Butter & Chocolate Hand Pies Ingredients: For the Crust:
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*I drizzled mine with some nutella, just because :) The pies turned out really nice, and the girls loved getting to just hold them and not needing a plate or fork. I liked having those few less dishes to do! You could fill these with different jams, and make them for a breakfast or brunch with company, you could also make them like mini apple pies and bring them to a fall pot luck. I think these little beauties have lots of potential!
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