This is not casein free (contains cheese) because I made it for my parents and myself. However, I will be making this for Charlie with his Daiya cheese soon. It was simple: Clean and cook cauliflower. Mash. Add salt, pepper, butter (coconut oil for CF), cream (almond or cashew milk for CF), bacon, scallions, and cheese (Daiya for CF). Bake until bubbly (about 10 minutes). So good. Tastes just like potatoes. Seriously.

Gluten, casein, soy, and sugar free. That’s right. You heard me. This is a basic chocolate cupcake from Elana Amsterdam’s Gluten-Free Cupcakes. I just mixed things up for Charlie to try to replicate the taste of his favorite ice cream (Mint Chocolate Chip, So Delicious brand). Ends up it tastes just like it… or a Thin Mint Girl Scout cookie. Either way… SCORE!  The icing is my own recipe of xylitol, coconut oil, palm shortening, vanilla, all-natural green dye, and peppermint oil. I topped it off with a shave and chunk of dark chocolate.

I have been baking Paleo biscuits for Charlie out of the Paleo Comfort Foods cookbook. It’s an awesome book and the biscuits are fantastic. I gave one to my parents to sample and my mother suggested adding fresh raspberries and making a scone. I experimented and came up with a great mix of flavors. Ends up it was a delight! A treat!

These are gluten, soy and sugar free. They could be casein free if you whipped some coconut milk instead of cream. So yeah, we’ll be having these again some day!

I saw this idea on Pinterest the other day.  I’ve been on Atkin’s (or some modification of it) for years now. I’ve lost over 50 pounds. I firmly believe in a low-carb plan and exercise. I do not, nor have I for years, eat processed foods, sugars, and grains. My parents eat the same way.

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This recipe was inspired by one on Dr. Oz’s site by the Stella family. My mother found the recipe and we kind of morphed it into our own. We had never had cauliflower in such a way. Let me just say we were thrilled with the end result! So yummy!

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These were supposed to be “red.”  Sadly I didn’t have enough all-natural dye to get them there. I will try again once my supply has been replenished. In the meantime, just know they were DELISH!

The cupcake recipe is from Gluten-Free Cupcakes by Elana Amsterdam. The icing is my own concoction of xylitol, coconut oil, palm shortening and vanilla.

Charlie has been learning about Noah, Joseph (Jacob’s son), and Moses. In a shocking turn of events, the virtual (public) school has included these stories in their literature course. I’m not overly religious, spiritual yes – religious, no.  But in my opinion, the stories made God out to be vengeful and mean.  You might all know by now the deep connection Charlie has with God (which he does not get from me, in case you think I’m sitting here cramming the bible down his throat).

Having said all that…. today we were driving down the road and Charlie said:

Mom, see that house? Well, I had a dream I was walking down this road and just as I got to that house I heard a voice in my head, I knew was God, tell me I needed to do my K12 school work every day and do a good job or there would be 40 days and 40 nights of raining horses.

I didn’t want to do the work so I kept walking. All of a sudden it started raining horses. It was horrible. They were falling on people and squishing them. They were slamming into houses. I was so scared.

So I said to God, “Please make it stop! I’ll do my work if you’ll make it stop!”  And there on the sidewalk was a stack of K12 school work.  I sat down on the sidewalk and I did the work. As soon as I did the horses stopped falling and everything was okay.

Today Charlie asked for cupcakes. I pulled out my Gluten-Free Cupcakes cookbook, by Elana Amsterdam, and whipped up a batch of “Cookie Surprise.”

They came out great!  For the icing I used my own recipe of palm shortening, coconut oil, vanilla and xylitol.  Read the rest of this entry »

Charlie loves burritos and tacos.  Since beginning our journey on the primal path, those things come in the form of lettuce wraps.  And although they are delicious, the boy was missing his old-school taco/burrito night – which sometimes included tortilla chips and salsa to start things off. Once corn was pulled from the diet, tortillas and chips were not an option… Until we discovered rice tortillas and rice tortilla chips. But then rice was pulled and we were left out in the cold. Read the rest of this entry »

So I used the basic cookie recipe I used for the peppermint spirals and just piped the dough through a zip lock baggie into candy cane shapes and baked for about 10 minutes, and cooled. I then made xylitol powdered sugar, added a few drops of Vanilla Cream Stevia, and a little water to make a glaze. I dipped the cookies in the glaze and let them sit for a few minutes. While the glaze set up  I made three different icings – I started with a big batch of “white” icing with xylitol and coconut oil, plus a little vanilla. I then divided it into three bowls. In one bowl I added green all natural color and in another I added red all natural color. I put the colored icings in zip lock baggies and snipped the very tip off of one end to make a piping bag. They are yummy!!!