Just a couple recipes. Gluten free, anti-fungal diet friendly.

Just a quick stop off today to post some recipes. My cousin and a few other people have recently asked me for recipes. Most of these will be following the anti-fungal part of our diet since I'm posting mainly for my cousin Heather. But I'll make sure to post some vegan and raw ones in the future. These are a few transitional recipes that my kids take kindly to. So hopefully yours will too. For my cousin Heather, make sure to look at labels in everything. Sugar, corn and soy bean is hiding everywhere. If you don't know what a name is in the ingredients, google it. Chances are it's some form of one of those three things. 


We don't eat meat, but I'm going to add in a few meat suggestions since a majority of people do. :) 


Wheat Free, Anti Fungal, Sugar Free Pizza (has some dairy in it since we occasionally eat organic plain yogurt, cream cheese or sour cream)


Crust: Simple Flatbread Pizza
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups almond flour
3/4 cup tapioca flour
1/3 cup ground flax or ground chia seeds (you can also grind seeds in a coffee grinder)
1 tsp. xylitol
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
3 organic eggs
1/3 cup plain yogurt
Any dried herbs with sea salt (Italian seasoning, etc)
Directions: 
Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl combine almond flour, tapioca, ground flax or chia, xylitol, baking soda and salt. In a small bowl, blend eggs and yogurt with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds. Add the egg mixture into the dry ingredients and use mixer to stir to combine until it forms a sticky, wet dough. Pour batter into a 12x16 jelly roll pan/cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Smooth batter out with a spatula so it's thin and even. Sprinkle herbs and sea salt. On center rack of oven bake at 350 for 8 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Don't over bake or it'll be too dry. 


Pizza Sauce- Uses canned ingredients but it's fast and good. Use organic if possible. You can also heat some up on the stove to use for dipping. 
15 oz. can tomato sauce
6 oz. can tomato paste
1 Tbsp ground oregano
1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp xylitol
1/2 tsp baking soda
dash onion powder
1 1/2 tsp basil


Mix all and put over baked crust.  Top pizza with toppings of your choice. We LOVE green, red and yellow peppers, onions, zucchini, spinach. If you are a meat eater add meats of your choice. Just make sure to slather on lots of sauce, lots of veggies. You won't miss the cheese at all. If your kiddos do, go ahead and put a little bit of cream cheese in a baggie, cut the corner off and pipe a little "frosting" on the pizza. Cook for 15 minutes in oven at 350. 

Try making a taco salad. 

If you are doing anti-fungal there aren't really any chips that will work. Possibilities: Taco meat (we use zucchini meat but you can use real if you eat meat), seasoned with 3 Tbsp. of taco seasoning (recipe below), lettuce, pico or salsa without vinegar or sugar (it's tough), fresh peppers, onions, fresh (not canned) jalapeños, avocado, cilantro, a small touch of lime, guacamole, a small, dab of sour cream if you are eating it. You can eat your veggies raw or sauté them. It's up to you. I do have recipes for flax taco chips but you need a dehydrator for them. 

Taco seasoning: You can buy huge containers of spices at Sams club or if you know of a place where you can buy spices in bulk, great. 

1/4 cup chili powder

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp onion powder

1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes

1 tsp dried oregano

2 tsp paprika

2 Tbsp cumin

3/4 tsp sea salt (We don't like things super salty. Try this first but if after your first batch you feel it's not salty enough, you can add a touch more)

Combine. It's real easy to shake it all together in a ziplock back. Store in airtight container. 

Creamy Berry Buckwheat: Found here: http://www.knowthecause.com/OurDailyBlog/tabid/96/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1190/Creamy-Berry-Buckwheat.aspx

Amaranth Pancakes
-We combine these with strawberry, blueberry, mixed berry or green apple syrup. Whichever one we feel like on a given day. For example: If we want strawberry syrup, I take a bunch of frozen strawberries, throw them in a pan with about 2 Tbsp water and about 1 Tbsp xylitol, and a cap full of lemon juice. I cook them on medium high heat just to get it unfrozen a touch and then turn it down till the strawberries are soft and there is a bit of juice. We just throw that on the pancakes and it's super easy. We skip the butter and just put on the syrup. 


2 eggs beaten
1/2 cup almond milk
2 tsp oil (we just grape seed for this)
1/2 cup amaranth flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1/3 cup arrowroot starch
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp sea salt


In a medium bowl beat eggs. Then add almond milk and oil. Add remaining ingredients, mix well. Heat griddle or pan to medium high and cook until bubbly, flip and cook till done. 


Almond Pancakes. Also good. 


1 1/2 cup almond flour
3 eggs
1/4 cup almond milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 Tbsp xylitol
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon. 


Mix and cook. 


Smoothies: We start each morning off with a whole food smoothie. Meaning we throw a couple carrots, some grapefruit, 2 green apples, spinach or other green like parsley, chard, etc, and perhaps some frozen berries into a blender. Our vitamix blends this just fine but a normal blender will probably need some water or unsweetened coconut milk to get it going. These smoothies are thick but will give you a great start to the day. If you can't stand them right away go ahead and add a bit of xylitol or stevia to sweeten it a little. 


Avocado Pudding: 

2 ripe avocados1/2 cup cocoa powder1/2 cup raw agave nectar (phase 2. Phase 1: use 1/4 cup xylitol and see if it's sweet enough for you. If not, add 1/4 tsp of liquid stevia and test again. Xylitol can have a laxative effect so I personally wouldn't add 1/2 cup of it. But you can do as you wish)1/2cup almond milk2 teaspoon vanilla extract


Cut avocados in half, discard seed and scoop meat into blender. Add rest of ingredients. Blend, enjoy. 






Ok, that's it for now. Off to get some work done. :)