Paleo Mug Bread

Today was almost fall like! Soon as the rain came through  I got the urge to bake. But I was feeling lazy  didn't have that much time. Since I had apple butter, it had to be a bread. So Paleo Mug bread was in order.
There are a many variations out there, and I have tried many.  So many come up dry, but I also think my mile high altitude can effect the out comes. This combination I did today comes up light and crumbly. Its soft and stays together pretty well. Slapped some apple butter on there, and it was a delight.

Quick  Paleo Bread    Makes 4 slices

1/3 Cup Almond Flour
1 Tablespoon Coconut Flour
1/2 Teaspoon  Baking Powder
1/8 Salt
1 egg
2.5 Tablespoons of Coconut oil (Measure then melted)

1. Grease mug
2. Whip egg in a bowl
3. Add the rest of the ingredients, mix with fork.
4.  Pour into mug. Microwave for 90 seconds. The top should be firm, and slightly pulled away from sides.
5. Let stand for a moment, too hot it will crumble!
6. Flip mug over ( should slide out), and slice. 

For the Apple Butter recipe click here. It's the most amazing crock pot recipe I have ever made.  Be prepared for the best selling house! 

Breaking the rules. Paleo Inspired bread.

I don't like to follow the rules. But I am big into suggestions. I follow Paleo, but not perfectly. I just believe in: "whats good for me", and always making healthy choices.  I also believe in taking the time to go on a stay-cation and throw it all out the window too. Because that's just good for the soul!

I had to up date my favorite Paleo bread. I did it by breaking a Paleo rule (gasp! call the Paleo police). Yup, guilty. By using only egg whites and even substituting raw honey for honey substitute! The end result is actually a lighter, softer and less dense bread. This became a lovely soft moist loaf. It even rose a little more than before. I am pleased with this loaf for sure

• 3/4  almond butter, smooth

• ¾ cup + 3 tablespoons of liquid egg whites

• 2 tbsp sugar free honey

• 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted

• 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar

• 1/4 cup golden flax, ground

• 3 tbsp coconut flour

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1/2 tsp sea salt

Blend all your wet ingredients until smooth.

Mix dry ingredients in another bowl.

Slowly mix dry into wet.

Pour into a lined loaf pan. Grease your paper with coconut oil well.

Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes. At 35 minutes check, over baking egg based bread can tend to burn quickly.

After it's cooled keep in sealed container in refrigerator. Yields 24 thin slices (great for snacking) or 12 regular slices (easier to toast).

Nutrition Facts
Servings 24.0
Amount Per Serving
calories 86
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 7 g	11 %
Saturated Fat 3 g	14 %
Monounsaturated Fat 0 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0 g
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg	0 %
Sodium 135 mg	6 %
Potassium 19 mg	1 %
Total Carbohydrate 3 g	1 %
Dietary Fiber 1 g	6 %
Sugars 1 g
Protein 3 g	6 %
Vitamin A	0 %
Vitamin C	0 %
Calcium	2 %
Iron	2 %
* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA.

Spicy Turkey and Sausage Paleo Soup

It's as good as it sounds. So versatile too. It can go many ways, soup, stew, and breakfast!

It just hits the spot, and freezes up great for left overs. You can make up any size batch, nothing is too exact with this. My measurements are more of what I did, it's not set in stone. 

It's hearty and healthy, enjoy.

1-2 Pounds of Ground Turkey

1 Pound of Jalapeno Sausage

1 large sweet potato (more or less)

3-4 cups of chicken broth (more for soup, less for stew)

1 can of organic tomatoes fire roasted pepper w/ green chilies (I used Muir Glen Organic)

1-2 cups baby carrots

1+ cups of bell peppers, I used red, yellow and green for color and taste. Use your favorite.

4-5 celery stalks

3-4 scallion/green onion (save the green for garnish)

3-4 garlic cloves, minced

3 tsp cumin

2 tsp chili powder

2 tsp coriander

2 tsp basil

1/4 cup fresh cilantro 

Salt & Pepper 

Peel and dice sweet potato. Slice your sausage. 

I mix all my spices in a bowl with the can of tomatoes before I add it to the crock pot. That way I can ensure every thing is soaked in flavor!

If you will be around while it's cooking give it a stir occasionally to make sure everything is distributed evenly.

I cooked on low for 8 hours. That should be the minimum time. For hearty stews I wouldn't recommend the 4 hours on high. You can, it just doesn't do it justice.

A fried egg and bacon is an amazing addition! Have a slice of Paleo Sandwich Bread to dunk!

Click image for nutrition. This is just an approximate! It depends on how much you end up making :-)

Paleo Sandwich Bread

 My Paleo friends, rejoice, and have a sandwich

I have made a lot of Paleo bread, but there's only so much almond bread with almond butter I can take. They were all tasty, but ended up more like a cake. Not so much for just making a sandwich! 



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That dreaded meal; Lunch.

Sometimes I just make breakfast again, or just stick with one of my meal re-placers because I just don't have time to make a mess and cook for one, then have to cook for the family for dinner later. Some times I just want to take my lefts overs and stick it on bread! Well I found a recipe. I did a whole week of testing via Instagram. Funny enough it wasn't until the last day I made a left over sandwich.

My post work out slug-fest I am famished,

 so it's bacon and eggs!                                                               

 Breakfast BLT !

*My personal note, I recommend an immersion blender for Paleo breads and cakes. Blending the almond butter, and honey is never easy. I now mix a lot of my breads and cakes in a bottle mixer using my immersion hand blender. You get a better flavor and consistancy. It's also an easier clean up! 

*If you like to toast your bread, don't over toast. It will burn very fast because of the egg content!

3/4  almond butter, smooth (store bought works fine too)

6 pastured eggs

2 tbsp honey

1/4 cup coconut oil, melted

1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar

1/4 cup golden flax, ground

3 tbsp coconut flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp sea salt

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line an 8 x 4" loaf pan with parchment, grease well with coconut oil.
2. In a large bowl, blend the almond butter, eggs, honey, coconut oil and apple cider vinegar with an immersion blender.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the flax, coconut flour, baking soda and sea salt. Mix the dry into the wet, pour into the greased and lined loaf pan and bake for 35-40 minutes.
4. Remove from oven and allow to cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan by pulling up on the parchment. Set on wire rack to cool completely.
5. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for 3-4 days, in the fridge for 7-10 days or in the freezer for a month or so.

Read more: http://guiltykitchen.com/2013/04/15/paleo-sandwich-bread/#ixzz2ooVvHwXh

Paleo Bread

So I have been a little busy for two weeks...

I have just moved over from Wordpress. No matter what you read it isn't as simple. Even using the converter... my friends it only converts 1 MB at a time. It was a long task, then I had to go back through the posts and edit out the last HTML that was left out, and make sure it all looked the same. Then I got on the PC, a lot of the pictures were huge. It looked all fine and dandy on my ancient Mac Book Air! I also didn't know that if you move, your pictures don't move, they are still hosted by WP. Maybe one day I will slowly replace each picture. But for now I kept the WP site open with blank post and no text, with a redirect link! I was going to make it private so I could just delete the thing later. But if you do that all your photos become un-pinnable! After all that  I am sure there's some wacky looking things and links I have to fix, but for now I am content.

But I am fine with being content, because this is the first time I am getting to write, or touch my kitchen. Soon after the move and clean up I closed my laptop and became ill. Not a sniffle 'I can function kind of sick', but in bed husband at home bedroom DOOR CLOSED!  I add this happened after the weekend both my little ones got pink eye, and then a virus after that. Guess where I got it from. I was a hot mess! It was the sickness I fear, ears and throat. The first few days were miserable, by early Sunday morning like 3 am I was in tears of pain. The ears were now beyond the threshold of normal illness pain. I once got a perforated ear drum being this sick, I was getting scared. Luckily these days medical care has gone beyond going to an Urgent Care where there are a lot of Saturday night left over oddities still lingering in the wait area. I only say that because I did have to go to one in my 20's when I lived down town Denver. All I have to say is never again my friend.
At 3 am my husband googled a place that was an off hospital site clinic that had a walk-in. At this point I didn't care. I drove myself there at 8 am when they opened. Hubby was at home because the kiddos still had that second virus. Luckily it was a quick process, and no it wasn't scary. My sickness was bad enough they prescribed me these horse sized antibiotics! After two days, I am down graded from death to sick! Yay me! Some body really should put a biohazard sign on our door and rope off the house in yellow CDC tape.

OK, so to present day, getting an appetite back, I am hungry! With no bread in sight I had to whip some together. After I made my families granola bars. My will power stopped me from diving in to the batch I am a Paleo Mama now.  I didn't decide to 'go Paleo' I sorta just had to. I discovered no matter how healthy I ate, I still was blowing up. Once I cut out the dairly, and gluten I started to feel amazing. After the first two weeks I feel like a changed woman, and not puffy. I think thats where my will power came from. I have flushed my system out!

Time to experiment with my second Paleo bread. I found  Bread 2.0 still a very simple bread, but with the addition of flaxseed which I love, and arrowroot powder (actually had this on hand). This is an awesome bread. Unlike the Savory Almond Bread this came out more like bread, as in NOT dessert and I can make a sandwich out of it. OK, really I was so hungry I ended up putting almond butter butteron a slice and making that my lunch.  I just made granola bars, fed two kids put them to nap, and not a bit for me, I am dying here people. Also my poor hubby dying on the couch with the sickness... glad HE didn't want food! *sheesh* Families huh!? 

Bread 2.0

• 1 ½ cups blanched almond flour
• ¾ cup arrowroot powder
• ¼ cup golden flaxmeal
• ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon agave nectar
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

1. In a medium bowl, combine almond flour, arrowroot, flax meal, salt and baking soda
2. In a larger bowl, blend eggs 3-5 minutes until frothy
3. Stir agave and vinegar into eggs
4. Mix dry ingredients into wet
5. Scoop batter into a well greased small-medium
6. Bake at 350º for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean
7. Cool and serve

Makes 1 medium sized loaf

May I also suggest CopyCat

 Lara Bars. 

Paleo friendly.

Almond Paleo bread, that tastes more like a dessert!

Oh buggar! The first easy Paleo bread I do turns out to be addicting! Almond bread is a nutrient dense bread that tastes more like a coffee cake of sorts. It's didn't help I put some jam on top. I could of ate the whole thing. I am gad they are pretty small. The best part about the almond bread is one slice is VERY satisfying. Although it's scarf-able. I try to stick to one, or have it with a meal. That way I am not tempted to make a meal of it. 



This is a very simple bread. I was searching for a good go to that I can make with few ingredients. I always like a no brainer I can whip up in a pinch. Here I found "Savory Almond Flour Bread" from the Bombshell Blueprint. Maria Guadagno is a Holistic Health Coach, and Raw Food chef in NYC. See her link at the end of the page.

Ingredients
Almond Flour/Meal* (2 1/4 cups)
Ground Flax Seed (1/4 cup)
Salt (1/4 teaspoon)
Baking Soda (1-1/2 tsp.)
Eggs (3 large)
Honey (1 tbs.)
Apple Cider Vinegar (1 tbs.)

  
 One tip; make sure your Almond flour has no chunks in it. Almond flour is dense, and can stick together. My loaf came out a little flat. Next time I will run my flour through my coffee grinder. You want a very fine consistency.

Update: I have now done this a few times now. I have found that if you pop the honey and vinegar in the microwave for about 20 seconds it will blend better with the eggs. You really want to whip the eggs in with the honey and ACV too! My last loaf I used my hand mixer to really fluff up the eggs. That way I had more wet ingredient to add to the dry, and it was less dry and lumpy. The difference was night and day! I couldn't believe it was the same recipe. 

Instructions

1- Preheat oven to 300°F and use grease a  6.5 x 4" pan.

2- Combine the almond flour, flax seed, salt and baking soda in a large bowl.

3- In a separate medium bowl, whisk the eggs, and then add honey and apple cider vinegar.

4- Stir the wet ingredients into dry and mix only until combined.

5- Pour batter into a 6.5" x 4" loaf pan pan and bake for about 25-30 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.

Recipe source. Thank You *Nom nom*