Grain FREE waffles

I'm in LOVE!

Ingredients:
1 C garbanzo bean flour
1/8 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 egg, separated
3/4 C plain whole-milk Greek yogurt
1/4 C unsweetened almond milk (soy or whole milk ok)
1/4 C olive oil
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract

Directions:
Preheat a waffle iron.
Combine the flour, salt, and soda in a large bowl.
In another bowl whisk together egg yolk, yogurt, milk, oil and vanilla.
Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until well combined.
Batter should be thick like a muffin or cake batter.
Beat the egg white with a whisk until soft peaks form. Then gently fold egg white into the batter.
Brush your waffle iron with coconut oil before you put batter on each time.

We TRIPLE this batch to make 9-10. They reheat in the toaster better than any other waffle we have made! Pictured here is how I like them most. With berries and homemade whipped cream (Just Heavy Cream....whipped. No sugar) Also awesome with more plain yogurt on top too....maybe a little bit of honey :)

Zucchini "Cheesecake"

Takes a LONG time to cook, but so so yum! Great way to use your summer garden zucchini! We got this from a book called I Quit Sugar. It actually tastes best when it's really been able to cool and set. So you could easily make this the night before and have an easy breakfast waiting in the AM :)

Ingredients:
2-3 Large zucchini
1 tsp salt
15 ounces ricotta
3/4 C grated Parmasean
2 green onions
2 cloves garlic
1/4 C chopped dill
zest of 1 lemon
2 eggs
1/3 C crumbled feta

Directions:
Grate the zucchini. You need about 2 Cups. Combine with salt and allow to sit in a colander for 15 min, then use your fingers to press out as much moisture as you can.
Combine ricotta, parmasean, green onions, garlic, dill and lemon zest. Then stir in the eggs and zucchini. Pour into a 7x11 (or double and pour into a 9x13) and bake at 350F for 1 hour!
Sprinkle with Feta Cheese and return to the oven for 25 minutes or until the cheese has melted.

Overnight Oats

"I think overnight oats are meant to be had with diced mango!"

Ingredients:
1/3 C oats
1 TBLS chia seeds OR flaxseeds
1/4 C almond milk
1/4 C plain greek yogurt
1 TBLS honey
1/4 tsp vanilla

Directions:
Mix together all ingredients in a bowl or tupperware.  Cover and refrigerate overnight. In the morning put toppings of your choice on.

toppings: (endless possibilities)
blueberries
raspberries
strawberries
nuts
banana
pineapple
coconut
MANGO

Coconut & Cashew granola

Thank you Susannah for giving us another granola recipe! We LOVE it! Maybe more than our other one!

Ingredients:
7 C oats
2 C cashews (can do slivered almonds if you would rather or mix it up)
1 C unsweetened shredded coconut
2 tsp- 1 TBLS cinnamon (I don't measure)

1/2 C olive oil
1/2 C molasses
1/2 C honey

Directions:
Mix first 4 ingredients in a large mixing bowl.  Heat the other 3 on the stove in a small pot until just boiling. (careful not to let it boil over)  Pour over the dry ingredients and mix until it's all well coated.  Pour onto 2 baking sheets and Bake at 325 for 20 minutes stirring once half way through. (I don't stir but i do rotate the trays. Top rack moves to the bottom and bottom to top :) Your house will smell AMAZING while it's in the oven too!

Love the granola with dried apricots and raisins just before serving with almond milk.
Or with plain GREEK yogurt, sliced apples, and honey.
Or with plain GREEK yogurt, honey and blueberries
Or with plain GREEK yogurt, a banana and a little peanut butter (the banana sweetens it up enough for me to not even need honey this way)

YUM YUM YUM!

Good Morning Muffins

Just another idea for a breakfast muffin.  (To be made the night before of course :) Lots of great stuff in there!

Ingredients:
2 C Whole Wheat flour
1/2 C honey
1 ripe banana, mashed
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
2 C shredded carrots
1/2 C raisins
1/2 C walnuts or pecans
1/2 C unsweetened coconut flakes
1 apple, peeled, cored and shredded
3 eggs
1 C applesauce
2 tsp vanilla

Directions:
Mix all ingredients in a bowl and scoop out into muffin tins.  Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

Scones

We've made these with cranberries and blueberries.  Both are fantastic!  Filling for a breakfast and even work as a treat :) (At least for my kids!)

Ingredients:
2 C Whole Wheat flour
1/3 C honey
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
8 TBLS butter (1 Cube) softened
1/2 C sour cream
1 egg
1 C frozen blueberries (Or any fruit/ mix you want)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400.
In a bowl combine whole wheat flour, salt, soda, and powder. With a fork mix in egg, sour cream, honey, and butter. Once all mixed together add in the blueberries.
Place dough onto a greased baking sheet and shape into a circle.  (about and inch tall)  Cut into 8 (like a pizza) and separate pieces out so there is room for them to puff up.

Bake for 15 minutes.  They should be slightly golden.  

Drizzle with honey and allow to cool a bit before serving.

Seriously YUM!

HOT PINK SMOOTHIE

Someone put this up in the 30 Day Green Smoothie Challenge I did.  Although not green, thought it would be fun to try.  It wasn't a hit with everyone in the family, but I thought it was worth keeping around. It's a fun pink color for sure! Different than our typical smoothie.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 C coconut water
1 carrot, grated
1/2 beet, peeled and diced or grated
1/4 C cashews
1/4 C dates (if you don't have a high powered blender these won't chop well.  Use honey to sweeten instead)
12 strawberries

Directions:
Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.  If you don't have a high powered blender, blend the liquid with the grated beet and carrot first.  Enjoy! :)

Pecan Breakfast Cookies

We made these as an attempt to have something different for breakfast.  We enjoyed them with some fresh fruit and yogurt.  They are kind of a cross in texture between an oatmeal cookie and a biscuit.  I think they are pretty versatile and could fall in the snack or even treat category...although they are not sweet at all. (Maybe as a "cookie sandwich" with that homemade pumpkin ice cream we had at Thanksgiving?...Now We're talking!:)) Either way, glad we came across them.  What would I do without the internet!? : /

Ingredients:
1 C whole wheat flour
3/4 C oats
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 C applesauce
3 TBLS pure maple syrup
2 TBLS butter, softened but not melted
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 C chopped pecans

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 and spray a cookie sheet.
In a bowl, mix together applesauce, maple syrup, butter, egg and vanilla.  Then add in the flour, oats, soda and salt.  Fold in the nuts with a spatula.  Drop onto prepared cookie sheet and bake for 8-9 minutes or until they just start to brown.

We made these again and doubled it!  Cookies freeze well too!

Cinnamon Raisin Bread

Yay I found another healthy breakfast idea!  This recipe said it was best used in a bread machine, but since I don't have one of those, I just did it like this.  Seemed to work. YUM!

Ingredients:

3 C whole wheat flour

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp salt

1 C hot water

1/2 C coconut oil

1/4 C honey

2 tsp yeast

1 C raisins

Directions:

Mix up all your ingredients with a fork and dump into a greased loaf pan. (I used coconut oil to grease the pan)  Cover with a hot wet towel and allow to rise.  I wanted to speed up the process so ever 20 minutes or so I would re-wet the towel in very hot water and cover the bread again. :)

When loaf is at desired height, bake at 350 for 30-45 minutes.  Excellent filling toast for breakfast!

Waffles

In a continued attempt to getting a more healthy breakfast in, we found this recipe at allrecipes.com!  LOVE this!

Ingredients:

4 eggs

3 1/2 C milk

1/2 C olive oil

1/2 C applesauce 

2 tsp vanilla

2 C whole wheat flour

1 C flaxseed meal

1/2 C oats

8 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

Whisk first 5 ingredients in a bowl.  Add the next 5.  Mix until well combined.

I used my 3/4 C to scoop out the batter and dumped 2 scoops onto a waffle iron. 

Makes 20 waffles! (you'll pour 5 times since each pour makes 4 waffles) Some spilled over the edge the first time, so I guess if I became a professional batter dumper we could make 1 or 2 more waffles!:)

Freeze leftovers for a quick pop in the toaster breakfast! I made mine like a sandwich with almond butter, sliced bananas and honey. (In the picture above, nothing is on the waffles yet.  Just a stack of yummy, crispy goodness!)

Granola

I've really been trying to figure out better breakfasts. (AKA NOT cold cereal) I got this recipe from my mother-in-law.  TOTAL winner!  Kyler's new favorite "cereal"! YAY!  

Ingredients:

7 C rolled oats

1 C slivered almonds, chopped (OR 1/2 C almonds and 1/2 C walnuts!)

1 C wheat germ (OR 1/2 C wheat bran and 1/4 C ground flaxseed meal)

1 C sunflower kernals

1/2 C honey

1/2 C olive oil

1/2 C molasses

2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Combine first 4 ingredients in a bowl.

Combine the rest of the ingredients in a small saucepan.  Heat on the stove top until just beginning to boil.  Add the heated mixture to the oat mixture and stir until well combined.

Spread onto 2 cookie sheets (the kinds with sides:)) and bake at 325 for 20 minutes.  You can stir half way through too if you remember/ have time!

Remove the sheets from the oven and allow to cool completely before storing.  It all fills an empty oats container pretty well too!  You don't need anything fancy to store it in.

For breakfast I use about 3/4 C with a handful of raisins and slice a banana in, then pour in the almond milk!

 Keeps me full and give me energy to chase around 3 boys! Thanks for sharing the recipe mom!

Apple Carrot Pi-Ky Muffins

Another successful "cooking club" with my kids! This recipe was AWESOME!  We found the idea on superhealthykids.com and changed it up a bit.  Whole wheat, no refined sugar and amazingly yummy!


Ingredients:
1 1/2 Whole Wheat Flour
3/4 C flaxseed meal
3/4 C oat flour (by grinding oats in the blender)
1/2 C honey
1/4 C molasses
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
2 C shredded carrots
2 C shredded apples
3/4 C milk
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 C dried cranberries

Directions:
We just mixed everything together with a spatula in a large bowl.

 Spoon into sprayed muffin tins and Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!

Where did the name come from?  My son named them! :)

Breakfast Tacos

For Christmas my brother and his wife got us a tortilla press, and we are in LOVE!  Never knew how good corn tortillas could be.  I mean, I already loved them, but these homemade ones are in another realm all together!  Something that is great for breakfast, lunch or dinner are these corn tacos with eggs!  Basically whatever you would put on an omelet will be great for these tacos!  If you make the pineapple avocado salsa for the salmon one night, the leftovers are great on this as well! :)  Here's what we did for these ones.

Ingredients:

Corn Tortillas (Masa and water)

Scrambled eggs

Cheese

Red peppers

Mushrooms

Spinach

and topped with the pineapple avocado salsa

Directions:

Scramble your eggs, then start layering up your taco.  Easy, yum and done!

Flenches (AKA Crepes)

Ingredients:

2 C whole wheat flour

4 eggs

1 t salt

2 ½ to 3 Cup milk

1/4 Cup unsweetened applesauce

Directions:

Mix it all up and scoop a small amount into a hot pan with melted butter on the stove.  Lift the pan from the handle and swirl your wrist around, to make it really thin.  Flip over when done to cook the other side. (I'll have to get a video of my husband making them :) )

We love these in so many different ways. With fruit and yogurt, or as a roll up with meat, or eggs, and veggies.  Possibilities are endless...

Wheat Bran Muffins

Ingredients:
3 large eggs
3 C milk
3/4 C molasses
3/4 C no sugar added applesauce
1 1/2 C wheat bran (We get this at Good Earth)
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 tsp baking soda
4 1/4 - 4/1/2 C whole wheat flour (depending on what brand of molasses you use.  If you use Grandma's Molasses, do 4 1/2 C flour, if you use Blackstrap Molasses use 4 1/4 C flour) 
2 C raisins
1 C chopped walnuts (or if you don't like nuts, do 3 C raisins)


Directions:
Add everything in large mixing bowl in the order above. (We do this in our Bosch, but any large bowl and beaters will do just fine.)  Spray muffin tins with olive oil.  (Cupcake papers don't seem to work well with this; the paper sticks too much)  
We use a 1/4 C measuring cup to scoop the batter into the tins. (it's pretty runny dough)
Fills 24. (2 whole pans) PERFECTLY! (so if you have filled all 24 and you still have dough, they aren't full enough.  they will puff up when you bake them) they really do fit into 24 pretty darn good!
Bake at 375 for 17-20 min.  Check with toothpick for doneness!

After they have cooled a bit we use a knife to get them out and store them in 2's in sandwich bags in the fridge.  I LOVE them heated with a little butter and honey.  They are great plain jane as well.  Remember to have at least one while still warm out of the oven! YUM!