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Sugar Addiction and my First Two Weeks Trying To Kick It
The first week of my attempt to kick my sugar addiction started out with very strong intentions. I had a couple of really good days. However as you will soon find out even with the strongest intentions, without a written plan and goals in place, my plan to get off sugar turned out to be unsuccessful. Kicking Sugar Day 1 Let’s start with May 1st the first day of my sugar rehab. It started out really well. After doing…
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Lemon Ginger Snaps (GF & Plant-Based)
These cookies are amazing for six good reasons: They’re gluten free, perfect for those who are unable to consume wheat based flours. They are plant based, great for plant based or vegan eaters. The recipe is super easy! One batch makes 50 cookies or 25 sandwich cookies! Ginger & Lemon, what could be better? And… It’s a one pot cookie recipe. (well one pot and one bowl 🙂 ) A One Pot Cookie Recipe? Yes! This recipe basically only…
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Sweet Potato Walnut & Apple Bilberry Currant Rugelach
Rugelach has always been one of my favorite cookies. Lets just put it this way, if they were on a cookie tray with chocolate chip, sugar, and oatmeal raisin cookies, my hand would immediately go to the rugelach. It’s just something about the slightly tart, cheesy flavor of the pastry, combined with chocolate or fruit that reminds me of a miniature cheesecake but in cookie form. Rugelach tastes amazing with tea or coffee. And they are quite filling because of…
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Apple Cider Upside Down Cake (Perfection is Overrated :))
The title of this post might seem a little bit unusual, not the apple cider upside down cake part, but the part concerning perfection. The whole topic of perfection was on my mind with this last bake. So I thought I would have a little discussion about it, followed with the recipe that brought this all about. No one is perfect, however people seem to be always trying to achieve perfection. That’s especially evident on social media. Most times…
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Mini Upside Down Peach Cobblers
My favorite peaches of all time comes from South Carolina. They’re some of the sweetest, juiciest peaches I’ve ever had. Unfortunately I was told by the farmer I get my peaches from that last week was the end of South Carolina peaches for the season. The peach season went by so fast! Even though I’ve never canned before, I had panicky thoughts of not being prepared with canning gear to can some peaches for the months ahead. It’s going to…
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Carob Raspberry Loaf Cake
When creating recipes there’s always trail and error. I started the concept of this cake recipe about a month ago. The first time making this cake, it was too dry and very crumbly. So I had to go back to the drawing board. My desire was to create a rich tasting cake that resembled chocolate but was gluten free, dairy free and low in sugar. But I didn’t want to stop there. I’ve always liked the combination of chocolate and…
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Blueberry Crumble Tart
If somebody said I had to pick between eating blueberry pie and apple pie for the rest of my life. I’m going with blueberry hands down. There’s nothing like the taste of sweet plump, juicy blueberries with the contrast of a crumb or flaky crust to get me excited. To me blueberry pie is just as American as apple pie or maybe even more so since the blueberry is indigenous to North America. The History of Blueberries Blueberries and…
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Blackberry Banana Cobbler
Oh summer, how I love you so! Warm, sunny days. Fresh fruit and vegetables in abundance. And blackberries…ahhh blackberries. I never knew how much I liked blackberries until I moved to North Carolina. North Carolina’s state fruit is the Scuppernong grape ( I have a post about this indigenous grape linked here). And it’s reported the state’s red fruit is strawberry and the state’s blue fruit is blueberry. However in my opinion the state’s blue fruit should definitely be the blackberry.…
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The BEST Gluten-Free Protein Carob Brownies Ever!
If you’re like me and shouldn’t consume chocolate you’re going to be so happy with this recipe. Chocolate use to be my saving grace, a piece of chocolate to help survive a hectic work day, or a brownie when I was feeling down. But those days are long gone. Like a lot of people chocolate has now become my nemesis, it’s too inflammatory for my body. So carob has taken chocolate’s place. Out of every chocolate dessert including chocolate cake,…
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Carob Pot de Creme with Pears and Rose Petals
Carob is my saving grace since finding out cacao and my body don’t get along any more. You see cacao is too much of a stimulant for me. The caffeine does havoc on my body. So due to health reasons I stopped eating chocolate. It hasn’t been easy, especially being a former chocoholic. However carob helps me with my transition from not eating chocolate and it’s been very helpful. What is Carob? Carob has a slight flavor of chocolate. It…
