Click on the blue link at the bottom of each picture to go to the recipe. Let’s face it… sometimes life just happens and our plans get thrown out the window, especially for dinner! For some, this means stopping for fast food or just scrummaging through the fridge to try to put together a decent…
Archives for March 2014
5-Minute Vacations (aka Chocolate-Coconut Bites)
Addicted to Food Let’s face it… food can bring us pleasure and comfort. The smell or thought of food can bring back wonderful childhood memories, or it can remind you of the time that you got sick after eating carrot cake. (I had this happen and didn’t eat carrot cake for 10 years). Food is…
10 Dominating Benefits of Regular Movement and Exercise
Enjoy this clever but insightful guest post about the benefits of exercise from my friend Katie at Green Living. Katie Dawson Green, HHP, NMT is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and Neuromuscular Therapist located at Trinity Holistic Health & Training. She is currently studying to further her license in neuromuscular therapy. At BetterPT, we’re committed…
10-Minute Asian Fried Cabbage with Yummy Sauce
I am a true Southern girl all the way down to the bone, complete with a grand plantation wedding and a love of dirt roads and big trucks! 🙂 I simply adore “Sweet” Tea, Fried Cube Steak, Southern Biscuits and Pound Cake (all grain-free of course), but I do love expanding my palate to embrace…
Ginger Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
They say 7 is the perfect number and for this recipe, it really was! I experimented over the weekend and made 7 different test batches to get a great tasting and perfectly moist spice cake. I really should have named my blog “Satisfying Eats: The Grain-Free Test Kitchen” with all the grain-free and low-carb experimenting…
20-Minute Minestrone Soup with Chicken
My challenge this week…. to create 4 meals that take less than 25 minutes from start to finish. Be sure to check out my 15-Minute Creamy Chicken with Green Beans from earlier this week. Grain-free, fresh and healthy food should taste good but doesn’t always have take a lot of time, but it does require…
15-Minute Creamy Chicken with Green Beans
“Life is busy but you have to eat!” Well, that seems to be my motto this past year since baby Connor came along. Now that Connor is eating solids it seems like all I am doing is cooking, cleaning up mess and cooking more. Don’t get me wrong, I love to cook it’s just cleaning…
Grain-Free Snickerdoodle Cookies
These cookies are Easy and Delicious, sure to impress even your sugar & grain-loving friends! 🙂 I use a different method (I don’t roll the dough balls in cinnamon but actually add the cinnamon to the dough), but I know you are going to love them. Want to make these nut-free? Just use raw ground…
Shamrock Power Shake
If you have been following my blog for any time you know I LOVE my shakes! They are so tasty and packed with good fats, collagen and whatever else I can fit into my blender! To be a little festive, I decided to add some spinach to my shake yesterday and it was so good!…
Shamrock Cupcakes (Nut-Free)
Science Rules & Green Foods are Cool Cooking is all about taste and science! It’s pretty amazing how combining a few simple ingredients can create such flavorful dishes. This couldn’t happen without a little (or a lot of) science! By now I am sure everyone knows that baking soda or sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) reacts with an…
Real Vanilla Bean Gelato
No matter what time of year it is I LOVE ice cream, and I make it often! This Gelato was a delicious twist on tradition ice cream, and was the PERFECT accompaniment to my World’s Best Chocolate Cake that I made for my youngest son’s first birthday. Really, I could eat this cake & gelato…
Cinnamon Raisin Soda Bread
When I gave up grains over two years ago I also gave up Cinnamon Raisin Ezekiel Bread. I am pretty excited to now enjoy a slice of grain-free cinnamon raisin bread without creating the sugar spikes and the insatiable appetite I would get after eating the grain-filled version. Stay tuned for an upcoming post about…
Easy Oven Fried Wings (Ranch or Cajun)
Finger lickin’ GOOD! These oven “fried” wings are juicy on the inside with flavorful and crispy skin! Who says you have to go out for wings!?! For more wing ideas, be sure to check out my Parmesan Wings and Hot Wings recipe in my cookbook, Satisfying Eats. Enough of the chit-chat, try this yummy recipe!…
Grain-Free Irish Soda Bread
Some of my favorite types of recipes to recreate are comfort foods. Foods that bring back childhood memories, or tell a story about tradition and one’s heritage. Foods that you remember how they tasted and smelled, even though it’s been YEARS since you have eaten them. Foods that make you feel warm and fuzzy inside just thinking…