The 2018 Best Paleo Pie Crust

November 22, 2018 by Dani Leave a Comment

Pie Crust

Discovery of a Wonderful Website for Recipes

As I searched this year for a pie crust that might be a little flakier taste and a bit easier to make, I found Bakerita.com. I made just a few tiny adjustments when making it.

Pie Crust

Ever Wish You Could Erase?

November 19, 2018 by Dani Leave a Comment

Two Eraser Strategies for the Holidays

Thanksgiving is definitely my favorite of all holidays. Christmas comes in a very close second. As much as I enjoy cooking, I seldom give myself the time freedom to cook as much as I do at this time of the year. Gatherings with friends at events, (John and I have 4 dinner dances this month), is a great joy. Gathering with family is an even greater joy. All of these things involve the happiness that comes with good food.

A sure thing is that none of us want to wear this good food into the new year around our waist or on our hips. What can we do? Our Fabufit Team has been in the midst of a teleconference course called Holiday Eating Strategies. See the sale on the Holiday Eating Ebook at the end of this post. Let me share a few of the things we have learned:

It is very important to think ahead and plan our days at this time of year.

We want to make a decision to Eat with Intention instead of Eating Carelessly

Set some boundaries (like an eating cutoff time for the day).

Train your body to recognize and honor the Fullness Cues.

Keep your blood sugar balanced by following the Hunger/Full Index.

There are several other action steps that can be ever so helpful, but one of the best is this one:

Learn to Erase

There will be times during the holidays that foods we enjoy very much will appear. We will want to give ourselves permission on occasion to enjoy these foods without guilt. We won’t use these two strategies as an opportunity to eat carelessly. We will still eat wisely, slowly and with intentional choices; enjoying who we are with more than what we are eating.

The first strategy is to learn a wonderful little exercise called Hoe Downs. It is a simple 2-3 minute eraser exercise created by Teresa Tapp at https://t-tapp.com. Hoe Downs are not only an energy booster, but they will drop the glucose in your body 62-85% upon completion. They will burn excess glucose before it converts to fat.

T-Tapp Hoe Downs

Watch my playlist from You Tube of the Original Hoe Downs, Bollywood Hoe Downs, and Just Motion Hoe Downs.

Pure Water

The other strategy is one taken from research done at the Volhard Clinical Research Center in Germany. This one is simply drinking 17 ounces of pure water at once after eating the Holiday Debit Food. Water in itself cleans and erases. With this strategy it also will increase your metabolism (fat burning ability) by 30% and keep it there 40 minutes.

Holiday Eating Ebook Sale

You might enjoy the rest of the strategies you can, use as well as more explanation about each.

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Favorite Paleo Brownies

October 19, 2018 by Dani Leave a Comment

Decadent Brownies

In the very beginning of our Paleo journey, I bought a cookbook called Paleo Indulgences by Tammy Credicott. It got tucked away in the pantry and forgotten for awhile. Each year as the weather begins to be colder, I remember the Brownie Recipe it contains. Oh my goodness, how did I forget these?

These brownies are over-the-top delicious.

Ingredients

Step One Ingredients

2 oz. dark chocolate, chopped

3 TBSP full-fat coconut milk

1/4 C unsweetened cocoa powder

3 TBSP coconut oil, melted

Step Two Ingredients

3 TBSP arrowroot powder

1/4 cup coconut flour, sifted (I skip the sifting.)

1/4 tsp baking soda

Pinch Sea Salt

Step Three Ingredients

1/2 cup pure maple syrup or agave

1/4 cup olive oil (I use coconut oil)

2 eggs, whisked

1/4 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling but just pure canned pumpkin)

How to Make

Preheat oven to 350
Place Step 1 ingredients in small saucepan over low heat to melt. Remove from the heat.
Place all Step 2 ingredients in medium bowl and whisk
Add all Step 1 ingredients and Step 3 ingredients to the Step 2 ingredients and blend with a hand mixer.
Pour batter into a greased 8×8 baking dish (I like to grease with coconut oil and then place a piece of parchment paper on top of that) and bake 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. (I had to add about 2 minutes).
Cool. She suggests cooling on a wire rack. I just cooled them in the baking dish and then cut into squares. Store in airtight container up to 2 days. These also freeze well. I like to wrap them in individual squares and freeze them so they are ready to go to an event, in case I need an alternate dessert.

Note:

I highly recommend this cookbook. I have tried several recipes like the Vanilla Cupcakes and Frosting and we loved these too. There is something unusual about her ingredient combinations that seem to work really well making the products rise well and taste delicious and moist.

Strawberries and Shortcake

June 19, 2018 by Dani Leave a Comment

Strawberry Shortcake Paleo

When I first began to learn about the value of eating the Paleo way of eating, I searched for a shortcake that would taste like a real shortcake. I found one and do like to share it with you each summer season when strawberries and shortcake are such a fun addition to a quick meal.

By the way, we are still eating Paleo, which I now call Fabufit Paleo with my few adjustments made over the years and have had such very good results.

This recipe is taken and adapted from Allison Jordan at TheSproutingSeed.com

INGREDIENTS

Cake

Dry

1/2 C Coconut Flour
1/4 tsp. Baking Soda
1/4 tsp. Sea Salt
Wet
1/2 Cup Coconut Oil
1/2 Cup Honey
1 tsp. Orange Zest (Optional)
2 tsp. freshly squeezed orange juice (Optional)
5 eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla

How to Make

I make it easy by just throwing all (except the optional topping) in the blender and blending it.

Paleo Shortcake

Prepare a rectangular pyrex baking dish with a light coating of coconut oil. (TIP: I learned that cutting a piece of Parchment Paper to fit in the bottom of the dish on top of the coconut oil makes it so much easier to lift out any baked item such as this shortcake.)

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.

I love these recipes with fresh lemon, lime or orange zest. Adds so much flavor, but many times just for time’s sake, I leave that topping out.

: Orange Zest

: Lemon

: Lime

This shortcake is very delicious with fresh pineapple (even frozen pineapple). It is light and totally delicious. Sometimes we like to make a coconut cream topping by adding a little stevia and vanilla to a can of coconut cream and whipping it a bit. It is still so good without any topping.

I prepared some dry mixes for our trip to Cancun. We added fresh papaya or mango as toppings. (You can peel these and make them safer from Mexico supermarkets.)

Have you tried the blender Ice Creams?