Using sound judgment to be more self-reliant.
Fried apples are a super easy comfort food that’s wonderful as a side dish or dessert. While most recipes call for white sugar or brown sugar and cinnamon, we’ve changed things up a bit with maple syrup. I hope your family enjoys it as much as our family does.
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These almond flour pancakes are grain free, gluten free and keto friendly. While the texture is not an exact match for regular pancakes, they are still a delicious option to pair with butter, maple syrup or your favorite low sugar jam. (The photo shows our low sugar blueberry jam.)
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These tigernut chocolate chip cookies are a uniquely delicious take on America’s favorite homemade cookie. We first gave these a try for New Year’s Eve, when we had friends with food allergies visiting. Since then we’ve made them a number of times using different sugars and different fats. The texture changes a bit, but all variations are tasty.
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This one bowl chocolate chestnut brownies recipe makes rich, cake-like gluten free brownies made with chestnuts or chestnut flour and sweetened with honey. Chestnuts start showing up in grocery stores around the holiday season, so I’m experimenting with more chestnut recipes. Three out of our four baby chestnut trees are still alive, so hopefully one day we’ll be able to use our own chestnuts. My last experiment was Cranberry Chestnut Bars. This time around I made chocolate chestnut brownies, which for some reason were more popular with the boys. (Can you say, “brownies”?) I skipped adding extra nuts, but you could easily stir in a half cup for some crunch.
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These cranberry chestnut bars have a texture like good quickbread – moist and tender, a little bit heavier than most cakes. The cranberries add brightness to the recipe – a little “pop” of flavor. They’d be great without the chocolate chips, too, but of course the boys are more likely to gobble things up if there’s chocolate involved.
Some of you may remember that we planted some chestnut trees in 2014 as part of our efforts to expand the number of different food crops that we grow and create part of our permaculture landscape. Before we planted any more of them, I figured I’d better make sure we actually like to eat them, so I went hunting for chestnut recipes and chestnuts. …
