Tuesday, April 2, 2013




Paleo Banana Bread Muffins
(Seriously, most bread like recipe I've discovered!)

Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas

4 tablespoons ghee (or coconut oil), melted
3 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1 1/4 cups almond flour
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup arrowroot starch
2 tablespoons flax meal
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt

**Add up to 1 cup of any delicious nut, dried fruit or paleo friendly chocolate chips**



Preheat the oven to 350ยบ. 

Line a 12 muffin pan with paper baking cups or parchment paper. 

In a large bowl, mash the bananas with a potato masher. 

Whisk the butter/coconut oil in with the mashed eggs.  Allowing the melted butter/coconut oil to cool slightly before adding eggs.

Whisk in eggs, vanilla, and maple syrup.  Combine very well. 

In a medium bowl, whisk together the remaining dry ingredients, except the nuts/dried fruit/chocolate chips.   Mix very well and remove any lumps.

Stir 1/4 of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients with a rubber spatula.

Once well combined stir in another 1/4, and so on, until all the dry mixture is well blended into the wet mixture.

Stir in your 1 cup nut/dried fruit/chocolate chips of choice.

Spoon the batter into the baking cups.

Bake for 25 minutes, until golden brown and an inserted toothpick comes out clean.  

This batch I made 1/2 without adding any nuts/dried fruit/chocolate and 1/2 adding raisins and walnuts.  I added 1/4 cup raisins and 1/4 cup walnuts. It was only half the batter, so I only needed 1/2 cup total extra yummy stuff.

Happy Eating!!!

This recipe was created using the help from this original recipe:
Three Diets One Dinner: BEST PALEO BANANA BREAD EVER

Monday, April 1, 2013



Paleo Tips: Condiments

Condiments have been one of the biggest challenges in going Paleo.  Almost all condiments have sugar, xantham gum, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, or some preservative like Sodium Benzoate.

Now, I am all for making my own condiments...I did attempt at ketchup and it turned out pretty good.   BUT, unless  I win the lottery and not have to do anything but make everything I put into my mouth from scratch, there is not enough time in the day to make every condiment I use!

So I was very happy when I can across this tastey hot sauce at one of my favorite burger joints in SF.  Ingredients: Organic ripened habaerno pepper, organic red ripened jalapeno peppers, organic apple cider vinegar, organic vinegar, organic chipotle peppers, salt.  It's not Tapatio, but it is damn good.

Happy Eating!