Showing posts with label Failsafe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Failsafe. Show all posts

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Savory lentil muffins

If you or your kids have a restricted diet and breads are a thing of the past, you have to try these simple-ingredient muffins!  These are a staple in our home.

Let me start by telling you what is NOT in them before we get to the ingredients.   No gluten, no casein, no eggs, this is a lower oxalate and Failsafe bread!!  

What IS in them?
-1 cup of red lentils (soak overnight, they will be more than one cup once soaked) 
-1 tsp sea salt
-1 tsp baking soda
-1/2 tsp cream of tartar
-spice(s) of choice (I chose chives)

Put all of the ingredients into a blender, add water so that it is at about halfway up to the height of the lentils.   Blend, fill cupcake cups about 3/4 full and bake on 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.  Makes 8 muffins. Voila!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Salty Sweet White Chocolate bars

These bad boys are GFCFSF, egg-free, low oxalate and low salicylate!!

We made them on the saltier side, so I reduced the salt by half for this recipe, and if you like sweets, you may even want to increase the xylitol.  It was a unique flavor with the interesting balance of salt and white chocolate, like combining hot and sweet, a combination of flavors that seem to almost contradict each other, but in the end, prove to compliment each other nicely.



I imagine they would be really tasty with nut butter or sunflower seed butter too.


The face of pleasure!



Ingredients
  • 2 rice cakes - crumbled
  • 1 pear - peeled and shredded
  • 1/3 C cocoa butter - melted gently
  • 2 Tbs ground flaxseed
  • 2 Tbs birch derived xylitol
  • 1 Tbs sunflower lecithin
  • 1 Tbs tapioca flour
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt

In a small bowl, mix the crumbled rice cakes, shredded pear, ground flaxseed, xylitol and salt. 



In an even smaller bowl, whisk together the already melted cocoa butter, tapioca flour and lecithin.



Pour this mixture into the ingredients in the larger bowl and blend well so that all of the ingredients mingle evenly.



Press into a small casserole dish, size depending on how thick you want your bars to be.




Refrigerate until firm.  They will still be fairly soft and can fall apart, so I like the smaller square size which are better for kid size hands anyway.  =)



 Voila!