Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins

Love Bananas!! Since my daughter is trying to stay away from gluten I decided to do some substitutions to this recipe I found online. This recipe originally had whole wheat flour, and I used a combination of millet and quinoa flour instead. As well, I used Himalayan salt rather then regular salt, and used Maple Syrup rather then sucanat. The muffin is a little more moist using the Maple Syrup and the choice of flours made the texture a little different. Nonetheless, they were a big hit at my house, and no one complained. Awesome with a little butter!

I used mostly organic ingredients, and if really sensitive/intolerant to gluten, please ensure the ingredients are labelled Gluten Free.

This recipe yields only 6 muffins. 

Ingredients

1/4 cup Coconut Oil (best to warm it a little- but not completed melted)
1/2 cup Maple Syrup
1 Egg
1 cup mashed Bananas
1/2 tsp. Vanilla Extract
1/2 cup Quinoa Flour
1/2 cup Millet Flour
3/4 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp. Himalayan Salt
1/8 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tsp. ground Cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped Walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

In a large bowl combine the Coconut Oil and Maple Syrup with a mixer. Mix in the Egg, mashed Banana, and Vanilla.

In a smaller bowl, add the Quinoa and Millet Flour together. Combine well.

Add in the Baking Powder, Himalayan Salt, Baking Soda, and cinnamon to the flour mixture and mix well.

Add the dry ingredients to the large bowl containing the wet ingredients. Stir until moistened. Fold in the Walnuts.

Grease 6 Muffin Tins. (I used Organic Butter to grease mine).

Bake for approx. 25-30 minutes. Let cool before removing. 

Slowcooker Maple Pineapple Pork

This is as quick and easy as it gets! 4 ingredients...that's it! Busy morning, not enough time? I literally threw this together in 2 minutes.
I had a beautiful Organic pasture raised pork roast that I purchased from Nature's Way Farms, just outside Peace River, and made this sauce to pour over it, and threw it in the slow cooker while I went to work. The pork just fell apart and the sauce was amazing.
A great idea would be to also, thicken the sauce and pour over the pork.

Ingredients

1 can pineapple (chunks)
1/2 cup Maple Syrup
2 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
1 tsp Garlic Powder

Mix all ingredients together and pour over pork. Cook on low for 8 hours in slow cooker.

So easy! So delicious!

Coconut Chia Blueberry Muffins

I was craving blueberries the other night, and I wanted to make something we could have for breakfast the next day, and so I thought muffins would be perfect!!! I love blueberries, and so this was my obvious choice of berry to use in this muffin. I choose gluten free flours since my daughter doesn't eat gluten as she could enjoy them as well. I literally threw things together and came up with this. I added a bit of this and a bit of that, and voila! Blueberry muffins! Wasn't sure how they would turn out, or if my daughter and husband would even like them..That was the true test. But they both loved them, and well...so did I.. :-) Let's just say they didn't last long...
As well, I use mainly organic ingredients.

Ingredients

1/2 cup Millet flour
1/2 cup Brown rice flour
1 1/4 cup Oats
1 Tbsp Baking powder
Pinch Himalayan salt
2 Tbsp Chia Seeds
2 Tbsp Ground Flax
1/2 cup Maple Syrup
1 Cup of Coconut Milk
1 Egg
1 Large Banana Mashed
1/4 cup coconut
1 cup Blueberries

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 Degrees.

Mix the Millet Flour and Brown Rice Flour in a big bowl. Make sure to mix the flours good before adding anything else.

Add Oats, Baking powder, Salt, Chia Seeds, and Ground flax.

In a separate bowl, mash the banana well. 

In another bowl, blend on low for only a minute the Maple Syrup, Milk, Egg, and the Mashed Banana. 

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well. 

Fold in the coconut and the blueberries. 

Bake for 25 minutes at 425 Degrees. 

There are so many more things you could add to this recipe. You could add another berry, substitute the blueberries with another berry. Add cinnamon, walnuts, slivered almonds, etc... Don't be scared to experiment, and add different things. If you don't like one item in a recipe don't just give up and not make it, omit it or change it up. You'd be surprised what you can come up with. 

These were so great warm, with butter and a warm cup of tea...I may need to make more.. :-)

ENJOY!