Almond Butter Cookies!

That's right! I was finally brave enough to bake some sugar-free treats again this week! :D I had almost a whole jar of almond butter sitting in my pantry that I had rarely been using, and I still had brown rice flour in the fridge left over from my last batch of delicious sugar free brownies, so I made myself some long overdo safety treats!


Recipe:

(Creates about 25 cookies)

2 1/4 Cups Brown Rice Flour
1 1/2 Tsp Baking Soda
1 Tsp Salt
1 Stick of Salted Butter, softened
1 Cup Xylitol
2 Eggs
1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
3/4 Cup Creamy Almond Butter (make sure there's no sugar in it!)
1/2 Bar of Baking Chocolate, diced (again, make sure there's no sugar in it!)
3/4 Cup Almonds, each chopped in half
2 Tbs Milk or Almond Milk (optional, if needed)


Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375˚.

Chop the almonds and baking chocolate bar, and mix all of the ingredients in a large bowl. Once it's all mixed thoroughly, you can add a little bit of milk if it's still kinda dry like mine was.

Place spoonfuls of the cookie dough about 2 inches apart on a baking sheet. (It doesn't even need to be greased! Yeah!) You can aim for about a 1 1/2 Tbs spoonful size.

Bake 14 minutes, and then take them out to cool.


Mine kind of came out tasting like healthy muffins, which isn't a bad thing, but wasn't as delicious-cookie-ish as I was expecting. That's why the recipe above includes a bit more xylitol and chocolate pieces than the ones I made. I've been eating these every day since I made them though, they've gotten addicting!

Hope you enjoy them too!

Quinoa with Chicken and Red Chard pieces

Hello! I know it's been a while, but I've been either making things that I've already posted, or making things that cheated the diet too much to be featured on here, but here's something new I threw together that I wanted to share!

This recipe has been brought to you by my unwillingness to wash more than one pot after making dinner. ;)


Recipe:

(Creates 1 Serving)

1 Cup Water
1/2 Cup Quinoa
1 Chicken Breast, diced
2-3 Large Red Chard stalks, diced
1/5 Yellow Onion, diced
1 Garlic Clove, minced
Cayenne Pepper
Salted Butter
Rosemary
Oregano
Salt


Directions:

Rinse the quinoa and put in in a pot with 1 cup of water. As you wait for that to boil, chop up chicken, chard, onions, and garlic and stir them in as you finish.

Let it all simmer in the pot with a lid, on a medium heat, for about 15-20 minutes. Stir occasionally.

Add in your spices, and add butter if desired.

Enjoy a healthy, balanced meal with only one pot to clean!

(I made this same thing with brown rice instead of quinoa yesterday, and since it all had longer to cook, the chard and chicken broke down into smaller pieces which actually worked really well, in my opinion. Feel free to try it too, if you have an hour to spare!)