These are just some recipes I either came up with, altered or just borrowed that friends have asked for or I thought would be useful.  I promise to get the garlic hummus recipe up soon!  Feel free to use and share these recipes.  If you have any recipes you'd like to share, feel free to contact me using the "contact" link you'll find in the side menu.  Thank you and enjoy!

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!  I think more clearly and feel more level, am able to better deal with the unexpected if I've had a good breakfast.  I'd get a sour stomach in the summer if I had too much dairy in the morning so cereal and cow's milk is out.  I used to get an anxious nausea in the mornings that made breakfast meats and eggs difficult to endure, though some week-ends, now, the "heart-stopping" breakfast can be tasty. Processed wheat and hence most cereals, breads, bagels etc. out. Smoothies rock!!!  

We spend the summers picking blueberries.  We picked 80 pounds one year and just made it to the next season.  That was a great year though, filled with blueberry spoon-bread, frozen blueberry yogurt and other blueberry treats as well as our morning blueberry smoothies.

Blueberry Smoothie Fitz

Cut 1 apple into wedges and remove the seeds, put into a food processor with puree blade,
Peel and add 1 banana to processor
add any other fresh fruit like strawberries, pineapple, cherries, nectarines, oranges
Puree
add 2 scoops protein powder with spirulina along with 1 - 2 tblsp lime or lemon juice
Puree
Add 1 - 2 cups of frozen blueberries with @ 1 cup strawberry/banana/orange juice
Puree
Add @ 1 cup pineapple/mango/orange juice
Puree
Pour equal parts into 2 large glasses
drink and enjoy!

Oatmeal for the Winter!
Sometimes, in the winter, you get tired of cold breakfast; steel cut oat groats are the best!!!!  I cook mine in a crock pot or sometimes on the wood stove.
The ratio of water to groats is 4 : 1 and the groats grow to exceed the volume of the water,
so if you wanted about 2 cups of oatmeal, or 2 servings, you'd use
1/2 cup of groats
&
2 cups of boiling water or apple juice with 1/8 tsp salt
optional handful of nuts
either let simmer 5 minutes then cut off heat and let sit 25 - 35 minutes, stir, serve with cooked apples, cooked raisins, maple and / or blueberry syrup, honey etc.

or night before serving:
put 4 - 5 cups boiling water or apple juice and 1 cup groats in crock pot, add sliced, de-seeded apple, 1 tblsp lemon juice over apples, raisins or blueberries, cardamom, honey, optional handful of nuts or trailmix;
cover and cook on low overnight 6 - 8 hrs.

We often cook a bunch and just re-heat portions during the week.

Shredded salad is a staple in our diet.  I can make it over the week-end and it'll keep all week! Most of the time we eat it with raw spinach.  I take it to work for lunch instead of a sandwich, adding cheese and some other source of protein.  When we could eat bread, it was truly tasty with hummus in a pita pocket.  We eat it with dinner during the week and by the end of the week we take whatever's left and make a soup with beans, a casserole or meatloaf.  Seriously useful, tasty and good for you!!!

3 - 4 stalks of broccoli including the florets

4 - 5 carrots

1 - 2 beets

You can use a food processor or a hand held shredder / slicer.

Use the slicer for the broccoli florets or just break 'em up for larger pieces.

Cut the the woody bottoms off the broccoli stalks.

Cut the tops off the carrots.

Cut the tops off the beets.

Peel the beets and carrots if you like.

If using a food processor, cut the beets into chunks that'll fit into the processor.

Shred the broccoli stalks, carrots and beets.

Mix it all together and store in your refrigerator.

Since the hubby and I embarked on this anti-inflammatory diet, no processed wheat and no solanaceae, we've had a lot less trouble with our discs and joints but we miss a lot of the wheat, tater and mater based things.  Thank goodness for chick pea brownies!!!  A pan of these puppies will disappear in no time!  Juel, a friend of mine, gave me the original recipe. She brought some of this wonderful stuff to a dinner party.   It was a bit fudgelike.  I played with the recipe a little, taking out some of the eggs and adding a couple of tablespoons of  butter and voila, brownies!!!  Children even like these things so you know they're good!

Ingredients:

30 oz. cooked chick peas

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 - 1 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

1 pkg chocolate chips (melted)

1 cup chopped toasted pecans, walnuts or whatever nuts you like, sometimes I just use a handful of Whole Foods Diet Mix or California Mix fruits, nuts and all

A food processor makes mixing all this a breeze but I have used a hand tater masher and a hand mixer, it just takes a little longer and sometimes makes lumpier brownies.

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.

Grease 9 x 11 baking pan.

Toast chopped nuts in baking dish with a little salt and butter if you'd like.

Melt chocolate chips in double boiler.

Mash chick peas with tater masher or puree in food processor.

Mix egg and melted butter in with mashed peas.

Combine sugar, salt and baking powder and add to mixture.

Add vanilla to mixture.

Pour mixture over toasted nuts in greased baking dish, stir to mix in nuts.

Bake @ 350 @ 45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Let cool at least 20 minutes.

I really missed fruitcake on this diet.  I love fruitcake so I used this recipe, replacing the chocolate chips with white chocolate chips.  I added some cinnamon and nutmeg, stirred in some fruitcake fruit with the nuts and gravy trains, I no longer have to do without fruitcake, yea!

Ingredients:

3 - 4 cups De-boned Sliced/Chopped Barbecue Flavor Chicken

• rub salt, allspice, cloves mixture into chicken
• thaw, marinate and/or parboil chicken in rice wine vinegar, habanero vinegar, olive oil mixture.
• finish chicken off either on the grill, periodically brushing with marinade, or in marinade, on the
• stove top or in the oven
• 5 minutes before final removal of chicken from high heat, dip chicken in tomato based barbecue sauce, I use 365 Organic Brand  tangy Barbecue sauce.
• Return sauce covered chicken to heat, cook 5-10 min

1-2 cups blueberries

3-4 tbsp ripped cilantro

2-3 Shredded Carrots

2-3 thinly sliced green onions

chopped or ripped stems from a "bunch" of nasturtium

1 cup pistachios (roasted)

2-3 tsp total of a combination of orange or ginger and grapefruit marmalade

2-3 tsp olive oil

2-3 tsp vinegar

0.5-.75 tsp cardamon

Directions

1. Combine marmalade with olive oil, vinegar and cardamon
   
   
2. Stir above mixture into chicken adding the cilantro, carrots onions, stems and nuts.
   
   
3. Gently add and combine:

• 1-2 cups blueberries
  
  
• a "bunch" of nasturtium flowers

1. Chill 2 - 4 hours
   
   
2. Serve over baby spinach with sliced cantaloupe

Yes tofu!  We have a friend who swore up and down raging against tofu.  He also has a penchant for french silk chocolate pie.  He loves this pie and I do too!  What a great lunch... a piece of this chocolate protein loaded pie and a serving of cranberry salad... yum!

Ingredients:

1 - 12 oz. pkg. silken firm tofu

1/2 pkg -9 - 12 oz. pkg. semisweet chocolate chips

1 tsp vanilla

2-3 tbsp maple syrup

1 grahm cracker crust pie shell

Melt chocolate, a double boiler is best for this but I use a metal mixing bowl over a pot of boiling water.

Combine remaining ingredients in a blender, until the mixture is smooth.

Add melted chocolate to mixture and combine thoroughly.

Pour chocolate mixture into pie shell and refridgerate pie 2 - 4 hours.

My mother-in-law, Carolyn, makes this great cranberry relish combining a pkg. of fresh cranberries with an orange or 2 and a couple tsps of sugar in a food processor.  She says you can't combine it all at once and I hate the smell of burnt food processor motor, so I combine a little, empty the processor combine a little more.  I'll eat the relish by itself but sometimes I like to stir in some shredded carrots, shredded cabbage, chopped pecans and of course orange marmalade to hold it all together.  This stuff is great on turkey sandwiches if you use sturdy bread!