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Kristen Helmstetter

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Square Sourdough “Starter” Biscuits Recipe

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My biscuits may be square, but they’re easy. :)

Last year I tried to make my own organic sourdough bread at home. My efforts were less than stellar. Way less. I knew that it’d have a fairly steep learning curve, but it didn’t help matters that I tried to alter the recipes to suit my health-insane ways (like using einkorn flour, etc). I basically hung up my bread-making apron. For the time.

A year later, I decided to try makeing my own sourdough bread again (there is no “try”)…

because…

  1. I’m inspired to save the money by making my own (the wonderful bread I was buying was $7 a loaf and required driving almost 40 minutes). My new frugality-is-cool mindset didn’t sit well with that.
  2. I found a recipe that looked decidedly easy, if only I’d just follow the damn directions as they were.

I was game.

Long story short (I’ll share the long story later, in another post) – I’m still working on the bread. It hasn’t been easy, but we’re happily eating the mistakes, as I learn to adapt the recipe to my current environment (summer in Arizona <— hot).

When making sourdough bread, there is plenty of leftover sourdough “starter” to either use for baking something else or throwing it away.

I decided to bake with it.

Enter: Square Sourdough “Starter” Biscuits Recipe

Obviously, you need sourdough starter to make these, which I’m guessing most of you don’t have. So, I’d recommend “trying” the recipe with grass-fed whole-fat milk, Greek yogurt, sour cream, buttermilk etc. Maybe a mix of two, if you’re inclined. I’m pretty confident they’ll be tasty no matter which way you go as they’re pretty forgiving.

The great thing is there’s no need to roll them out. Why bother? I keep it simple when it comes to cooking.

Just Real-Food here.

Ingredients:

  • 12.5 ounces organic white flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 13 to 14 ounces sourdough starter (or milk / yogurt / sour cream / buttermilk)
  • 4 ounces (1/2 cup) melted butter, ghee, or refined coconut oil
  • extra melted butter or oil for greasing the baking dish

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
  2. Get out an 8×8 baking dish and grease it with plenty of melted butter.
  3. In a medium to large bowl, stir together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add the sourdough starter and melted butter (or oil). Stir together well, until incorporated, using your hands if necessary, but no need to over-mix.
  4. Transfer the dough to the greased baking dish and squish/spread it in to fit. As you do this, you might get some melted butter/oil creeping up the sides of the baking dish – encourage this – and brush it (using your hand is fine) across the top of the dough.
  5. Bake for 20 minutes. Enjoy with softened butter and raw honey drizzled on top.

PS My next experiment will be mixing Dr. Cowan’s famous vegetable powders to give the biscuits a veggie kick. Stay tuned.

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Blender Banana Bread (Gluten-Free Recipe)

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Yeah, I’m blending my banana bread ingredients.

If I can do everything in one appliance, then I’m game. In fact, I often try to do just that – kind of a challenge to myself.

Enter: Blender Banana Bread 

I blend it all and bake it.

Wait… I guess that’s two appliances (blender and toaster oven – f*#k – I thought I was on to something here). Oh well, you get the drift. Minimal use of appliances, bowls, etc.

And, it’s easy.

Gluten-free banana bread.

 

Ingredients:

  • 4 tablespoons coconut oil or grass-fed ghee, melted*
  • 3 ripe bananas, peeled
  • 2 cups rolled oats
  • 2 eggs
  • 6 tablespoons honey, maple syrup, or sweetener of choice
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt

Optional ingredients:

  • 1 to 2 teaspoons ground turmeric
  • 2 to 3 grinds fresh black pepper (helps body assimilate turmeric better)
  • 1 to 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • cocoa powder
  • chopped nuts (for stirring in post blending)

 

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. (I love my toaster oven.)
  2. Lightly grease your banana bread loaf-pan (I use coconut oil).
  3. Add all of the ingredients to the blender. Blend. Pour batter into loaf pan.
  4. Bake 35 to 45 minutes – give or take 5 minutes. You know the drill, stick a knife in. Does it come out clean? Done. Not clean? Not done.
  5. Let the luscious loaf cool in the loaf pan. Eat. Eat. Eat.
Banana bread was never so easy

*  Technically, this could require yet another appliance if it’s not already soft and liquid-y. But if you’re in my hot home right now, saving money by not blasting the a/c, then it’s totally melted for you and waiting to use.

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Simple Baked Granola Recipe

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Simple Baked Granola

 

I make this simple baked granola recipe almost weekly. 

I love saving money by making my own recipes like this, and I prefer using healthier ingredients than I find in most granola on the shelves of stores (specifically the oil and sweeteners).

Lightly sweet and crunchy.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups oats
  • 4 tablespoons grass-fed ghee or coconut oil (melted/liquid)
  • 3 tablespoons honey or maple syrup
  • 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2 cup dried, unsweetened, shredded coconut
  • big handful raisins (or more)
  • big handful hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds, or chopped nuts (or more)

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F.  

2. Combine the oats, oil, sweetener, and salt, making sure the oats are coated.

3. Place the mixture onto a baking sheet and spread evenly.

4. Bake for 30 minutes. Take it out if the oven and let it cool. 

5. Add the coconut, raisins, and seeds. Store in an airtight container.

Perfect on yogurt.

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Chia Pudding

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Chia Pudding is a winner.

Today I was inspired by my lack of coconut milk to get creative in making chia pudding.

I had some organic peanut butter on hand…. hmmm… can I make a nut milk from that? Sure, why not? Ok, so now I have a liquid base of peanut butter milk. 

I started to work on the other basics I always include: 

But… wait… what if I use a multi-berry organic juice I have in my fridge as part of the liquid? 

YES! 

That’ll make it like peanut and butter. (Or just add jelly but I wanted to use up the juice.)

This was a fun and successful kitchen experiment. You should try it. 

Here’s the general idea of the recipe to yield one quart (I don’t use specific quantities when making chia pudding because it’s so forgiving.)

Peanut Butter and Jelly Chia Pudding Recipe

  • 6 to 8 tablespoons chia seeds
  • pinch sea salt
  • 1/4 cup (or more) organic peanut butter
  • 1 cup berry juice (or 1/2 cup jelly)
  • small spoonful of raw honey (not much needed because juice is sweet)
  • 1 cup (or a bit more) warm water (this helps soften peanut butter, honey, etc)
  • 1 to 3 tablespoons of coconut oil or cacao butter or combination (melted)
  1. Put the chia seeds in a glass mason jar.
  2. In a blender, combine the remaining ingredients. Blend.
  3. Pour the mixture into the jar with chia seeds. Put a secure lid on the jar. 
  4. SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE
  5. If there’s room in the jar for more liquid, add more juice or water until it’s almost filled.
  6. SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE
  7. Wait a few minutes
  8. SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE
  9. Refrigerate for a few hours to get firmed up a bit.

 * I chose refined coconut oil so the flavor was neutral.

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Recipe: Matcha Breakfast Coconut Ice Cream (Low-Carb)

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Matcha Breakfast Coconut Ice Cream - Start your day with this.
Matcha Breakfast Coconut Ice Cream – Start your day with this and have the best day ever.

It’s no secret that I love matcha green tea powder.

I’ve been diving deeply into the green goodness for little while, and I love it.

You can read here on the many ways I use matcha green tea powder as an energy giving beverage that keeps me calm and feeling a-mazing.

UPDATE APRIL 18, 2016 –

I now have a book featuring over 50 matcha recipes, Matcha Cookbook…

it’s filled with fun matcha recipes. Get your copy here NOW!

Today, I’m sharing a recipe I whipped up, after being inspired by Dave Asprey’s “Get Some” Ice Cream.

My recipe for Matcha Breakfast Coconut Ice Cream is low-carb and great for the brain and body. It has Brain Octane MCT oil in it for energy boosting brain power… plus grass-fed butter for brain, skin, and gut health, and coconut oil which also benefits brain and body in many ways.

And… of course, it has matcha green tea powder in it which is so ridiculously fabulous for our health, too. So good. So good. So good.

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Recipe: My Crazy Weird Spicy Vitamin C “Protection” Drink

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Prevent or fight the flu with this crazy drink. Vitamin C for the win!
Prevent or fight the flu with this crazy drink. Vitamin C for the win!

I have been drawn to vitamin c a lot over the past couple of years for fighting pretty much any and all viruses. The sh*t is good and effective. Load up on it for great health.

So it’s no surprise that I concocted a weird mix of ingredients to make a powerfully protective drink to guzzle through the flu season. I find myself drinking this at least once a day, and if I don’t get all fancy with the recipe below, at a minimum I use spring water, lemon juice, cayenne, and vitamin c powders.

And, I’m ridiculously infatuated with everything Dr. Schulze – his products are truly thoughtful and of the highest quality. I love his videos and blog and his seriously high standards for products. I imagine harps are being played while he creates them, they’re that special. (I’ll do another post later on all of the stuff I use of his.)

BEAUTY BONUS: my skin looks extra amazing lately –

either from all of this vitamin c or from the Living Libations products I drench my skin in – most likely BOTH!

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