BISCUITS
3 cups unbleached white flour (or I use the hard white wheat that I grind into flour)
2 T. sugar
1 1/2 t. sea salt
4 1/2 t. baking powder
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup milk
Mix dry ingredients in Bosch.  Then add butter and allow to mix in with the dry ingredients.  Add milk last and let mix until [...]

4 cups whole wheat flour (I like to use hard white wheat, freshly ground)
1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt
7 Tablespoons olive oil
1 1/3 cups warm water
Mix flour and salt in a Bosch, mixer with dough hook, or your food processor.  Add in olive oil slowly until mixture is crumbly.  Slowly add in warm water.  Add additional [...]

1-1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup raw almonds
1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
1/2 cup flax seed, milled
1/4 cup coconut oil, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup cocoa powder
Put all ingredients into your food processor.  Blend up until smooth and forms into a ball.
Shape into walnut-size balls and store in a covered [...]

1/2 cup butter
¾ cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups sugar (use Sucanat for a healthier sugar option)
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
½  teaspoon salt
½ cup chocolate chips
1 – In a large saucepan, melt butter.  Stir in cocoa until dissolved and smooth.
2 – To the butter/cocoa mixture add the sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, and salt.  Mix [...]

1 1/2 cups rolled oats, chopped in food processor
1/2 cup sunflower seeds, chopped in food processor
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped dates
1/2 cup milled flax seed
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup honey
Chop rolled oats and sunflower seeds in a small salad chopper or food processor, then transfer to a medium-sized bowl. Add remaining ingredients and mix well [...]

Terri, a friend of mine, emailed me recently with a fun gluten-free discovery she made!  Here was her email to me, along with the recipe to make your own Cream of Rice:
I just have to tell you about my exciting gluten-free discovery this morning!  First, for most of the past year I have been enjoying [...]

Makes 2 loaves or 2 dozen rolls
Put ingredients into pan of bread machine in the following order:

1 1/2 cups warm water
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons salt (sea salt preferred)
4 cups unbleached flour (use a combo – 1 wheat/3 white)
1/3 cup sugar (honey preferred)
1/2 cup instant potato flakes
5 teaspoons active dry yeast

Set bread machine on “dough” [...]

One of my goals for the new year was to learn how to make homemade bagels. While I have tried making bagels several times, and it seems to take so long and they never turned out very well. So… a week or so ago when I found a recipe for homemade English muffins (and made [...]

Mix up the following ingredients in a plastic bowl (or just mix up in your Bosch or heavy duty mixer), cover, and let it sit out on the counter for 12-24 hours:

9 cups whole wheat flour
4 cups (1 quart) buttermilk (or you could use 4 cups water & 4 tablespoons whey or lemon juice)(You can [...]

My parents from Washington visited us for two whole weeks and just left on Sunday.  We had so much fun with them!  Because my parents are on a gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free diet, I took some time before they came to do some experimenting .  I now have quite a variety of gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free [...]