quick gaucamole

So I'm personally not a fan of the taste of avocado in general, I can only eat it in the form of guacamole. So because it's a healthy fat and has many health benefits, I try to eat it throughout the week. Beyond eatin it as a dip or on my taco/burrito I have found that I really enjoy it on my salad instead of dressing, or on top of chicken and roasted veggies (such as broccoli, carrot, cauliflaur) or just on the veggies. I think it makes for a nice creamy sauce.

1 ripe avocado
1 teaspoon salt
juice from half a lime
sprinkle some garlic powder over
teaspoon of diced red onion

mash it all together until it's smooth and well combined. Taste it to make sure you have the flavor you want and you can add cilanto, paprika etc.

Almost guilt-free chocolate pancakes

So after some failed attempted at making gluten free and low carb chocolate pancakes with almond flour, I decided to try out coconut flour after making brownies with coconut flour (I'll link where to find those, so good!)

So coconut flour is an amazing substitute flour and you don't need to use as much of it.

You'll need:
Bowl
skillet
spatula
whisk
spoon

1/4 cup coconut flour
2 TBS cocao powder
2 TBS brown sugar
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup chocolate almond milk ( simply because I'm not a fan of the taste of coconut and to give it extra chocolate flavor)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs

whisk together your dry ingredients and then whisk in your wet ingredients
spray your pan with olive oil
laddle your batter witht he measuring cup onto the pan,
cook on both sides

let cool for a minute
eat with whatever toppings you like

Doctored store bough stuffing in the oven

I made this large batch for the my dad's side's large Chistmas Eve party, actually all party's on that side of the family are large because my dad is 1 of children, 7 of which got married and had kids, my grandmother has 48 grandchildren.

The big question everyone asks is "How do you do party's? How do eating arrangements work?"
Answer...Potluck, buffet style...we don't put together a bunch of tables and eat together. We find a place to sit anywhere within the regions of the party and eat, there is no set eating time.

I made far more stuffing than was needed. I used 4 boxes, couldn't gotten by with 2 or 3.

So same beginning proces for the stove top stuffing.

This time we are going to be adding turkey sausage. Italian turkey sausage. Mild Italian pork sausage also works great.
Cut open the sausgae casings and pull 4 sausages apart into a heated pan. Break it up into smaller bit size pieaces.
Wait for it to brown, Partially drain the grease. Add the celery and onion.
I seasond this with fresh thyme and fresh sage, fresh cracked pepper and fresh cracked sea salt.

Set the oven to 350

Pour the bread into a casserole dish, drizzle a little olive oil over and combine with your hands.
Pour the water over the bread mixture and combine with hands to make sure all of them get coated.
combine with sausage,celery, onion mixture with the bread until evenly combined.

Put into the preheated oven for 20 minutes.

Add the craisins at the end.

Doctored store bought stuffing on the stove

So I'm not going ot lie. I didn't learn how to make the bread how it's supposed to be on my own because then I'd be obligated to want to eat more of it.
So I just figured out how to doctor a box of stuffing.

I have done this on the stove and in the oven. I have a separate post for the oven one.

I used a regular box of turkey stuffing and added celery and onion, craisings make a great addition as well.

Start by removing the outer papery layers of the onion, remove any dark gross parts. Next you start chopping and mincing about a quarter to half of a large onion, or half of a small onion.

Rings and remove ends of the celery. I used maybe 5 stalks because I love celery. Cut each stalk in half long ways and cut into quarter inch to half in pieces.
I seasoned this with a little bit of dried time and sage.

Turn on the stove and drizzle olive oil in a skillet.

Throw in your onion and celery, stir and wait for the celery to get a nice char.
Once this is done, Put together your pot of water and olive oil, no butter or margarine used here,
Wait for that to boil.
Add your stuffing mix and combine the onion and celery mixture, stiring until evenly distributed.
Turn off stove, cover pot and set timer for 5 minutes.
Fluff with fork when done.

You can add craisins if you want.