raw carrot cake

6 carrots, peels and shredded
8 dates, pitted
1/2 c nuts (i used peanuts but it's your choice)
1/4 c maple syrup
1/4ish c coconut flour

blend everything except the flour in a food processor. add coconut flour by the tbspful until the batter easily rolls into a little ball and stays.

form the batter into 3 inch circles on a plates.

frosting:
1/2 c cashews
1/4 c cashew butter
1/4 c maple syrup

food processorize

spread on top of the little cakes.

eat.

homemade ketchup

2 cans of tomato paste (or homemade!)
1/4 small onion, grated into a bowl to keep all the juices
salt
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, preferably unfiltered
1/2 cup honey
1 tsp yellow mustard
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp allspice
pinch ground cloves
pinch ground ginger (or 1/2 tsp fresh)
pinch mace (or something else spicy. i used mace because it was what i had)
pepper

1.) get everything ready: open the cans and put them in a bowl with the mustard (and fresh ginger, if using), measure and mix the vinegar and water, measure and mix the spices in another bowl, measure out the honey

2.) cook/stir the onions with salt quickly. like 20-30 seconds.

3.) dump everything else in and whisk

4.) let the flavors simmer together for 30-60 minutes.

grain/sugar-free waffles

1/4 c coconut oil or butter/ghee
1/4 c pureed fruit (apple, banana, pumpkin... whatev)
1/4 c coconut flour
6 eggs
1/4 t salt
1/4 t baking powder

blend the first 5 ingredient together. (i use a stick blender.)

mix in the baking powder slowly but thoroughly.

bake in your waffle iron like regular waffles.

they come out way softer than regular waffles though, so be careful you don't tear them when you take them out. i lifted a corner with a fork and slid a wide spoon under to get them out.

this made 7 waffles on my square old tyme waffle iron.

GAPS candy

1 cup raisins
1 cup nuts of your choice (i like to mix a bunch together)
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tbsp honey
2 tbsp cocoa powder - depending on how far into GAPS you are - my kid like me to make half and half batches, half chocolate and half peanut butter.

dump in the food processor and blend.

roll into 1" balls.

real mayo

1 egg
2 egg yolks
1tsp yellow mustard
1 tbsp lemon juice
pinch of salt
pinch of paprika
3/4 cup of olive oil


1.) put everything except the oil in a wide mouth mason jar.
2.) pour the oil on the top
3.) using an immersion blender, start at the bottom of the jar and blend slowly.

raisin nut candy

1 c. raisins
1 c. nuts of your choice
2 T cocoa powder
1 T blackstrap molasses

1.) toss everything in the food processor.
2.) grind until sticky.
3.) roll into balls.
4.) devour.

chocolate rice milk

1 c brown rice
6 c water (+4 c to add later)

~boil then turn the heat down to low. (like you normally cook rice) leave for 3 hours.

~after the 3 hours, using a stick blender, blend the rice and water together.

~strain out the rice pulp (i've heard of people using the rice pulp to make rice crackers, i haven't tried it though)

~ add in your extra 4 cups of water and blend

you could stop here and have plain rice milk. we like chocolate though. yummy.

1 recipe plain rice milk
1/3 c honey
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tbsp organic raw sugar
1 tbsp blackstrap molasses
1/2 tbsp real salt
1/2 tbsp vanilla 

dump it all in the bowl and blend.

super yummy! take that, monsanto!