Banana bread is a classic recipe that just begs to be made every time a bunch of bananas make it past their prime. A good banana bread recipe comes together with ingredients you probably already have on hand, and transforms sad bananas into a delicious treat for breakfast. This banana bread recipe is made all …
Folic Acid-Free No-Knead Artisan Wheat Bread
Since we have done extensive work to heal leaky gut, we’ve found that we can eat wheat in small quantities again! This is a great supplement to a nutrient-dense diet, but I still do not advocate eating wheat, especially white bread, products every day or at every meal. But it’s nice to be able to …
Homemade Sprouted Flour
I’ve been cooking a lot with sprouted whole wheat flour lately, and I find it great fun to work with. A nice change of pace from sourdough everything- all your soaking (sprouting) is done before grinding the wheat into flour, so the flour is then ready to use immediately when the mood strikes. Pancakes, muffins, …
Whole Grain Sourdough Bread made with Homemade Starter
After careful cultivation of my sprouted spelt sourdough starter, I was excited to see what kind of bread it turned into. Whole grain sourdough bread is dense, there’s no doubt about it. To lighten it up, you can use half white flour, or you can just learn to enjoy a chewy dense loaf as we’ve …
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Sourdough Starter- How and Why
The most exciting bubbles I know of are ones that I cultured myself! I know that natural yeasts cultivated into a sourdough starter are much preferable to commercial yeast, so earlier this summer I carefully grew a starter out of sprouted spelt flour. About naturally grown sourdough starter from the Weston Price website: Of course …
Sprouted Spelt Pancakes- Whole Grain and Fast
Using a regular pancake recipe, I replaced the white flour called for with sprouted spelt flour. They turned out wonderfully! The whole grain flour gives them a little more texture and a nutty flavor, and since it’s sprouted you can skip the overnight soak, so they aren’t sour. We like sour, but these were a …
Soaked Wheat Nourishing Traditions Style Challah
I adapted Monica’s challah recipe to be more ‘Nourishing Traditions style’ and have the whole grain flours soaked in an acid medium. We ‘soak’ our whole grains as a way to breakdown anti-nutrients and allow them to be better digested. See more about that in my Soaked Wheat Bread post. And read more about Monica’s …
Challah and Sabbath Traditions- Guest Post
This is a guest post by Monica of Rose of Sharon Acres, who makes amazing soaps including the tooth ‘chips’ that I love and gentle goat milk soap from her own goats. She describes how she prepares Sabbath challah for her family, and how the Sabbath meal is enjoyed at her home. Our family …
Soaked Wheat Sourdough Waffles- No Starter Needed
We love sourdough- I made the Sourdough Wheat Pancake recipe from Joy of Cooking before finding the whole Nourishing Traditions way of eating. I adapted the recipe to include yogurt to properly soak the wheat flour, and whole wheat flour rather than white. It’s pleasingly sour, and so easy since you mix most of …
Cranberry Oatmeal Muffins
I’m always happy to see cranberries in the stores again! This is my mama’s recipe that uses oats, whole wheat flour, brown sugar, and fresh cranberries for just the right homemade taste. We even have them up in our small town this year, no need to go all the way down to the city to get em.
Naturally Yeasted Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread
I let my bread dough soak in a clear glass bowl most of the time. I origionally just used this bowl because it’s big and fits quite a bit of bread dough, but as a bonus I can see if there are natural yeasts (from the air) working in the dough. This only happens for …
Easy Key Lime Bars
Sweetened condensed milk, graham crackers, ultrapasturized whipping cream. Not real food, but they’re good. Easier than key lime pie for sure. I followed this recipe from Martha Stewart, but tripled it. I did it all in the food processor; pulse to chop the graham crackers, add in the melted butter, put in the pans (to …