It's The Great Pumpkin(bread), Charlie Brown

"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."



1.5c rice flour
1/2c oat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp each: ginger, nutmeg and pumpkin spice
1c pure pumpkin
1 egg white
2 tbsp rice milk
1c applesauce (or subsitute plain Greek yogurt)
1/2 tsp vanilla ex
4 tbsp coconut oil (instead of butter)

-Preheat oven to 400degrees
-Mix dry ingredients, blend well.
-Mix wet ingredients, blend well.
-Combine ingredients, blend well.
-Pour mixture into bread pan and bake for 35-45 min.
-Top it with some cultured coconut milk, if you're feeling fancy (I'm cleared on small amounts of coconut, this week, btw :)! )

This came out fantastically and I'm uber proud of my concoction!

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1c oat flour
1c rice flour
2c almond meal
1.5 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt (I used Kosher, sea)
1/2 tsp nutmeg
dash cinnamon
1/2c nuts (macademia)
3-5 ripe bananas
1/4c oil (grapeseed)
juice of half a lemon
1 tsp vanilla extract(pure, non-alcoholic)

-Preheat oven 400degrees
-Mash bananas in bowl with fork.
-Chop nuts.
-Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, blend well.
-Mix wet ingredients in a bowl, blend well.
-Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients
-Pour mix into bread pan and bake about 30 min (25-40 depending on oven)

*I came up with this by combining a few different recipes and by subsituting things I'm allowed to eat.

I'm not sure the grapeseed oil was the best choice, so I suggest trying a different one.

Also, mix the salt in really well, otherwise you'll have salt-bombs in your mouth, which we found to be an unpleasant surprise.

I'm a genius

Yesterday I ventured to Whole Foods, solo, for the first time. I've been twice before, with friends. The first time I was too over-stimulated/whelmed/self-pitying to actually explore the wonders to behold. The second time I bought some rice cheese (NEVER again, I say! NEVER!)

This time, prepared to bake, I set out to find some almond meal...and found this:

*Clouds part, sunbeams and rainbows shine, bluebirds sing, angels get their wings*

Holy crap, there's such a thing as rice flour?! Oat flour?! (And about 20 other flours I'll have to research)

End results:

Pumpkin and Banana breads

It took a lot of subsitutions, some ingenuity and a bunch of luck, but I managed to make a desert without dairy, gluten, or sugar AND it actually tasted good. I'm a genius!

Recipes coming asap!