Why grinding grains for flour and baking is WORTH it, the best way to jump right in, and much wisdom from a grain milling expert. Today’s interview is one I’m excited to share with you, and it’s the last in this Grinding Challenge Series, as we’ve explored how to bake with einkorn, incredible gluten-free baking […]
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Save money and time and boost nutrition by making your own homemade whole grain gluten-free flour blends! When switching to a gluten-free diet, everything can be overwhelming, sometimes even more so than just beginning a real food diet. You feel like there are no cheats possible! There’s so much to learn, so many places gluten
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Want to experiment on homemade gluten-free tortillas with me? We’ve even done a keto friendly tortilla recipe. Leah and I made some videos of our testing with the Mockmill and einkorn and gluten-free grains in tortillas, and I wanted to let you know a bit about what you’ll see. We’ve made homemade whole wheat tortillas
Gluten-free pizza is known for being a bit granular, almost powdery…perhaps chalky, almost certainly tasteless, and either with the texture of cardboard or so crumbly or floppy you can’t pick it up. And that’s refined flour pizza crust! Try to get a whole grain or partially whole grain gluten-free pizza crust and now you’re in
The smell of something baking in the oven can literally make my kids swoon with joy, and the aroma of freshly baked honey whole wheat sourdough bread or whole wheat tortillas frying up on the griddle used to be a common occurrence around here. As we’ve cut down on grains over the years, any baking
I explore with a gluten-free baking expert the elusive perfect homemade gluten-free loaf – it’s really possible! It’s weird being friends with me. I tend to give a lot of food advice, and when my dear friend’s daughter suffered from headaches every day, I kept gently mentioning that I thought an elimination diet meal plan
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I’ve been experimenting with baking by weight, and once I figured out how to convert my favorite recipes from cups to grams, I’m really thinking it’s the best way to learn to bake for kids. We teach kids how to measure flour in our Kids Cook Real Food online cooking class for kids – that
Ever wonder which is the more effective way to bake? Should you use weights or volume measurements? (And if you have a recipe in cups, how do you convert it to grams? Or the other way?) As I’ve worked through my Grinding Challenge, I have been able to test out both ways of baking, actually
Sun protection goes further than finding the right sunscreen. Learn why protecting yourself from the inside out is smart from Emilia Javorsky, Ph.D., an expert who has done the research on a fern-based oral photoprotection. This weekend I witnessed a most interesting phenomenon – a man in his 70s literally running from the sun to
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Is gluten bad for everyone? Should allll of us go on an elimination diet meal plan that’s grain-free for good? Should everyone ditch whole wheat and switch to baking with einkorn, or just use only freshly ground, soaked whole wheat as long as you don’t have Celiac? Nope. Those aren’t even the right questions to
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You know you’re experimenting with grains when you tell your son, “Just grab the muffin with the dent; that’s the one you liked the best.” It was baking with einkorn flour day, and I was trying 3 different things at once! Thank goodness muffins are forgiving like I discovered when I made our favorite pumpkin
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As part of our Grinding Grains Challenge, readers sent along a few recipes, including this one for Whole Grain Banana Spelt Muffins. My 3-year-old loved making them with me as we practiced some of his preschool skills in the kitchen. Muffins are always great for school snacks, easy breakfasts, and packed lunch sides. I tend
Have you ever baked with Einkorn? As an ancient grain with a unique gluten structure, Einkorn is becoming more popular these days. But do you need to find special new recipes, or can you just translate your old favorite whole wheat recipes to Einkorn? Specific Einkorn recipes aren’t a bad idea, because it does act
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Don’t you hate that feeling of spending time on a recipe and ending up with a total FAIL? I’m here for you. Want to make me bake and make all the mistakes so you don’t have to? Here’s the backstory: It’s been 6 years since I’ve had a whole wheat sourdough starter, and I never
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It’s so important for kids to get a healthy breakfast. Just like how you make sheet pan pancakes, this sweet potato breakfast bake is easy to make. We all know how important it is to eat a lot of vegetables, and I often remind people to start with veggies at breakfast to make it much
Something amazing happened this week. Because I’m teaching my kids to cook, dinner got on the table on time when it never would have otherwise – including the easiest homemade mashed potatoes ever! Tuesday was a crazy day, with one meeting stacked upon another and school conferences at 4:30 p.m. I neglected my own meal
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I work hard to give my kids candy-free Easter baskets that are still fun, but I just don’t have the DIY sense or time to make homemade Easter egg colors without food dyes to decorate our Easter eggs! Check out this new idea for Easter egg decorating that is NO mess, NO prep and used
Unique Easter basket ideas I’ve collected over the years to fill the Easter eggs without candy OR little junk! Find more inspiration in my Non Toy Kids Gifts for Christmas. It’s not even all about food this time. Or creating things with food like my dye-free Easter eggs. Clearly we thoughtful parents are going to
Does a brown, natural toothpaste sound unbelievable to you? Let’s talk about the top on my list of natural toothpaste reviews, but first, more shocking things. If you’re a parent, you’ve surely experienced the disbelief that happens when a child totally loses it over something that happens every. single. day. Right? (Please tell me I’m
Sometimes, you just need a quick dinner. I hate it when I search for a recipe online and everything that comes up calls for about a dozen spices blended together – most of which I don’t have. I prefer simple dishes like the curried lemon coconut chicken I discovered and adapted for the Instant Pot
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