As a family, we eat mostly gluten-free, but we still enjoy old favorites like homemade hamburger helper on occasion or a gluten-free chickpea pizza crust. This recipe quickly became a repeat request from the kids and the parents aren’t complaining either! When your kids are literally swooning over a whole wheat pizza crust and asking […]
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It’s a dichotomy in America today – is pizza healthy? The government seems to think so, counting it as a power-packed grain/dairy/vegetable combo on school lunch menus. Most nutrition writers see it as a white flour nemesis at best or a trifecta of pure inflammatory grain/dairy/processed meats evil at worst. Is there such a thing
Here at Kitchen Stewardship®, I’m sort of known for both comprehensive and honest reviews of natural living and real food cooking products. People turn here first when it comes to what natural mineral sunscreen to buy, how to choose a good reusable bag for school lunch, and even non-toxic nail polish, a review we’re still
Homemade pizza is a favorite for kids and adults alike – well, ANY pizza will fit the bill for many, but if you value real food, homemade pizza is truly the best “healthy junk food” ever! At least two of my children would eat pizza every day and never bat an eye. 😉 They all
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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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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
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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