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Had fun helping my daughter paint her nails! I liked the colors she chose!
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Had a fun day with the family with lots of Gluten Free and almost Vegan treats(my pumpkin pie did have 2 free range eggs in it! )!
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Capture with my iPhone 4s and edited with the Camera Awesome app!
It’s Thanksgiving night and many are still in a food hangover and I get a text from my wife that is sitting across the room wondering if i could make a EggNog Chocolate chip cake!
I said sure! So here’s that attempt! It turned out quite well, even though I forgot the Sugar! Which I’ll explain a bit later!
This will be made a few more times in our home this season!
1 cup Hazelnut flour or Almond Meal
1 cup Coconut flour
2 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Xanthum gum
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Nutmeg
1/4 cup Coconut Oil
1/2 cup soy Egg Nog-I used the Silk Brand
3/4 cup Vegan Chocolate Chips
2 Organic Free Range Eggs
Preheat oven to 350F. Mix all ingredients in a large mixing bowl and then place in a greased ceramic pan. Bake for 1 hour
I accidentally completely forgot to add the 1 cup of sugar I was supposed to add to the recipe! But the 1/2 cup of Egg Nog and Chocolate Chips seemed to make up for it. This is a really good cake with a morning cup of coffee! I think I’ll try making this recipe to make scones. I also liked using the hazelnuts instead of almonds, they add an interesting texture. No reason one couldn’t use almonds. This could also easily be made vegan using either Flax or Chia seeds. 1 TBS of ground seeds to 3 TBS of liquid=1 Large egg
I happen to really like my Blendtec Blender. And Amazon has these blender reduced right now. Check out Amazon’s Blendtec Blender Deals
I use it for smoothies, shakes, soups and making almond meal for baking treats. I’ve even started making my own raw food protein bars with my blender!
On a recent trip to the craft store my kids fell in love with these balls of yarn. I have no idea what their plans ares, but I hope these lead to hours and hours of fun!
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in my post about Aphthous Ulcers I wrote about research relating gliadin of gluten causing a break down of the junctions between cells in the intestinal wall. Here’s the article on PubMed.
The conclusions are:
Based on our results, we concluded that gliadin activates zonulin signaling irrespective of the genetic expression of autoimmunity, leading to increased intestinal permeability to macromolecules
So eating wheat causes intestinal permeability “Leaky Gut” in all humans.
For many this isn’t an issue at all. For some its a big deal.
I wonder how many that have no issues with wheat and really do?
My kids had a fun afternoon at Grammy’s house making Turkeys!
Love these memories!
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Here’s a quick snap of my daughter. It’s getting harder and harder to get these fun snaps. I converted to B/W in OneOneSoftware Perfect B&W1
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Serendipity, a pleasant surprise.
Roughly 4 years ago, my wife attended the Anaheim PriMed conference and attended a lecture about Celiac Disease by Dr. Alessio Fasano. After that 1 hour lecture, my wife mentions to me that I probably have celiac disease. 4 months from that lecture I was diagnosed with celiac disease. Fast forward to today 4 years later we are at a conference that Dr Fasano is also giving a lecture. We are at a break grabbing a bite to eat and step up to a stand up table to eat our snack and I look over to my left and notice Dr. Fasano’s name badge. So I ask him how his flight from back east was, etc. I then ask if he remembers giving a lecture about 4 years ago in Anaheim at the PriMed conference, he did!
Serendipity
We chatted for about 15 minutes about the various topics related to Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity. My sense is that his life’s work has led him in directions he never thought he would go.
I’m impressed that his team has been able to discover that humans treat the protein gluten like a bad bug. Most humans are seemingly able to handle this bug through normally working immune systems. And that they don’t know why some immune systems stop being able to take care of it. I appreciate his reasoned approach.
So is the lack of disease, health?
I thought this photos as fitting for this day!
