Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins

Chocolate decadence. Chocolate overdose. Chocolate chocolate. This recipe is my new favorite. I made it yesterday as muffins, but you could also bake it like a cake in a 9 x 9 pan. I topped mine with fresh whipped cream, raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries and served it for dessert. It could have been serve all [...]

Blueberry Lavender Scones

1 cup GWF Baking Mix (sweet, salty)
1 cup rolled oats (generous) (sweet)
6 TBS chilled salted butter, cut into squares (sweet)
1 beaten egg (sweet)
1/3 cup cream, buttermilk or soy milk (sweet)
3/4 cup dried blueberris (sweet, sour)
1 TBS edible lavender flowers (pungent, bitter)
About 1/8 cup oat flour for kneading (sweet)
Greek yogurt (optional) (sour)

Heat the oven to 375 [...]

Blueberry Muffins

My Grandmother had several blueberry bushes in her backyard, along with mulberries, rhubarb, strawberries, and a huge vegetable garden with corn, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots and everything else you can imagine. When we would visit, she would send us out with big bowls and tell us to fill them up. My favorite was the blueberries. [...]

Flatbread with Leeks, Capers, and Asiago Cheese

In the springtime, add leafy greens, onions, leeks, and other early vegetables to your meals. Looking at Food as Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine (and maybe just by common sense?) eating seasonal foods is the way to go! The foods that arrive in the spring, tender green vegetables and herbs, provide energy as directly [...]

Irish Soda Bread

Saint Patrick’s Day always included Irish Soda bread when I was growing up. Sometimes my sister even made it green with a few drops of food coloring.  Here’s an adaptation that even the greenest leprechaun in your house will love, and it will love him right back with plenty of protein but without the sugar [...]

The scones are baking!

Gillian’s World Famous Baking Mix is so easy to use–just like any other baking mix you may have used in the past–except it doesn’t have any wheat or sugar in it.  And it full of protein, and tastes pretty awesome in savory and sweet recipes.  And we’ve tested lots of recipes.

I just put some scones [...]

“I heart U” Chocolate Chunk and Walnut Oatmeal Cookies

According to TCM food energetics, the Bitter flavor drains and counters dampness, and benefits the heart.  We have your heart in mind as we get ready for Valentine’s Day!  If homemade is your style, try this recipe.

8 TBS of butter, room temperature (sweet)
1/2 cup GWF Baking Mix (sweet, salty)
1 1/2 cups of oats (sweet)
1 large [...]

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Christmas Cookies

Cookies, cookies, cookies!  They are everywhere this time of year.  Get it together, WLCers, you know you can’t eat just any old cookie.  Here’s a recipe for a batch that you’ll love, and they won’t kill your weight loss plan.  In moderation, of course.

1 package of cream cheese, room temperature (sour, sweet)
2 sticks of butter [...]

Cranberry Orange Scones

Having a scone with a cup of tea is such a treat, one that I thought I would never be able to have again once I realized I couldn’t eat things made with wheat flour.  Thanks goodness for GWF Baking Mix*!  Now I can have my scone AND be certain that it gives me something [...]

Pumpkin Muffins

These moist pumpkin muffins just might be my favorite recipe using GWF Baking Mix.  They are perfect for breakfast, a midday snack or a lovely dessert after a light meal.  Dress it up with sour cream and pomegranate seeds if you omit the cranberries.  Mmmmmm.

1 egg (sweet)
1 cup pumpkin puree (sweet)
1/2 cup cream or half and [...]