Pumpkin Soup

Delicious and Creamy... eat as is, or with some shredded chicken

This soup is light but filling as it has lots of healing fats and broth...

Ingredients:

1/4C duck fat
1/4C ghee
1/2 butternut pumpkin
2C broth

Method:

Peel and chop pumpkin and put in a pot with the fat and ghee
Stir on medium heat as the fats melt
Once melted, simmer for 10 minutes
Add the broth and cook until pumpkin is soft
Puree in the Thermomix for 20 seconds Speed 8







To Serve,
simply drink from a cup with a dollop of yoghurt or top with shredded chicken, some crispy kale and toasted nuts





Crispy Kale - toss some finely sliced kale in coconut oil and fry until crispy
Toasted Nuts - chop some walnuts and stir over medium heat until golden and crunchy

Sticky Chicken

Delicious moist drumsticks coated in a combination of honey and soy... but is totally failsafe

So we can't have honey and soy sauce when on a low chemical diet, but amazingly Rice Malt Syrup will caramalise and give us a similar flavour. This is a very simple and delicious meal

Method:

Combine 1/4C Sunflower or Canola Oil with 1/4C Rice Malt Syrup
Coat your chicken drumsticks (skin removed) in this mixture
Place in a greased baking dish
Do not overcrowd your chicken


Bake for approx 40 minutes, basting every 10 minutes
As the sauce starts to turn golden, coat your chicken in the sauce

Once chicken is cooked and golden all over, serve with rice and a vegetable stir fry

Meal Time

What to eat?

Breakfast Lunch Dinner...

I think one of the big challenges when going grain free is working out what to eat for each meal.








Breakfast is tricky when you are accustomed to eating cereal or toast... lunch is a sandwich... dinner not so tricky as most would think meat and veg pretty normal. How do you do grain free toast and cereal for breakfast... so you go searching for nut bread recipes... when in fact the easy solution is to think of each meal as suitable for any time of the day.

Soup can be for breakfast, lunch or dinner... oh no you say... I am not having soup all the time. Unless you decide to do hard core GAPS and do Intro, I am not saying that at all. I am saying OPEN YOUR MIND lol to other possibilities. Meat balls for breakfast... my kids do it every day. At the start they were horrified (as you might be) but now if I give them some toast they ask for meat :)

You need to make yourself and your children (if they are joining your diet changes) just try it over and over... until it becomes habit.

And give yourself some variety... here are some ideas I love

• thai salmon fish cakes with spinach and avocado and a dollop of goat yoghurt
• omelette with salmon, kale, tomato and a dressing of yoghurt with garlic and dill
• scrambled eggs with avocado and kraut (pour over some broth for a soup)
• lasagne - zucchini becomes your lasagne sheets, cauliflower an amazing white sauce
• seared scallop creamy soup
• pumpkin soup with chicken, crispy kale and toasted walnuts
• creamy cauliflower soup with chicken
• zucchini noodles with broth and slow cooked lamb
• crunchy herb topped roast chicken or turkey breast
• slow cooked lamb with honeyed carrots and roast butternut squash

Be creative... think of all the things you can eat and how you might combine them. Some may work, others not so much... Soup is open for creation! Chuck in some broth, veg and meat... top with some kraut and a dollop of yoghurt... simple

My fav fast meal is roast chicken thigh (cooked in coconut oil), topped with kraut and yoghurt.



There are plenty of sweet goodies too... as you might have noticed from my failsafe recipes, I am rather fond of baking

So in these early phases of changing from failsafe to healing... think outside the square and be open to all the possibilites.

 

 

Buckwheat Crepes

Grain free Crepes/Wraps

You can use these sweet as crepes or as wraps for savoury...

 

Ingredients

1/2 C buckwheat kernals
1/2 C hulled millet
1 C water
2 T goat whey
1/2C tapioca starch
2 large eggs or 4 small

Method

Prepare your flour

Using your Thermomix, grind the buckwheat and millet 130 sec, speed 9
(if you don't have a TMX, buy flours instead)
Put flours into a big glass bowl
Add water and whey and stir to combine
Cover with gladwrap and leave to ferment for 6 hours (or overnight)

 

Prepare batter

Add tapioca and eggs and whisk until you have a smooth batter

Cook

Warm a small amount of ghee in a pan and pour on a 1/4C of batter, swirl the pan around until the batter coats the whole pan

Carefully flip when the edges start to come away from the pan
Cook a minute or so on the other side

Watch with care as these cook very quickly




Serve with yoghurt and honey or maple syrup for a sweet treat
Use as a wrap to make your lunch

TIP: Can be frozen, between layers of baking paper and defrosted on the bench or microwave before use.

Are you still Failsafe and want to make these? Just omit the whey and the fermenting and mix batter and use right away. The fermenting process will create amines...

Buckwheat Pancakes

Pancakes with Fruit

Ingredients:

1/3C buckwheat kernals
1/3C hulled millet
1/4C tapioca starch
1T coconut flour
1/4t bicarb soda
1C kefir (coconut or goat/cow)
1 egg

Fruit
sliced banana
sliced strawberries
blueberries

Method:

Prepare flour

Grind buckwheat and millet in Thermomix, 1 min speed 9
(If you don't have a TMX, buy flours)
If you want to ferment these grains, add kefir now and leave for 6 hours (or overnight)

Prepare batter

Add other ingredients and whisk to combine
Stand 30 mins to thicken

Cook 

Add a little ghee to the pan on medium heat
Pour in a small amount of batter (these work best if they are small - medium in size)
Drop in a few pieces of fruit (if desired)
Once bubbling, carefully flip
Cook a few minutes on the other side

Serve with yoghurt or maple syrup/honey

 

If you want to keep these Failsafe,

omit the coconut flour and do not ferment, use water instead of the kefir. Add the water slowly and stop when you have a thick batter (it should still pour but not be runny)

Time Saving Tips

Do we really need to be in the kitchen all day cooking for this style of eating?

Here are some tips to get you started:


Make your broth overnight in slowcooker
then use this as base for soup and casseroles etc all the next day
If only you doing it, then freeze what you don't need
Slow cook lamb shoulders
use that as your meat for your meals and snacks
(you can slow cook it over night on very low or do it for 4 hours in oven on 150)
 
Make chicken broth with half a chicken (I do 2 pots to use the whole chicken)
then you are left with meat and broth
If you are working
have a big day doing lots of broth and meat,
freeze in meal size portions for your work day
 
When baking slices and cakes, bake them in rectangluar tins
cut into cubes and freeze for quick snacks and lunchbox treats