Grain-Free Almond Meal Pizza Base Recipe

I made this recipe the other night along with the zucchini base pizza and a coconut flour pizza. It was decided that a spinach and bocconcini topping would go well with it. The recipe follows closely to the Pizza Crust recipe from Elana Amsterdam’s Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook.

Grain-Free Tomato, Spinach and Bocconcini Pizza

Ingredients

Base

  • 1.5 cups Almond flour (I used Almond meal)
  • Dash of Sea salt
  • 1/2 tspn Baking soda
  • 1 Tbspn Butter
  • 1 egg
  • Mixed herbs of your choice

Toppings

  • Tomato sauce base (we made ours from garlic, tomato paste, oregano, salt & pepper, water)
  • Spinach leaves
  • Bocconcini
  • Cherry tomatoes

How to make

Base

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celcius.
  2. In one bowl combine the almond flour, sea salt and baking soda.
  3. In another bowl beat the egg into the butter (melt the butter first).
  4. Combine the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. You should get a dough like texture.
  5. Roll the dough into a ball and place onto a sheet of baking paper. Place another sheet over the top.

    Roll out the dough

  6. Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough into the desired shape and then bake it in the oven for around 15 minutes.

    Ready for the oven

Toppings

  • Add your desired toppings and bake for another 10-20 minutes until ready.

    Toppings added, ready to go back into the oven

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Bacon And Eggs Mess

The days of regular omelette’s are over. I guarantee you that this recipe will be more tasty than your regular omelette recipe. In fact, if this recipe is not better I will come to your house and make an omelette for you.

Ingredients

  • Bacon
  • Eggs
  • Optional:
    • Cheese
    • Broccoli
    • Potato
    • Zucchini
    • Tomato
    • Sausage
    • Your favourite food here

How to cook it

  1. Pop a non stick fry pan on the stovetop on high
  2. Throw on the bacon and any veggies that you want to brown up first.
  3. Once one side is browned, flip veggies and bacon
  4. Crack an egg and drop it on top. Repeat with as many eggs as you like. Try to fill in the gaps between veggies and bacon.
  5. Optional: Add cheese on top

    4 egg, bacon, tomato and sausage mess. MMmmm

  6. DO NOT STIR
  7. Let the mixture sit on high for a minute, then add the fry pan lid and turn down to low.
  8. Leave until egg is cooked. This part may vary in time depending on your type of stove and how well you like you eggs. I like to leave it for 3 or 4 minutes, then turn the heat off and leave it for another couple minutes.
  9. Add freshly cracked pepper
  10. Eat.

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Grain-Free Breakfasts and Snacks

It’s Sunday and it’s time for some link love. This week I’m going to share some recipes I’ve stumbled across in my searches for portable grain-free snacks and grain-free replacements for my morning Weet-Bix. (Huh? See going Primal)

I’ll start with a few that I’ve already tried out:

Grain-Free Cherry-Chocolate Chip Scones

These almond meal based scones are nice and buttery and last several days if kept in the fridge. I didn’t have any dark chocolate chips so I just used some broken up dark chocolate and I also used sultanas instead of cherries. On the third batch I added some coconut which was delicious.

Easy Mini Quiche Recipe

Skip the bread/pastry and just make the mixture. Use about twice what the recipe recommends, you will find that the recipes amount only makes very very mini quiches. Add chopped bacon for some extra flavour.

Grain-Free Pumpkin Bread

We turned these into savoury muffins. We took out the nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger and honey and instead added Feta, oregano and thyme. These were seriously delicious, I can’t wait to try the sweet version as well.

Almond Banana Pancakes

Cook these SLOW on LOW heat. I added an extra egg so that they stuck together a little better. I also added blueberries to the mix. Serve these up with some thick cream… YUM!

Fun & Fabulous Grain-Free Breakfast Recipes

I haven’t tried this book yet, I only just bought it but I’m planning making some this afternoon. Inside it has some really awesome recipes including granola bars, flax bread, cereals, biscuits and some quick egg recipes including a French toast adaptation which looks seriously yum. It’s also available on Amazon if you want a hard copy.

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High Protein Banana And Blueberry Breakfast Smoothie

The hardest thing about going Primal (although in hindsight it wasn’t very hard) was giving up a grain based breakfast.

Think about it, what do most people eat for breakfast? Cereals, toast, porridge or maybe even a croissant or a danish on the way to work. It’s quick and easy and the taste is easy on the palate first thing in the morning.

The first week of trying a Primal breakfast I made the nut butter bars from the Primal Cookbook. Mine came out quite crumbly so I simply added some yogurt and berries and I had a very filling breakfast. This week I wanted a change so that I wouldn’t get sick of eating the same thing.

I decided to fall back on the awesome breakfast smoothie. Here’s what I’ve been drinking, mostly to use up all of our bananas and blueberries. Sorry about the rubbish pictures, it was quite early when I made this in the morning.

BlueBan Breakfast Boost

Tastes better than it looks :)

Ingredients

These amounts are just estimates. I tend to just guestimate.

  • 1 large banana
  • 1/4 cup blueberries
  • 1/4 organic yogurt
  • 1/4 cup almond meal
  • 1 scoop vanilla or unflavoured WPC
  • Add water to desired consistancy

Instructions

  1. Pop it all into the blender.
  2. Blend it.
  3. Yum yum.

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