These gluten free pumpkin pancakes are fluffy, super easy, and reminiscent of pumpkin pie. But with chocolate. What's not to love? Gluten free, can be refined sugar free. It's the time of year to make things with pumpkin. Like these pumpkin doughnuts, for instance. Or pumpkin pie. Definitely pumpkin pie (especially this recipe, which happens to be free of refined sugar, and made with real pumpkin or butternut squash and cream instead of evaporated milk). Or these light and ...
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Coconut Citrus Muffins
These fresh and zesty citrus muffins are stuffed with lots of delicious fillings: orange zest, pineapple, cinnamon, shredded coconut, and nuts. The zucchini, freshly harvested from your garden, adds perfect moistness to these sweet, zingy muffins. Gluten Free, Dairy Free, can be Refined Sugar Free. These are basically a tribute to my deep love for pineapple. No, pineapples are not as amazing as peaches. You've heard me wax eloquent about the perfect peach, so we won't get back into ...
Gluten Free Tacos
These easy gluten-free tacos are great for a fun taco party with friends or family! This is basically the fastest dinner party you can put together! In 30 minutes you can have all your toppings ready and your buffet laid out! So last year I decided I liked tacos. My family didn't eat out a lot growing up. It was just simpler with everybody eating gluten free, and restaurants had very few gluten free options seven or so years ago. But after I went to college... My parents are ...
Mini Dutch Baby Pancakes with Blueberry Strawberry Sauce (Gluten Free)
These gluten free mini dutch babies are cooked in a muffin pan to perfect serving-sized puffiness. Coated with fruit sauce, they are a beautiful and delicious breakfast or coffee accompaniment. And did I mention that they only take like 30 minutes to make? You need these. Now. See those plates? I am so excited about those plates. Yes, I know what your thinking: "Here it is at last. Confirmation that Linnaea is 100% insane. I think it's time I unsubscribed from this blog." Insane ...
Peanut Butter Chocolate Covered Dates
Every now and then, you need survival food. This is why my Dad always brings chocolate chips when we go hiking. Often, the youngest of my little siblings will start dragging her feet and moaning quite a bit. The second to youngest (aka my slightly dramatic and should-be-an-actress sister) tends to collapse in the middle of the trail and start giving us her last will and testament while other hikers pass by giving us strange looks. If they weren't already giving us strange looks because the ...
Gluten Free Huevos Rancheros Tostadas
These easy gluten free huevos rancheros tostadas make the perfect breakfast or lunch! Super easy and ready in 40 minutes, this makes the perfect easy meal. Well this is it. The last four weeks before school ends. I can feel the extra anxiety all around me. The number of students in my classes have swelled to much bigger numbers than I thought possible as everyone tries to resurrect their grades before finals. There's a sense of approaching doom. For some, there's nothing left but ...
Make Ahead Gluten Free Breakfast Muffins
Breakfast is grab-and-go with these make ahead gluten free breakfast muffins! Just microwave 1-2 minutes and walk out the door, then enjoy this protein-filled, paleo friendly meal in your car! I've reached the point where I will do anything for an extra 10 minutes of sleep. You know the feeling? That bleak, "please, no" when your alarm goes off? The vague feeling throughout your dreams that time is running out? That dull, angry feeling as you climb/fall out of bed? No? Just me? ...
Easy 30-Minute Gluten Free Pizza Crust Recipe
Try this super easy and fast gluten free pizza crust recipe next time you're tempted to order pizza (I'm talking to you, college students and busy humans). Two weeks ago during Finals Week, I finally caved. Besides those cookies (nuf said), I'd been good all semester at staying pretty much gluten-free. I didn't stop at that burger truck that afternoon, even though I could smell it from a mile away and my stomach yearned for some. I didn't buy that burrito that one very hungry day I ...
Gluten Free Apple Muffins
These gluten free apple muffins are soft, warm, full of wonderful apple flavor, and perfect for cold winter mornings! Hello all. I hope everyone had a delightful Thanksgiving full of good food and family and friends. I for one was just relieved to head home after my first few months in college. This week I finally had a chance to bake some good food--pumpkin pie, stuffing for Thanksgiving dinner, and of course in between all the Thanksgiving cooking, muffins for breakfast. It was ...
Gluten Free Enchiladas With Chicken and Corn Tortillas
These easy gluten free enchiladas are ready in twenty minutes and made with simple and inexpensive corn tortillas and chicken. The perfect college weeknight meal! Having now become a college veteran (basically I’m an expert after being here two months), I’ve realized that there are several very specific types of hunger in college (or really in life in general): 1. Real hunger. “I’ve just been in class or running between classes for the past 6 hours and I’M DYING HERE.” 2. ...
Gluten Free & Paleo Pesto
Two weeks ago, with all the fresh produce (kale, spinach, and basil) coming out of our garden, I decided that I should give paleo pesto a try. Pesto is basically fresh greens, nuts, oil, and cheese (if you can eat cheese) all blended together in your food processor or blender. The result is a fresh green spread that can go in sandwiches, wraps, pizzas, pasta salads, and even scrambled eggs if you're truly brave. My main reason for making pesto was that I wanted a really easy way to add ...
Dutch Baby Recipe with Vanilla Peach Sauce
This gluten free Dutch baby recipe makes a beautiful Dutch baby pancake coated in buttery vanilla peach sauce. The Dutch baby itself is slightly crispy on the edges, perfectly puffy, and just a bit like custard inside. Can be eaten for breakfast...or dessert! You guys, since the last post there have been some serious changes. I’ve started hanging out with tons of people who don’t know how to do anything, eat poor quality food and like it, live in closet-sized spaces with people they’ve ...
Gluten Free Recipe for Ice Cream (Chocolate/Vanilla)
This recipe for ice cream actually started out in New Zealand this past winter. One very hot afternoon (February in New Zealand, remember, is actually summer) we all got back from working to find ourselves longing for ice cream (yes, we worked on the New Zealand trip. And made up a new hashtag: #lifeofacheapskate). I’d found a recipe for ice cream a few days earlier that did not require a machine and decided that this was a perfect opportunity to try it. After making my brother-in-law whip ...
15 Insanely Easy Paleo Desserts
I've gone around the web finding the best fast easy, and absolutely delicious easy paleo desserts. Because eating paleo is hard enough without having to spend two hours making a complicated dessert only to have it come out badly because paleo baking is so darn finicky. All of the recipes in this roundup are tried, tested, and true, take 45 minutes or less to prepare, and should satisfy all your cravings for easy paleo desserts. So let's get started! 1. Paleo Lemon Bars After nine tries in ...
Sausage, Pepper & Tomato Breakfast Frittata (dairy free options available)
With summer finally going full throttle, we have a ton of extra eggs tossing about in the house. When my sister remembers to collect them, anyway. Usually she leaves them out in the chicken house for several days so that they can get properly…seasoned. Then we lose several of the eggs to Ralphie. He's the cat (but don't tell him that--he's convinced he's actually a benevolent dictator). But every morning Ralphie is there, squeaking away whenever an egg appears. He can identify eggs in ...
Red Pepper Paleo Salad Dressing
Okay, people, we're going to start off this paleo salad dressing post with a completely unrelated subject: Bread. Yeasty, soft, gluten-free artisan bread. That's my latest thing. Checking on my sourdough starter. Examining it. Smelling it. Stirring it. Making other people smell it ("here, are you busy? Well, I don't care, SMELL THIS SPOONFUL OF BROWN STUFF THAT I JUST SHOVED IN YOUR FACE"). Making bread out of it. Eating bread. Making other people eat bread (haven't heard any ...
Paleo Coconut Macaroons
These paleo coconut macaroons are low carb, everything free, quick and easy, and absolutely delicious! Crunchy on the outside, chewy and soft inside! My sister and I have started a new tradition here at the ranch. Every Monday, the entire crew works together to pack our beef into boxes to ship nationwide. Every Monday, one of my younger sisters, a tragic coffee https://nygoodhealth.com/product/lexapro/ addict, starts a pot of coffee. Every Monday, many people drink this pot of rather ...
Gluten Free & Paleo Carrot Cake
This paleo carrot cake is soft, moist, and one of the best I've ever had! Spread with cream cheese frosting or creamy paleo date frosting! Folks, I'm on the last one, so it's time to celebrate. The laaaaaaast one. I won't say it's been fun, easy, or exactly something I'd want to repeat. My Mom officially announced that "Linnaea, your time management skills are not what I thought they were." I have to agree with her. My time management skills are not what I thought they were. Every ...
Chocolate Roulade Recipe (Gluten Free and Paleo Friendly)
This gluten free and paleo friendly chocolate roulade recipe is a beautiful dessert. The greatest part, in my opinion, is that it looks impressive but is actually super easy to make. Though a chocolate roulade, or “yule log” is generally a Christmas dessert, it’s something I make year round. I’ll be making it more and more in the future as well, I think....since I can foresee it becoming one of my go-to paleo dessert recipes (I like to have a few of those up my sleeve). It is true that ...
Paleo Frosting Recipe from my Friend Rebecca
Hopefully one day Rebecca will have a blog of her own from which she can share her delicious paleo recipes (your truffles, please, my friend). But I couldn’t resist sharing her recipe for amazing paleo frosting here! It’s the recipe I talked about so long ago in the chocolate cupcakes post (we had a deal going: I made the cupcakes and she made the paleo frosting. We each brought our offering to events we went to, then joined the two in absolute deliciousness). So here it is, the long awaited ...
Blueberry Swirl Muffins
It’s actually been a month since I made this muffin recipe, so forgive me if I fail to remember enough to wax eloquent on the glories of gluten free blueberry swirl muffins. I may be a foodie, but I can’t remember how my food tasted a month after I ate it. Frankly I’d rather not think too much about last month’s food. Because last month, shortly after making eating the last crumb of these muffins, I went to New Zealand and began The Diet of Tuna (which, by the way, is not required in New ...
Gluten Free Waffle Sandwich
Make this delicious waffle sandwich for a quick lunch! All you need is sandwich filling ingredients and some waffles leftover from breakfast. I've left winter behind me. Not to brag or anything, but right now I'm looking over a view of pristine ocean and miles of green mountains. 7,000 miles from home (according to my geographic calculations, which aren't great). But I'm several thousand miles from home, I think. In the beautiful, glorious green of New Zealand. All I know is, I'm a ...
Savory Baked Breakfast Crepes
I suffer from a chronic condition known as procrastination. Whenever I don’t want to do something (like apply for college or write scholarship essays), I bake delicious food and take hours photographing it. That’s what I did the morning I made these savory baked crepes. And, well, I also had to make a payment, so these crepes were the perfect currency. I’d traded a younger sister for her turn with the cat the night before, so I owed her breakfast. I don’t know why we even argue about ...
Old-Fashioned Oatmeal (no more gummy oatmeal, ever again)
Here's the thing about oatmeal: You're doing it wrong. I was doing it wrong too for a while, just merrily following the instructions on the package (after all, they make it, they must know what they're talking about). The finished result of my oatmeal was pretty much one large ball of snot, which isn't a very appetizing breakfast. My Dad taught me how to make good old-fashioned oatmeal the right way. It's supposed to be pretty dry, not at all snotty. A perfect oatmeal flakes apart ...
Gluten Free Oliebollen Recipe: A Dutch New Year’s Treat
Enjoy this yeasty gluten free oliebollen recipe! Oliebollen is a Dutch New Year’s treat that literally translates to “oil balls,” which means that oliebollen is the most unhealthy, most delicious, most oily-and-yeasty-and-soft-and-crunchy-and-sweet thing there is. I come from a very Dutch family. There are several inevitable facts resulting from this: First, we’re all tall. Except me. I tell my sisters that “I’m not short, I’m just short enough to wear heels and be awesome.” Second, we’re ...
Cinnamon Roll Dutch Baby Pancake
I'm starting to love a good dutch baby pancake. They are so easy to make. Just put everything in the oven and then go about your business (usually for me this involves brushing my hair for once, putting away all the clothes that are laying about on the floor, and maybe even making my bed). Then, twenty minutes later, open the oven to see that something magical has happened. When I remove my beautiful Dutch Baby from the oven, it is usually greeted with gasps of awe and hunger. The Wheedler ...
Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie (Refined Sugar Free, No Evaporated Milk)
We used to get sick every year around Christmas time. It’s true there are a lot of colds going around this time of year, as well as a lot of people getting together having parties and such, but there are colds going around for a lot of the year and usually we don’t get sick. It could be all the Vitamin C that we take every time cold season rolls around (though really sometimes I think the Vitamin C actually makes me sick...it tastes awful). I think mainly we don’t get sick because our ...
Quick Lunch: Tortilla Pizza
In this quick and easy tortilla pizza recipe, you just sprinkle on some toppings and cook. How does gluten free pizza in under 30 minutes sound? There are wars at our house. I like to think of them as tortilla pizza wars (we also have pan wars, bread wars, dish wars, cleaning wars, kindle wars, and lately a rather worrisome cardboard war, but currently I'm just talking about the pizza wars). Pizza Wars involve a great deal of fighting, secrecy, hiding, shady deals, and sometimes fire ...
Gluten Free Crepes with Caramelized Peach Spread
A delightful breakfast or a pretty dessert, these gluten free crepes with caramelized peach spread are simply divine. Refined sugar free, too! Jump to the Recipe. This morning I wandered downstairs in a daze and collapsed backwards onto the couch, legs swinging up into the air and head hanging off the edge (this is the proper way to sit/lounge/flop on a couch). The blood rushed all the way down from my feet to my brain, and I stared at the opposite upside down wall and faced that old ...
Pure7 Chocolate Review
I stumbled upon Pure7 Chocolate about a month ago through a link on a blog and was immediately impressed by the short, organic-only ingredient list and their beautiful website (because, okay, who isn’t impressed by a nice website?). So, liking what I saw, I contacted them and asked them if they had an affiliate program. Originally I was just thinking something along the lines of a picture on my sidebar leading to their site or something (or what was I thinking? I’m not sure. I tend to rush ...
Paleo Cupcakes (Chocolate, Moist, and Not Eggy!)
Super rich, fudgy, chocolatey, and not at all eggy paleo cupcakes with a secret ingredient. No one would know these divine cupcakes are secretly paleo! JUMP TO THE RECIPE. I first made this recipe as a cake with zucchini for my sister’s birthday, but we all agreed later that the zucchini flavor was a bit too strong and didn’t pair well with the peanut butter. In the end we switched in carrots instead of zucchini. None of us could taste them at all and no one would guess that these paleo ...
Balsamic Molasses Marinated Skirt/Flap/Blade/Flank Steak
I would like to make a confession. I am an amateur. At what, you ask? Well, pretty much at everything, life included/especially. But I’m referring specifically to the fact that I’m an amateur when it comes to cooking meat. Confession #2: I have never, ever even cooked a steak until today. Which is sort of embarrassing, since I do live on a cattle ranch. My family produces beef. I remember one time we were at a friend’s house, and they were wanting to fry a steak. They ...
Gluten Free and Can Be Paleo No Bake Cookies
These tasty gluten free, can-be-paleo no bake cookies are perfect for everything from parties to your afternoon chocolate fix. :) You can't succeed in life without a no bake cookie recipe. Okay, fine, that might be an exaggeration. But it is true that I was having some serious difficulties without a sugar free no bake cookie recipe. Well, actually, just serious difficulties without an easy sugar free dessert. Because sometimes even I get sick of drowning myself in ...
2-Serving Paleo Chocolate Mousse
Let me establish something right off the bat: This paleo chocolate mousse does not taste like straight up coconut cream. I get it, I get it. Coconut cream thickens nicely. Coconut cream tastes good with chocolate. Coconut cream is easy to turn into a mousse. But it's easy to get tired of coconut cream mousse. Sometimes you just want regular, honest, silky smooth chocolate mousse that doesn't even hint of coconut. Yes, I use coconut cream in this recipe, but, no, you can't ...
Berry Clafoutis
I stumbled upon this French custard dessert a while ago on Pinterest. Of course, I just had to do it my way and made it with chocolate rather than fruit. Then, while updating some of the recipes on my blog the other day I came upon the chocolate clafouti recipe and realized that I never did make a real gluten free fruit clafouti. I was also looking for something to make for breakfast the next morning (yes, even though it’s a dessert). So I decided to go for it. I’m not normally ...
Fruit Sauce
I originally used this fruit sauce on these lemon crepes, but have since then used it so many different ways that it deserves its own page. I updated the recipe, tweaked it a bit to perfect it, and now here it is. Blueberry Sauce Print Prep time 5 mins Total time 5 mins Fresh, flavorful fruit sauce for anything from pancakes to cheesecake. Author: Linnaea Recipe type: Sauce Serves: 1½ cups sauce Ingredients 1 cup frozen or fresh strawberries, ...
Gluten Free Apple Cobbler
You've gotta have gluten free apple cobbler. It's just one of those necessities of life. Like chocolate or books. Books. I've been on a book marathon lately. Except not really a marathon. It's just that sometimes I'm hungry for food and other times I have a voracious appetite for books. Sometimes both. I think I read three books yesterday. And after that I read a bunch of short children's stories. Yes, I still read children's books. No, I'm not ashamed. And anyway, ...
Lemon Blueberry Muffins
I needed a perfectly amazing blueberry muffin. You see, when you hear the words "Blueberry Muffin" there is a very definite idea of what that should be. It should be light and mildly sweet, and plain enough that the blueberries are in the spotlight, but not so plain that they are flavorless. The barely perceptible strain of lemon flavor in these muffins adds that tiny bit of extra flavor, but the blueberries are very much the spotlight. I've made a lot of blueberry muffins ...
Gluten Free Coconut Cake (dairy free and refined sugar free options)
This gluten free coconut cake is everything you know a coconut cake should be: it's light, soft, sweet, full of coconut flavor, and has a nice tender crumb! Sometimes I feel like writing and sometimes I don't. Today I don't. So I probably shouldn't, because I'll end up writing something really weird about aliens or extinct mammoths, and then I'll come back here later and look at it and wonder how I even started thinking about extinct mammoths. So instead, I'm going to ...
Yam Salad
Okay, I just need to let you know before we get started: This could very well be a sweet potato salad instead of a yam salad. My sisters and I have been arguing about yams vs. sweet potatoes for a long time now. I looked it up on the internet but there were varying definitions, so I’m still not completely certain which is which. It’s a sad world when you don’t know the difference between a yam and a sweet potato. I’m of the opinion that yams are orange and sweet potatoes are ...