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 ...
Snacks
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 ...
No Bake Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
I’m not a big date lover. For some reason dates remind me of dried figs and dried figs remind me of what my Dad used to tell us: Figs are filled with small, disgusting worms that crawl around inside your throat after you’ve eaten them. I apologize for telling you that. You’ll probably never eat figs again either. But all the same, dates aren’t figs. They might remind you of figs, but they aren’t filled with disgusting worms like figs are. And even though I don’t like them plain, they are ...
Chocolate Smoothie
You didn’t think I’d dare to go and post a recipe for cold chocolate smoothie when it's still freezing at night out here. But I dared. Mostly just to be mean. Hopefully you’ll make this smoothie, and, realizing how good it is, you’ll drink it all before you realize how cold it is. And then you’ll sit there shivering in a blanket. The best thing I can recommend is that you buy one of those blankets with sleeves that everyone has been raving about lately. Those things aren’t exactly beautiful ...
Chewy Granola Bars
I’ve made so many batches of non paleo, somewhat paleo, and completely paleo granola bars that I'm surprised anyone dared to eat these at all. It isn’t that the former batches were bad. They just…weren’t…good. They had all the granola bar flavor, but none of the “stick-together-ness.” Actually, never mind. I was intending to make breakfast granola every single one of those times. Not granola bars. Crumbly breakfast granola. That’s it. Even though I did perhaps mistakenly call it ...
Chocolate Coconut Bars
These are good. You think I’m joking? Crunchy coconut in a rectangle, wrapped in super dark chocolate. Do you still think I’m joking? Healthy. Sugar free, dairy free, grain free, soy free…etc. How about now? Hey, if you’re still not convinced, I feel bad for you. Coconut might not be for everyone, though it’s definitely for me. I used to hate coconut, but coconut is like the best now. But if you don’t like coconut, if you are convinced that you never will (how can that ...
Double Chocolate Hot Chocolate
We take hot chocolate mixes with us whenever we go skiing (which is, by the way, the best sport ever). Since we usually don't have time for hot chocolate when eating lunch (we're always desperate to get back on the mountain!), we make it to drink on the way home. There's really nothing better than some hot chocolate when you're tired and a little cold. This year, I'll definitely be bringing this 'double chocolate' hot chocolate. That'll be even better. Ingredients 3 tablespoons milk ...
Peanut Butter Pecan Bites
Most pecan bite recipes require a cracker or something for the base. But gluten-free crackers are expensive. And anyway, I prefer to bake from scratch. However, if you want to use a cracker, no one's stopping you. Unfortunately, this recipe doesn't quite make the cut for 5 minutes. It took me just a little under 10 minutes to make. But still, a chocolatey pecan bite is only ten minutes away. Makes about eight bites. Ingredients Peanut Butter Layer: ¼ cup peanut butter ¼ ...
No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
Girls are known for their love for chocolate. Well, hopefully that's not the only thing we're known for. But anyway, these bars are chocolatey and super-easy to make. They take under five minutes to prepare. When I first made these bars, everyone enjoyed them. And therefore I was doomed to a life of making homemade chocolate peanut butter bars. I've told them that I can teach them how to make these bars. In fact, that's part of the reason I'm writing a recipe. So I can put ...
Chocolate Popsicles
Sometimes, it amazes me how little people really know about eating gluten-free. Yesterday, my sister was at a two-day horse camp. They tried to help her. They really did. While everybody else ordered pizza, they ordered a salad for her, with some nice wheat bread-sticks on top of it. Bread sticks contain gluten?! Yes, it's shocking. A couple years ago I was at a hospital. I broke my finger in an accident. It happens. So after staying overnight at the hospital, even though hospital ...