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The Best Gluten Free Waffle Recipe

Hey, y’all. 🙂

How are y’all doing this week?

As y’all know things were rough for me last week.  I got to participate in a conference call with HRC (along with other campaign volunteers) though and am doing much better.

 🙂

 

Yeah. The #calexit won’t happen. But I mean…did we ever in our wildest dreams imagine we’d have an illiterate openly racist / misogynistic  dude as our president?  So just incase it does happen…I bought the domain for just a cali girl and her blog. 😉  Sister B wants to go to Canada.  I can’t commit to that but I think we all know I could commit to a California beach and an avocado tree in the backyard. 🙂

I almost had a heart attack last night. This thing was crawling on the wall right next to where I was sitting. It’s some kind of gross hairy spider with shiny green eyes and white spots. When it spread all the way out it was the size of a quarter. I f…uh…reeked. (But then caught it in a glass and let it outside…being a child of Charlotte’s Web and all…).

So we had breakfast for supper a few times (in a row…but who’s counting) 😉

120g Almond Flour, 70g Arrowroot, 2 tsp Baking Powder, 1 Egg, 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp Cashew Milk, 1/4 cup Coconut Oil, 2 tbsp Sugar equivalent (I used Splenda),  1 tsp Lemon Juice, 2 tbsp Blueberry Preserves.

I adapted this from Brittany Angell’s Waffle recipe in Every Last Crumb.

Almost 2 years ago now I went to a book reading / signing that featured Brittany plus some other Paleo / gluten – free people.  At the time I was going to give Paleo a try and then instead spent pretty much the entire year of 2015 feeling like death with one health crisis after another.

Since I’m mixing in some Paleo ideas right now I decided to pull out those books.

She describes this waffle as crispy on the outside but soft on the inside. It was.  I loved it and can’t wait to make them again. She doesn’t use blueberries in her recipe but those are my favorites and I had some of those cooked down blueberries left from before so I added them.

One note from my own personal observations: The first two waffles were not crispy at all straight out of the waffle iron (they did crisp up in the toaster oven). The rest were perfect though. So plan on the first two to be a little more floppy til the iron gets supper hot.

I loved these so much and even though I’m about 2 years post purchase these alone were worth the cost of the book.

She says you can cook these straight from the freezer like regular waffles. I had 2 left over so I’ll let y’all know how that goes.

Related to the eating…went shopping for a little retail therapy this weekend. I’d tried this top on about 4 weeks ago (left) and it was on the clearance rack this weekend. Tried it on to check progress. I didn’t buy it because I’m going thru sizes so quickly I didn’t think it was worth it even on clearance.

Hope y’all have a great week and I’ll see you soon. 🙂

 

 

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Hi, y’all. 🙂

It’s been a while.

I spent the last couple months making some changes and just couldn’t worry about the blog right then.

I’m also running the business and doing volunteer work for the election.

Y’all know I’d been going thru a bunch of health stuff for well over a year.  On top of all of that my pain level was just off the charts. Because of my blood thinner and an allergy I’m limited in what I can take for pain. What I can take wasn’t working. At. All.  It was time to try something different.  It was time to try a little swap…

This grain / dairy / sugar loving girl has gone keto with a little Paleo mixed in for variety.

Yeah.

It was about as rough as you’d expect in the beginning. I honestly just wanted to go ahead and die for about 2 weeks.

But now I’m all in.  I won’t even pretend to profess this is gonna be a forever thing but right now I’m in.

My meals have looked like a lot of this…

Hamburger / guac / hot sauce (this pic has cheese and sour cream but I’ve since removed all dairy too)

and this…

BBQ plate from my fav local place (I didn’t eat all that at one time…and that’s homemade bbq sauce Mama B made me…it’s a de-sugared version of our family sauce so I can’t share the recipe)

and this…

‘Chili bowl’  aka hamburger meat / spices / broth / topped with guac.

And this…

Paleo almond flour pancakes / sausage / egg  / xylitol based syrup (plus a couple of spoons of cooked down blueberries…that’s where the Paleo comes in).

And a lot of chicken wings (don’t have any pics).

For the first month I ate the same thing over and over…hamburger patties / cheese / may0 / guac.

Then I started branching out and getting a little more creative.

Honestly let me tell y’all…after those first two weeks I was doing great…until I removed the dairy (specifically cheese) and then I wanted to kill somebody.  Anybody.  I thought giving up the sugar would be the worst thing ever but I’m finding it harder to stay out of the cheese than the candy right now.

I’m working on a solution to that and if it works out I’ll blog about it.

Let me add here that I’m just doing my own thing and not following a specific plan or book or whatever.  I don’t want a bunch of email telling me something I post isn’t this or that. You do you and don’t worry about me.

I’m using alternative sweeteners (splenda in my tea and stevia / eryth in baked goods).  My only rule is to stay under 20 net carbs.  Most days I’m way way below that but I have to have a little variety a couple of times a week.

I’m on day 61 today.

The black and white dress pic was on day 50

before-and-current-dresses-copy

The red dress was last year. I’d already lost some weight between red dress and starting in Sept but I forgot to take a pic the day I started.

So anyway…that’s what’s going on here.

I’m starting to feel like trying new recipes and ideas (I made some keto brownies today but haven’t tried them yet) and will share the more interesting ones but it’s really all kind of boring.

Ok that’s all for today.

(y’all vote if you haven’t already)

Hope y’all are doing well. See you soon.  🙂