Banana Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins

I love love this recipe! My sister bought me mini muffin pans for Christmas and I decided to play around with some recipes and made this! All my coworkers loved them!

2 medium size bananas, mashed
2 eggs, whisked
¾ cup almond flour
¼ cup honey or coconut sugar
¼ cup coconut oil, melted
¼ cup tapioca flour
2 tbsp coconut flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
Coconut oil (for greasing pan)
1/3 cup Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips (paleo approved) or regular mini semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Set your oven to 350 °.
Place all ingredients in a food processor besides the chocolate chips. Then add the chocolate chips and pulse a couple times. Put one tablespoon of batter in a greased mini muffin pan and bake for around 10 mins. Makes about 33 muffins. Enjoy! I adapted this recipe from South Beach Primals Chocolate Banana Bread, but made it my own!

Crispy paleo waffles

Amazing recipe. Love love love this recipe! Mine look a bit dark because I used honey as the sweetener. Brittany Angell is amazing!

http://brittanyangell.com/extra-crispy-waffles-2-versions-paleo-or-gluten-free-vegan

Paleo Plans Banana Tapioca Crepes

Amazing recipe! I love it. Finally decided to make it at home. My mother in law makes them whenever we come over.

Here is the recipe:

http://www.paleoplan.com/2012/09-06/banana-tapioca-crepes/

Red Pepper & Mushroom Pork Sausage Meatballs with roasted Green beans

These are so good and easy to make! Just making them into balls takes up most of the time, but I was jamming out with some music so I didn't mind :)

Ingredients:

2lbs pork sausage
Small to medium red bell pepper, minced
Handful or two or mushrooms, minced
2 eggs, whisked

Seasonings:
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp Italian seasoning
1 1/2 tsp of sea salt
(I put 2 tsp originally, but found it a tad salty)
1 1/2 tsp of pepper

Pre-heat oven to 350°. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Mix ingredients and seasonings in a separate bowl then pour seasonings into the pork sausage mix and mix well. I used my hands :). Make one inch balls and place in cookie sheets. About a finger width apart is fine. You should fill both cookie sheets no problem. Bake for about 15 mins or until cooked all the way. Check after 10 minutes. Originally set timer for 25 mins, but smelt something burning lol. Bottoms were a little crisp :].

Once cooked place in dining plate.

Roasted greenbeans:
A couple handfuls of fresh green beans

Place rinsed and trimmed green beans on same cookie sheet (after you have removed the parchment paper). Bake at same temperature for about 15 minutes. Flip green beans halfway through. Cooked when skin is getting wrinkly and crisp. Garnish your meatball plate with them and put extra in its own dish.

Eggplant fries

Don't know what to do with all the eggplant you got from your CSA or garden? Make eggplant fries! I used a little tapioca flour in the mix, about 1/6 of a cup and used coconut oil instead of olive oil. Great recipe!

http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/2012/09/low-carb-gluten-free-eggplant-fries-2.html#

Zucchini fries

Melt in your mouth goodness! :) Ididn't use the called for cheese and would flip over the fries at ten minutes rather then fifteen. I also used a French fry cutter on the smaller grate. Recipe below!

http://www.primallyinspired.com/baked-zucchini-fries-bloomin-onion-dipping-sauce-grain-free-gluten-free/

Paleo tortillas by Ms. Paleo Eats

Joyous day in the Grandjean home! After years of not having a paleo friendly tortilla I finally found an amazing recipe! I didn't have lard so I just used chilled butter. Turned out great! Doubled the recipe and baked in the oven for 5min at 400 degrees. Will try the skillet next because the edges were too crispy. Here is the link to the recipe. Made enchiladas with them. So flexible and easy to work with once cooled.

http://lvlhealth.com/easy-tasty-tortillas/