Pudding – Chocolate GF DF

  • ½ cup sugar
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • ¼ cup cornstarch
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • 2 ¾ cups milk alternative like oat milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Stir together sugar, cocoa, cornstarch, and salt in a saucepan. Place over medium heat, and stir in milk.  Bring to a boil, and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a metal spoon.  Remove from heat, and stir in vanilla.

Pudding – Chocolate

  • ½ cup white sugar
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • ¼ cup cornstarch
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • 2 ¾ cups milk
  • 2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Stir together sugar, cocoa, cornstarch, and salt in a saucepan. Place over medium heat, and stir in milk.  Bring to a boil, and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a metal spoon.  Remove from heat, and stir in butter and vanilla.

To Try – Chocolate w fruit in it

PEARS/PEACHES & CHOCOLATE

  • 15 ounce organic pears or peaches strained (1 3/4 cups)
  • 1.5 cups dark or semi sweet chocolate

Melt chocolate and strain fruit.  Mix at high speed.  Pour into a loaf pan lined with parchment.  Top with chopped chocolate and flakey sea salt.  Let harden in a cool place.

APPLESAUCE & CHOCOLATE

  • 2 cups chocolate
  • 1 Tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 cup applesauce
  • 1 Hu chocolate bar

Melt chocolate in microwave with coconut oil, microwaving 30 seconds at a time in a glass bowl.  Stir in applesauce until thickens. Line pan with parchment and pour in the half size of a 9 x 12 pan.  Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes.   Melt a Hu bar and pour over the top.  They put it in the fridge until it hardened.  Tastes like a fudgy brownie.

CARROTS & CHOCOLATE

  • 9 oz dark chocolate
  • 15 oz cooked carrots

Melt chocolate in microwave.  Put carrots into high speed blender and add melted chocolate.  Pour into little cups and refrigerate

Muffins-peanut butter/pumpkin

  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin
  • This works as a substitute for 3 eggs:
    • 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
    • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 cup banana
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground ginger
  • 3 Tbsp oat milk (I added because there wasn’t enough liquid)

1/4 cup into lined muffin tins, I used 2 of my large scoops

350 degrees for 16 to 18 minutes

These are good only if served with fig butter but I’m really not a fan. When eat one it feels heavy in your stomach.

To Try – Depression Cake

1 1/2 cup flour (sub oat flour?)

1 cup sugar (could you substitute something here)

3 Tbsp cocoa

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup cold water

preheat 350

mix ingredients together and pour into prepared 8 to 9 inch pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.  Dust with powdered sugar when serve.

Kielbasa & Sauerkraut

3 packages of any kind of sauerkraut (jar, can, bag), prefer fine slice

3 packages skinless Kielbasa

1 lb All beef hot dogs

1 lb Pork pieces (optional)

1 tsp Caraway seeds (helps with digestion)

1 Onion grated or apple grated

Buns

Put a layer of sauerkraut in the bottom of the roaster. Add the pork, kielbasa, caraway and grated apple or onion.  Bake at 350 for 1 to 1/2 hours when kielbasa is mostly done.  Then add the hot dogs and cook for another half hour.  Serve in a nice thick bun.

The flavors develop better when roasted in oven instead of cooked in slow cooker.

Beef – Sliders

Frozen hamburger sliders – yum

  • Put meat in the fryer while frozen – do not thaw
  • Salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder top
  • Air fry on 375 for 15 minutes
  • Flip halfway through and salt, pepper, garlic and onion
  • Finish cooking

Chicken Wings

To fry the chicken

  • Chicken wings – as many as you want
  • Olive Oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Garlic powder
  • Paprika

For a great sauce

  • Butter
  • Fresh garlic (or minced garlic in a squeeze bottle)
  • Honey
  • Soy sauce
  • Siracha or Pete’s (optional)

To fry the chicken

  • Coat with olive oil
  • Put in the air fryer
  • Sprinkle top with salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika
  • 375 or 380 for 15 minutes
  • At half way point, flip chicken, more oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika
  • Finish cooking

For sauce

  • Mince garlic and lightly fry in some butter (or add the minced from the bottle)
  • Stir in honey, soy sauce and siracha or Pete’s (optional)

Baked Potato

  • Cut potato in half
  • Face the halves up on a baking sheet
  • Spray with olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
  • Turn over so face is down
  • Olive oil, salt and pepper
  • Bake at 425 degrees for 30 minutes

Bread-Banana-gf/df *

3/4 cup oats, quick or old fashioned

1 cup mashed ripe banana

1/4 cup nut butter

Forgot to use, this was the sub for 2 eggs…2 Tbsp ground flax seed + 6 Tbsp water – let sit until it becomes gel-like consistency

1/4 cup coconut palm sugar, for me i substituted 1 single serve cinnamon applesauce and thought the sweetness was still good.

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease a 9 x 5 bread pan or line it with a sheet of parchment paper leaving a few inches of overhang for easy removal.

Add the oats to the bowl of a high speed blender or food processor and process until a find powder. about 2 minutes. Add all the remaining ingredients except for the chocolate chips and continue processing until the batter is smooth and creamy, about two minutes.  Fold in the chocolate chips by hand.  Pour the batter into your prepared loaf pan and top with more chocolate chips if desired.

Bake for 45 to 50 minutes (I ONLY BAKED FOR 20) until the top of the loaf begins to turn golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.  Allow the loaf to cool for five minutes before removing. Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days or freeze for 3 months.

April 2025 – loved this, even Joe liked it. Forgot to add the egg substitute. Maybe less cinnamon. ONLY BAKED FOR 20 MINUTES. MAY 2025 substituted one individual serving cup of applesauce, cinnamon. Eliminate did the cinnamon and the recipe. Sweetness was still very good. Should have cooked a few minutes longer than the 23 minutes that I did.  OR  could try asking 1/4 cup more of oat flour. Although it still tasted very good!!