Cake Disaster

It's a cake, it's pile of goo, it's delicious!

Okay so the first attempt at gluten-free cake did not go so well.  Tastes great but is just a pile of cake with no shape to it.  It fell out of the mold in pieces.  A mound of gooey, albeit incredibly tasty cake mess.  I probably should have started with a bona fide gluten free cake recipe but not me!  I used a regular pound cake recipe and just substituted coconut oil for part of the butter and a combination of almond and coconut flour for the flour.  Of course it was a recipe I'd never tried before so I probably should have done something safer - but who wants to be safe when charging forward into gluten-free eating!

Introducing - the Breakfast Bowl!

Weekends at Black Dog Ranch are breakfast bowl days.  My husband is used to finding all kinds of weird things in his bowl.  Breakfast bowls are awesome!  The foundation of the breakfast bowl is eggs but for the other ingredients - all bets are off!  I essentially clean out the fridge and call it breakfast.  These are tasty, filling, and an awesome way to use up leftovers from the week.  I'll give you the basic recipe but really the Breakfast Bowl is about experimentation!

Sunday Breakfast Bowl

some kind of meat - this can be traditional breakfast meat like sausage or bacon

or

chop up leftover chicken, pork chops, steak

vegetables - today I used fresh spinach, tomato, avocado, and leftover squash

eggs - 2 per person is about right

cheese - feta, cheddar, blue - whatever you have around

Cook the meat in a large frying pan.  Add the veggies.  Get everything nice and warm, then dump in the lightly beaten eggs.  Cook until eggs are done.  Split into bowls - add some cheese and a dab of salsa.  ENJOY!

Some of my favorite combos are chicken/avocado/mushroom; sausage/spinach/feta; bacon/tomato/avocado.....you really can't go wrong!

My Gluten Free Life

So I decided to take Matt and I into the gluten-free zone.  Why?  Because I noticed that my stomach would hurt a lot of times after a meal.  I woke up each morning with a stuffed up head and swollen joints.  We're in week two.  So far it hasn't been too hard.  We weren't big gluten eaters to begin with and we don't eat much in the way of processed foods.  I ordered some almond flour and coconut flour - but haven't really needed it yet.  Mostly just eating fresh veggies and meat.  Lunch has been a bit challenging for me at work but sticking to yummy soups.


Knowing me, experimentin' is in my future so I'll keep y'all posted on any new and wonderful recipes I come up with.