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Dinners

Buckwheat Flour & Potato Gnocchi 

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Ladies and gentlemen here’s another delicious simple recipe for you to create…

…you’ll soon be making your own gnocchi at a speedy efficient rate!

 Ingredients

  • Some peeled and diced chopped potatoes
  • 1 cup of Buckwheat Flour 

Steam potatoes until soft enough to mash through…  

Then use a fork, masher or ricer to soften – don’t use a blender whatever you do! Here’s the final result fluffy, silky and smooth:  
You can add any seasonings at this point if you’re in a real culinary groove 😉  

Then measure out one cup of buckwheat flour ready to pour…  

…into your mixing bowl and make a hole in the centre for…   

…your fluffy potato, add to the centre in a ball……and knead the flour into the potato here’s what it should look like in all…  
Roll the dough into little round balls just like so…  

  …and place them in a pan of boiling water, and when they’re ready how will you know?

Because in a minute or two they’ll rise up to the top! And that’s when you take them out so the cooking will stop!

Then serve warm with your favourite sauce, we used tomato as you can see here…    

After this delicious meal you’ll soon be in good cheer!   

Bread, Cakes & Muffins, Flour

Homemade Quinoa Flour

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Ingredients:

  • 2 cups of Quinoa 
  • Coffee/spice grinder or Vitamix dry jug blender. 

Here’s a little tip for you if you ever run out of quinoa flour:

Simply make your own in a quarter of an hour! 

Here we have located our 5 kilogram queen of quinoa store! 👑

For approximately 3 cups of flour just 2 cups of grain we’ll need to pour. 

 In a skillet toast 2 cups of seed on medium heat until the grains begin to pop. 

Then you want to lightly stir for 2-3 minutes before the toasting can stop.  

Place the grains in your coffee/spice grinder or Vitamix to finely blend…

And in 30 seconds you’ll have quinoa flour to send…  

To your recipes with homemade cheer…

 and next time you run out of flour you’ll have no fear! 

Bread, Dinners, Pizza, Pizza Bases

Ground Flax Flour-Free Pizza Base 

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 It’s Bank holiday Monday and there is an all round vote for Pizza tonight… Alas! We are out of flour and so this poses a real dilemma in our household this evening…

Do Not Fear inspiration is here! We happened to find another jar of ground flax seed in the pantry earlier this evening 👌

Ingredients:

  • 1 and 1/2 Cups ground flaxseed/linseed 
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons oregano
  • 3 tablespoons of oil
  • 3 flax eggs ( 3 tablespoons of flax + 9 tablespoons of water stirred and left to solidify in the fridge for 15 minutes)
  • 1/2 cup water

Flax seed measured into our mixing bowl….

  

Add all ingredients… 

  

See that baking powder beginning to foam! 

  

Mix all ingredients together and leave to thicken for 5 minutes… 

  

Roll out mixture onto a silicone tray to desired thickness  

 
Shaping this pizza fair and SQUARE ☺️😂 ( Well it became more rectangular actually!) then bake for 15-20 minutes 

 

Et voila! The mixture solidifies and turns a wonderful brown crispy golden colour.

  

You can see that the base has solidified and begun to rise from the silicone sheet… 

  
Now to spread our Perfect Pizza Sauce…

  

And apply toppings! First fresh organic leaf spinach…

  

 …and now organic washed broccoli including thinly slicing the stalks…

 

…finally some sliced organic and washed yellow pepper  

  

Completed with a sprinkle of salt, ground pepper and mixed herbs 👌

  

Into the oven for a further 15-20 minutes then your flax crust pizza is complete. 

  

Breakfast, Dessert

Buckwheat Banana Bread

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Ingredients:
– 3 bananas
– 2 flax eggs (5 tablespoons of ground flax seed and 10 tablespoons of water stirred and left to set for 15 minutes in the fridge)
– 1/4 cup of maple syrup
(Or date syrup)
– 1 teaspoon of baking powder
– 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
– A sprinkle of pumpkin seeds for topping (other seeds/nuts will work too)
– Coconut oil or cake release spray to grease pan.
– Heart shaped cake pan or cupcake cases

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Here’s a perfect recipe in time for Valentine’s Day…
Buckwheat Banana bread made in a LOVEing way!

Here’s your ingredients ready to make
Your delicious banana bread ready to bake:
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1. Mash the bananas until they are completely crushed, this is not a step that can really be rushed!
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2. Then add the flax eggs, flour, baking powder, syrup and spice and whisk the mixture till it’s all smooth and nice!


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3. Pour mixture evenly into greased loaf tin/ceramic dish or cupcake case
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4. Then top with seeds or nuts for a finish that’s ace!
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5. Pop in the oven for 30 minutes of cooking time IMG_9882.JPG
And you’ll soon have beautiful warming bread for yourself and Valentine ❤️
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Dessert

Raspberry & Pear ‘nutty’ Crumble

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You know those mornings when it is just too cold for ice?
It’s raining outside and something warm would be nice.
Or when you’re in need of a warm dessert that’s guilt-free,
Well we have for you here the most delicious warm recipe.

Put some chosen frozen or fresh fruit onto an oven plate,
Then top with crushed nuts, Brazils or walnuts are great.
We have used organic raspberries and some pear,
Though of course go with any combination you dare!

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Bake until the fruit is soft for thirty minutes or maybe forty
And Voila! A breakfast or dessert that’s nice and not naughty!

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