Egg Bake

Great when you are having a group over for brunch.  Always a healthy hit.  

Ingredients:
5 Eggs
1 pound breakfast sausage or homemade breakfast sausage (recipe below)
1 cup coconut milk
Butter to grease the dish with
8 x 8 glass dish

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a pan, cook the breakfast sausage.  While the sausage is cooking, mix together the coconut milk and eggs in a separate bowl.  When the sausage is done, add it to the egg mixture and stir.  Then dump everything into a greased glass container.  Bake in the oven for 50 minutes.

Thinking of adding veggies?  Me too!  Pre-cook veggies like broccoli, mushrooms, or asparagus and add that to the egg mixture as well and bake.  Will add not only more nutrition but more yumminess!

Flaxseed Crackers

Miss crunchy, grainy crackers?  Well these homemade crackers are made in the oven at a low temp by dehydrating seeds.  Super satisfying and tasty.  But FYI, make sure you have no where to go for a long time.  These are low maintenance but take along time to cook.  So just make sure you have the time allotted. 

Heat oven to 150 degrees (if you oven does not go that low, go to 170 degrees and just keep the door open a little bit.)

Prep: Take 1 1/2 cups of flax seeds and soak in water for at least 2 hours.  Forms a sticky, gel.  (The glue for your crackers)

Take a baking sheet and coat it with melted coconut oil.  This helps the crackers not stick while cooking.  

Then take 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds, 1/2 cup of pumpkin seeds and 1 grated carrot and combine in a bowl.  Then scoop in the soaked flaxseeds.  Add 1 tbsp of tamari

Cook for 2 hours.  Then it's time to flip.  Before flipping, I use a pizza cutter to cut the large cracker into quarters.  It's much easier than trying to flip one large cracker.  Then keep cooking for at least another 2 hours.  You want the crackers to be crispy.  This could take up to 5 hours to get done.

When done, take out of the oven and break into crackers.  Store in an airtight container.  Enjoy. 

Rosemary Walnuts

With holiday parties this is my go to treat I bring.  Great flavor and saltiness that I love in a snack food.  But don’t think you have to have a party to enjoy this little treat.  This is a super snack to have around the house.  Don’t reach for the chips?  Reach for the salty walnuts.

Ingredients: 2 cups walnuts, 2 tbsp butter, 2 tbsp dried rosemary, and 1 tsp sea salt.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Get a cookie sheet and line it with aluminum foil.  Place walnuts in a bowl with a lid.  Melt the butter and stir in the rosemary.  Then dump it over the walnuts.  Cover the bowl and do a little shimmy-shake with the bowl to coat the walnuts.  When done (only a few shakes does it, don’t go crazy) dump the walnuts onto the cookie sheet so they are lying flat.  Then pop in the oven for 10 minutes.

That’s it.  Store in a container in the refrigerator.  But don’t worry.  There so good, they will not be stored for long.