SUMMARY. It took over a decade, but today I finally can scratch off my recipe bucket list, making Lois Lang’s Luscious Breadfrom the BTVC book. This bread is as very near to conventional wheat breads as it gets. It can be sliced and used for sandwiches, and of course here, we make it into redic delic EASY SCD French Toast. I freeze this bread in slices, separated with unbleached parchment paper. It makes for quick breakfasts AND fabulous travel food! Enjoy French Toast alone, with a shake of cinnamon, or a slug of honey. Maple syrup is also perfect if eating PRODUCE version of SCD, (now in study at 12 facilities across the U.S.) or PALEO. This recipe is GLUTEN-FREE, GRAIN-FREE, SCD, UMass IBD-AID, PRODUCE, and it is permitted in PALEO CAMPS that allow lactose-free aged cheeses. There is nothing not to luv about this recipe. Give it a try and let me know what ingredient additions you make using the basic Lois Lang Bread recipe!
Category Archives: Recipes: Breakfast
Eat eggs. Help heart, brain.
SUMMARY:  Eat eggs. Help heart, brain! Learn about two January 2017 studies (Finland & UConn) that found a high-cholesterol egg diet did NOT increase risk of dementia or Alzheimer’s, and it improved the lipid profile!  Serum antioxidants increased as well!  Also learn about the benefits of eggs, egg quality, and pass the word to avoid BPA exposure (plastics used for food storage) especially for those pregnant and during lactation because low dose BPA exposure (below that which the FDA considers is safe) increased the risk of an egg white allergy for infants.  AIP folks literally separate the white from the yolk for re-introduction!  Last, think about eggs as a healthy fat boosting carotenoids as found in the salad — egg studies posted here.  Â
How & Why Properly prepare SOAK Quinoa
SUMMARY: Quinoa is a whole grain substitute that is gluten-free though it actually is a seed, commonly termed pseudograin. Most simply rinse, drain, then toss quinoa into a pot and simmer for 12 minutes calling that cooked. Though cooked, it may not be very digestible, and this method may be downright harmful to your gut. So how do you properly prepare soak quinoa? Learn here that quinoa is super easy to properly prepare although it does require, as a minimum to reduce anti-nutrients, a 12 to 24 hour acid soak prior to cooking. I’d do the quinoa soak purely for the culinary taste improvement truth be known as it removes bitterness from quinoa’s anti-nutrients in addition to making it easier on your gut! For more science, see below the recipe for quinoa’s: Impact to the microbiome, nutrient (including protein) punch, anti-nutrients and impact on those due to quinoa processing, and label de-coding for a Kind bar containing quinoa!
Mini Loaf Pancakes: SCD/GAPS/UMass IBD-AID
Summary:  Serve these Mini Loaf Pancakes to your Valentine on Valentine’s Day, or anytime actually!  These pancakes use almond flour, SCD lactose free yogurt or coconut milk, eggs and honey.  When in a pinch for yogurt, I’ve even used thawed frozen SCD banana yogurt, and it worked great!  What I most like about this recipe is that you can bake these in bulk, even doubling the recipe.  They freeze well and make scrambling for breakfast a no brainer.  These pancakes are also great travel and on the run food.
Special ingredients I use:
Actually, there is nothing “odd” ingredient wise in this recipe!
It is SCD/GAPS/UMass IBD-AID legal, full of wholesome whole food ingredients such as this SCD lactose-free yogurt (Update:  coconut milk can be substituted) and this Honeyville blanched almond flour, which you are already familiar with if you follow the healing diet tenets for PALEO, SCD, GAPS, or Mediterranean.
Regarding coconut milk; it is difficult to find such without added gums and other additives.  Trader Joe’s does carry an organic coconut milk that seems SCD legal; the ingredients are: organic coconut milk (filtered water, organic coconut  extracts 48%) but they have refused to give out information on the product or provide a letter indicating no other hidden ingredients; be cautious for reactions if you use it.  Wellbee’s sales Organic Natural Value coconut milk which has a letter on file at the BTVC yahoo health blog thus it is SCD legal.  Last, coconut milk is easy to make.  I use this recipe but I use a whip stick instead of a blender and just use the back of a spoon to push on the pulp to further drain the milk through the fine sieve. Â
Homemade Chocolate Hazelnut Spread, PALEO/FODMAP/UMassIBD-AID
SUMMARY: Â This… Thanksgiving morning! Homemade Chocolate Hazelnut Spread. Â Actually, don’t save this for only one day; we certainly don’t! Â Easily make this in bulk and freeze.
Ingredients and Processing I Prefer to Use
The nut ingredients in this recipe make these bars an advanced food for those on healing diets such as SCD, UMass IBD-AID, GAPS, or PALEO.  For this very reason, I recommend using these instructions to properly prepare nut and seed ingredients  whenever possible to make such more easily digestible.  But if you don’t do this step, no worries since the notes section of the recipe provides alternate instructions for toasting those nuts!  The recipe is not SCD/GAPS legal due to the cocoa, but it is in accordance with The PRODUCE Study (a modified version of SCD), the UMass version of SCD which is called IBD-AID, PALEO and also FODMAP friendly if maple syrup is substituted for the dates; details are broken out below the recipe for those interested.