Gluten free pumpkin cupcakes

Well I'll get to the post instead of talking 😊

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup - organic pumpkin purée ( roast quarter yellow pumpkin in oven @325 for 2 hrs)
4 large organic eggs
1/4 cup hemp milk
1/2 cup agave nectar
1/2 cup-coconut oil melted( not hot)
4 tablespoons - coconut sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla organic and alcohol free
2 cups roasted brown rice flour
1 cup - enjoy life semisweet chocolate chips.

method :

1. Beat eggs
2. Mix vanilla,agave,hemp milk ,oil and incorporate well.
3. Sift flour, to it add baking powder and sugar mix with a spatula.
4. Add wet ingredients to dry and mix well.
5. Add chocolate chips and mix.
6. Preheat oven to 375 F
6. Ladle batter to greased Mini muffin tin and bake for 18 mins or until a fork stuck in comes out clean. ( there might be sticky stuff if you poked a chocolate chip).
7. Makes 1 huge 8 inch round cake or 15 regular size muffins or 35+ mini cupcakes.

Sweet potato/ squash - rajma(navy beans) tikki- gluten free bread crumbs/ egg free/ nut free

 I use GLUTEN free bread crumbs only !!!!

Diwali 2014 mehindi by me for my friends 😀

Lazy girls have more fun 😀

Ya that's me... Been a real lazy one, procrastinating n all !!forgive me friends... Sorry for going AWOL like that. I have had a very interesting few months but didn't make an effort to blog about it.
Have introduced new foods gone off  AIP protocol step by step. Created a few recipes of my own ,
did 4 paintings 😀.

Baked a few grain free , gluten and sugar free cakes .

Hosted my daughter's birthday, made her birthday cake ( grain free , refined sugar free Black Forest cake), ditto vanilla cupcakes.

Hand made all the return gifts( sea themed gel candles and candies )

Pictures in next post with recipes 😜. Did navarathri vratham ,and read a ton of balakumaran books

 ( which was the primary reason why I did not post I guess 😝).have taken new resolution, going to make every Wednesday my new post day, hopefully I'll stick to this routine. 

Good night for now!!!!

Autoimmune Elimination Day 14- AVIAL ( AIP Friendly )

YAY !!! 2 weeks...I am very tempted to star re introducing foods, my doctors appointment is on Monday...gosh! will I have the strength to go on for another 9 days???? we were supposed to meet friends for dinner tonite!! thanks lord muruga for not letting that happen.
I can never be 100% when eating outside, so haven't eaten out in the last 2 weeks :)

Today was a good day, I worked out in the morning, made a new variety of lemon pickle today. I will share the recipe soon, But legs are paining like hell man!!!!!

Post work out : apple
Breakfast at 10.00 : avocado cucumber salad.
Lunch : Snake gourd stir fry
snack : snake gourd stir fry
snack : avocado cucumber salad.
very very late dinner at 9.30 pm - AIP Friendly avial.


AVIAL :

Ingredients :

1 carrot
1 plantain ( not a ripe one)
1/4 of a cauliflower head
Coconut flakes 4 tbsp.
Coconut milk 4 tbsp.
Black pepper 1/2 tsp
Sea Salt
1/2 lemon wedge

METHOD:

• Cut the veggies into large cubes.
• Half Boil them in 1/2 a glass of water with turmeric powder and a pinch of salt.
• Once boiled drain and reserve the liquid.
• grind coconut flakes, coconut milk and pepper together
• heat coconut oil in a pan.
• add the boiled veggies, ground paste, salt and 1/2 of the reserved water.
• boil till all the veggies are well cooked.
• remove from heat squeeze lemon and enjoy.

Note : serves 2 or be like me and plan to eat it in the morning too :)

 

Autoimmune Elimination day 8 to 13

I have consolidated these days coz the went by almost the same .

No work outs any of the days no inclination to do so,
Happy but a little hazy and slow.
Slightly sluggish during afternoons.
Minor dizzy spells on day 12 and 13.
Almost considering giving up, but doing it out of sheer will, lets see how tomorrow goes.
My inner B****h is dead, The word is zoned out, I have no rage/anger/irritation/enthusiasm/joy/
Its a mere existence. But I have been very strict with my diet protocol.

My foods are as follows.

• roasted cauliflower casserole
• zucchini pasta in avocado lemon basil pesto
• Butternut squash soup with caramelized onions.
• Zucchini soup with basil lemon pesto
• Tapioca sago upma
• roasted cauliflower with artichoke
• avocado cucumber salad

I hope to add the recipes when I eventually find my strength, I have stopped checking my weight so I don't know about improvements in that area,

POSITIVES :

• noticing some slimness around the waist alone.
• Minor mood swings, vastly diet related (eg : oooh I want to follow thius diet for 30 days, followed by, can I stop in 2 weeks? can I ? can I ?)that too during monthly cycle.
• I feel hungry every 2 hrs. on the dot 2 hrs. and eating small portions keeps me happy.
• I am not able to eat a whole bowl of zucchini pasta ( that says a lot)
• Absolutely no cravings. I am not very prone to cravings, but I used to occasionally feel like indulging myself, But I don't even feel that anymore.
• I have realized that over these three years I have lost all semblance of eating right.
• I ate too little, had too much gap between meals and ate too much post sunset, and even though indulged only a little it was mindless.
• mindless eating is WRONG according to me.
• Hopeful to go back to a more mindful eating habit.

 

Autoimmune Elimination Day -7 / Lauki( ash guard) curry and thandu keerai( greens) poriyal

I am not inclined to add those recipes to this blog, Coz it was Horrible, I wouldn't wish that monstrosity even on people I dislike( JUST kidding!!! I would SOOO give it to them :P).
And I fed that to my family!!!!! Which in retrospect was a good thing, They requested that I should definitely be cooking separately for them henceforth.( My 1yr old spat it on my face!!! POINT TAKEN). But the most surprising thing was this did not make me wanna stop.....mmhmm MASOCIST MUCH???

we'll find out as the days progress.