The Meat Cake With Onion Topping: Low Sugar Gluten-Free

This started as a pancake being made by Leon. I added some ingredients to the left-over batter. I did not know it has olive oil in the batter already, so I added butter to the left-over batter and turned it into a meat cake. You can remove some oil or butter in the recipe according to your body's preference.

Ingredients:

1 and 3/4 c water
1/4 c butter melted
2 c almond flour
1 t yacon syrup
2 small packet stevia
1/4 t salt
2T olive oil
7 eggs separated

Yield = 8-10 slices

Procedure:
1.
Separate the egg whites from the egg yolks and put in separate containers
With a hand mixer, beat the egg whites
Set aside
2.
Mix 2
Mix together the following in a small bowl, then set aside
3 T ener-g egg replacer
3 T hot water
3 T melted coconut oil
3.
Mix 3
Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl:
almond flour (ground blanched almonds), stevia, salt
4.
Mix 4
Mix the liquid ingredients in another bowl:
the oil, the egg yolks, yacon syrup
5.
Combine mixtures number 2 and 4, then mix with mixture number 3
6.
Fold in the whites
7.
Put the batter in a round greased 8" silicon pan (or ordinary pan)
8.
Top with crumbled 1/2 lb lean (95%) ground  grass-fed beef. Sprinkle some salt to taste
9.
top with 1/4 sliced medium purple onion coated with about 1 t olive oil
10.
Put in the oven heated at 350 degrees for about an hour or until done
11.
Serve with mayonnaise piped on the cake and some hot sauce, put some fresh basil leaves and garnish with cherries

Pictures

After getting it out of the oven

The meat cake

Creamed Sticky Rice with Mung Beans & Coconut: Philippine 'Tutong' With Bacon

Note: Normally, we do not eat this in the Philippines with Bacon. It is being eaten as a sweet by itself without young coconut meat and no young coconut water. I grew up eating this without cinnamon and chia seeds.

TUTONG

Ingredients:

1/4 c mung beans (munggo)

5 c water (depends on how sticky you want it)

5 Tablespoon malagkit

5 c water 

1 and 1/4 c coconut powder

1 T chia seeds

1/16 of one half (1/2) jaggery (matamis na bao)

Note: Instead of powdered coconut cream, you can use canned coconuts and water that equals to
5 c liquid in total)

Procedure:

Walkthrough 1

Roast the mung beans in the frying pan until light brown (it will release a nice mung bean smell) 

Put in a blender and pulse once or twice (do not overprocess and make the mung beans powder like)

Set Aside.

Walkthrough 2

Put the water and the coconut powder inside a blender

Blend

Pour the contents into a pot 

Add all the ingredients except the jaggery (matamis na bao)

boil until the sticky rice and mung bean is cooked

Add the jaggery (matamis na bao)

Cook Stirring frequently until dissolved

Walkthrough 3

Cook the Bacon according to package directions until crispy

Serve cold (from the refrigerator) or warm 

Sprinkle cinnamon on top

Serve with crispy bacon 

Note: 1/2 c of this tests ok for my blood sugar

Procedure in Pictures

 Roasted Mung Beans 

 Mung Beans in the Blender

Mung Beans ready to got to the pot

Home made Coconut Milk

 jaggery (in the US from India)

Jaggery  cooked cane juice that solidified ('matamis na bao' from the Philippines)

Cooking in the pot

Young coconut strings

After the chia seeds were put in (optional) 

I cooked this dish and brought it in my friend's get-together party with friends

Finished creamed sticky rice with no cinnamon on top (another option) topped with crispy bacon

How to make 

Stir Fry or Stew? Asian or Indian? Low Fat Low Sugar

I gave a cooking class yesterday, July 26. Everyone did their version of stir fry (or stew ?) using ground meat plus different spices. Here's the ingredients of the dish I did with the ingredients I saw on the table after everyone did their own version of stir fry/stew.

Ingredients
2 T ground 'grass-fed'  beef
3 T ground 'pastured' pork
1 cup water
1/2 T roasted garlic chopped
1 T ginger chopped finely
1/4 c mixed nuts
1/4 cup onion sliced
2 tsp Garam Masala
1/4 cup white mushrooms sliced
1 tsp anchovy paste (or 3 anchovies)
1 cup broccoli sliced
1/4 cup red bell pepper
3 asparagus spears sliced
few drops of sesame oil

Notes:
* Since I used anchovies and the mixed nuts are salted, add salt only when needed.
*Add a sweetener of your choice when needed

Procedure
Heat the wok under medium to high heat
Put the water in the wok
Add the meat  and the mixed nuts 
Boil until meat is cooked
Add all the ingredients
Option 1 Indian: Put the Garam Masala, Add 3 kari leaves (from Indian shop) and/or 1/4 tsp. fenugreek seeds
Option 2 Asian : Do not put the Garam masala, Add 1/4 tsp 5 spice powder, fresh chopped garlic instead of roasted garlic.
Mix until all vegetables are cooked
Serve warm

Pictures

Contact:
June
972-251-0231

Stir Fry: Vegetarian Recipe Low Fat Low Sugar

I gave a cooking class yesterday (7-23-14), and everyone did their stir fry. Each did it differently.

This is the dish I made from the ingredients that was left over. The rest of the story will be in my main blog, junejourneytolife.blogspot.com (aka livingwordsjourneytolife.blogspot.com)

Stir Fry:  Vegetarian

Ingredients

4 thin asparagus cut into bite size pieces

1/4 c red cabbage sliced thinly

5 strips red, green and yellow peppers

4 basil leaves sliced

1 T green onions

1/2 c broccoli sliced

1/4 c cauliflower sliced

5 squares fried bean curd

3 strips seitan (wheat gluten fried with garlic and light soy sauce)

1 T soy sauce or Braggs Liquid Aminos (no salt)

1/2 c T water

1/2 tsp sesame oil

3-4 pieces anchovies (optional)

1/4 tsp sesame oil

1 small crimini mushroom sliced

1/2 c spinach

1/8 c mixed corn, lima bean and green beans frozen thawed 

1 T red onion sliced

1 T garlic chopped finely

1 T chopped ginger

1 T mixed nuts

salt to taste
3 T olive oil

1/2 tsp 'slap ya mama' seasoning (or combine of peppers and garlic)

(or according to taste)

Procedure

Heat a wok on the stove with medium to high heat

Put the water

Add all remaining ingredients

Cook until most of the water has evaporated

Turn off the stove when the veggies are still crisp (but cooked)

Serve warm

Enjoy

Note: This stir fry can be adjusted for vegetarian, vegan, raw, bland or other diet related requirements

For Customized Recipes, Contact June: 972-251-0231

Photos

Tofu

Seitan (wheat protein)

Carrots

Crimini mushrooms

Asparagus

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