What's up with Elisabeth & George?: A Hypoglycemic/Organic Meal

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

A Hypoglycemic/Organic Meal

Wild Buffalo Burgers, Baked Curry-Seasoned Broccoli, Butternut "Fries", and home-made ketchup:

Cucumber-Tomato Salad with Lemon-Olive-Oil Dressing:

Banana-Coconut Flour Cake Topped with Apple Butter and Whipped Cream

That last one is super iffy for a lot of hypoglycemics, including me. But I have it only on occasion. It's made with 100% coconut flour, bananas, a small amount of honey, and eggs. It's topped with home-made whipped cream with no added sweeteners.
I got the recipe for the cake from this muffin recipe and modified it a bit. I reduced the honey, put it in a cake pan, and extended the cooking time. I've made this cake three times now (this first time pictured here as well as two layered versions for birthdays), and I've since made a lemon cake from coconut flour. I've found it important to put a piece of parchment paper down and thoroughly grease the pan before the pouring batter. I added a thin smear of apple butter on top (under the cream) and it gives it a nice little acidic kick. I also put it between layers on the layered versions. The apple butter I used is not sweetened, other than with apples.

YUM!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: yum! Hey didn't I read in your Christmas album that you can have sweet potatos? They make AWESOME fries. .. especially if you fry em in peanut oil. .. actually .. whole foods should even have ready made frozen ones. ..organic!; 3/12/2009 2:08 AM
Elisabeth said...: Sorry, forgot to answer you! Well sweet potatoes are one of the foods that have migrated over to the "Eat rarely or never" category. But sometimes I think all foods are on that list! Man I wish I could get this figured out!; 3/13/2009 6:10 PM

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How we're doing right now.

April 6th, 2009
Oh man, moving back home has been quite a transition! For Regin especially. It has taken him three months to return to being fully, or almost fully, potty trained. But we're home and happy to be with friends and in an environment where things are easier.

But of course, not everything is easier. George's first day back to work he learned that the company was exiting the business and he and all the other people that work on that product (including all those people he trained in Penang) were told to look for other jobs.

His last day was March 31st. No time for that cozy little 'sabbatical' though; after he finished his last day of work, his family called and told us they are coming (from Florida) for a visit on the 10th! This would be no big deal (other than being terribly exciting) if we were fully moved back in, but of course, until now, we've had VERY little motivation to fully unpack! So now we're preparing the house at warp speed!

You know, I do miss Penang. Hard to say what I miss exactly, because I know it's more than our friends there, but I feel a certain pang. And all the time we were there, other than missing family, friends, easy living, and snow, I never once actually missed 'Colorado.'

When we got back to Colorado, I expected to have a new and complete love for the place. I do appreciate some things a lot more, especially visual things. I see beauty where I didn't before. But it hasn't been the feeling of home that I expected, and I still have some of the same issues with the place. But what I do love IMMENSELY and will always love IMMENSELY is the people we have here. And it's been absolutely amazing to see how Regin has picked right back up where he left off with his loved ones here. There's no doubt in my mind that he somehow remembers them.