UpBeat Living: Yummy Gluten-Free (GF) Desserts, Part 5, Lemon Squares

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Eating right, GF, Gluten, gluten-free, Recipes, UpBeat Living

© 2014 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

Today we offer a recipe for dessert squares that can be dressed up or down, cut small or large, depending on the occasion.  Your gluten-free (GF) family and friends will love these lemon squares.  And your neighbor with the lemon tree will be thrilled.

GF Lemon Squares

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• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
• Liberally butter an 8 x 13 Pyrex pan
• Mix together: 1 c butter, ½  c GF confectioners sugar OR very fine organic sugar, 2 c white rice flour, 3/8 t sea salt
• Press that mixture into the prepared pan.
• Bake that for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

• Now mix together:  4 eggs, 2 c organic sugar, 6 T lemon juice, grated rind of 1 lemon.
• Pour over the crust and bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Dust with GF confectioners sugar OR very fine organic sugar OR coconut flour. Use a tea strainer as a sifter to artistically dust this over the pan of lemon squares.
• Cool on a rack for 30 minutes or until completely cool, before cutting into squares.
• Once you have cut them, decorate with squirts of whipped cream and strawberry slices, if desired.

Enjoy!

And what other recipes would you like to see in a GF version?

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● Kebba Buckley Button is the author of the 2013 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core (Second Edition).   Keep this book with you constantly, to quickly recharge your Peace Within, with quotes, photos, and poems that take you directly there!  Kebba is a corporate stress management trainer, and she also has a holistic healing practice.

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UpBeat Living: Yummy Gluten-Free (GF) Desserts, Part 4, French Walnut Cake

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 © 2014 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved

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This series of GF recipes continues, in support of those who are sensitive to wheat or gluten, or who feed friends and loved ones who don’t do well with wheat or gluten.  There are countless delicious recipes that are completely free of wheat and gluten! And if there are any recipes you would like converted, please send them to me.  I will do my best to make a GF version that tastes exactly like the original!

Today’s special recipe comes from traditional French cooking.  In the Perigord region of southwest France, cooks prepare many dishes with walnuts, which have cholesterol-lowering properties.  In fact, the Perigord region has the second-lowest rate of heart disease in the world.  Many believe this is due to a high consumption of walnuts.

This recipe is easier than it sounds, as long as you have a food processor.  Also, do not vary from the directions.  I tested a few versions of this recipe before I got it perfect.

French Walnut Cake

 

• Preheat oven or toaster oven to 375 degrees F
• Process 6-6 ½ oz walnuts in food processor until fine but not nut butter.
• Take 3 oz or 6 T of butter, room temperature, and cream it in a large bowl.
• Add 4 egg yolks and 6 oz or ¾ c organic sugar, and mix well.
• Add the finely processed nuts to the mixture and mix well.
• Beat 4 egg whites until stiff and fold into the batter.
• Use a rubber spatula to move the batter into a buttered 8” x 8” Pyrex pan.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes.  Then turn down the heat to 275 degrees and bake another 23 minutes.
• Now cool on a rack for 30 minutes or until completely cool.
• Cut into 8 bars (or 16 squares for small appetites), and serve with GF whipped cream and slices of strawberries.  This would also be good drizzled with the hot fudge sauce (Easiest GF Hot Fudge Sauce) from yesterday’s post.  Enjoy!

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● Kebba Buckley Button is the author of the 2013 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core (Second Edition).   Keep this book with you constantly, to quickly recharge your Peace Within, with quotes, photos, and poems that take you directly there!  Kebba is a corporate stress management trainer, and she also has a holistic healing practice.

● Liked this blog?  Why not buy Kebba’s books?  Just click the links!

• Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core (Second Edition)( http://perfectboundmarketing.gostorego.com/authors/kebba-buckley-button.html)
• Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br). ● Enjoyed this post?  Please click “like” in the FB widget in the right hand column!  You’ll have our undying gratitude plus a huge rise in your Good Karma.

● Your comments are welcome!

● Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com .

UpBeat Living: Food and Drink for Desert Summer Thriving, Part 1

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antioxidants, at choice, choices, Eating, Effective living, energy, energy foods, exhausted, Feeling energized, food, Health, Kebba, Recipes, Summer, tired

© 2012 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

Can you enjoy life and feel energized during the desert summer, even when it’s 110 degrees outside?  Absolutely!  And the right foods and beverages can keep you feeling fabulous.

When it’s hot out, you may often come home feeling drained.  You may crave sweet drinks, alcoholic drinks, and high-carb quick-fix meals.  However, if you each fresh produce and drink naturally energizing beverages, you’ll be surprised how much more you can do in your evening and the next day.  You will also be surprised at how clear your mind is, and how easy it is to be enthusiastic, since you feel better.  Try it!

Green Moteajo (“Mo-TEA-ho”)  Makes 2.

This is a nonalcoholic and energizing takeoff on the mojito.  Do eat the mint sprigs.

3 green tea bags

Filtered water (chlorine removed)

In microwave, heat 1 ¼ c water for 3 ½ minutes on high.  It should be bubbling slightly.  Steep all 3 tea bags for 8 minutes.  It’s better if you cut the teabags open and put the cut tea in a metal tea ball, then steep.

With 2 tall glasses, place in each:

8 ice cubes

½ c steeped green tea

6 oz/ ¾ c organic ginger ale

1 oz coconut syrup (optional) or coconut juice

1-2 8” springs of fresh mint

Stir slightly and serve.

 

Apple Limeonut (LIME-oh-nut) LuLu  Makes 2.

Organic apple juice

Coconut juice

1 large lime

Ice cubes

With 2 tall glasses, place in each:

8 ice cubes

6 oz/ ¾ c apple juice

4 oz/ ½ c coconut juice

½ lime, cut in wedges and each half-squeezed

Stir slightly and serve.

 

 

Secret-Energy Salad  For 2

5-6 oz organic baby romaine lettuce, baby Italian mix, or similar dark greens.  Organic spring mix is OK, but the flavor is different.  Favorite brands are Earthbound Farms and Private Selection organic.

Use sharp kitchen shears to cut up the greens to bit-size.  Divide into 2 salad bowls.  Toss with Secret-Energy Dressing.

Secret-Energy Dressing  For 2

2/3 cucumber, chopped

2 T olive oil

1 t each:  fresh, minced oregano, parsley, and mint

2 t apple cider vinegar

1 t fresh lime juice

Pinch sea salt

20 twists citrus pepper

In a mini-processor or small blender, blend until smooth.

Now layer on each salad artistically:

1 c chopped jicama

1 c chilled, boiled organic potato cubes (try a circle around the

bowl rim)

4 oz sliced pan-broiled chicken (recipe follows), or pan-broiled salmon, or chick peas (drained).  Arrange these across

the center.

8 organic cherry tomatoes (around rim, reserving 1 for center)

Sprinkle each salad with 2 T boiled egg sprinkles (pressed thru sieve) or 2 T shredded parmesan cheese.  Put that last tomato in the center.  Mix the drinks and serve!

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● Your comments are welcome!

 

● Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com .

UpBeat Living: Easy Recipe– Nonfat Chocolate Syrup

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anti-aging, antioxidants, chocolate, Eating, energy, energy foods, exhausted, food, Health, no-soy, nonfat, Recipes, vitality, weight management

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Regular readers know I highly recommend chocolate in your diet, preferably organic, in part due to its high antioxidant value.  Chocolate also provides serotonin and phenylethyalanine, two key brain compounds that give you a sense of wellbeing, plus  hundreds of other nutrients (see Discover The Secret Energized You, pages 54++, http://tinyurl.com/d9e7d7).  No wonder you feel better when you eat or drink something chocolate.

Several key things keep people from eating chocolate:  pesticides, soy, and fats.  To minimize pesticides, buy your chocolate or cocoa organic, if possible.  If a product makes you tired, switch brands.  Soy as soy lecithin is present in most chocolate candy.  If soy gives you indigestion, spikes your blood pressure, or otherwise malfunctions in your body, look for chocolate without lecithin, or with sunflower lecithin.  Currently, 100% cocoa baking bars are the most likely chocolate bars to have no lecithin.  Read the labels carefully.

Another no-soy option also solves the issue of fats: use cocoa powder to flavor your milk, sweets, or baked goods.  Try this simple recipe for no-soy, no-fat chocolate syrup:  equal parts water (filtered, please!), organic sugar, and cocoa powder.  Heat and stir with a tiny wire whisk, or two forks together, until it turns into syrup.  Adjust the proportions to taste.  Stir it into your milk or soymilk for a cold or hot cocoa treat.  For a thicker sauce to pour on deserts, dissolve 1 tablespoon agar agar or kuzu starch in 2 tablespoons water, then, stirring often, add ¼ cup water, ¼ cup organic sugar, and ¼ cup cocoa powder, and heat/stir until it turns into sauce.

Let me know how you use it!

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Reach the author at kebba@DiscoverTheSecretEnergizedYou.com .