This is SO GOOD. You can also freeze it and enjoy like ice cream. I usually can’t wait for that, so I just eat it as soon as I finish mixing it. :)

I just make one serving at a time, so this recipe is for one nice bowlful. :) You’ll need to plan ahead and refrigerate the coconut milk for a couple days before you make this recipe.

Ingredients:

1 can full-fat, unsweetened coconut milk. (I use Thai Kitchen brand. Make sure it is FULL fat. Lite won’t work…you need the fat. don’t worry, coconut is healthy fat!)

1 tbsp cocoa powder

6-8 drops of liquid Stevia (or to your taste)

1. Open the can of refrigerated coconut milk and scoop out the thick fat part of the milk and put in your mixing bowl. You’ll see that the bottom of the can is full of the coconut water. You can use this in other cooking or baking. :)

2. Add 1 tbsp of cocoa powder and mix until smooth.

3. Add 6-8 drops of liquid Stevia (or to your own taste) and blend.

4. Scoop into a bowl and enjoy! I like to add some fresh strawberries…but it’s great without anything extra. :)

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I needed to eat up some cabbage and this is what I came up with. It was so good!

4 slices turkey bacon
1 half head of cabbage, chopped (I use red cabbage)
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tbsp butter
1/4 cup feta cheese (crumbled)
2 tbsp Parmesan cheese

I bake my turkey bacon in the oven on a foil-lined pan. I cut each slice in half and place all on the pan. Bake at 375 degrees F for 8 minutes, turn the slices over and bake for another 2-3 minutes (depending on how crispy you like your bacon. I like mine VERY crispy).

While the bacon is baking, mix the sour cream, butter, and cheeses in a saute pan on medium heat. Add the cabbage and cook for 7-10 minutes (until the cabbage is to your liking…I like mine to still have a crunch, so I only cook for about 7 minutes).

After the cabbage mixture is done, crumble the bacon on top and enjoy!

Great, healthier alternative to traditional Shepherd’s Pie. I made this last night and it’s super yum! The only thing I will do next time is add something to thicken the “gravy” on the inside. :) 

1/2  head cauliflower
1 minced garlic clove
2 tbsp organic butter
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 organic egg
2 tbsp coconut milk (or whatever you use…I use coconut milk because I can’t have dairy.)

1. Steam cauliflower until soft then transfer to a food processor or blender, puree the cauliflower with the garlic, butter, salt, coconut milk and egg. 
2. Transfer mixture to a saucepan and cook for about 5 or 6 more minutes (med-high), stirring. (I do this because I want the egg to be cooked).

1 pound grass fed ground beef (or lamb, if you prefer)
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper
1/4 large onion, chopped
2 tbsp organic butter
1/2 cup organic vegetable broth
1 cup cooked peas

1. While the cauliflower is steaming, preheat a large skillet over medium high heat and fully cook the meat (season with salt and pepper). 
2. In a seperate saucepan, combine butter and broth. (As I stated earlier, I would add something next time for thickening…perhaps flax or chia). 
3. I like to cook the peas and onions together, separately. 
4. Combine meat, gravy, and veggies in a baking dish. This recipe fits perfectly in a 4-cup dish. 
5. Top the meat mixture with the cauliflower mash and put under a broiler until cauliflower mash is evenly browned.

Enjoy!

If you are like me and avoid grains and sugars…this is a great alternative for granola. It can be eaten as a bar, crumbled and stirred into yogurt, enjoyed as cereal (great with coconut milk - unsweetened, of course). I use mostly seeds, since I am allergic to tree nuts. But you can certainly use any type of nut you enjoy. Mix it up!

I usually use flax, sesame, hemp, and sunflower seeds and peanuts. I prefer raw seeds and nuts that have not been roasted or salted.

2 cups your choice of seeds and nuts
1/2 Cup Unsweetened shredded coconut
3 Egg Whites
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Salt
6 drops Pure Stevia Extract

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper
• Stir nuts, seeds, shredded coconut, cinnamon and salt
• In a separate clean bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, then add stevia
• Coat the nut mixture with the egg whites then place on prepared baking sheet
• Bake for 15 minutes, or until crisp. Let cool and break into pieces or cut into bars

This recipe fits perfectly on my 7” x 10” toaster oven baking sheet. :)

I Corinthians 13

 1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

 8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when the time of perfection[Christian maturity] comes, these partial things will become useless.

 11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

 13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

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“Agape” love = selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love, the highest of the four types of love in the Bible. It’s about being concerned for others, helping others, caring for others. It’s about being selfless and having a servant attitude.

“What is the best thing I can do for you right now?” So many people think the other way around… “what can you do for me?”  It is more important to serve others.

Matthew 5:48 - But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. (this is the same word ‘perfect’ as in I Cor 13…maturity or also consummate human integrity and virtue.)

Philippians 3:12 - I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. (‘possessed me’ - basically, when Christ becomes your Lord.  Perfection - the same as in I Cor 13 and Matt 5.  The overall meaning of this verse is that we should always seek to be mature in agape love, for Christ sacrificed himself (pure agape love) so that we may find this same perfect maturity. We can only seek this perfection through Christ.)

The most excellent way? Love. :) God is Love.  Nothing matters without this purest form of love.