Almond Butter, Banana, and Honey Sandwich!

Ingredients:
Homemade Bread
Almond Butter or your favorite nut butter
Banana
Flax Seed Meal
Raw Honey

Slice bread and spread your nut butter on it. Add bananas and sprinkle flax seed meal on top. Drizzle honey. My kids love this as a meal or snack. You can add another piece of bread on top for lunch to go!

Whole Grain Dough Recipe

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups hot water
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup honey or sucanat
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. gluten (optional)
1 T lecithin
4 - 4 1/2 cups freshly milled flour
1 T yeast

In a mixer with a dough hook, combine water, oil, honey/sucanat, and salt. Add yeast and 4 cups of flour. Mix until smooth. Add flour 1/4 cup at a time until dough is only slightly sticky. Allow mixer to knead the dough until smooth and elastic- about 5-6 minutes.

This will make 2 one pound loaves. Roll dough out on a slightly floured surface and roll up into a loaf and place in a greased loaf pan. Allow dough to rise until double in size.

Bake at 350 degrees for 22-25 minutes. Remove from the oven. Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the pan. Place loaf on a cooling rack to cool completely. Or you can eat it hot with fresh butter and honey!

This recipe is easily doubled or tripled, and the bread freezes well!

Wholegrain Tortillas

Recently, we decided to make our own tortillas instead of buying them at the store.  Even though we can get a couple of brands locally that are not loaded with as many preservatives and fillers, it still would be healthier and more cost effective to just make them.

Whole Grain Tortillas

3 cups organic whole wheat or spelt flour

1 cup warm water

4 T organic olive oil

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Add olive oil, and stir until well combined. Put 1/2 cup warm tap water in and stir then add water 1 T at a time until dough can be gathered into a ball. Knead on floured surface 15-20 times. Let dough rest for 15 minutes.  Remove a ball of dough about the size of a golf ball. On floured surface roll out ball from center into a circle.  I greased my pan with olive oil, but I have also read you can cook them on ungreased skillet.  Cook over medium-high heat on each side about 30 seconds or until puffy. You can cook them longer until they are crisp like a big chip or toast them in the oven to get them crispy.  Wrap them in a towel to keep them warm. 

It was a more simple process than I had imagined, which is often times the case!  The recipe makes about 15 tortillas.  We had them for dinner and stuffed them with black beans and rice with tomatoes and green onions!