Making a gluten-free bread is fast and easy. It is an amalgam between a flat-bread and a cracker. This rustic home-baked bread has a delicious nutty taste and a crispy texture. It’s great served with any meal or as a snack. Because it is made with gluten-free flour, we can benefit from the advantages of a gluten-free diet.

Ingredients:
Hot Water: 3/4 cup
Organic Coconut Oil: 2 tablespoons
Organic Sesame Seeds: 2 tablespoons
Organic Hemp Seeds: 2 tablespoons
Pink Sea Salt: 1/2 teaspoon
Organic Dulse: 1 teaspoon
Organic Arrowroot Flour: 2 tablespoons
Organic Nigella Seeds: 2 tablespoons
Organic Quinoa Flakes: 1/2 cup
Organic Buckwheat Flour: 1-11/4 cups

Blend the water, coconut oil, sesame and hemp seeds, sea salt and dulse until liquefied. Preheat oven to 350º F. Fold this seed milk into the dry ingredients and mix to form a dough. On floured surface, knead the dough. Place the dough on a greased round pizza stone. With rolling pin, roll dough into a flat shape about 1cm (1/2 inch) thick. Cut dough into triangles with a pizza cutter. Then prong the flat bread with a fork. Bake for about 20-25 minutes.

Pumpkin Brownies Ingredients
Water: 1/2 cup
Organic Chia Seeds: 3 tablespoons
Organic Kamut® Flour: 1 cup
Organic Carob Powder: 1/3 cup
Organic Arrowroot: 1/4 cup
Organic Sea Salt: 1/8 teaspoon
Organic Dulse Flakes: 1/8 teaspoon
Organic Nutmeg: 11/2 teaspoon
Organic Allspice: 1 teaspoon
Organic Cinnamon: 1/4 teaspoon
Organic Pumpkin Purée (Butternut or Eden Apple Cherry Sauce): 2 cups
Organic Coconut Oil: 1/4 cup
Organic Palm Sugar: 1/2 cup
Organic Vanilla Extract: 1 teaspoon
Organic Pecans: 1/3 cup

Preheat oven to 350º F. Grease a 20cm square glass baking pan.
Soak the chia seeds in water for 10-15 minutes and set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, carob, arrowroot, sea salt, dulse, nutmeg, allspice and cinnamon. In a blender, mix pumpkin purée, coconut oil, palm sugar, vanilla and wet chia seeds. Whisk pumpkin mixture into flour mix until well combined. Then pour to the pan. Dust with palm sugar and add pecans. Bake until the brownies pull away from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, approximately 50 minutes. Let cool, then cut into squares.

There is a big difference between natural and artificial food. We eat for the pleasure, but first to be healthy.

We have to find in food all the nutrients to keep our body functioning properly. For instance, oats contain high levels of soluble fiber, manganese, selenium and magnesium, help to lower LDL cholesterol (the bad one) and stabilize blood glucose levels (beneficial for people with diabetes). Vanilla is no exception. Synthetic vanilla is often made from Coumarin because it smells and tastes like vanilla. According to Wikipedia, Coumarin is used in the pharmaceutical industry as a precursor molecule in the synthesis of a number of synthetic anticoagulant pharmaceuticals similar to dicoumarol, notably warfarin… However, there are some concerns about synthetic vanilla because Coumarin is used to thin the blood and it may cause internal bleeding. Genuine vanilla comes from the vanilla beans of a tropical orchid, which is more expensive to produce. The pure natural vanilla has many benefits for the body, which the artificial vanilla doesn’t:
- soothes emotional tension
- reduces anxiety and stress
- increases muscular energy
- improves circulation
- helps in weight loss by reducing the sweet cravings

Try this:
When you or your child gets a bruise (black-and-blue mark, sometimes with a bump) or ecchymosis, put natural vanilla on the bruised skin and it will considerably diminish the symptom, and often make it disappear. If you use synthetic vanilla, it will have no improvement at all because it doesn’t contain the active ingredient of pure natural vanilla. Don’t take our word for it and try it someday!

As you can see, there is a big difference between choosing synthetic vanilla and genuine vanilla. The pure one is the best because it nourishes the mind and the body.

Substitute your béchamel sauce with this Creamy Cashew Sauce. So yummy!

Creamy Cashew Sauce Ingredients:
Water: 1 cup
Organic Long Brown Rice: 1/3 cup, cooked
Organic Raw Cashews: 1/2 cup
Organic Onion: 1, small
Organic Dulse: 1/2 teaspoon
Organic Pink Salt: 1/4 teaspoon or to taste
Organic Lemon Juice: 1/4 cup

Mix water, rice, cashews and onion in a blender until the blend is very smooth. Pour it in a pan. Heat at low temperature and add dulse, salt and lemon juice. Serve on vegetables with a side dish such as steamed rice, couscous or quinoa.