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7/31/2017 0 Comments Almond Mini Donuts Everything is cuter when it's mini. This recipe was inspired by an amazing (though definitely not healthy) almond croissant I had at my favorite bakery shop the other day, yummy. I wanted to create a healthy treat with that same tasty almond flavor that I could easily replicate at home. These mini donuts are not only healthy, but super moist and topped with a fun nutty crunch! This recipe is very similar to my Maple Glazed Donuts but with just one difference. Instead of using vanilla extract, you use almond extract. Super simple, right?! I also added directions on how you can make these mini donuts by just using a food processor. That makes the clean up even better! These donuts can also be made into a regular size with a larger donut pan. Keep it mind that it only makes ten regular sized donuts versus 26 mini donuts :)  ALMOND MINI DONUTS
makes 26 donuts Ingredients: Wet
Glaze
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a mini donut pan with coconut oil. 2. In a large bowl mix wet ingredients together. Then add dry ingredients. Whisk everything together until it makes a nice donut batter OR Using a food processor blend the oats first. Then add the rest of the donut ingredients. Blend until it makes a smooth batter. 3. Pour donut batter into a measuring cup with a pourable lip or top. This helps you accurately pour the batter into each doughnut cavity. Fill each doughnut cavity with the batter. Bake for 15 minutes, or until your toothpick comes out clean. (Toothpick test: Stick a toothpick in the doughnut until it comes out clean) 4. While donuts are baking, mix all of the glaze ingredients together (except the slivered almonds) in a small pot over low medium heat until it starts to simmer. Remove from heat and put aside until doughnuts are baked and cooled. Dip each doughnut into the glaze. If you have excess glaze you can always pour more glaze all over the donuts :) Sprinkle crushed slivered almonds on top of your mini donuts for a fantastic sweet treat! Always craving good food, Jillian
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7/28/2017 0 Comments 10 Minute Chia Pudding! Oh CHIA baby! Chia pudding is such a simple nutritious meal that many people love. We all know that there are tons and tons of recipes out there for overnight chia pudding (six to eight hours of waiting), but what if you decide you want it at the last minute. Good news friends :) it's not too late to make that delicious creamy bowl you've been craving! Whip up this healthy sweet meal in a jiff and set it in the fridge for only TEN minutes! Yup- that's it. It's a balanced breakfast, lunch or dinner with good protein, healthy fats, and sweet carbs that will energize you for sure!  10 MINUTE CHIA PUDDING
serves 1 Ingredients:
1. In a small bowl mix oats, protein powder, chia seeds and spices together. 2. Add in milk last, and stir to combine everything. 3. Let chia pudding set in the fridge for 10 minutes. Serve with your favorite toppings like fresh fruit, nuts or even nut butter. Yummy! Always craving good food, Jillian 7/26/2017 0 Comments Chocolate Glazed Donuts Life happens. Chocolate helps. There's no time for chit chat! Let's make magic happen in your kitchen today. Grab that ten dollar donut (doughnut) pan you've invested your happiness in, and let's bake these simple chocolately gems I like to call Chocolate Glazed Donuts. A REAL treat made with REAL ingredients. Guilt-free and gluten-free for all to love and enjoy!  CHOCOLATE GLAZED DONUTS
makes 10 donuts Ingredients: Wet
Glaze
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a doughnut pan with coconut oil. 2. In a large bowl mix wet ingredients together. Then add dry ingredients. Whisk everything together until it makes a nice doughnut batter. 3. Pour batter into a measuring cup with a pourable lip or top. This helps you accurately pour the batter into each doughnut cavity. Fill each doughnut cavity with the batter. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until your toothpick comes out clean. (Toothpick test: Stick a toothpick in the doughnut until it comes out clean) 4. While doughnuts are baking, let's make the glaze! Put the coconut oil in a small pot over low heat. Once the coconut oil has melted, whisk in the remaining glaze ingredients. Remove from heat and put aside until doughnuts are baked and cooled. Spread, pour or dip each doughnut into the glaze. If you have excess glaze you can always pour more glaze all over the doughnuts :) Enjoy this delicious donut-of-a-treat! Always craving good food, Jillian 7/24/2017 0 Comments Simple Oat Pancakes Let's make pancakes and pretend it's the weekend. You guys are going to love these yummy Simple Oat Pancakes! They are gluten-free and guilt-free, yippee! The oats make these pancakes very special, because they stay crispy on the outside, but soft and fluffy on the inside. Did I mention that these pancakes are also very F I L L I N G and will most definitely leave you feeling satisfied :) Let's grab a few ingredients and make some pancakes, so your weekdays start to feel like the weekend!  SIMPLE OAT PANCAKES
makes 4 large pancakes Ingredients: Wet
Dry
1. Using a Nutribullet or food processor, blend oats until they are a flour-like consistency. 2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk all of the wet ingredients together. Next, add all of the dry ingredients and whisk to make a thick pancake batter. You may need to add 1-2 tbsp of milk to the pancake batter later. The batter gets thicker the longer it sits. 3. Heat some butter or ghee in a large skillet on medium heat. 4. Pour pancake batter on the skillet to make 4 large pancakes. Cook and flip. Serve your pancakes with your favorite toppings (mine is butter + maple syrup) and pair them with other yummy breakfast staples. Enjoy this healthy and delish breakfast! Always craving good food, Jillian 7/14/2017 0 Comments Maple Glazed Doughnuts Doughnut or donut? You don't spell it, you eat it! Let's put spelling aside, and get ready for the healthiest and tastiest doughnut you have ever had! I finally splurged on a $10 doughnut pan at Target and made my baking dreams come true. I have been motivated for quite some time to create a simple, healthy and totally delish sweet treat, preferably in the shape of a doughnut :) You could eat these doughnuts by themselves or glaze them up with an amazing maple glaze. Once you dunk your doughnut in this maple glaze, you will be licking the freakin' bowl and everything else the glaze touches, haha. But please, doughnut take my word for it. Grab your donut or doughnut pan and give this simple recipe a whirl! Craving chocolate?? There is also a chocolate version of this doughnut as well (see recipe).  MAPLE GLAZED DOUGHNUTS
makes 10 doughnuts Ingredients: Wet
Maple Glaze
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a doughnut pan with coconut oil. 2. In a large bowl mix wet ingredients together. Then add dry ingredients. Whisk everything together until it makes a nice doughnut batter. 3. Pour doughnut batter into a measuring cup with a pourable lip or top. This helps you accurately pour the batter into each doughnut cavity. Fill each doughnut cavity with the batter. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until your toothpick comes out clean. (Toothpick test: Stick a toothpick in the doughnut until it comes out clean) 4. While doughnuts are baking, mix all of the glaze ingredients together in a small pot over low medium heat until it starts to simmer. Remove from heat and put aside until doughnuts are baked and cooled. Dip each doughnut into the glaze. If you have excess glaze you can always pour more glaze all over the doughnuts :) Always craving good food, Jillian 7/12/2017 0 Comments Chocolate Espresso Cake The purrfect sweet treat for all of my chocolate lovers out there. Fur real! Grain-free, gluten-free, moist, delicious, chocolatey, healthy, simple, and family approved. These are all of the reasons why you should bake this cake immediately! Like right meow!  CHOCOLATE ESPRESSO CAKE
Ingredients: Wet
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and grease a small cake or loaf pan with some coconut oil. 2. In a large bowl mix all of the wet ingredients together. Then, add in all of the dry ingredients. Mix everything together with a large spoon until it makes a nice chocolatey cake batter. 3. Pour this cake batter into your small cake or loaf pan. Use a spoon or spatula to smooth out the batter evenly so it's flat. 4. Sprinkle a little bit of salt all over the top of the cake. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean. (Toothpick test: Insert toothpick into cake. If toothpick comes out clean then the cake is done. If it's wet, bake a little longer.) 5. Once cake is done, let it cool for 5 minutes before serving (or may break apart like in my picture above- haha) . Enjoy this delicious + healthy chocolatey treat! Always craving good food, Jillian 7/11/2017 0 Comments Cinnamon Raisin Cakies A cakie is born when a cookie and a cake do the horizontal tango. Let me start off by saying that this recipe was supposed to be a cake, but the ingredients took me a slightly different direction. After mixing all of my healthy ingredients together I noticed the batter wasn't a liquid like most cake batter is supposed to be. The batter was more like play-doh, very pliable and fun! This is when I made the decision to not force the batter to become something it isn't (cake). This batter was made for something greater (cue inspiration music), to be a CAKIE, a cookie with the consistency of a cake! Did I mention this cakie is healthy too? Double Yum! Now that you know the history of my recipe, let's get these cakies in the oven!  CINNAMON RAISIN CAKIES
makes about 14 cakies Ingredients: Dry
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and cover two baking pans with parchment paper. 2. In a large bowl combine wet ingredients. Then, add dry ingredients, except the raisins, and stir with a large spoon. Gently fold in your raisins or cookie mix-in of choice so they're all dispersed in the batter. 3. The batter should be similar to a play-doh consistency. Using an ice cream scooper or large spoon, scoop some batter, and form it into a ball. Put the batter ball on your baking pan and use your hand to gently flatten the ball until it's about a 1/2 inch thick. Do this with all of your batter until there is none left. You should see the outlining of your fingers on the cakies which is kinda cool :). See photo above. 4. Bake these cakies for about 15-18 minutes or until they start to brown. 5. Let cakies cool for about 5 minutes and proceed to dig in! Always craving good food, Jillian 7/10/2017 0 Comments Chicken Caulifried Rice Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat 2,000 of something.
-Mitch Hedburg How funny is that line from comedian Mitch Hedburg? Haha. Okay, so we aren't using 2,000 of real rice in this recipe, but it's still going to be fantastically delicious! Grab a bag of cauliflower rice, some chicken, snap peas, a lime and let's get this meal a cookin! I love making this dish because it all cooks in one large skillet. Can you say, "Less clean up!" Woo hoo! This recipe will serve four averagely hungry people and can be adjusted easily if you are serving more than four. Just add a couple more chicken breasts and some cauliflower rice. Don't worry, there will be plenty of sauce if more meat is added. The lime juice is the key ingredient that really makes this dish taste flavorful and fresh! Adding fresh herbs before serving also helps takes this fried rice to the next level :). If you don't have fresh basil, use cilantro, parsley, green onion, or whatever you have on hand. Get creative and have fun making this simple and healthy meal! CHICKEN CAULIFRIED RICE 4 servings Ingredients:
Sauce
1. Place a large skillet on medium heat with 1 tbsp. coconut oil. 2. Once pan is hot, add in chopped onion and cook until slightly translucent. Then add in your chicken. Season chicken with garlic powder, ground ginger, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes if you like a little spiciness. 3. Once chicken is about 90-95% cooked, add in snap peas and cauliflower rice. Stir altogether and cook for about 5 more minutes. 4. Make room for a small area in the pan to crack your egg and let that scramble. Once scrambled, mix everything altogether. 5. In a small separate bowl, mix all of your sauce ingredients together. Add this tasty sauce into the pan and stir to coat all the chicken and veggies. Once the sauce starts to bubble, simmer on low heat for 5 more minutes. 6. Serve this tasty meal in a bowl with some fresh basil and another squeeze of lime juice if you like things zesty! Always craving good food, Jillian 7/7/2017 0 Comments Nut Butter Pecan Cookies I mean, we're all a little nuts aren't we? This cookie recipe is super simple and super healthy! I've tried this recipe using both peanut butter and almond butter. The peanut butter made a flatter and crunchier cookie (see above picture), whereas the almond butter made a more plump and softer cookie (see picture below). Appearances aren't important, but both cookies were beautiful and very delicious! The pecans make an excellent cookie topper and add a nice crunch to really seal the deal, yummy! Ready to mix, scoop and bake these healthy cookies in a hurry? It's always a good time for a cookie :)  NUT BUTTER PECAN COOKIES
makes 7-9 large cookies Ingredients:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl mix all ingredients together with a spatula. The batter will be slightly stickier if using honey. 2. Place parchment paper on a large baking pan. Use an ice cream scooper or large spoon to place cookie batter on top of the parchment paper. 3. Gently place 2 pecans on each cookie and press down slightly so the cookie batter flattens. 4. Bake cookies for about 10-15 minutes, or until cookies start to brown. 5. Let the cookies cool for about 5-10 mins. so they can harden a bit more. Enjoy this healthy sweet treat with loved ones! Always craving good food, Jillian 7/6/2017 0 Comments Eggless Protein Waffles When I see a recipe that has 5 ingredients or less, I smile real big :)
This recipe is super simple and gets straight to the point...waffles! You can make this recipe with eggs or without eggs. It definitely comes in handy knowing how to make delicious breakfast foods like pancakes and waffles without eggs, because if you run out there is always a Plan B! So for this reason it's a good idea to keep ground flaxseed or flaxmeal in your pantry just in case you go eggless. Flaxseed is the main ingredient used to make a flax egg (1 tbsp ground flaxseed to 3 tbsp. water). Flaxseeds are a supreme source of plant-based omega-3 fatty acids, in other words, they are very good for you! Another awesome thing about waffles is that the possibilities for toppings are eggless (endless) #badpun- haha. So whether you're eggless or not, grab your favorite waffle toppings and let's whip up a tasty breakfast! EGGLESS PROTEIN WAFFLES makes 3 Belgian waffles Ingredients:
1. Make flax eggs first. In a small bowl combine 2 tbsp. ground flaxseed or flaxmeal with 6 tbsp. water. Stir and let sit for about 10 minutes. 2. In a large bowl combine all waffle ingredients. The batter will be thick and slightly sticky. 3. Heat and grease up (I use coconut oil) your waffle iron to prepare for waffle making! 4. Place 1 cup of waffle batter into waffle iron and let cook. 5. Set cooked waffles on a cooling rack and serve with your favorite toppings! I like mine with butter and maple syrup, yum! Always craving good food, Jillian |