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Banana pancakes (2 small bananas, mashed, 2 eggs, 3 tbsps...

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:21:34 -0400

Banana pancakes (2 small bananas, mashed, 2 eggs, 3 tbsps ground almonds, 1 tsp flaxseed, cinnamon and vanilla) with coconut, agave and crushed walnuts cooked in coconut oil.

Simple Blueberry Lemon Birthday Cake

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:53:22 -0400

Simple Blueberry Lemon Birthday Cake:

paleogal-in-training:

Ingredients

For the cake(s)

⅔ cup coconut flour, sifted

5 eggs

⅓ cup carton almond milk (you could also use coconut milk)

¼ cup raw honey

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

juice of 2 lemons

1 teaspoon lemon zest

½ teaspoon baking soda

pinch of salt

½ cup fresh blueberries

1-2 tablespoon coconut oil (for greasing pans)

For the frosting

½ cup coconut cream concentrate or homemade coconut butter, melted

juice of 1 lemon

⅛ cup raw honey

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Sift your coconut flour into a bowl. If you do not have a sifter, that’s fine, just try to get rid of the coconut flour clumps by pressing down a fork through the flour.

Add eggs and almond milk and either use a spoon to mix well or a hand mixer. Mix until smooth.

Then add the honey, vanilla extract, lemon juice, lemon zest, baking soda, and a pinch of salt. Mix well to combine.

Then fold in your blueberries carefully.

Grease your springform pans with coconut oil. I used two 4 inch springform pans. Cute little guys (got them on Joann’s Fabrics). You could also make these into muffins/cupcakes or maybe into one small/thin round cake!

Pour the mixture into the two greased pans.

Place on a baking sheet for even baking. And into the oven to bake for 35-40 minutes or until slightly brown on the top and cooked through in the middle. Do the toothpick test to check.

Let cake cool before removing them from the stringform pan.

While cakes are cooling, mix together the melted coconut butter, lemon juice, and honey until well mixed.

Pour frosting on top of cakes. Then eat. Because that’s what you do with cakes.

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Finals Week? I think I’d be more excited about finishing if I...

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Finals Week? I think I’d be more excited about finishing if I were given an extra year to do what this college expects me to do in a 2 weeks.

Amen!

Photo

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:45:12 -0500

So true…

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:17:26 -0400

So true…

Love this!

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:46:23 -0400

Love this!

yes, please.

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:15:20 -0400

yes, please.

Hanging boat bed? Future lake house maybe…

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HERO.

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:17:00 -0400

HERO.

haha…my thoughts always!

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:37:20 -0400

haha…my thoughts always!

hahaha...

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:54:26 -0400

hahaha...

I live in one of the nation's Geekiest Cities!!

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I live in one of the nation's Geekiest Cities!!

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PVC Instrument?

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PVC Instrument?

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This is so amazing and makes me want to be in the Autumn season already!! I am way too excited for the school year to begin!

I imagine my little sister in a town like this - I know this is...

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I would love to be in this picture right now. :)

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I would love to be in this picture right now. :)

"OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may..."

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:40:09 -0400

“

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

”

- Invictus by William E. Henley