Happy Healthy Holidays
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HAPPY HEALTHY HOLIDAYS Leslie Embersits It’s the holiday season! This book contains a range Celebrating and sharing with of “therapeutic diets” such as friends, families and loved ones gluten-free, dairy-free, GAPS, demands delicious food so, how SCD, PALEO, SIBO and the list can we stay healthy in the silly goes on. At Mindd we subscribe season?! to a ‘bio-individual’ approach to eating; eliminating foods Et voila! Healthy Happy Holidays, that cause inflammation and a collection of healthy and promoting nutrient-dense foods delicious recipes you can that support cellular health based prepare and share throughout on your individual needs. With the holiday season and beyond. the guidance of an experienced These inspiring recipes integrative practitioner you can showcase the creativity and work out the best foods for you generosity of our talented Mindd and your family members. Ambassadors who also weigh in on what the holidays mean to The holiday season is all about them. giving thanks and we at Mindd would Foundation would like to Mindd Foundation is all about extend a heartfelt thanks to our community and our ambassadors Ambassadors, partners, patrons, are at the heart of this community. board members, practitioners, Collectively this group of families and staf for creating practitioners, chefs and parents a community of like-minds reach millions of families with a empowering people to take passionate message – “Food Is charge of their health. Medicine”. Their pioneering work has contributed to the healing of Wishing you ‘Happy, Healthy thousands of lives and required Holidays full of friends, family and a fare bit of courage in the face healthy food! of a medical paradigm that is beginning to catch-up given the Leslie Embersits emerging research on the ‘gut’. & the Mindd Team PETE EVANS CHICKEN BONE BROTH Alexx Stuart What the Holidays mean to me Bio I absolutely love the holiday Alexx is an advocate for all season because we really do things she coins the ‘low-tox switch of and wind down with life’ – which is quite simply, living friends and family. It’s a chance to a life where we make positive spend lots of time in the kitchen choices when it comes to food, with the little man, creating, sustainability, personal care, teaching him, chatting about home and our mindset. She truly flavours and being a little braver believes that there should be no with experiments, knowing that guilt or shame in realising we’ve we’re not on the clock to ‘get not been perhaps making the stuf done’. In Aussie life there best choices – enough with the aren’t many festivals and rituals guilt and fear! She focuses her throughout the year like there education in moving forward are in the northern hemisphere with excitement, implementing with much more marked seasons changes at a pace that suits where even the humble pumpkin every unique individual. Alexx or apple is celebrated loudly, so is passionately dedicated to I find Christmas is that ritual time awakening people to all the for us. We have certain things little things we can do to shape that stay the same each year our health (and in turn, the and plenty of time to relax in world!) through her e-courses, between what we’re up to and her website www.lowtoxlife. what’s planned for. Food is the com, social media channels and back bone of the celebrations community portals and various – coming together over special speaking and workshop events. treats and delicious feasts, but She believes strongly that it’s also a time to focus on your grassroots community education favourite people. To really see are what make our world a better them, hear them, listen and love. place. Here’s to a happy holidays for all! Alexx x lowtoxlife.com facebook.com/lowtoxlife/ instagram.com/alexx_stuart/ twitter.com/Alexx_Stuart GAPS CHRISTMAS CAKE Method 2 star anises Place chopped apple, orange peel, orange 2 tablespoon honey or maple syrup juice, water, tablespoon of the butter into a ½ cup water saucepan and simmer on low for 20 minutes 50 grams coconut oil (or butter if not GAPS to soften the apple and orange with the LID / intolerant is delicious to use too) ON. Then lift the lid and simmer a further 5 minutes. If for some reason all liquid has When the mince is 5 minutes from being evaporated and ingredients are sticking, done, get going on the cake mix, assembling don’t panic, just add a tiny splash more water all the ingredients and starting to blend. or orange juice. NOTE: Do not do this far in advance. Coconut flour will continue to absorb liquid, Add all the rest of the ingredients and and if you don’t mix it and get it into the simmer for 10-15 minutes on low until a oven, you’ll get a dry cake result. No thanks! ! smooshy gooey texture has been created. Once you’ve achieved that, switch of and Ingredients cake mix spoon into a cool bowl and set aside. If you 5 medium sized eggs – can leave this overnight for the flavours to all if really big eggs, use 4 get to know each other, then that’s perfect, 2 tablespoons honey or maple syrup if not, no stress. They’ll still be delicious! (optional) For the pastry, get all of your flours into your ½ cup + 1 tablespoon coconut flour food processor. Blitz them for a few seconds 2 teaspoons baking powder together to aerate. (can be left out) Then, add your cold chopped butter and 2 pinches sea salt GF DF DELICIOUS MINCE PIES Ingredients pulse until butter is in tiny pieces through For topping To assemble – The topping ½ cup melted coconut oil (or again, the flours / a bit sandy looking. Usually butter is fine if not GAPS / intolerant) a handful of pitted chopped cherries Chop up your cherries and nuts, separately. I never really liked fruit mince pies before. MAKES 18-22 MINIS takes 4-5 pulses. (when out of season, why not fine dice 1½ cups of fruit mince. If you LOVE They made me wheeze a bit and were way Then, add your syrup, your egg and pulse some pear and sauté in a pan with a little Pop nuts into a saucepan and toast for 3-4 fruit mince, you could go up to 2 cups. too sweet. If you look at the ingredients Mini mufn tin to fit 18 pies a couple of times. butter and splash of your syrup of choice, minutes. Then add your topping syrup with The batter can take it. I’m not big on the in a recipe for them, one can understand Small star or Christmas cookie cutter then cool it in the fridge and have ready to an extra tablespoon of water to thin the ‘big mince’ flavour, so 1½ cups was why. 2 cups of sugar in a filling that’s going for the tops if you fancy. Then add 1 tablespoon of water. Pulse top the semifreddo). syrup just a little. Warm for 2 minutes with the perfect for me. to end up as 2 cups total volume?! Dried Mini mufn liners again a couple of times. If pastry hasn’t nuts and switch of the heat. fruits and glacé fruits packed with sulphite come together yet, pulse again with a handful of macadamias or pecans Method Pastry Then pull semifreddo out of the freezer preservatives (known to cause asthma). another tablespoon of chilled water. 4 tablespoons rice malt syrup Preheat the oven and prepare a standard They are, however, my Dad’s favourite thing 1 cup tapioca and put onto a plate or cake stand, once Now, spread a little tapioca flour onto a (or maple / honey) sized cake tin, lined with greaseproof paper in the world at Christmas time – except ½ cup buckwheat or rice flour parchment has been removed. DO NOT parchment paper sheet and put your ball ¼ teaspoon cinnamon and coconut oil /butter. of course the joy of being with family. No, PANIC if the parchment sticks. Just leave ¼ cup almond meal (if it needs to be nut of pastry onto it. Sprinkle some on your Whip the eggs and honey / maple together actually, I think mince pies come before us! fresh nutmeg to grate at the very end it a couple of minutes for the semifreddo free, just add 2 tablespoons buckwheat/rice hands too. for a minute in a Kenwood or Kitchen aid mini dried tea roses (optional – I had some, to soften, and it will peel of super easily! So, I set about creating some of my own and 1/2 tablespoon coconut flour to your type cake mixer, or in a bowl with hand Get your mini baking paper cups ready and so I couldn’t resist!) this year and not just with crappy gluten free mix and ditch the almond meal) Scatter nuts over the top with a spoon, beaters, or in the Thermomix / MyCook then roll your pastry quickly in your hands flour store bought, which is often laden with 2 tablespoons coconut flour then the cherries. premium with butterfly attachment on, speed into a double sized macadamia ball and pop Method genetically modified corn flour and /or soy 7, 40 seconds. It should look light in colour ½ teaspoon each powdered vanilla bean one each into all the mini mufn cups. Line a 24 cm cake tin or 1 litre loaf tin with Drizzle remaining syrup from the pan, over flours – Even the ‘health’ brands. Bad news. and have lots of bubbles on top. and cinnamon parchment paper (scrunch well first and the top with a spoon and finally, scatter little Good news is, this home-made gluten-free GAPS ‘ABLE’ CHRISTMAS SPICED then spread, so it moulds and ‘stays’ better.