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Can I just be honest? Sticking with a strict diet through the holidays used to sound like no fun to me. Sometimes I just want to indulge, ya know? But anytime I do, I pay for it.
That’s why I’m so excited that my friend Jaclyn from The Family That Heals Together has created a healthy holiday recipe book, full of grain-free, gut-healing foods that you can enjoy for every celebration!
I’m so excited to try out all of these tried and true, traditional recipes because you know what I hate? Trying a recipe at crunch time (ya know, when I need to get a turkey on the table stat), and having it fail. It’s a huge disappointment, and worse, it’s embarrassing when a recipe fails when I have guests to feed. I don’t always have time to practice a recipe several times before I serve it up, so I just have to trust that the random recipes I find for pies, stuffing, gravy, and casseroles are going to work out.
Not only that, but I often have to tweak them to fit my family’s dietary needs and make them healthy. And if we’re really sticking with a strict diet like GAPS? Fuhgheddaboutit. It’s not like there are a ton of GAPS diet holiday recipes floating around.
Good news- Jaclyn’s new cookbook contains over 50 GAPS diet-friendly, grain-free, gut-healing recipes that your family will love!
The book contains staples that will help you learn how to make basics like perfect cauli-rice and homemade cream cheese, plus simple, flavorful recipes that will blow your guests away, including pecan pie and honey “wheat” dinner rolls. They won’t even know how healthy and healing these foods really are!
By removing problematic ingredients like grains, refined sugars, and processed dairy, we can focus on gut-healthy ingredients like meat stock, vegetables, pastured meats, crispy nuts, and good fats. These are the ingredients that lead to health, and they are the only kinds of ingredients you’ll find in Nourishing Holiday.
And her book has lovely photos of each and every recipe, something that is important to me. It inspires me to make the recipe.
To celebrate the release of Nourishing Holiday, Jaclyn is letting me share a recipe from the book.
Fnd the recipe for Gingerbread Men below.
Gingerbread Man Cookies
Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like cookie making with kiddos. Even when we have a restricted diet, making cookies together is a tradition I always want to be able to honor with my children.
2 cups blanched, finely ground almond flour
1 cup crispy pecans or walnuts (pg. ?)
½ cup pitted dates
1/3 cup coconut flour
2 eggs
¼ cup butter, softened
1 tbsp ground ginger
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
Preheat oven to 350º.
In the container of a high powered blender or food processor, combine crispy nuts, dates, eggs, butter, vanilla, ginger, and cinnamon. Blend on high until smooth.
Pour the mixture into a large mixing bowl and add almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt, and stir until a thick, sticky dough forms.
Chill in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Turn dough out onto large piece of parchment paper, then place another large piece of parchment paper on top. Using a rolling pin, roll dough out to ¼” thickness.
Use a cookie cutter to cut out gingerbread man shapes, then transfer to a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Ball up leftover dough and repeat.
Bake 15-18 minutes, until cookies begin to brown on edges.
Makes 4 dozen 4” gingerbread man cookies
Time: 1 hour
If you’re excited about the gingerbread men cookies, you’ll love the more than 50 other recipes in this book, including Candied Nuts, Honey Ham, Golden Hot Chocolate, and Carrot Souffle. These are just a few of the recipes you’ll love in Nourishing Holiday! Snag it today, because the discounted introductory price will be gone soon!
Click here to view more details or to order this book.
- 2 cups blanched, finely ground almond flour
- 1 cup crispy pecans or walnuts (pg. ?)
- ½ cup pitted dates
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 350º.
- In the container of a high powered blender or food processor, combine crispy nuts, dates, eggs, butter, vanilla, ginger, and cinnamon. Blend on high until smooth.
- Pour the mixture into a large mixing bowl and add almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt, and stir until a thick, sticky dough forms.
- Chill in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
- Turn dough out onto large piece of parchment paper, then place another large piece of parchment paper on top. Using a rolling pin, roll dough out to ¼” thickness.
- Use a cookie cutter to cut out gingerbread man shapes, then transfer to a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Ball up leftover dough and repeat.
- Bake 15-18 minutes, until cookies begin to brown on edges.
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