I LOVE cookbooks. I love looking through them. I love learning new techniques for cooking. I love new recipe ideas. I love drooling over the pictures.

One of my favorite things to do is sit at Barnes and Noble with a stack of cookbooks, a black coffee and sift through the pages of cookbook after cookbook.

Lately I have been trying to eat more grain and sugar free. I don’t do this 100% nor am I a perfectionist about my eating (except with gluten and soy, of course!). I do find, however, that when I eat a more low carb/low glycemic diet that I feel better overall.  I have lost a lot of weight, my blood sugar has become more stable, my energy is better and I feel full longer. If you have been gluten free for awhile (more than 6 months) and still aren’t feeling as great as you could, I really encourage you to look into a ketogenic or low carb diet. Start by reading Wheat Belly or Grain Brain.

It will rock your world.

I am still searching for new recipes that fit the grain free bill. In the past few months I have run across a blog by Kelly Smith over at The Nourishing Home.

Kelly does an amazing job creating grain free meals as well as baked goods.

After drooling over her cookbook on amazon I decided to email her and ask if she would send me a copy in exchange for my review of it on my blog. She said yes!

I dropped everything the minute I got the cookbook, everyday grain-free baking in the mailbox.

For some of you, grain free may be a new concept. After all, aren’t there some grains that are gluten free? If you take those grains out… what is left to bake with?

Well, my friends… let me introduce you to Ms.  Coconut and Mr. Almond flour.

These are the two staple flours that Kelly uses in her cookbook.

3 Quick Facts about Everyday Grain-Free Baking

• Everyday Grain-Free Baking includes more than 100 irresistible recipes that are compatible with the most common grain-free diets, i.e. Paleo, Primal, SCD and GAPS.

• Everyday Grain-Free Baking includes delicious, easy-to-make recipes that grain-free, starch-free, refined-sugar-free and dairy-free, or contain dairy-free options so they can easily be converted as such.

• Everyday Grain-Free Baking shows you how to make delicious grain-free, dairy-free baked goods that your whole family will enjoy – whether or not everyone is living a grain-free lifestyle!

Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll find in Everyday Grain-Free Baking:

• More than 100 delicious, easy-to-make recipes that are gluten-free, grain-free starch-free, refined-sugar-free and dairy-free, or contain dairy-free options.

• My Journey to Healing is Kelly’s personal story shared to inspire those suffering from chronic illnesses that there is hope!

• Why Bake Grain-Free? outlines the many benefits of grain-free baking.

• Strategies for Maximizing Success features Kelly’s personal tips for ensuring that all of your grain-free baking adventures receive rave reviews!

• My Grain-Free Kitchen includes an overview of the key ingredients that make grain-free baking a success, as well as recommendations for helpful baking essentials.

• Tips & Tidbits and Recipe Variations are included throughout the book to make each recipe a snap – and provide you with even more options for making amazing grain-free baked goods that taste just like traditional favorites!

As shown above, Everyday Grain-Free Baking features a delicious assortment of recipes the whole family will love! In fact, there’s an entire chapter devoted to each of these traditional baked good favorites:

• Breads & Rolls
• Biscuits, Scones & Crackers
• Muffins
• Pancakes & Waffles
• Pies, Tarts & Crisps
• Cakes & Cupcakes
• Classic Cookies
• Brownies & Bars
• Sweet Additions

Kelly’s mission in creating Everyday Grain-Free Baking is to transform the everyday comfort foods we each hold dear into delightfully flavorful and satisfying grain-free versions that are so remarkably similar to traditional gluten-based foods that everyone will enjoy these recipes, whether or not they’re living a GF lifestyle.

In fact, Kelly’s recipes really do taste like the real deal, because she knows so many of us struggle with the same challenge – trying to make tasty healthy foods that the whole family can enjoy without having to become a short-order cook!

As we all know, this can be especially challenging when some members of your family are living grain-free, while other members of your family are not. Finding recipes that will work for everyone that actually taste AMAZING is what Everyday Grain-Free Baking is all about!

You guys… I highly recommend this cookbook.

Here are a couple of the recipes that I have tried:

Easy Blender Waffles

Notice my one waffle… my kids (who are not gluten free) loved them and left this momma with only one. Next time I will double the recipe. My kids said they were their favorite waffles and this is saying a lot!

 

 Peach Cobbler Breakfast Bars

These were such a treat. This was such a simple recipe. Once again, my kids LOVED them. I also passed along half of the pan to my aunt who follows more of a SCD diet. Yumm-o!

I have also tried the very vanilla cupcakes and morning glory muffins. I made both of these and shared with my neighbors who are not gluten free either. They all were very impressed and said they couldn’t tell they were gluten free.

Yes… I have been busy, but this cookbook with it’s beautiful photos and super easy recipes makes me want to spend time in the kitchen baking and not just for me… but for my whole family to enjoy.

There are some really yummy looking fall recipes in this book that I cannot wait to try out.  Don’t be left panicking about what fall treat you are taking to the next potluck.

 

 

Buy everyday grain- free baking today on Amazon.

The price is right and you have a personal recommendation that it’s worth your money.

(Take it from me, whose best friend “borrowed” my copy and ended up having to buy me a new one because she wasn’t giving hers up!!! By the way, the Ultimate Cookies Bars (cookie dough and brownie dough meet up and make a wonderful treat) were her FAVORITE!)