Gluten Free Almond Blueberry Pancakes

One of the new healthy trends is to stay gluten free. It has been shown that many people are actually allergic to grains, without realizing it. When we eat grains, we will bloated, heavier, slower. With this in mind, I've decided to explore recipes for foods we love, that don't include grains. This is how the Gluten Free Almond Blueberry Pancake was born.

Time to prepare: 20 minutes
Ingredients:

• 1 cup almond flour
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup fresh blueberries
• 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/8 tsp cinnamon
• 1/3 cup kefir
• 2 tbls of olive oil

Directions:

• Wip the eggs and add to flour. Add the vanilla extract, cinnamon, and kefir. Mix with mixer and add blueberries at the end.
• Heat the olive oil on the skillet, use a spoon to add add mixture to the skillet

Summer Salmon Steaks

In the summer time especially when it's hot, I try to minimize the amount of time I spend in the kitchen. I also prefer for the food to have a bit of that fresh and zesty flavor to it. Somehow eating heavy food does not seem appealing. This weekend, was one of those days. As I was trying to figure out what to make for dinner, the "Summer salmon steaks" were born.

Time to prepare: 20 min
Ingredients:

• 4 salmon steaks
• 2 small tomatoes
• 2tbls olive oil
• 1/2 sweet onion
• dill
• 2 cloves of garlic
• S&P
• 1 lime

Directions:

• Preheat the over for 425 degrees.
• S&P the steaks. Heat 1 tbls of olive oil on the skillet. Throw the steaks on the skillet. Cook for roughly 1.5min or until each side is golden brown, than flip to the other side
• Squeeze the lime on the steaks, and transfer to an oven dish. Cook the steaks in the oven for about 7 minutes
• In a bowl, combine tomatoes, minced garlic, chopped onion, s&p, dill and add the remaining olive oil.
• When the salmon is ready, transfer on a serving dish. Cover the fish with the fresh salad from the bowl

The Zesty Pickle Salsa

You may ask, why would one combine pickles with salsa, well pickles add the sweetness to this spicy recipe that give this salsa recipe a bit a kick

Time to prepare: 20min

Ingridients:

• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 2 serrano chiles, with seeds sliced
• 1 cup of thingly sliced white onion
• 1 tsp of garam masala
• 2 medium tomato, chopped
• 2 tbls of lime juice
• S&P
• 1/2 cup of chopped cilantro
• 4 kosher pickles, chopped

Directions

• In a large skillet, heat the oil until smoky. Add the chile and onion and stir-fry over high heat for 30 seconds. Add the garam masala and stir-fry until the onion is crisp-tender, 2 minutes. Toss in 1 tomato and lime juice.
• Transfer to a bowl and add 1 tomato, pickles, season with salt and pepper. Stir in the cilantro. Serve hot or at room temperature

Stuffed mushrooms with goat cheese

Time to prepare: 30 min

Ingredients:

• 16 oz mushrooms
• 4oz goat cheese
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• rosemary
• salt & pepper
• olive oil

Direction

• pre-heat oven at 400 degrees
• toss mushroom tops with rosemary and 1tbl of olive oil, add salt & pepper (I use very little s&p)
• place mushrooms opening end up on a baking sheet
• bake for 15-20min. you want the mushrooms to be brown
• in a bowl combine goat cheese, remainder of the rosemary, minced garlic
• when mushroom are ready remove from the oven
• use a paper towel and dab the extra oils from the mushrooms
• use a spoon and stuff the mushrooms

Heirloom salad

This salad is one of my summer favorites. As soon as I see some heirloom tomatoes at the store, you're bound to find this salad at my house.

Time to prepare: 10 min

Ingredients:

• 3 heirloom tomatoes
• 1 clove of elephant garlic
• 1 mozzarella ball
• basil

Directions:

• Chop up the tomatoes in half circles
• Slice the mozzarella ball thingly
• Mince the 1 clove of garlic
• Chop up the basil
• Salt&Pepper
• Add some olive oil

The Perfect Caesar

Caesar salad is one of my all time favorites. Please note, since I am all about healthy cooking, I try to avoid using croutons when I cook.

Time to prepare: 10 min
Ingredients:

• romaine lettuce
• green onion (1 bunch)
• chicken breast (or deli meat)

Dressing:

• 1 lemon
• 1/2 tsp mayo
• 2 tsp dijon mustard
• 1tbls olive oil
• salt/pepper
• 1tsp white wine vinegrate
• anchovies
• 2 cloves of minced garlic

Directions

• combine all greens
• add chicken (if you would like the meat version)
• squeeze the lemon
• in a bowl, squish the anchovies, combine olive oil/dijon/white vinegrate/mayo and mix together
• add salt/pepper/minced garlic
• mix dressing with salad

Roasted Asparagus

Time to prepare: 10min
Ingredients: Asparagus/lemon/almond oil

Directions

• Wash and chop off the bottoms of the asparagus
• Place asparagus on the grill
• As the asparagus is grilling brush over with almond oil
• Turn the asparagus and brush over again
• Salt and pepper while on the grill
• Roast asparagus for roughly 5-7min
• Once removed from grill sprinkle is fresh squeezed lemon or wine vinegrate

This is a very basic and easy recipe. It is one of my all time summer favorites.