19Oct

Recipes for Grain free and Gluten free Homemade Tortillas

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Update:  If you’re looking for step by step instructions with photos on how to make grain-free almond flour tortillas, click here to see my photo tutorial of my grain-free tortillas.

Nothing beats homemade, especially when it comes to tortillas.  I’ve made corn tortillas and they were simply nothing like the ones you buy in the store.  I also decided to venture into the art of making gluten free tortillas and experienced the same thing – homemade is simply yummier.  I really don’t mind the Food for Life brand of Brown Rice Tortillas – they are great in a pinch.  But if you can, plan some extra time to try to make your own sometime.

The brown rice tortillas I used to make are based on Bette Hagman’s recipe from The Gluten Free Gourmet Cooks Comfort Food.  I really love them.  However, since I last made them, I started soaking my flours first over night.  Without retesting this recipe, I wouldn’t know how to adapt it.  I am also grain free now which takes on a whole new meaning.  However, here is the original recipe I used to use:

(See pictures here!)

Here is the recipe:

Brown Rice Gluten-free Homemade Tortillas
Servings:  4-6
Prep and cook time:  35-50  minutes

Ingredients:
2 cups GF mix*
1 ½ teaspoons xanthan gum
2 tsp real maple syrup or honey
1 tsp salt
2 tsp almond meal
1 cup warm water

*GF Mix:  2 parts brown rice flour
2/3 part potato starch
1/3 part tapioca flour

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15Oct

Is “Leaky Gut Syndrome” one of the causes of Autism and Depression?

Is there a way to heal the gut, to alleviate the symptoms of autism, depression and other mGAPS bookental illnesses?

First of all, the brain isn’t separate from the rest of our bodies.  Of course this is obvious when we look at the human body.  But somehow, we have been led to believe in our culture that our stomachs and the food we eat don’t really affect our brains and how we think.

In Five Element Acupuncture, the body is viewed as an intricate whole.  There are separate systems but each one of these systems or elements affects and relies on one another.  It is also said that the Earth element, which is connected to the stomach and the spleen, is the most important element, or the Mother of all elements.  If out of balance, this can lead to many other imbalances within the body, mind and spirit of a person.

To understand this, you only have to imagine the Earth.  When the Earth is diseased – unhealthy plants, too many toxins, pesticides, etc. – this has a detrimental affect on the living organisms on the planet.  We have seen the result of pollution on the Earth over the past several years and can attest that an unhealthy planet leads to diseases in plant, animal and human life.

Another example:  Imagine a bicycle wheel and the spokes that come out from the center.  The stability of the center is vital for the bicycle wheel to function properly.  Now imagine a broken center, where the spokes don’t connect properly or there isn’t any real substance of the center to hold the spokes.  So what happens?  The wheel falls apart.

Now return to the human being.  The stomach or Earth element is our center.  It is the place where the nourishment and food we eat becomes digested and transformed into energy in order for our bodies to be healthy and happy (hopefully!).  It feeds every cell in our bodies, especially our brains.  So in essence, the food we eat fuels the way we think, how we feel, and how well we are able to accomplish a task at hand.

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