Homemade Hamburger Helper : Candida Diet Recipe

For some reason, I had the biggest craving for hamburger helper this evening...it's not even something I would normally eat even off my candida diet!
Very easy to find a homemade version of it on the internet. I just had to adjust it to fit the candida diet. The portion here was enough for me and my hubby, I served mine over spaghetti squash and he had his over regular egg noodles. :)

Homemade Hamburger Helper

1 lb ground beef
1 onion
1/4 cup kamut flour
1 cup almond milk
1 small can of organic tomato sauce, no sugar added! ( I blended fresh tomatoes instead )
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon parsley flakes
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon black pepper

1. Put a dash of olive oil in a pan on medium-high, add the cut onion and the beef. Cook the beef until brown.
2. Add all the dry spices and the flour. Mix well until the flour is absorbed.
3. Add the tomato sauce and the almond milk. Cook for about 2 mins.
    If it is to liquid, cook it down for a bit, if it is to thick, add some more milk.
4. Add more salt and pepper to taste.

Sooooooooo satisfying!!

Candida Diet : Spaghetti squash & beef soup

Spaghetti squash & beef soup

• 1 small spag. squash
• 2 cups of vegetable broth (yeast free) or yeast free chicken broth
• 1 beef steak
• Vegetable of choice ( I chose to use broccoli stalks I saved to make a soup)
• 4 cloves garlic
• a bunch of shallots
• 1 tbsp turmeric
• 1 tbsp curry
• 1 tbsp fresh or dry ginger
• coconut milk

1. Cut the spaghetti squash lenght wise and cook it in the oven for about an hour at 375, face down.

2. Cut the steak in little pieces, season it with salt and pepper & cook it in a pan until brown on high.  

    Set aside

3. In a pot big enough for your soup, cook all the spices in a little bit of olive oil for about 2 mins

4. Take the flesh of the spaghetti squash once it is cooked and transfer it into the pot

5. Poor in all your vegetable broth

6. Let it simmer for about 15 mins, then blend it using a hand blender to make it smooth

7. Transfer the beef into the soup

8. Add salt & pepper to taste & Leave to simmer for about an hour & a half or until the beef is tender

Add coconut milk into your bowl of soup & enjoy this so so so comforting fall soup!

Homemade Salt Playgough - Pâte à sel

This project took me back into my childhood! We used salt play dough to make christmas decorations, It is so simple, not messy, and so much fun for the kids!

• 1 glass warm water
• 1 glass flour
• 1/2 glass salt

Mix the ingredients together, play, shape it, cook & paint it!

Cooking: Place all the shapes on a pan in the oven at about 200 for about an hour depending on the thickness. You dont reallly ''cook'' them but instead you dry them out. 

Candida diet recipe : Cucumber Radish Creamy Sauce

This sauce is not only delicious but also filling and you can have as much as you want even if you are on the candida diet!
I just had it for dinner over my salmon, but it would also be perfect for chicken, or as a dip for vegetables. My daughter even ate spoonfuls of it!

Cucumber Radish Creamy Sauce:

• 1/2 cup plain yogourt
• 1/2 avocado
• 1/4 of a cucumber, peeled and seeded
• 3 radishes, grated
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 medium garlic clove
• 2 tablespoon chopped cilantro
• salt to taste

1. Pour yogourt in the blender with the avocado, cucumber, lemon and garlic. Blend them all   

    together until creamy.

2. Add the cilantro, the radishes and the salt. Mix well.

How to make your own Silhouette Artwork

I am starting to gather artwork to hang on the wall in my daughter's bedroom and I did not want to have random stuff that means nothing to me, or her. That is the reason why I am making my own!

I saw on Pinterest framed colourful Silhouettes of Disney characters. To have something similar but with a personal touch, my sister gave me the idea of creating one using my daughter's picture.
I happened to have a picture of her silhouette! Great! Thanks sis'!

I have to say that my sister is an amazing artist, go see her blog!
http://ameliedubois.blogspot.ca

I want to have colourful art on her wall so instead of making a regular black and white silhouette, I used colours out of a picture in one of my Pinterest board.

Here is the colour combination I came up with :

This is the Silhouette I made using the colours in the combination. Now all I have to do is to print it and frame it! 

I'll be posting a vignette of the wall once all the frames are up!

If you want to make your own silhouette, here are the steps that I followed to create mine :

* You need very basics photoshop skills and a drawing tablet! Unless you are very comfortable with   

   drawing with your mouse...

1. Find or take a very high resolution picture of your child or the person you wish to draw

2. Crop it to the size you want, for example, 4x6, 5x7, 8x10...

3. Draw very carefully the contour of the silhouette, do not miss any detail!

4. Using the paint bucket, fill in the silhouette, then fill in the background with a different colour

5. Zoom into the picture to retrace over every little detail

Voilà! You have your own personal silhouette art work!

Candida Diet : Yummy Crêpes

It is the same recipe as regular crêpes, but different ingredients! I even think that they taste better!

Kamut Flour Yummy Crepes:

1 cup kamut flour
1 cup almond milk
2 eggs
10 drops of stevia
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1. Mix all the ingredients, if needed, add flour or milk until it has a thick and liquid consistency.

2. Heat up the cooking pan to medium-high.
    Use about 1 teaspoon of coconut oil in the pan for each crepe.
    Poor a full ladle of the mixture into the pan and spread it out to cover all the surface.

You want to have thin but large crêpes, not thick and small like you would do to make pancakes.

I ate them with almond butter mixed with stevia.
They are also delicious with plain yogourt mixed with carob powder and stevia!

Tip for writing on a mug with a sharpie

My sister and my father spent the long weekend at my house and we all did some random crafting on sunday evening. That is a family activity that I really enjoy!

I wanted to try to write on a mug with a sharpie, just like on some post I have seen on a few blogs. I found out that it is much easier when you write your pattern or your letters first by using a graphite pencil.