Recipes — Category_The Feel Good Cookbook

Jonell Francis
China Lily Green Bean Chicken

China Lily Green Bean Chicken

China Lily Green Bean Chicken This divine dish (from a fave Chinese restaurant in Utah Valley) simply explodes with flavor. My family loves it so much that I batch cook the sauce and freeze it in individual portions, taking this meal from the ‘tedious’ category to the ‘quick as poptarts’ category. Dinner's done in 5 minutes using ready-made sauce, frozen green beans and grilled chicken strips. It's instant food...made from scratch. Sauté: 1 onion, sliced top to bottom like an apple (not in rings—Orientals love to slice at groovy angles) Fresh or frozen green beans (12 ounce or more) Grilled...

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Jonell Francis
Healthy Hot Chocolate

Healthy Hot Chocolate

Healthy Hot Chocolate It's snowy outside, but warm inside with our healthy hot chocolate! 2 Tablespoons Organic Cocoa Powder 2 Tablespoons melted Butter 2 Tablespoons Honey 1 Quart Rice or Almond Milk 1 13 oz can unsweetened Coconut Milk or Cream Combine, simmer and serve. For fun, garnish with a dollop of Coconut cream, and sprinkle of nutmeg. Healthy Hot Chocolate

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Jonell Francis
Easy Dairyfree Caramel

Easy Dairyfree Caramel

Easy Dairyfree Caramel Dairy-free caramels? SWEET! Simple ingredients. Simply delicious. 8 Tablespoons butter (one cube) 1 cup honey or agave syrup 1 cup coconut cream (runny consistency) Boil and stir first two ingredients in small saucepan, taking care not to scald by stirring frequently. Then drizzle cream into saucepan in a thin thread so as not to interrupt the boiling of mixture. Continue boiling and stirring constantly for about 15 minutes until caramel reaches 245˚ on a candy thermometer or until caramel can be formed into a firm ball when dropped into a glass of ice water (known as ‘hard...

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Jonell Francis
Gluten Free Berry Pancakes with Apricot Glaze

Gluten Free Berry Pancakes with Apricot Glaze

With gluten sensitivity increasing all over the planet*, it's great to have this delectable recipe in your pocket. In our kitchen, we make fruit syrups and glazes from fruit sweetened jams by thinning them with a little water. --which makes them go a long way. What our kids love best about these are that they look and feel and taste just like white flour pancakes from Denny’s. Gluten-free Buttermilk Pancakes 1 egg 1 cup Awesome Gluten-free Flour (recipe below) 1 Tablespoon each: honey, canola oil and baking powder ¾ cup almond milk or coconut milk or rice milk + ½...

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