Cottage Cheese, Eggs, Almonds Savory Bread

Ingredients:

2 cups full fat cottage cheese
3 cups Almond flour (I just ground up almonds in the Vitamix)
8 eggs
1 bunch chopped spring onions
chillie powder (cayenne pepper) per taste
2 Tbsps Dry Basil leaves
Ground, dry rosemary -- I add a lot, because I love the aroma.
Baking soda
Baking powder
Salt to taste

Method:

1. Whisk the eggs and mix with the cottage cheese and almond flour.
2. Add the chopped spring onions, basil and grind up some dried rosemary leaves in a pestle and mortar and toss that in.
3. Add chilli (cayenne) powder and salt and taste test to see if it feels good.
4. Preheat Oven to 375 F
5. Line a square (8"x8") baking dish and grease it a bit with your choice of oil. Pour the dough in and bake for 40 minutes or until done.

Macro Nutrients:
Protein: 48 +56 + 60 gms = 164 gms
Fat: 32 + 20+ 141 = 193gms
Carbs: 16 + 21*3 = 79 gms

Hmm. I am not liking the protein to fat ratio and the main culprit is the almonds. So next time, I will be going a little easy on the almonds. May be half the amount. I would also sprinkle some rock salt and rosemary on top of the bread.

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Almond Cashew Fourless Cookies

(This recipe is inspired by one that I use for PB flourless cookies with some modifications: http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/flourless-peanut-butter-cookies/Detail.aspx. My version of PBFL cookies also included shredded coconut and chocolate chips and no eggs.)

1 cup almonds
1 cup cashew
brown sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
1 or 2 Tbsp butter
1 tsp olive oil

Grind up almonds and cashews with olive oil in the Vita Mix until it becomes butter.
Remove almond-cashew butter from the blender and add equal amount (by volume) brown sugar.
Add vanilla extract, salt, softened butter and mix by hand to make it a smooth batter.

Roll up balls of "batter" and place it on cookie sheet lined with aluminium foil.
Preheat oven to 350.
Bake for 12-15 mins or until lightly browned.

Wait until the cookies cool down before trying to take them out of the sheet, otherwise they may crumble!




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