(modified from simplyrecipes.com using stevia as a natural alternative for sugar)
Ingredients
* 4 large good baking apples, such as Rome Beauty, Golden Delicious, or Jonagold
* STEVIA -6 packets OR 1/2 tsp liquid
(conversions for 1/4 cup sugar. see conversion table & more stevia info @ cookingwithstevia.com)
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1/4 cup chopped pecans
* 1/4 cup currants or chopped raisins
* 1 Tbsp butter
* 3/4 cup boiling water
1 Preheat oven to 375°F. Wash apples. Remove cores to 1/2 inch of the bottom of the apples. It helps if you have an apple corer, but if not, you can use a paring knife to cut out first the stem area, and then the core. Use a spoon to dig out the seeds. Make the holes about 3/4-inch to an inch wide.
2 In a small bowl, combine the stevia, cinnamon, currants/raisins, and pecans. Place apples in a 8-inch-by-8-inch square baking pan. Stuff each apple with mixture. Top with a dot of butter (~1/4 of the Tbps).
3 Add boiling water to the baking pan. Bake 30-40 minutes, until tender, but not mushy. Remove from the oven and baste the apples several times with the pan juices.
Serve warm.
(full write up: livebeautifull.blogspot.com :)
6 comments:
Sto: Breakfast: 3 eggs + ham + fresh squeezed orange juice + 1 apple
Lessons from week one:
-No more sunbutter
-No eating late/right before bed
-Less dried fruit
What have ya all learned? =)
Sto: Hey CRose. More veggies, less fruit. Leave the house when someone brings a sicilian pie over (didn't have any). : )
I have learned something I already knew, I suck at staying on a schedule! Other than that, I have decided that I am going to stop taking the protein powder, its convenient but I am going to see how my performance is affected.
Breakfast - leftover liver and bacon from dinner chopped up into a scramble with avocado and root veggie hash
Lunch - Flank steak with coconut milk
My biggest lesson learned was that I need to up my protein intake, it's been a big challenge. I'm still not quite there because I am still HUNGRY just about all day long :-) Especially right after I eat! What is that all about?? I'll be a little bit hungry then I'll eat dinner and then 20 minutes after I finish eating I'm starving? Wha??
I also learned that cooking is fun! And when you make your own food you get to make it with all the stuff you like! It's magic! I know that sounds like a very obvious statement but I've never been one to cook outside the box (and I don't mean that figuratively, I mean literally before starting CrossFit all of my food came out of a box of some sort - or maybe a can, or a bag - but mostly a box).
Since starting CrossFit and really focusing on "shopping the perimeter of the grocery store" I've gotten better at eating real food but before this challenge that mostly involved a lot of salads and roasting veggies. And I would still occasionally eat something I could just throw in the microwave.
But, because of the restrictions in eating Paleo I can't rely on any pre-prepared food that I don't make myself, so in just the last week or so I've cooked steak and shrimp for the first time and last night I made my own meat sauce for spaghetti squash and everything actually turned out good! It's been a happy discovery that I should have made a long time ago.
Julie I love your discoveries! After cooking my dinner tonight (skirt steak and a side of coconut milk, my standard) I invented a brand new dish for martina. The joke is I'm always saying something like, "I don't think this is going to be very good." And then it ends up being delicious!
Keep adventuring!
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