Dark Chocolate Salted Brownies & NEW BLOG NAME

EVERYBODY! I've been lazy in regards to cooking and stuff so I'm so terriblydeeplysorry. BUT. Change in name to my blog URL--> GLUTENFREEHERBY.blogspot.com :] Soo if you think my blog has been erased nonono it has not! 

I made some brownies this weekend for my mom. Goodness gracious are they rich in chocolate. This was one of my first times actually experimenting with different types of flours for this recipe, and I definitely found my two favorite combinations for some extraordinarily dense chocolate: Sorghum and Coconut flour! These brownies aren't very cakey and fluffy, they are nice and thin and dense- my favorite. It makes me feel like I'm eating more in less amounts :] I honestly thought while consuming these I was drinking a salted caramel mocha from Starbucks! #notreallife. Definitely, if you even have a SWEET or SALTY tooth, these will do the trick. 

Dark Chocolate Salted Brownies

vegan~glutenfree~makes 16- 2" brownies in 8"x8" pan

1/2 cup dark chocolate cocoa powder

3/4 cup coconut oil

1 cup light brown sugar

2 flax eggs

1/2 cup coconut flour

1/4 cup sorghum flour

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon himalayan sea salt

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven 350 F and spray 8x8" baking pan.

2. In a mixing bowl, add in your coconut flour, sorghum flour, baking soda, and cocoa powder. Whisk

3. Add in the brown sugar, your flax eggs, and vanilla extract in the middle of the mixture. Mix it in a blender until relatively smooth 

4. Put mixture into your baking pan and spread out. Sprinkle sea salt on top. 

5. Bake for 30 minutes- it'll be bubbly and will seem like it isn't ready but it is I promise! Cut up and serve!

Energy Dense Lunch!

When you're a nutrition major, you are always hearing the importance of Energy Dense (ED) foods. vs "empty calories". ED foods are foods like your vegetables and fruits- these are very low in calories but high in nutrients- iron, calcium, vitamin C, b vitamins, etc! Empty calories are your processed foods- twinkies, hostess, white bread, all that nasty stuff; these foods are extremely high in calories and have slim to none nutritional value. These foods are obviously the foods you want to keep as your "cheats" and very limited. It's so hard to keep this out of your diet when you eliminate them because your body is so used to this sugar addiction, it kinda crashes in a way and your body begins to crave it. But you need to eliminate it and as much as it is gonna be hard, but the end results are gonna be awesome! 

Here's an awesome idea to substitute maybe a sandwich and it's sooo delicious!

Spinach salad with:

- 1/2 c Tuna salad

- 1/4c carrots

- 1/4 red bell peppers

- 1 cup sliced cherry tomatoes (I roast mine!)

- 2 T sesame seeds

- balsamic vinaigrette (I make my own- balsamic vinegar + EVOO)

Healthy snack idea?! Rice cake with BANANAS (yup, they're under what looks like a mound of chocolate) and melt a few pieces of dark chocolate in the microwave. Perfect snack to curb that little craving and it tastes s00o delicious :]

Now, if you're reading this right now, I advise you to immediately get off my site and go outside~ it's BEAUTIFFULLL :]