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Healthy Peanut Butter Cup Muddy Buddies (Gluten-Free, Vegan)

May 15, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 105 Comments

The ultimate in healthy snacking! Healthy Peanut Butter Cup Muddy Buddies! This is not your typical puppy chow; it’s gluten-free, vegan, and sugar-free! The kids will come running for this fun and easy snack and will always have fun helping out making the recipe!

Who doesn’t love muddy buddies? Crazy people, that’s who! I actually don’t remember eating muddy buddies as a kid, but after all these years as a food blogger I’ve seen so many yummy and drool-worthy recipes for muddy buddies. All those recipes called for tons of butter, sugar, fats, well, you get the picture. With me being me, I had to make a healthy gluten-free and vegan recipe before I could indulge in the delicious cereal snack!Read More

Grilled Chicken Satay Skewers with Peanut Sauce

August 10, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 75 Comments

Simple Grilled Chicken Satay Skewers with Peanut Sauce make and easy but sophisticated gluten-free Thai dinner! Infused with the flavors of coconut milk & peanut flour, this chicken recipe is a classic favorite for a reason!

Food on a stick! Seems to always be a crowd-pleaser! So does Thai! So does peanut butter (or flour in this case)! I have an inkling that’s why Chicken Satay is one popular Asian dish! “Satay” can be any meat skewered, grilled, and served with an enticing sauce! Chicken Satay with peanut sauce is the more iconic and loved.Read More

Peanut Butter & Jelly Crumble Bars

July 27, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 147 Comments

Everyone’s childhood favorite sandwich baked into a delicious gluten-free and vegan bar! Peanut Butter & Jelly Crumble Bars that can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, as a snack, or dessert! This healthy bar recipe will have you ditching the bread!

Ah, the fresh baked smell of peanut butter and jelly 😉 What? You don’t bake your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? I think you’re about to change that! Actually, I know you’re about to change that, once you see this recipe!Read More

“No Butter” Peanut Butter Blossoms

April 25, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 169 Comments

The healthiest peanut butter blossoms you’ll find! Made with peanut flour, these cookies are not only gluten-free and vegan, but grain-free as well! A perfect healthy dessert to tame your craving!

These are so good! This is my most made and go-to cookie recipe! I think I first made them for a Thanksgiving treat and from there have made them many many times since. Why the peanut butter blossom though? Yes, I do love peanut butter and chocolate like no other, but the peanut butter blossom symbolizes so much more to me…My BROTHER!

Why? Well, let me preface this to say that today, April 25th, is my big brother’s 22nd birthday! Peanut butter blossoms are his favorite cookie and always have been. I rmeeber making the “true original” recipe to take down to him his freshman year of college. He’s now graduating this year so it seems like a full circle. But you, I wanted to be able to enjoy peanut butter blossoms as well, so making the original recipe would not work (nor do I feel good about giving those to him!). So with my “Rebecca-Style” I recreated the classic cookie to be 100% more healthy and 100% delicious.

When ever I think of peanut butter blossoms, I always think of my brother. With my new creation, I didn’t want to let him down either. These are crafted with so much love and finally perfected. He loved them! They tasted like the “real” thing. That was music to my ears (also to my own stomach since they tasted so darn good!) Beaming with blossom pride over here!

This post is my sappy birthday tribute to my big brother. I am so very proud of him and can not believe the boy I used to play with and made my childhood simply THE best is really all grown-up. If I were an only child or he was someone different than who is was, I don’t know what I would have done. The memories, laughs, experiences, and love that he brought (and still brings) is one of the greatest gifts a sister could ever ask for. I’m so lucky to have him as my brother. He was never a “bully”, never tormented his little sister, ever. I’m always so proud to talk about my brother when ever anyone asks.

I do look up to him and always will. Words can’t describe what he means to me, they would never be enough. Only him and I know all the crazy fun times we had and created while growing up. That sibling bond that will never break and only we will know. He is the only person in this world who will ever know what it was like growing up in our family. I know he will always be there for me and I will always be there for him. He’s a person a can truly say makes this world a better place for everything and everyone he comes into contact with. He deserves so many peanut butter blossoms…(chewy, soft, amazingly delicious cookies)…

“No Butter” Peanut Butter Blossoms

"No Butter" Peanut Butter Blossoms

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The healthiest peanut butter blossoms you'll find! Made with peanut flour, these cookies are not only gluten-free and vegan, but grain-free, sugar-free, and oil-free as well! A perfect healthy dessert to tame your craving!

Author: Rebecca Pytell

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Serves: 8-10

Ingredients

¾ Cup Peanut Flour
½ Cup + 1 TB Arrowroot Starch
2 Tsp Baking Powder
¼ Cup Confectioner Erythritol
½ Cup Squash Puree (baby food jar!)
3 TB Unsweetened Almond Milk
½ Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
1 TB Stevia Syrup
To Top (after baking):
8-10 Raw Cacao Wafers*
1 Tsp Granulated Erythritol

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375°F.
In a large mixing bowl, combine all cookie ingredients. Mix well to combine and make a smooth batter.
On a baking sheet lined with a Silpat, make 8-10 cookie blobs, evenly spaced out.
Bake the cookies for 18-20 minutes.
Upon removal, sprinkle the cookies with the granular erythritol and then press in one cacao wafer into the center of each cookie top.
Allow to cool before serving (so you don't mess up the chocolate!)

Notes

Can use unsweetened REAL chocolate of choice.

Jimmy, happy birthday, I love you so much, you make me so utterly proud and I can’t believe I get to call myself your sister. I can’t wait to see you graduate in a few weeks and I know as we continue to both grow and move forward in our lives, you will continue to inspire me and give me the sense that everything I, and we as a family go though, is worth it. Thank you for making my life full of the best memories, laughs, too many inside jokes to count, for being the greatest friend a little sister could ever ask for!

(Look what I found! It’s evidence that we DID actually bake chocolate chip cookies! Circa December 1998!…And Jimmy has flour on the side of his head, bahahaha!)

Thank you for being the best brother, for being MY brother <3 xoxo

So tell me:

+ Do yo have any classic recipes that you associate with one person in your life?

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Pad Thai Broccoli Burgers

March 9, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 160 Comments

The flavors of Pad Thai packed into the ultimate bean and broccoli burger! Gluten-free, vegan, Pad Thai Broccoli Burgers are a perfect dinner recipe to satisfy even your carnivorous friends!

Who doesn’t love a veggie burger? And I’m talking BURGER. Not one of those sad, fall-apart messes and sad excuses for a meatless patty. None of that here. I want my veggie burgers veggie-packed, full of flavor and texture, hearty, but also “light”. I mean, how could you ever expect to convert a meat eater to eating and enjoying a veggie burger if it just does not live up to any type of standard? You won’t and then they’ll just become biased and assume all meatless patties are sad fails (which is far from the case)!

You won’t have to worry with these burgers. They will satisfy just about anyone. You know why? They are FLAVOR BOMBS! I don’ t think you could pack anymore explosive Thai flavor into these burgers. I’m talking the ultimate Pad Thai, but in an easy “portable” pattie package, if you will. Chickpeas, broccoli, lime, peanut flour, cilantro, lemongrass, and other spices. Pad Thai is all about the peanuts in my opinion and you get that here! By using peanut flour, you’re keeping these grain-free and lower in calories and fat as well so you get that “light” factor I was talking about.

When I think of Thai food, I think of ultra-fresh and light. Like a summer sunshine day! Maybe that’s just me? Apparently Thai food and East Asian cuisines are going to be a “2016 foodie trend”. I’m all for it! No complaints here! This trend mostly refers to “bowls” and noodles, but I’m thinking burgers will fit just fine as well! Burgers inspired by the iconic noodle dish, it just works!

Thailand is such a beautiful place, its cuisine deserves to be spread throughout the world. The land of coconut, rice noodles, and lemongrass? Heck yea! To bad I don’t see myself getting there anytime in the foreseeable future. I mean, I’ve never even left the East Coast, let alone have enough money to take a 20-something hour plane trip. When things like that happen, we just make the food of our destination, close our eyes, and pretend.

Maybe my next task should just be to find a Thai restaurant to eat at? Ha, I mean, I haven’t even made it that far! But that’s not really in my control. I don’t think there’s a Thai restaurant within a 50 mile radius of me (or an Asian market…I wish!). So this really is the best I can do with my isolated resources and opportunities…and money! If you ever happen to be taking a trip out to the Far East, let me know! I’m pretty small so I’m sure I could stow myself away in your suitcase! (After I wrote this post, my mom informed me she went to her first Thai restaurant last weekend…and ate duck!)

Pad Thai Broccoli Burgers

Pad Thai Broccoli Burgers

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

40 mins

Total time

50 mins

The flavors of Pad Thai packed into the ultimate bean and broccoli burger! Gluten-free, vegan, Pad Thai Broccoli Burgers are a perfect dinner recipe to satisfy even your carnivorous friends!

Author: Rebecca Pytell

Recipe type: Main

Cuisine: Thai

Serves: 4

Ingredients

2 Cups Cooked Chickpeas (or 15.5 oz Can)
2 TB Aquafaba (liquid from cooked beans)
2 Cups Chopped Broccoli
½ Cup Peanut Flour
1 Shallot (chopped)
Zest of 1 Lime
Juice of ½ Lime
2 TB Chopped Cilantro
1 TB Coconut Aminos
1 Tsp Minced Garlic
1 Tsp Dried Lemongrass
1 Tsp Chili Paste
½ Tsp Coriander

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425°F.
In a large food processor, combine all ingredients. Blend and pulse until you get a nice crumbly dough mixture.
Take the mixture and form 4 large patties with your hands. Place the patties on a Silpat or parchment paper liked baking sheet.
Bake the patties for 20 minutes, carefully flip them and bake for another 20 minutes. Remove and serve!

Nutrition Information

Serving size: 1

These burgers are fresh and delicious! Veggie burgers are something I always make sure I have pre-made and on hand in the freezer for those days I just want a quick easy dinner to pop in the microwave! Meaning, these freeze well and reheat in a snap. Anytime you want a taste of Thai, you can have it on demand, no plane tickets to exotic destinations required!