Almond Meal Cookies

Everyone likes chocolate chip cookies. Not everyone wants to use regular white flour and some need to be gluten free. Hodgson  Mills aldond flourTruvia brown sugar blendHersheys sugar free chocolate chip

This recipe uses Hodgson Mill Almond flour/meal, Truvia brown sugar blend, and Hershey’s sugar free chocolate chips.   

Everyone loved these cookies! They were gone in mere minutes.


This is not a low calorie food, nor especially low carb, but is pretty low sugar at 2.6 grams per cookie. 

Ingredients 

   2 cups almond flour
  1/4 cup brown sugar 
   2 tbsp softened butter
   2 tsp vanilla extract
  1/2 tsp baking powder
  1/4 tsp salt
   1 large egg
  1/2 cups chocolate chips 

Directions 

  1. Preheat oven to 350°
  2. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Parchment paper is highly recommended because these cookies can be fragile and need an easy release.
  3. Mix all ingredients together except the chocolate chips.
  4. Add the chocolate chips. 
  5. Scoop about 1 teaspoon of dough onto prepared cookie sheet.  
  6. Flatten and shape cookies to about 2″ diameter.   
  7. Bake for 12-14 minutes, until golden brown. Allow cookies to cool before removing.

Yields 12 cookies

 

 Nutritional information per cookie (based on products used)
155 Calories
  11 Fat
  12 Carbs
    1 Fiber
 2.6 Sugar
 3.8 Protein 

What to do with red cabbage.

Red cabbage has a great refrigerator life, so it’s easy to keep on hand. Everyone has probably had a mixed salad with a bit of shredded cabbage and carrot for color, but what else does one do with a whole red cabbage?

There is a small restaurant chain in California, Clearman’s Restaurants and their North Woods Inn offers a red cabbage salad that is fantastic!  I will note that everything at North Woods Inn is fantastic, but the best is their blue cheese dressing salad. 

Tonight my husband treated us to a great dinner and he used red cabbage!  He diced red cabbage and onion, added some fresh shredded ginger, then tossed with just a little sesame ginger sauce.  Crazy good!  

Topped with cod and drizzled with a bit of the sesame ginger sauce.  Side vegetables were long sliced carrots and asparagus.

If you have other ideas or recipes for red cabbage please send them in!