Magic 5-Minute Chocolate Mug Cake – (Ronda’s Healthy Version)

Magic 5-Minute Chocolate Mug Cake – (Ronda’s Healthy Version)

This recipe was adapted from Cricket Children’s Magazine but don’t let that fool you. This recipe is dangerous! You can enjoy a hot volcano cake any time of the day in just 5 minutes.

What You’ll Need:

4 Tablespoons Whole Wheat Pastry Flour - organic

4 Tablespoons Agave - organic

2 Tablespoons unsweetened powdered cocoa

1 Egg- free range

3 Tablespoons Milk - organic

3 Tablespoons Grape Seed Oil (or coconut) Or 2 Tablespoons butter- melted

3 Tablespoons Chocolate Chips – may use wheat sweetened

¼ Teaspoon vanilla extract

1 Large Coffee Mug

Powder Sugar (we skip this part and pour on Chocolate Agave Syrup)

What to Do:

1. Add dry ingredients to mug. Mix well.

2. Add egg and mix thoroughly

3. Pour in milk and oil

4. Add chocolate chips and vanilla extract. Mix again

5. Put mug in microwave and cook for 3 minutes on high (the cake will rise above the top of the mug – that’s OK)

Note: if you don’t like using the microwave for health reasons pop it into a 350° oven for 25-30 minutes

6. Allow cake to cool a little, then tip onto plate. Sprinkle with powdered sugar – or Agave Chocolate syrup

Serves 2

Options:

Add Nuts, or orange zest, or ¼ Teaspoon Espresso Powder or ¼ Teaspoon of cinnamon

Gluten Free Chocolate Cake in a Mug

4 Tbsp ground almonds ( almond flour )
4 Tbsp Agave
2 Tbsp cocoa powder
1 egg
3 Tbsp milk
3 Tbsp Grape Seed oil or Coco nut oil- or 2 Tbsp melted butter
3 Tbsp chocolate chips
dash of vanilla
pinch of salt
pinch of baking soda

1. Add the dry ingredients to the mug and mix well.
2. Add the egg to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly
3. Add the milk, vanilla and oil - mix well.
4. Add the chocolate chips and stir.
5. Cook on high for 3 minutes in a 1000 watt microwave
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!
6. Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
7. EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).

Year Around Indoor Gardening - Sprouting

Spouts are a super food.

Fact:

• Did you know that a radish takes about a month and a half to grow to maturity and contains 10 international units (IU) of vitamin A? Conversely, radish sprouts take 5 days to grow and contain 390 (IU) international units of vitamin A. Wow!
  


• A two ounce shot of wheat grass contains 70% Chlorophyll and is equivalent to eating 3 pounds of raw vegetables
  
  

Why I have started to grow my own sprouts:

• Sprouts are a nutritionally power packed food with high concentrations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes, and bio-flavinoids etc.


• I can simply and quickly grow fresh organic produce year around in my own kitchen – no pest problems.


• Less production time from seeds to the table


• The tender cell walls of the sprouts easily release their concentrated nutrients which maximizes our ability to assimilate them. Sprouts are packed full of enzymes that aid digestion and balance the digestive tract.
• Sprouts can be added to salads, sandwiches, used to cook with or juiced
  

To learn how you can economically grow your own nutritious sprouts year-round check out this book: Sprouts –The Miracle Food – The Complete Guide to Sprouting by Steve Meyerowits. AKA: The Sproutman. In his informative book and on his web site Sproutman uses three methods for home sprouting:

1. Bamboo baskets - which give his sprouts more vertical room to grow as opposed to the mason jar method.


2. Soil-less sprouting trays and the


3. Fresh Life Automatic Sprouter.
   

Personally, I have sprouted in mason jars but the sprouts get too crowded and stay too wet which tends to allow mold to develop. I have also grown wheat grass in organic soil for the purpose of increasing their mineral content which turns into real messy indoor gardening. I have not yet tried to sprout in bamboo baskets. But, the easiest way to grow sprouts for me is to use the Fresh Life Automatic Sprouter. I bought an extra barrel and wheat grass pads to double my ability to sprout wheat grass.

Check out my amateur video of the progress of my Fresh Life Automatic Sprouter. I am growing wheat grass...to be continued.

If you are interested in a Fresh Life Automatic Sprouter you can call me at: (615)331-3136 They sell for $99.00

Southern Fried Health Food

My food philosophy in a nutshell: It must taste good! – Or you can vibrate the air with useless sound waves about a product and it's health benefits – and it will take up permanent residence in the fridge, growing penicillin like some abandoned lab experiment. However, my real maniacal hidden agenda is that our food be clean, healthy food that TASTES GOOD.

Who am I? I am a recent “true believer”. Yes, I have known, studied, and even taught the benefits of healthy eating and exercise for decades. Heck, we were even full blown vegetarians for a while and felt great. But one summer afternoon the perfumed aroma of a neighbor’s sizzling steak grilling in the distance wafted into our backyard. Like some giggling high school kids with fake IDs we snuck to the grocery store for the contraband. We grilled the most delicious juicy perfectly marbled stake and for a brief moment we experienced carnivore’s heaven. We looked at each other and agreed that we had been way overboard on this "vegetarian thing" – only to feel occasional buyer’s remorse, sugar coated and not nearly as healthy – but hey, it’s the American way. Besides, how can a chocolaholic truly be a health nut?

Well, as they sing, "The times they are a changin’ ", and actions have consequence. What we can get away with in our youth will beat us bloody later. It is funny how that works. It seems like you can get away with living an unhealthy life choice without paying the consequences just about as long as it takes to develop into a habit then “Its time to pay the piper” (as the old timers say) – I think that means by that time, you're pretty much screwed to the wall.

What is a true believer? Well I am not on a sticks and berries diet …yet – My whole life I have been a "from scratch", southern fried, cheese biscuit, real potatoes and gravy, dessert with every meal, dipped in chocolate cook. I still have a family to feed and all food must pass muster on the delicious scale. However, I have slowly converting us all to a healthy alternative diet and we will share the trickery on this blog. I would love for you to join our adventure and to hear your tips and suggestions. We have already seen tremendous life changing and even miraculous health benefits this year!

Coming Tomorrow:

My New Favorite Carrot Cake Recipe (don't tell them until after it has been devoured that it was healthy and actually good for them!)

In the meantime, be sure to visit (and bookmark) our website at http://www.zoeway.com - and keep checking back for more great tasting, healthy products coming soon!