Hey everyone! Thanks for taking a few minutes to read my blog. I have been dreaming about creating this blog for a while now but it wasn’t until a couple of recent encouraging opportunities that I was able to get the ball rolling on this baby! :)
I am a dessert lover by nature. I have always enjoyed sweets and sharing them with others. When I was a kid I baked cakes and cookies for fun. If anyone ever offered me a sweet treat I wouldn’t turn it down…until about five years ago. It was then that my passion for dessert consumption took a big turn. Due to some significant health issues I had to change my diet. It was then that my passion for baking went into a season of deep pruning and growth. It spent six months working to learn about the importance of food ingredients and how they effect the way I was feeling from the inside out. To start my journey I had to eliminate a significant amount of ingredients out of my diet. The purpose of this was two fold; 1. to allow my gut to heal 2. to determine what my body processed well and what it didn’t. During this season of intense “food education” I kept thinking one thing, “As long as I know I can have something for dessert I will be okay!”
During my intense six months of work I was given several awesome recipes to get my started and it was from those recipes a new desire was born — a desire to find recipes for delicious desserts that I can enjoy on a regular basis that follow the guidelines of my ingredient restrictions. This desire seemed achievable at first and I did okay for a while but then another change occurred.
The trouble with a lot of the delicious dessert recipes that have “clean” ingredients is that they can cost you your right arm and then some! For several reasons, mainly because I was the only one in my house consuming these tasty treats, I had to make some significant cut backs. While these limitations were nothing compared to my initial dietary restrictions it was still tough to do. Still, from this second season of change, education and growth I learned about many delicious recipes that I could make on a regular basis. I didn’t repeat them weekly, because I LOVE VARIETY, but I did put them into a category that I go back to often.
So why write about all this? I mean, who cares what dessert recipes I like? Well, I hope you do :) I want to share what my experiences have been when it comes to baking — the good recipes I found that are cost effective and time-saving to make as well as the not-so-good ones that I think you would appreciate knowing about. Maybe you will try them anyway and experience a success that you would like to share?! Most of all, I want to create a community. There is so much being said in the media about eating “clean”, how bad sugar is for you, GMOs, ect. I don’t have all the answers but I am happy to share what I have learned along my now FIVE year journey. I hope you will join me and share your thoughts too!
