On the Quest for the Perfect Carrot Muffin

I have been trying to find a good carrot muffin recipe for awhile! I have tried a few, but this one has potential! I found this recipe online:

http://livingwithgastroparesis.com/cupcake-bust-perfect-carrot-muffins/

I want a recipe that can be made in the Vitamix and this one met that requirement, although I guess I could do the wet ingredients from any recipe in the Vitamix! These turned out nice and moist. I will use this recipe again, but I would mix in some raisins, as I found myself wanting more texture in the muffins, but this goes against the whole purpose of the recipe judging from the site where from which I grabbed it. I liked how it used coconut oil and a banana! Very healthy and easy to digest!

You can see that Cdub thoroughly enjoyed the muffins which were more like cupcakes than muffins really! 🙂

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Chicken Soup & Congee for a Sick Boy

Thursday night, Caelib woke up with a stomach bug which lasted the better part of Friday. This meant that our plan to eat our leftovers wouldn’t work. I decided to make a quick chicken soup…

I boiled 5 chicken legs in water until the meat was falling of the bone. I added a bit of apple cider vinegar in hopes of drawing out more minerals from the bones even though I wasn’t committed to boil it for too long like a bone broth.

I then added sliced carrots (we have an abundance from our CSA!), white radish and two potatoes. For flavour I added a cube of chicken soup base, as well as three cloves of fresh garlic, a red onion, thyme, basil and black pepper. I didn’t add salt since it was already in the cube, but we did add a bit while eating since there was no salt flavour at all. Caelib had a few sips of the broth, but it still felt like too much.

Today, I decided to make congee with the leftover soup. I rinsed and boiled about 1 cup of basmati rice with about 4-5 cups of water. When the rice was soft, I added in the leftover soup and turned it down to a simmer. The soup mixed in really well and Caelib loved the congee! 🙂

After some doses of arsenicum, a visit to our naturopath for Bowen therapy and a dose of pulsatilla, his appetite is back and this was a perfect back-to-eating food! 🙂

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