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Kitchen Stories: Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookie

Ingredients
  • ¼ cup coconut oil, solid at room temperature
  • ⅓ cup coconut sugar
  • 1 egg yolk, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup (4 oz.) blanched almond flour
  • ½ cup (3 oz.) chopped dark chocolate
  • ½ teasoon flaky sea salt, to sprinkle on top (optional)

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Directons

  1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Lightly grease a 5 inch cast iron skillet with coconut oil.
  2. Beat together the coconut oil and coconut sugar until smooth. Add the egg and vanilla and mix until smooth.
  3. Add the almond flour, salt, and baking soda to the wet ingredients. Mix until well incorporated. Fold in the chopped chocolate.
  4. Press the dough into the prepared pan, sprinkle with flaky salt if using, and bake for 15-18 minutes or just beginning to turn golden brown around the edges. Remove from oven and serve warm – alone, or with whipped coconut cream or non-dairy ice cream

Recipe taken from here

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Kitchen Stories: Overnight French Toast Bake

Easy Overnight French Toast Bake

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Serves: 12-14
Ingredients
    • ½ cup melted butter
    • 1 cup brown sugar + 3 tablespoons brown sugar
    • 1 loaf toast cut off the crusts, this is NOT necessary but I just think it looks nicer.
    • 4 eggs
    • 1½ cup milk
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
    • 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar plus more for sprinkling
    • honey or maple syrup for topping
Instructions
  1. Put the butter in a microwave safe bowl, melt it in the microwave and add 1 cup of brown sugar. Stir until combined.
  2. Pour the mixture evenly over the bottom of 9 x 13 baking pan.
  3. In a large bowl, whisk eggs, milk, 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar and vanilla.
  4. Place toast bread in a single layer in the pan so that it covers the whole area.
  5. Pour half the egg-milk mixture over the entire layer of toast bread.
  6. In a small bowl, combine the 3 tablespoons of brown sugar and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon.
  7. Sprinkle half the mixture on a layer of toast bread.
  8. Then arrange the second layer of toast bread and pour the rest of the mixture of eggs and milk.
  9. Repeat with the rest of the sugar and cinnamon.
  10. Cover with aluminum foil and leave to cool in the fridge overnight.
  11. * You can leave it for a couple of hours in the refrigerator, but the best effect is achieved if you leave it overnight.
  12. Preheat oven to 350 F.
  13. Leave chilled toast bread at room temperature for a few minutes.
  14. Put it in the oven and bake for 45 minutes, so that the first 30 minutes it is baked with aluminum foil.
  15. Bake it until the top is crispy and golden brown and the inside is soft.
  16. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve with honey or maple syrup.

Recipe taken from here

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Kitchen Stories: Perfect Roast Beef

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Ingredients

1.5 kg quality topside of beef
2 medium onions
2 carrots
2 sticks celery
1 bulb garlic
1 small bunch fresh thyme, rosemary, bay or sage, or a mixture
olive oil
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper

Method

To prepare your beef:
Take your beef out of the fridge 30 minutes before it goes into the oven. Preheat your oven to 240°C/475°F/ gas 9. There’s no need to peel the vegetables – just give them a wash and roughly chop them. Break the garlic bulb into cloves, leaving them unpeeled.

Pile all the veg, garlic and herbs into the middle of a large roasting tray and drizzle with olive oil. Drizzle the beef with olive oil and season well with salt and pepper, rubbing it all over the meat. Place the beef on top of the vegetables.

To cook your beef:
Place the roasting tray in the preheated oven. Turn the heat down immediately to 200°C/400°F/gas 6 and cook for 1 hour for medium beef. If you prefer it medium-rare, take it out 5 to 10 minutes earlier. For well done, leave it in for another 10 to 15 minutes.

If you’re doing roast potatoes and veggies, this is the time to crack on with them – get them into the oven for the last 45 minutes of cooking. Baste the beef halfway through cooking and if the veg look dry, add a splash of water to the tray to stop them burning.

When the beef is cooked to your liking, take the tray out of the oven and transfer the beef to a board to rest for 15 minutes or so. Cover it with a layer of tinfoil and a tea towel and put aside while you make your gravy, horseradish sauce and Yorkshire puddings.

Read more at http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/perfect-roast-beef/#ERwP0icILF2sd91M.99

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Sketch-of-View: Video of the Month #soolproductions

This month we feature one of our own; Joyce Khoo is a budding YouTuber whose mantra is not really just about you or me or even herself. It is about all of us, as a community. She heads up her very own #socialenterprise called #soolproductions or aka Stories Of Our Lives.

“Everyone has a story, Everyone deserves to be heard”
SOOL believes that stories shape a person.
It shapes their beliefs, their thought patterns, their cultures and their communities. After all, we are all products of the stories we’ve been told. In turn, the stories we tell will shape our future. So let’s make ’em good ones.

Read more about her amazing work here

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