A Parfait Breakfast is Better with a Rainbow

A sweet and simple, bright and refreshing breakfast or brunch meal idea:

Rainbow Parfait

* Vanilla soy yogurt (Whole Foods)
* Gluten-free cinnamon granola (Whole Foods)
* sliced Mango
* sliced Strawberries
* sliced Kiwi fruit
* fresh Blueberries

Layer the ingredients in a large glass or narrow bowl, starting any way you like.

I started with the yogurt then created my fruit rainbow with mango on the bottom, more yogurt then strawberry, yogurt, granola, kiwi fruit, yogurt, blueberries, finish with a granola topping.

Beach Brunch on a Great Friday!

It's a lovely day for an Easter/Beach Brunch with friends.  I'm heading out today with my pup Scarlet to meet friends at the beach, have some good food and perhaps play some beach volleyball.  I made these beauties, which are also sugar free - gluten-free Zucchini and soya feta muffins...mmmm, savoury!

The original receipe can be found in 500 cupcakes on page 74.  I substituted the flour with gluten-free flour and the feta with soya feta; granted it doesn't have the same lovely texture as regular feta but it does the trick!

Please visit: i Bake Cupcakes for the cupcakes I made for our brunch!

First Mission: Gluten-Free Lime Bread

My new year resolution was to start eating more healthy, clean and gluten-free foods - not that I wasn't eating healthy already but I really wanted to change the way I see food, my lifestyle.

It's been about a month into my meat-free, dairy-free and gluten-free diet and I feel great!  (Still eating eggs though, sorry, just love them way too much to give them up just yet).

Over the holidays I bought myself a great little bread baking book, filled with great recipes but obviously none of them gluten-free so I challenged myself to make them so.  First recipe I tried...

Lime Bread (gluten-free)

Ingredients

- 3 cups gluten-free flour

- 3/4 cup loosely packed brown sugar

- 3 tsp baking powder (gluten-free)

- 1 tsp salt

- 1/4 tsp baking soda

- 1.5 cups plain soy milk

- 1 beaten egg

- 1/4 vegetable oil

- 1/4 cup fresh squeezed lime juice

- 2 tsp grated lime peel

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350F.  Grease a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan (I used margarine to grease it) and set aside.

2. In a mixing bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda.  In a separate bowl, combine milk, egg, oil, lime peel, and lime juice, stirring well.

3. Add wet ingredients to dry mixture once.  Stir just until moistened

4. Turn into a prepared loaf pan and bake for 1 hour.  Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes then transfer bread to cooling rack.

**This bread will be a little denser then your usually sweet or white breads but it's oh so yummy!

Great as a side with soup or for breakfast!