Jane Barthelemy - Good Morning Paleo More Than 150 Easy Favorites to Start Your Day, Gluten- and Grain-Free

Praise for PALEO DESSERTS

Maybe youve stopped sneaking sweets, but Jane Barthelemys new book means not giving up dessert entirely. The high-quality, nutrient-dense ingredients in these dessert recipes will help preserve and boost energy, ensuring a truly sweet ending to every meal.

Taste for Life

Paleo Desserts by Jane Barthelemy shows you how to indulge your sweet tooth without sacrificing your health. With 125 recipes and gorgeous color photos, Barthelemy demonstrates how to re-create classic cakes, cookies, pies, ice cream, mousses, and chocolate confections using Paleo ingredients.

Portland Book Review

The recipes include cakes and cupcakes, muffins and breads, cookies and bars, 5-minute shakes, and sauces and fillings... Barthelemy follows Dr. Loren Cordains Paleolithic diet. If you are doing the same, this is a great cookbook for you.

Tulsa Book Review

For those already on the Paleo eating program, Jane Barthelemys Paleo Desserts is a welcome adjunct With recipes like Black Forest Cake and Key Lime Pie, no one need feel deprived.

WomanAroundTown.com

Barthelemy has a dessert for everyone, and if you are gluten-free or grain-free you will appreciate this collection of luscious desserts.

San Francisco Book Review

Paleo Desserts helps create fresh alternatives to every home chefs library of favorites.

Midwest Book Review

Essential, especially for those who want to eat healthier foods.

Tucson Citizen

Barthelemy has made gluten-free, low-carb, diabetic-friendly recipes that impress.

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ALSO BY JANE BARTHELEMY

Paleo Desserts:

125 Delicious Everyday Favorites, Gluten- and Grain-Free

Copyright 2014 by Jane Barthelemy

Photos by Lloyd Lemmermann

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Barthelemy, Jane.

Good morning Paleo : more than 150 easy favorites to start your day, gluten- and grain-free / Jane Barthelemy.

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Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-7382-1745-1 (paperback.)ISBN 978-0-7382-1746-8 (e-book) 1. Gluten-free dietRecipes. 2. Wheat-free dietRecipes. I. Title.

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First Da Capo Press edition 2014

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To my father, Richard, the creative naturalist chef, who instilled in me a love for Nature and a sense of wild abandon in the kitchen

CONTENTS

Its a finger snapping kind of day.

Coco J. Ginger

M orning is the best time of day. Not that Im a morning personIm definitely not. Im a night owl. I love the morning because it holds the seeds of the day, and the possibilities are too immense to imagine. Whatever you can envision into being in the morning is what the day can become. By midmorning the day has taken on a character. And by the late night, as I try to squeeze out every last drop of experience, the day gets brittle, old, and tired. But in the early morning, anything can happen.

Thats what it was like growing up with my family. My father was a wild, inspired chef, among other things, with an immense passion for food, and, yes, Im grateful to have inherited that. He woke us up with unforgettable breakfasts and an excitement so palpable, so generous. We ate his freshly gathered wild mushrooms sauted in butter on toast. And enormous pancakes that filled a 2-foot cast-iron pan suspended on chains over a fire in the backyard. So it was only natural for me to write this bookout of a lifelong passion for food and for the simple delight of sharing it with others.

As a child I was very robust and healthy. However, as an adult I began to be challenged with chronic fatigue, adrenal failure, allergies, and digestive problems. At one point when I was very weak and ill, I noticed there was an immediate and direct connection between what I ate for breakfast and how my day went. Of course all the meals are important, but I observed a clear response to breakfast in my body. It would accept the food with a warm feeling of happiness. Or it would shut downa lot or a little. Call it a food reaction or an intolerance, perhaps triggered in part by an emotion. Who knows, my system would go into a tailspinbrain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, constipation, bloating, food cravings, muscle aches, moodiness, and confusion. I muddled through the day as best as I could. The only real solution was to rest and start over the next day. In time I was able to identify clearly the foods that my body acceptedfresh vegetables, tart fruits, unprocessed meats, nuts, eggs, and unrefined oils. The foods causing my body to shut down were always the same: refined carbs, grains, gluten, processed foods, milk, cheese, vegetable oils. Oh, and sugars of all kindseven fruit sugars.

A NEW CONCEPT IN BREAKFAST

A good breakfast sets the tone for your whole day. After ten years on a diet free of grains, dairy, and sugar, my food reactions are gone. Theres no morning brain fog, confusion, or any of the old discomforts. Now that I enjoy stable energy levels through the day and better health than Ive had in decades, I have become a passionate Paleo enthusiast. After all, it makes sense to eat the foods we are genetically adapted to eat. That means eating only real food. Some people might call it a limited diet. What? No bagels and cream cheese? No milk, orange juice, croissants, or Cheerios? But as youll see on these pages, when one thinks outside the box a little bit, there is no deprivation on this diet. On the contraryevery meal is pure pleasure. My senses are clearer, my life is more enjoyable, and I accomplish more with less effort.