Health knowledge made personal
 If you read my blog you probably know I'm not much of a baker. When it comes to baking desserts I have a few issues; 1) I can't get myself to use white flour, sugar or butter so I inevitably try to "healthify" the recipe and it comes out crappy and 2) If it is in the house I will eat it. I could bring it in to work but frankly there is so much junk food there I don't want to add to the madness.What a day! Interestingly (and thankfully) with this new diet I've adopted of eating plants only, I didn't have ANY cravings! It was as if I didn't even have to have willpower which is very unusual for me. It does take pre-planning though (as any diet does). I had breakfast at home, brought in a salad with tabbouli and hummus for lunch, veggies and cherries as snack and some veggie sushi with avocado for dinner. Every bite was delicious! To break up the day of sitting I hit the gym for a yoga class. It is amazing how much more energized and focused I am when I get back to work after a workout. Just because I'm currently not eating any animal products doesn't mean I don't like a good cookie though. In one of my favorite cookbooks by Terry Walters , Clean Food, there is a chocolate chip cookie recipe sweetened with maple syrup and bananas and uses oats and brown rice flour as the base. Perfect! This is my kind of baking. Delicious and nutritious. As an added bonus I had all the ingredients on hand. I threw in some cinnamon and decided to use raisins and increased the baking time a bit. This was the second time I have made these, the first I used dark chocolate chips and it was just as tasty.  Vanishing Banana Oatmeal Raisin CookiesAltered from Terry Walters , Clean Food pp. 89Vegan, Gluten free, Sugar freeMakes 18 cookies Printable Recipe Ingredients Dry Ingredients1 cup rolled oats2/3 cup brown rice flour1/4 tsp baking soda1/4 tsp ground cinnamon1/2 cup shredded unsweet dried coconut1 tbsp ground flax seed (optional)Dash of sea salt Wet Ingredients2 bananas, mashed1/4 cup canola oil1/4 cup maple syrup3/4 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 cup raisins Directions 1. Preheat oven to 350F. 2. Whisk the dry ingredients together in a medium bowl. In a separate medium bowl whisk the wet ingredients together. Pour the wet into the try and stir until just combined. Fold in the raisins. 3. Drop by tablespoon on baking sheets covered in parchment paper. Bake 15 minutes or until bottom begins to brown. Cool on a wire rack.
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