Finally home! After countless hours on buses, planes, in airports, bus terminals, taxi rides, catching a few hours of sleep here and there, I arrived back in Houston yesterday morning. I spent most of the day sleeping (and all night!) and awoke this morning feeling *slightly* more human. Not having slept much the past few weeks and having eaten less-than-good for me food, I am happy to be home to rest and eat well. My body is feeling less than 100% right now, but luckily my parents HUGE fridge and pantry has everything I need to nourish myself well over the next few weeks!
This morning began with a smoothie, shared with my momma: 
I used to LOATHE any type of runniness in my eggs. After one of my hostel stays, however, I was converted. Breakfast was a base of quinoa topped with italian sausage, avocado, and a runny fried egg. 
Now that I’m home in my parent’s stocked kitchen, I can start to knock out my THREE PAGES of recipes I collected while in Ecuador and spent some of my free time drooling over food blogs. My mom is mostly gluten free, my dad is a diabetic, and dairy doesn’t always sit too well with me. So I present to you a dairy free, flour-less, GF cookie! Based roughly off of Homemade Delish’s PB cookie recipe.
Nut Butter Coconut Cookies:
1/4 cup macadamia nuts
1/2 cup cashews
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 egg
1/4 cup flax
1/3 cup unsweetened coconut
1/3 cup coconut sugar
2 TB honey
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
I started by toasting off the macadamia nuts. 
Then process together the macadamia nuts, cashews, and peanut butter until it has the texture of a chunky nut butter. I used roasted and salted cashews–if you use raw nuts, you’ll want to add 1/4-1/2 tsp sea salt.
Add flax seed, egg, coconut, coconut sugar, honey, vanilla, and the cinnamon. 
Process until blended well. 
Spoon onto parchment paper or a baking sheet (I’m obsessed!) in small dollops.
Bake in a 350 oven for 8-10 minutes. You don’t want to overcook these–closer to 8 minutes, they are delicious and chewy!
Enjoy with some nice dairy free milk! Makes 20-25 bite sized cookies, perfect if there aren’t too many people in your family and if you can’t control yourself around sweets 🙂
Approx. Nutrition Stats:
85 cal
6 g fat
6 g carbohydrates (1 fiber, 5 sugar)
2.5 g protein
Interesting! I’d like to try this if it ever cools down enough to turn on the oven.
yes they are super yummy! And perfect for mixed groups with different dietary restrictions (or just people who like good things 😉 )
3 pages of recipes… Look like you have your work cut out. Looking forward to reading about them!
Thanks for visiting my blog 🙂 These look delicious- can’t wait to try them, Anna