Bonjour bonjour!
Good Friday to you all.
I have a recipe to pass on to you this afternoon, it’s delectable. This bread will make your socks fly off your feet and your eyelashes curl into perfect ringlets.
To boot, it’s gluten-free, though the glutivores (not a real word) out there will also enjoy it very much. Just ask the guests I had at my dinner party last night. They couldn’t believe this bread was gluten-free when I served it alongside a hearty elk stew and a heart warming malbec wine.
They’ll testify.
I should add that I found this recipe in THIS cookbook which contains a fantastic selection of recipes that feature almond flour, agave nectar and grapeseed oil instead of regular wheat flours, sugar and vegetable oils. Baking and cooking with almond flour is the most scrumptious way to eat gluten free, in my opinion, and probably the most expensive (GROANnNNnnn). If you haven’t come in contact with this cook book yet and you are living gluten-free, I’d highly suggest picking up a copy. Tout de suite!
Ingredients:
3/4 cup creamy almond butter at room temperature
2 tbsp olive oil
3 large eggs (Winona and Rhonda supplied mine…)
1 tbsp agave nectar
1/4 blanched almond flour
1/4 cup arrowroot powder
1/2 tsp sea salt (I use Celtic sea salt, because it’s the best…)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup kalamata olives, pitted and finely chopped
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh rosemary
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350F, Grease a 7×3 inch loaf pan with grapeseed oil (or olive oil…I’m aware that not everyone uses grapeseed oil) and dust with almond flour.
In a large bowl, mix together almond butter and olive oil until smooth. Then blend in the eggs and agave nectar. In another bowl, combine your dry ingredients and then blend these with the wet ingredients until thoroughly combined. Fold in the olives and rosemary and pour the batter into your loaf pan.
Bake for 45-55 minutes, on the bottom rack of the oven, until a knife inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean. Let the bread cool in the pan for one full hour and then serve.
I could obviously eat an entire loaf myself except RW has demanded that I share with him. Since he has built me a brand new bathroom I suppose I shall acquiesce to his demands.
This bread really saved me this week. I’ve been spending my afternoons stomping around the house complaining bitterly about how my body is craving grains and I just wish I could sink the hearts of my teeth into a beautiful slice of wheat bread, freshly baked, slathered in the magenta delicatessa that is plum jam. Sometimes we gluten-free folks experience times like this, times when nothing fills the void.
I hope your weekends are full of delicious foods, long walks, organic carrots and good books. If you can manage glutens, please raise a gloriously golden croissant in my name before you let its buttery fibers dissolve on your tongue tip.
Happy baking my friends!
Happy weekending my friends.
Be well.
xx
Plume
Post Scriptus:
Plum says, “Hi! Gimmie all your biscuits or I’ll twang your heartstrings!“
…she’s been helping RW paint our new bathroom doors. As you can see.
shall *definitely* try this recipe: sometimes my body craves grains, too, and am attempting gluten-free living.
[and, shall take a bit of PLUMbelina on my toast, too.]
xx
I LOVE the smell of freshly baked bread – so tasty! The moment I get a place, that has a kitchen that I can cook in again (and ooo, I can't WAIT for that day!) I'll have to give this a go! I'd like to try my hand at bread baking, and this sounds glorious!
first off, the dinner sounds scrumptious…DROOL.
I'll try to muster up some kneedin' motivation on zero counter space!
happy weekend.
I didn't realize you were gluten free…the bread looks fantastic, my rosemary bread recipe isn't this intense looking (I use my machine, tsk tsk I know) glad you filled your tummy up! And, gasp, just saw the pics of your bathtub and my jaw is still on the floor, RW is one special guy!!!
looks scrumptious,
awwwww plum is sooo cute, give her a hug for me
xoxoxoxoxo
M
Om nom. Drooool.
And how much paint did Plum use to decorate RW in this little project?????
She is just TOOOOOO much. I would give her the biscuits. That half milk-mustache is a killer. She could have her own calendar.
That looks so scrumptious! I'll have to try it 🙂 Hopefully Plum is not leaving too many nose prints on the paint!!
Good food, good company, good God how can we ever thank Him enough????
Big grin over here because you are so right- sometimes a girl needs a good dose of real baguette baked golden and crunchy on the outside then smothered in butter.
Shaking at the thought.
For the rest of the time, GF is the option.
You're a DARLING to share this recipe!!
This is just what I needed.
Merci beaucoup la belle Plume! xo
p.s. Plum- come visit and bake with me? Woof!
p.s.s.
Even your recipe sharing is beautifully and thoughtfully written. Gosh. It's all feast for the eyes, tummy and mind. xo
Recipe looks/sounds wonderful, esp. with almond butter! Will pass on to my gluten-free younger 'blister,' currently living/working/traveling in the UK on her first big OE.
Will have an extra crumpet with golden syrup in your honor!
xx
PS. And one for Miss Plum, of course!
Oh Plume another great bread recipe I will definetly have to give this one a go also and try it out. Plummie looks so angelical which isn't totally true I am sure.
Almond butter & rosemary are two of the best things in the world!! If only I had an oven over here overseas!!! Ahh….
🙂
Lots of love, beautiful!
Sounds wonderful and is gluten free! Yay! How much almond flour do you use?
Health and happiness,
Angela