Orange Cream Cookies

5. March 2012 William Davis (5)
If you loved Creamsicles as a kid, you'll love these Orange Cream Cookies. (Sorry, no photo: We ate them up before I realized we hadn't taken the photo. And, worse, we did it twice!)

Ingredients:
2 cups almond meal
2 tablespoons coconut flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon sea salt
¼ cup golden raisins
½ cup chopped pecans
Sweetener equivalent to 1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons finely-grated orange rind
1 large egg
2 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
½ cup whipping cream (or coconut milk)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350º F.

Combine almond meal, coconut flour, baking soda, salt, raisins, pecans, sweetener and orange zest in bowl and mix.

In separate bowl, whisk egg, then add coconut oil, whipping cream, vanilla extract and mix together. Pour wet mix into dry and blend by hand thoroughly.

Spoon onto parchment paper-lined baking pan (or oiled pan) and flatten with spoon to ½-¾ inch thickness. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick withdraws dry.
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  • Jana Miller

    3/5/2012 2:33:26 AM |

    Love your book, blog and everything you stand for. Just wish I could get my mother in law and sister in law on board. My husband has lost 35 pounds since eating primal and cutting out almost all the wheat. We are at 90% and working on the last 10 %.

    So the only thing I get tripped up on in your recipes is the sweetener. We use liquid stevia in our coffee but I see no way to determine how much would be equivalent to one cup of sweetener. Do you have a particular brand you could recommend so I can start trying some of these recipes?
    Jana

  • Dr. William Davis

    3/6/2012 3:49:56 AM |

    I think the key, Jana, is to pick your sweetener of choice, then get familiar with its characteristics and stick with it.

    My favorite: KAL liquid stevia that a friend introduced to me. SweetLeaf stevia powder is a good product, made with inulin, as well as Trader Joe''s powdered stevia, likewise made with inulin. Truvia is a good product, though costly. If you can find it, bulk erythritol is a good product. All differ in quantity to use to equal the sweetness of sugar.

  • Ginny

    5/29/2012 6:18:38 PM |

    Looks like a great recipe Dr. Davis! I plan to try it.  I may even have a picture for you, if I can keep from eating them all first.  Smile  I appreciate your work.

  • Ginny

    5/29/2012 8:33:55 PM |

    I made them.  They were wonderful! Take a look: http://ginnyslowcarbkitchen.blogspot.com/2012/05/orange-cream-cookies.html  Thanks!

  • Dr. Davis

    6/1/2012 12:59:51 AM |

    Thanks, Ginny!

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Self-empowerment is coming!

Self-empowerment is coming!

11. June 2006 William Davis (0)
I've discussed this before: The coming wave of self-empowerment in health. Health that is driven by you, not a hospital, not a doctor, not by procedures, but by information and access to tools that are powerful and effective.

The seeds are being planted right now and won't take full root for many years or decades. But it's going to happen.

I previously cited several broad trends that are examples of this emerging wave:

--The nutritional supplement movement. Contrary to the media's ill-informed bashing, nutritional supplements are getting better: improved quality, better substantiation of when/how to use them, new agents that appear rapidly, since introduction is not slowed by the molasses of the FDA.

--Medications moving to over-the-counter status. Health insurers are driving this one. OTC means not paid for by insurance. That also means access to you.

--What I call "retail imaging", i.e. screening ultrasound, heart scans, full body scans, etc. that are available in most states without a doctor's order.

--The Internet. The mind-boggling rapidity and depth of information available on the Internet today is fueling the self-empowerment movement by providing sophisticated information to health care consumers. Information here is uneven at present. But, as consumer sophistication increases and the system of checks and balances evolves, internet-driven information will be often superior to what you get from a doctor or other health professional.

--High-deductible health insurance plans. If health care consumers bear more and more of the costs of health care, they will seize greater responsibility for early identification and prevention and minimize long-term costs.

This trend does not mean treating your own infection, taking out your own gall bladder, repairing your own broken leg. It means that conventional routes of health delivery will recede into providing only catastrophic care.

It means that you and your family will take a larger role in learning how to eat and exercise properly, use foods to maintain and promote health (the "designer food" and "nutraceutical" movement), take supplements that have real benefits, use medications for treatment of many everyday ailments.

It also means seizing control of diseases that previously were only treated in hospitals, like coronary heart disease. This, of course, is where our program, Track Your Plaque, is an example of how you can have a powerful and effective role in your heart health. Track Your Plaque goes so far beyond the "eat low-fat, exercise, and know your numbers" media mantra that it's like comparing a brand-new Mercedes to a rusted, run-down '87 Ford Escort. There truly is no comparison. (Sorry if you're an Escort driver!) But you get the idea.
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