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While healthier choices are growing, simply enjoying plenty of real, whole foods in our everyday diet is the frontier. America is sick, confused, and addicted to fake foods, but there's nothing fake in author Annabelle Lee's kitchen. She goes beyond paleo and gluten-free and shows you how to live a quick, easy, and delicious real food lifestyle with recipes that combine fat-burning and nutritious ingredients to create both sweet and savory dishes, while maintaining traditional tastes and textures. Recipes include: Broccoli Gnocchi with Cheesy Pumpkin Sauce Bacon & Eggplant Carbonara Veggie Wraps Old-Fashioned Pie Crust & Pastry Dough German Chocolate Cake When Lee began experiencing painful, auto-immune symptoms and a little pudge in her belly, she embarked on a path that led to discovering how to make incredible breads, wraps, comfort foods, and desserts unlike any others with ingredients such as nuts, coconut, sweet potato, zucchini, and various other fruits and vegetables as well as alternative, whole food flours.
About the Author
Raising four hungry boys to become healthy, strapping young men, meant as their mother, Annabelle Lee spent plenty of time in the family's farmhouse kitchen. When time rewarded her with extra pounds and painful auto-immune symptoms she began to search for answers. Learning that grains are problematic for many people and that extracted starches (often used in gluten/grain-free baking) can raise blood-sugar and promote weight gain, Annabelle chose simple, 'real food' ingredients and began developing her own recipes.
Sharing her discoveries on her blog, CaliforniaCountryGal.com, soon became the family business. Her creations include a line of grain & starch free baking mixes, a line of vegan baked goods for the food service industry, as well as her first book "SWEET SECRETS" and her newest book, "THE ULTIMATE GRAIN-FREE COOKBOOK".
After spending her youth running around avocado groves, Annabelle left her 'tomboy' days to work for more than 15 years as a print and commercial model in LA and NYC. Annabelle and her husband have finally settled in the southern California countryside, where Annabelle's motto today is... "Silly people...Grains are for the birds!"
