Keto Mac and Cheese Substitute

Ok tender friends, this culinary discovery could get wild and is likely to even be a little controversial. Please allow me to preface this by stating that even renowned naturopaths often disagree about what the ideal diet is.

This recipe is paleo and keto-friendly, as well as gluten-free. But it’s deliciousness is predicated on eggs consumed with the yolks and a generous amount of grass-fed butter, foods that some people would deem unhealthy.

Because of its controversial nature, I considered not sharing this. But when I fed it to Anthony and he agreed how delicious it was, I felt like a leprechaun selfishly sitting atop a pot of gold. I want to share my culinary gold with you. I would call it healthy for me and where my body is at, but please consult with your body, as always.

While I am far enough out in my healing to occasionally indulge in higher levels of carbohydrates then I have in the past, I still avoid pasta that is made from wheat. I consequently have not had “real” mac and cheese since 2014 when my mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. So this discovery of simple ingredients that taste just like mac and cheese has been amazing.

So if you are looking for that comfort and satisfaction from the flavor of mac and cheese but are also gluten free and paleo, I offer you the following!

(As a disclaimer, Anthony says this is delicious but doesn’t really taste like mac and cheese. He has eaten pasta within the last week, so perhaps his perception is different than mine).

1. Soft boil eggs. I used two the first time I did this, but it can obviously be as many as you want. (I do 7 minutes myself).

2. When you remove the eggs from the stove top, dump the boiled water and filled with cold water to break the seal between the shell and egg.

3. While the egg is still hot, peel the shell and mash the egg up with grass-fed butter. This will burn your fingertips a little bit, but is necessary to ensure that the butter melts enough. (You can melt your butter in the microwave if you want, but I don’t use the microwave because it’s so unhealthy, and it’s a bit too much of a hassle to bother with melting on the stove top for me personally).

4. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

5. Top with nutritional yeast.

Prepare to be dazzled, tender friends.

The magic of this recipe lies and how the soft boiled yolk and salt and pepper and nutritional yeast and grass-fed butter combine to produce a flavor that is creamy and velvety and satisfying, just like mac and cheese.

This has felt…life-changing to me. When I tell you that this meal is like sunshine on a cold winter day, I mean it. I don’t need to ever eat pasta made from wheat again because this satisfies me more than mac and cheese ever did.

If you are convinced there’s no way this could be healthy, please read the following with an open mind:

My adrenals were toasted for years prior to when my health problems became visible. This manifested in many ways, including being unable to sleep at night and feeling so tired at work during the day that I fell asleep at my desk after dismissing students at 2:00 p.m.

Coworkers would often enter my classroom and find me slumped over my computer and ask if I was okay. This reversed circadian rhythm, being wakeful in the middle of the night and struggling to stay awake around 2:00 or 3:00 p.m., is a classic sign of struggling adrenals.

Here is the highly controversial part of what I am about to share: I read in one of my GAPS diet books that adrenals love cholesterol and need it to recuperate. I consequently did consume and currently do consume pretty significant amounts of eggs and grass-fed butter. Prior to my health problems, I ate extremely lean foods and didn’t indulge in eggs or butter more than a few times a year.

One of the other things that used to bug me was constantly dry lips, which Dr. Axe says is from not consuming enough fat. Since consuming more avocados, coconut oil, grass-fed butter, etc., my dry lip problem has resolved itself.

I truly believe that diet is, like all other things related to health, bioindividual. I therefore urge you to spend some time in prayer and get in touch with your own body to determine if eating more cholesterol is something that could help your own adrenals and make you healthier. If you believe eggs are healthy for you, check out my scrambled squash egg recipe if you haven’t already!

Oh, and one last thing- hopefully in a few months I’ll be eating eggs from our own yard because….we got baby chicks today! We’ll be raising them as laying hens, so I’ll post about these black beauties as time goes on! In the meantime, I’ll be telling Cub he cannot remove their heating pad. He keeps taking it off of them so he can “have a party with the baby chicks,” but they’re too small to keep themselves warm yet.

Thank you so much for reading! If you have talked to your body and try this recipe, please let me know what you think in the comments!

Just a reminder that I’ll be sharing some water-only fasting information next week. This is one of the only healing modalities I know of that actually saves you money, makes me feel very close to the Holy Spirit, and got me thinking deeply about how much of my own life is lived on automatic. Can’t wait to share with you all next week!

Thank you for visiting, tender friends, and be blessed!

Thank you for sharing!

• WordPress
• Link
• Mail