AWAKEN 30+ EGG FREE AND
GRAIN FREE BREAKFASTS
Karen Sorenson is a
smart, young lady. She is an engineer by
day and by night she is creating up a storm in her kitchen. She has a passion for everything she sets her
mind to it seems (even working on a masters degree concurrently) and loves
creating recipes for special diets, blogging and perfecting her photography
skills.
I can see Karen has
put her passion into this cookbook as well.
It is very professionally done – even down to the page layouts and the
look and feel of the cookbook. The
photographs are fantastic. It’s not easy
to photograph some foods, but she does an amazing job. Karen is definitely becoming a Paleo author
from what I can see, except that she wisely doesn’t use honey and maple syrup
due to the effect it has on one’s blood sugar.
However, she includes a blurb about those Paleo sweeteners in her pantry
guide for those who wish to use them.
Many low-carbers moan
and complain because they get awfully tired of eggs for breakfast on a low-carb
diet. I’ll be honest I rarely have eggs
for breakfast. I do enjoy a brunch
occasionally with eggs included, but breakfast and eggs…nah, I’ve never been
too crazy about that even prior to going low-carb. Then there are others who don’t tolerate eggs
very well. Not to worry, here are some
great alternatives for breakfast. Karen
has breakfast cereals and porridges, smoothies, breakfast cookies and how would
you like strawberry crumble? Yes, I know
I honed in on the sweet stuff. Fact is
most of the recipes are regular foods like radish home fries, salmon cakes,
spaghetti squash hash browns, grits, Dijon pork chops with “apple sauce”,
breakfast pizza and a host of meats like bacon twists and homemade sausage made
with different ground meats.
There is a useful
pantry guide and she shows you in pictures how to make a chia “egg” which I
thought was fascinating. This is used in
place of eggs in baking. She also shows
using photos in a step-by-step fashion how to deal with some tricky vegetables
and how to make cauli-rice.
This inspired, breakfast
targeted cookbook can give some great, fun variety to those who are tired of
eggs for breakfast or for those who do not tolerate eggs well. Congratulations on a great cookbook, Karen! Well done!
NOTE: The e-book is on sale until March 11th,
for 40% ($5.99) using coupon code AWAKEN40. The link to the sales page and more
information is: