Summer Recipes

Summer is a great time for entertaining family and friends!!  It is especially fun to incorporate fresh ingredients from our own gardens.  

I also like to ensure that the foods that I provide don't include refined sugars.  My favorite substitutes for refined sugars are Agave Nectar and Xylitol.  

Both of these products are all natural and have low glycemic indexes and work great for baking and cooking.  They are a little sweeter than sugar, so I use less of them.  Xylitol has anti-bacterial benefits, including dental benefits.  It has even been proven to decrease the incidences of ear infections.

Possibly the one of the best benefits of both of these sweetners are that they taste great!!!!  There is absolutely no aftertaste.  I guess the best endorsement that I can give is that my kids and my husband love both of them and willingly use them instead of refined sugar.

I have some of my family and friends' favorite recipes on my website, thebackyardfarm.com:

http://thebackyardfarm.com/recipes.php