I am excited to introduce to you Steve Frazier and his wife, Dr. Brenda Frazier, PhD, the founders of the company, Dr. Noodles. I had the opportunity to meet both of them as they promoted their product at our local health food store. One taste of this delicious, grain-free pasta, and I knew I had found a superior product. I was also convinced that I had to ask them if they would do a guest post for me on my blog. They enthusiastically agreed, and I am so excited to have them with us today. Mr. Frazier and his wife share their story and inspiration for starting Dr. Noodles, and they also include a delicious recipe at that end. Enjoy this post, and I encourage you to check out their delicious products for yourself and for your family.
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Greetings to all our fellow food and health enthusiasts!! We are very excited to be your guest blogger today and to share a bit of our story. Let’s start from the top. My wife and I were in the restaurant business for 25+ years and now, my Master’s Degree and her PhD later, we have found ourselves back in the food industry.
About three years ago my wife, Dr. Brenda Frazier, PhD, became ill. Since then she has seen 17 doctors with several hundred thousands of dollars in medical expenses and no answers. Along the way she began seeing a holistic Clinical Nutritionist, which our daughter Alex Hartinger, now totes as her career path as well. (Our family has taken the dive into natural health and an organic lifestyle very much together and whole-heartedly.) Both have helped her with her Lyme Disease diagnosis and are now addressing the many systemic problems, which this terrible disease has evoked on her body. Along the way she discovered a gluten-free lifestyle and realized some favorable results, but she ultimately realized that grains were still causing her ailments.
Now that she knew how immensely her grain-free choice was worth it, she proceeded to spend countless hours in the kitchen as she passionately strove to make this lifestyle as close to her previous, “comfortable” life as possible. Her efforts paid off as they led to hundreds of recipes and experiments with food. She knew that the options on the market had quality OR texture OR taste but were rarely “the whole package.” Naturally, and somewhat out of necessity, she started a grain- free cookbook, which was a place to keep track of her awesome recipes that would hopefully help other people navigate this shift in eating habits should they decide to be grain-free or be told they must be grain-free. When we got to the garbanzo bean pasta it became glaringly obvious to us that we needed to share it on a level way beyond a cookbook. The Dr. Noodles grain-free, non-GMO, soy free, nut free, and dairy free noodle was born and born to shine. In the past year since this revelation, a new family business has manifested, and our noodles are sold all over the state of Wisconsin (and we’re GROWING!!).
This is what it looks like!
Our story continues as we bring Dr. Noodles fettuccine, spaghetti, and elbow macaroni to celiacs, gluten and grain intolerant people, and diabetics across the State of Wisconsin- and to many, many more people who are just looking for a more nutrient dense, less inflammatory responsive food than the pastas on the market. Our product is non-GMO containing only four ingredients: garbanzo bean flour, arrowroot starch, xanthan gum (which all come from Bob’s Red Mill and are on the Non-GMO Project verified list), and organic eggs. We’re all about organic; however, we will probably never be able to claim to be totally organic as organic garbanzo bean flour is currently 6-7 times more expensive than the non-GMO kind we are buying, and given our research on source and quality, we know that we are providing a clean and real whole food product.
Finally, now that we have shared our story and our product, we’d like to conclude with one of our favorite recipes. If you’d like more delicious recipes from Dr. Noodles, there are more posted on our website, www.drnoodlesbybrenda.com, or on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/drnoodlesbybrenda. 
Garbanzo Bean Spaghetti Carbonara (Serves 4)
Ingredients:
½ onion, chopped
2 tablespoons coconut oil
½ lb. bacon (uncured, organic)
2 tablespoons of butter (organic)
3 egg yolks (organic)
1/3 cup unsweetened almond milk
¼ cup raw cheddar cheese
½ tsp sea salt
1 package of Dr. Noodles spaghetti
Heat the oil in a pan and sauté the onion until transparent. Add the bacon and cook until the bacon is crisp. Remove this mixture from pan and keep it warm. Melt the butter in the same fry pan with the bacon fat. Remove pan from heat. Stir in egg yolks and season to taste with sea salt and pepper. Stir in the almond milk and cheese. Add the onion and bacon mixture and mix thoroughly. Cook pasta in boiling salt water until tender. Drain. Mix everything together and serve immediately. You can add more cheese at the end if you prefer.
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Thank you all for taking the time to hear our story and a huge thanks to AvocadoMommy for inviting us to be on her blog. We are honored to be here. Let us say, it has been through a strong faith in God and much prayer that we have managed to get through some very difficult times with Brenda’s health. With His help we have persevered and brought a product to market that has brought smiles and joy to many hearts of people who have not been able to eat good tasting pasta for many years.
We demo our product regularly around the state and post the schedule on our Facebook page. We invite you to join us for some great tasting pasta, a nice chat, and friendly comradery. See you soon!! If you see this little dude at a demo, say, “Hi!” to our garbanzo-bean-noodle-loving grandson, Mac!
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