Gluten Free Paradise!

2018-09-05T19:37:00.002-07:00

GF Mini Muffin Quiche

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Makes 24 mini Quiches

Ingredients:

Crust:

1 cup whole grain GF flour blend

1 egg

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

1 package turkey bacon, cooked, cubed

Filling:

8 eggs

1 ½ cup heavy cream or coconut cream

2 cups grated cheddar cheese

½ tsp salt

½ tsp coarse pepper

½ tsp season salt

1 tablespoon minced garlic

Extra cheese slices for top of each quiche.

Directions:

1-Grease muffin tins with spray oil.

2-Mix all crust ingredients until moistened. Put 1 Tablespoon crust into each muffin tin.

3-Pressed firmly into bottom until covered.

4-Put cubed turkey bacon on top of crusts.

5-Whip all filling ingredients together and pour into each muffin plot. Fill about ¾ full.

6-Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned.

7-Pull Quiche out. Cover each quiche with a square piece of cheese. My favorite it Havarti but you could

do Mozzarella, cheddar. Whatever you like.

8-Place back in oven for about 3 minutes just to melt cheese. Let quiches cool for about 5 minutes before

serving.

YouTube Video link to recipe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siUSGs3eJuo

2018-09-05T19:32:00.001-07:00

Gluten Free Cake Cookies

Bake at 350 Degrees

Ingredients:

1 Pillsbury Chocolate Cake Mix

2 eggs

1/2 cup oil, olive, melted coconut, etc.

1/3 cup coconut milk or reg. milk

Directions:

1-Mix all the above ingredients in a mixing bowl.

2-Use a cookie scoop and scoop into balls on to greased or lined cookie sheet.

3-Flaten slightly with hand or spoon before baking.

4-Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 9 minutes.

5-Cool on wire rack.

Frosting:

1 Can Duncan Hines Cream Cheese Frosting

1 Can Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Frosting

1-Melt frosting in microwave until hot and smooth.

2-Drizzle Cream Cheese Frosting over cookies.

3-Drizzle Fudge Frosting over the white frosting.

4-Let cool and Enjoy!

YouTube link to recipe video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW8RyKddMBY

2018-09-05T17:22:00.001-07:00

Au Gratin Potatoes

Bake at 425 for 15 min

Ingredients:

2 cups cut up mini golden potatoes

1 1/2 cups light sour cream

2 cups cheddar cheese

3/4 cup broth

1 tsp Season Salt

1 tsp Coarse Pepper

1/2 tsp salt

Extra cheese to spread on top

Directions:

1-Precook cut potatoes in a skillet with water covering the bottom for 20 to 30 minutes or until tender.

2-Pour off any remaining water and put in a 13 x 9 greased glass pan.

3-Mix all remainign ingredients together and spread over top of potatoes.

4-Sprinkle top with a little extra cheese. Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes and then broil just until top browns.

5-Let sit for 5 minutes before serving.

YouTube link for above recipe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guVNw-hCJNc

2018-09-05T16:36:00.001-07:00

Crockpot Chocolate Lava Cake

Gluten Free

Line crockpot with parchment paper and set aside.

Ingredients:

1 box Pillsbury GF chocolate cake

1 small box instant chocolate pudding

1 bag Ghirardelli Caramel Chocolate squares

1 cup mini chocolate chips

¼ cup sour cream

½ cup water

½ cup coconut milk (can use regular cows milk)

3 eggs

1/3 cup melted butter

1 ½ cups milk (for pudding)

Directions:

1-Mix chocolate cake mix, sour cream, water, coconut milk, eggs and melted butter until smooth. Pour into lined crockpot. Turn on crockpot to high.

2-Mix instant chocolate pudding with the milk until thick and set. Pour pudding mixture over the already in crockpot cake.

3-Unwrap all the Ghirardelli chocolates and place on top of pudding. Pour the cup of chocolate chips on top. DO NOT STIR. Cover crockpot and cook for 3 hours.

***When cake is finished pour half of jar of hot fudge over top of cake before serving. Serve cake warm with vanilla ice cream, whipped topping and chopped nuts of choice.

You Tube Video of the above recipe:

Best Gluten Free Chocolate Lava Cake!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uA4oEzoCyQ

2017-09-21T13:21:00.000-07:00

Banana-Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 3/4 cup gluten free flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup mashed ripe bananas
2/3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
cinnamon sugar to sprinkle on top
1 package Mini chocolate chips (you can use regular size)

Mix dry ingredients. Set aside. Beat butter until creamy and add sugar gradually. Beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Mix in vanilla. Add bananas and flour mixture alternately.

Add mini chocolate chips.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. I like to bake my cookies on parchment paper. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. Bake at 400 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

Granola Bars

2017-03-09T11:12:00.003-08:00

Granola Bars

These chewy granola bars are easy and delicious. They make great snacks for kids or grownups alike. My husband takes them to work. He likes them made like a protein bar--thus the protein powder in the recipe. When I make them for my kids, I use the almond flour.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Prepare a 9X13" baking pan by lining it with parchment paper. You want the paper to be too big for the pan. Just pinch/fold it in the corners so it can fit the pan.

1 3/4 cups gluten free oats

1 cup gluten free protein powder or almond flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup raw, chopped, pecans

2/3 cup raw, chopped almonds

1 cup coconut flakes

1 cup chocolate chips (you can use mini or regular sized)

1/2 cup butter

2 Tablespoons honey

2 Tablespoons pure maple syrup

2 Tablespoons unsulphured molasses

1 large egg

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla

In a large bowl, combine oats, protein or almond flour, salt, cinnamon, pecans, almonds, coconut flakes, and chocolate chips by stirring them until they are distributed evenly.

In a microwave safe bowl, melt butter. Add honey, maple syrup, molasses, egg, and vanilla. You can stir it to mix up the egg, but it really doesn't combine well.

Pour liquid mixture into the dry mixture. Stir with a large spoon until ingredients are very well combined and everything is a little damp from all the wet ingredients. Spoon the entire mixture into your prepared baking dish. Use the spoon to spread it evenly in the pan. Then, use the spoon, or the bottom of a cup to press the mixture together into the pan. Spread and press it evenly throughout the pan.

Bake in a 325 degree oven for 35 minutes. Let it cool.

Melt additional chocolate and spread it over the top of the granola bars. Ghirardelli dipping chocolate is heavenly on these. I melt 1 cup of chocolate in the microwave for 1 minute. Stir until all smooth and spread it around the top of the bars.

If I don't have the dipping chocolate, I use chocolate chips. Melt 1 cup of chocolate chips together with 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. Stir until smooth and spread on top of bars.

Cool the bars completely (this is done more quickly if you put the bars in the freezer for about 30 minutes.)

This is where the parchment papers is nice. Just pick up the whole pan of bars by the parchment paper and place on a cutting board. Cut bars into desired size and shapes. Package them individually in snack or sandwich bags or plastic wrap. We freeze them until we are ready to use them.

Enjoy.

***FOR GRANOLA: I just dump the combined bar ingredients onto a large jelly roll pan and bake it loose (without smashing it down). I crumble it up and use it as granola for fruit and yogurt parfaits, snacks, etc.

GF Oreo Cookies

2017-01-15T20:13:00.003-08:00

Homemade GF Oreo Cookies   Cookie Recipe  

Gluten Free, Dairy Free

Ingredients:

1 - package Hodgson Mills or Pillsbury GF Chocolate cake mix ,

4 - eggs  

1/4 - cup oil  (or butter flavored shortening)

1/4 cup butter

Directions:

1-Heat oven to 350 degrees.

2-Add oil and eggs and butter to cake mix and blend together in mixing bowl until well creamed. Roll dough into balls (a little larger than a quarter).

Roll in powdered sugar.

3-Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on sheet (until warm). Then remove cookies from pans and cool on cooling rack.

4-To assemble the cookies, frost bottom side of one cookie. Place another cookie on top. It will look like a cookie sandwich or an oreo cookie. Continue until all cookies are sandwiched with frosting.

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients:

6 cups Confectiners sugar

1 cup butter, softened

3-4 teaspoons vanilla

2 teaspoons milk

Directions:

1-In a mixer add the above ingredients together in mixing bowl.

2-Mix on slow for about 1 mintue until combined.

3- Increase speed and whip until creamy and light.

Creamed Corn Bread

2017-01-15T20:05:00.002-08:00

Creamed Corn Bread

Ingredients:

2 cups yellow cornmeal1 teaspoon kosher salt1 tablespoon sugar2 teaspoons baking powder1/2 teaspoon baking soda1 cup buttermilk or unsweetened coconut Milk with 1 TBSPN lemon juice
2 eggs1 cup creamed corn1 TBSPN honey2 tablespoons oil Directions:

1-Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2-In a bowl, combine the cornmeal, salt, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda. Whisk all ingredients together and set aside.

3-In mixing bowl, combine the buttermilk, eggs, and creamed corn and oil, combine thoroughly.

4-Add all the dry ingredients to the buttermilk mixture and mix to combine.

5-If the batter will not pour, add more buttermilk to the batter.

6-Spray a 13 x 9 glass pan. Pour dough into pan and spread evenly.

7-Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes.

2016-09-11T21:22:00.000-07:00

Crepes
Gluten free/milk free

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups kats GF flour blend or GF flour blend of choice
1 cup Brown rice flour
½ teaspoon sea salt
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon pectin

6 eggs, room temperature and beaten
½ cup melted Earth balance butter
4 cups Coconut milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon butter flavoring, optional

Directions:

1-In a large bowl combine all the dry ingredients, GF flour blend, brown rice flour, sea salt, brown sugar, white sugar.

2-In mixer beat all 6 eggs. Add milk, melted butter, vanilla, butter flavoring.

3-Add flour mixture into egg mixture and blend just until blended and smooth.

4-Pour onto hot rounded pan and swirl around until flat, like a gorilla shape. Cook for about 30 sec to minute. Turn over and cook the other side until browned.

5-Serve with fruit of choice, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, raspberries, cool whip or whipped topping. You can sprinkle cinnamon and sugar. You can do anything with these. Enjoy!

2016-09-11T21:11:00.000-07:00

Sausage, Bacon and Potato Quiche

Ingredients:

Crust:

In mixing bowl add all the dry ingredients. Smash in butter unto small crumbles. Add all the rest of the ingredients and blend until soft dough forms. Press into 13x9 casserole dish. Set aside.

1 ¼ cups Kat’s GF flour blend or flour blend of choice

1 Tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup Earth balance dairy free butter

1 egg yolk

1 tablespoon cider vinegar

5 to 6 tablespoons cold water (do 1 and add more as needed)

2 Teaspoons Wilton butter flavoring

Filling:

3 Tablespoons olive oil

½ cup dairy free butter

½ cup white onion

1 cup chopped kale

1 teaspoon chopped garlic

½ pound Italian turkey sausage or sausage of choice

10 well cooked and chopped bacon pieces

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon season salt

½ teaspoon coarse pepper

7 eggs (added 2 extra eggs)

1 ½ cups milk (added ½ extra milk)

2 cups shredded hashbrowns.

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees

1-Melt the butter and oil in medium saucepan.

2-Add chopped kale, chopped onion and chopped garlic. Cook until slightly brown and onions are opaque.

3-Add sausage and cook all together until the meat is no longer pink and cooked all the way. Pull off stove and let cool a little.

4-Cook bacon crispy and chop into small pieces. Set aside.

5-In large mixing bowl mix eggs, milk, and seasonings wisk together until creamy and bubbly.

6-Fold sausage mixture, chopped bacon and hash browns into eggs.

7-Pour into 13 X 9 pan with pie crust already in pan.

8-Cook Quiche for 30 to 40 minutes or until thickened.

Southwest Turkey Soup

2015-11-28T17:47:00.002-08:00

Southwest Turkey Soup

It's now after Thanksgiving and I was looking for a way to use up some of my leftover turkey. This soup turned out fantastic!! My kids were worried about having something new, but they all loved it. I hope you enjoy it too. Now I just have to figure out how to use the rest of my turkey. I have way too much left over:)

2 cups diced, cooked turkey

5 cups chicken stock

2 cans diced tomatoes

1 can chopped green chile peppers

2 onions, chopped

2 cans black beans

1 cup brown rice, uncooked

2 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp cayenne pepper

1 tsp ground cumin

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

grated Pepper Jack and/or Cheddar cheese

In a large cooking pot, combine all the ingredients except the cheese. Bring it to a boil and then reduce heat and simmer 20-30 minutes or until your rice is cooked.

Serve with cheese sprinkled on top.

Lemon Jello Cheesecake

2015-08-10T19:39:00.003-07:00

This is the best Gluten Free Cheesecake ever! So delicious!

Lemon Jello Cheesecake

Crust:

1/3 cup softened butter

1 ¼ cup gf graham crackers (I use Glutino graham crackers)

¼ cup white sugar

Directions:

Step 1-In blender or food processor, place graham crackers, sugar and softened butter.

Step 2-Pulse ingredients together and press into 9 x13 glass pan. Place pan in refrigerator until you are ready to add filling.

Filling:

Lemon Pudding mix

Lemon Jello mix

1 softened Cream Cheese

1 cup sugar

2/3 cup Coconut Creamer

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp lemon extract

1 tsp vanilla

zest of 1 lemon

Directions:

Step 1-Boil 2 cups water and separate it into two bowls. Pour one pack of lemon pudding into one bowl and quickly stir to dissolve. It will thicken quickly. Pour Lemon gelatin into the other container and dissolve. Set them both aside to cool.

Step 2-Cream the cream cheese and the sugar.

Step 3-Add creamer, vanilla, lemon extract, and lemon zest. Cream again scraping sides of bowl to make sure it all gets creamed evenly.

Step 4-Add cooled pudding lemon mixture and cream into the cream cheese mixture. Then add the gelatin mixture and slowly pour into cream cheese mixture.

Step 5-Once your filling is creamed together really well pour into your 9X13 pan that already has the crust.

Step 6-Sprinkle with any leftover Graham Cracker Crumbs.

Chill for 2 to 3 hours or until set.

Coconut Cream Pie

2014-09-20T16:36:00.000-07:00

Coconut Cream Pie

This can be made in one of two ways: 1. You can make a pie. To do this, just roll out the crust and form it to a pie plate and bake as described below. 2. You can make bars. To do this, make the crust recipe as described below. In a 9 X 13" baking pan, spread the pie crust and coat the bottom of the pan. Bake as described below. Then add the coconut filling and chill as you would a pie.

1 - 9" pie crust

1 large box (5.1 oz) vanilla pudding

2 cups cold water

2 cans sweetened condensed milk

3 cups heavy whipping cream

3/4 cup coconut

1/3 cup powdered sugar

Add pudding mix, cold water, and sweetened condensed milk to a mixing bowl. Mix well. Stir in 3/4 cups coconut. Set it in the refrigerator to keep it chilled while you do the next step.

In a separate bowl, mix 2 cups of the cream until soft peaks are forming. Fold it gently into the pudding mixture. Spoon the mixture into the pie crust.

In a mixing bowl, whip the other 1 cup of cream and the 1/3 cup of powdered sugar together until soft peaks form. Spoon it onto the pie and spread it around. Chill the pie. (If you want more whipped topping on top, just double the cream and sugar and spread it on for a thicker layer.)

**Put about 1/3 cup coconut in a baking dish. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 10-15 minutes or until the coconut is golden brown. Sprinkle it on top of the whipped cream layer.

Chill the whole pie for a couple of hours before serving.

Pie Crust

1 3/4 cups GF flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 cup shortening
1/4 cup sour cream
2 Tablespoons cold water
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 egg

Combine flour, salt, xanthan gum thoroughly. Cut in sour cream, and shortening. egg, and water. Combine thoroughly. Roll dough out between two sheets of wax paper. Take off one side of wax paper. Place the pie pan upside down in the center of the pie crust. Turn the whole thing over so the pie crust is now on top. Peel off the wax paper so that the pie crust is now in the pie pan. Fold the edges of the pie crust underneath and finish the edges of the pie crust into desired shapes.

Bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes.

Gluten Free Paradise!: Cinnamon Roll French Toast

2014-08-15T20:09:00.001-07:00

Gluten Free Paradise!: Cinnamon Roll French Toast: It has been a while since I have blogged any new recipes. I guess life was crazy and I just couldn't find the time. ...

Cinnamon Roll French Toast

2014-08-15T19:31:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I have blogged any new recipes. I guess life was crazy and I just couldn't find the time. These recipe was so good that I had to make the time. Enjoy!

Cinnamon Roll French Toast

Gluten Free/ Milk free

Ingredients:

4 large eggs 

1 cup vanilla almond milk (or milk of choice)

 3 teaspoons cinnamon 

¼ cup sugar 

1 Tablespoon vanilla extract

1 tsp wilton butter flavoring

1 large loaf of Udi’s gluten free bread (or bread of choice)

1/2 cup white frosting (I use Duncan Hines), melted (put in microwave for 30 seconds)

Directions:

1-Preheat griddle to 350 degrees and spray with oil

2-Wisk together eggs, milk, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla and butter flavoring.

2-Dip one slice of bread in egg mixture making sure to coat each side and place on to hot griddle

3-Cook on each side until nice a browned and egg is cooked

4-Put onto plate, pour maple syrup on top

5-Drizzle with melted frosting

6-So good, enjoy!!!

Alfredo Lasagna

2014-05-20T12:14:00.000-07:00

Alfredo Lasagna

My daughter wanted chicken alfredo, but I didn't have the right kind of noodles, so I improvised and it turned out awesome!! We came up with this:

9-12 lasagna noodles
3 chicken breast halves cooked, and diced
3-5 cups cooked broccoli
2 cups mozzarella cheese
2 cups Parmesan cheese
1 recipe Alfredo Sauce (posted earlier on this blog)

Prepare the alfredo sauce, and set aside while preparing the other ingredients.

Cook noodles according to package instructions (add a little oil to the cooking water). Drain.

Spray a 9X13 baking dish with cooking spray. Put a little alfredo sauce on the bottom. Put a layer of noodles, a layer of chicken, a layer of both cheeses, and broccoli. Top with alfredo sauce. Make another layer of noodles, chicken, cheeses, and broccoli, again, top it with alfredo sauce. Top this with another layer of noodles and more sauce. Sprinkle more parmesan cheese on top. Also sprinkle a little parsley for looks.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30-40 minutes or until hot and bubbly.

Green Pina Colada Smoothie

2014-05-20T12:02:00.000-07:00

Green Pina Colada Smoothie

I really love this smoothie!

4 cups spinach
1/3 cup coconut
1 cup coconut milk
1 cup orange juice
1-2 teaspoons lime juice
3-4 bananas
2 cups frozen pineapple chunks
1-2 tsp spirulina
2-4 drops lime essential oil

Blend this really well in your blender and enjoy. This recipe makes a couple of large smoothies. You can half everything to make it more of a one person smoothie. Usually around here, there are other people drinking smoothies too:)

**Amounts are approximate. Add more or less liquid to make the consistency of your smoothie what you would like.

White Bread

2014-04-17T09:55:00.001-07:00

White Bread

A while back, I was talking about and exchanging recipes with a friend. As I was giving her my recipes for various things, I kept asking "do you want the original recipe or just the recipe with the changes that I have made?" After a while, she thought that was pretty funny since I almost never make anything the way the original recipe is written. Recipes are a work in progress. It is interesting to me to see what a recipe is when I either receive it from somewhere or make up my own recipe. I almost always make changes and turn something good into something I like even better. Katrina gave me her bread recipe quite a while ago. I had to make changes since I can't eat the oat flour that was in the recipe she gave me. Since then I have made multiple changes and I thought I would post what that bread recipe has morphed into. Katrina's recipe is really good and I would definitely make bread that way if I could, but this is a good recipe too. So now you have options:) My kids all love this--especially fresh and we have a little neighbor girl (not gluten free) who thinks this is the best bread ever!!

3 cups Gluten Free Flour Blend***

2 cups Potato Starch

1/2 cup Tapioca Flour

3/4 cup Amaranth Flour

1/4 cup Cornstarch

2/3 cup powdered milk

4 teaspoons Xanthan Gum

2 teaspoons Sea Salt

1 teaspoon Pectin

2 1/2 cups warm water

4 Tablespoons Honey

2 Tablespoons Yeast

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

1/4 cup applesauce

1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

3 eggs

In a separate bowl, combine the warm water, honey, and yeast. Let stand while you prepare the other ingredients.

In a stand mixer, combine the olive oil, applesauce, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, and eggs.

In a large bowl, combine all the flours and cornstarch, milk, xanthan gum, salt, and pectin. Stir them until well combined.

In your stand mixer, now add the yeast mixer to the mixture already in there. When well combined, add the flours and mix it for 5-6 minutes. Add the dough to your bread pans prepared with cooking spray. (This dough makes enough for two large bread pans or three smaller sized bread pans.)

Spray some plastic wrap with cooking spray. Cover each bread pan with sprayed plastic wrap and allow the bread to rise. After the bread has risen, bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes.

Remove from bread pans immediately and allow to cool on wire racks.

**My GF flour blend

1 cup white rice flour

3/4 cup sweet rice flour

1/2 cup potato starch

1/2 cup tapico starch

1/4 cup cornstarch

Garlic Bread

2014-03-02T20:01:00.000-08:00

Garlic Bread

1 loaf Gluten Free Bread
Garlic powder
Parsley
salt
Grated Parmesan
butter

Slice the gluten free bread (if not previously sliced). Lay the bread out on a foil covered baking sheet.

Butter each slice of bread on both sides.

**Be careful or you will get too much. Sprinkle each slice of bread with garlic powder, parsley, and salt. Put parmesan on top. Use as much as you want. A little for flavor or a lot for really cheesy bread.

Broil in the oven. Watch it so it doesn't burn. When one side is toasty, turn it all over. Sprinkle with the spices and cheese again. Return to the broiler and toast the other side.

Enjoy!

Crock Pot Chicken Cordon Bleu

2014-03-02T19:59:00.004-08:00

Crock Pot Chicken Cordon Bleu

8 chicken breast halves
1 cup gluten free flour mix
1 cup gluten free cracker crumbs (I use Crunchmaster Multigrain)
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 cup milk
2 eggs
Swiss cheese slices
cheddar cheese, sliced
thin ham slices

Combine the flour, cracker crumbs, salt, pepper, garlic and paprika in a gallon ziploc bag.

In a separate bowl, mix eggs and milk.

Slice cheese and lay out the cheese and ham you will need. Also, get out some toothpicks and have them handy too.

For each chicken breast: Lay on parchment paper on top of a chopping board. Hammer flat with a meat hammer (I'm sorry, but the correct name escapes me right now:) Pound the meat flat with the hammer. On top of flattened chicken, layer 1 slice of swiss cheese, cheddar cheese, and ham slice. Roll up the chicken with the cheese inside and secure with a toothpick. Dip the chicken roll in the egg/milk mixture and then into the cracker crumb mix. Place the roll in your crock pot.

Cook in the crock pot on high for 6 hours.

You could also cook this in the oven, if desired.

Chocolate Frozen Custard

2014-03-02T19:52:00.000-08:00

Chocolate Frozen Custard

Frozen Custard is delicious--so much more delicious than just ice cream!!

2 cups milk
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
1/3 cup cornstarch
4 eggs
1 Tablespoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups cream

In a bowl, combine sugar, salt, cocoa, and cornstarch until well combined and until the lumps from the cocoa are gone. Add the eggs, and stir until well combined. Set aside.

In a saucepan, heat the 2 cups milk until it starts bubbling around the edges. Slowly whisk 1/4 cup of the hot milk into the eggs mixture. Then add another 1/4 cup of the hot milk and whisk again. When well combined, then pour the whole egg mixture back into the milk that is in the saucepan. Heat and simmer the mixture until it is thick (about 3-4 minutes). Don't let it boil. If it boils, turn it off immediately and keep stirring it while it cools a little. Stir in the 1 Tablespoon of vanilla. Put the custard into a refrigerator safe dish. Chill it for 2-3 hours.

When it has had time to cool and chill, remove the custard from the refrigerator. Whisk 1 1/2 cups of cream into the custard. Whisk it well.

Pour the custard into an ice cream freezing canister. Run the ice cream maker and churn it until it is set well. It takes about 30 minutes in my freezer. Remove from the ice cream maker and put it in a freezer safe dish. When it comes out of the ice cream freezer, the custard is still very soft and will melt quickly. Freeze the custard for an additional couple of hours in the freezer before serving.

**This makes enough that I split the custard in two and froze it in two separate canisters. If you don't have two canisters, freeze one half and then when your canister is cleaned and refrozen, freeze the other half. It is okay to chill the custard overnight in order to do that. Depending on the size of your canister, you may be able to freeze it in one canister. You may have to experiment a little with your ice cream freezer.

Serve alone or with whatever yummy stuff you want. This is good served over cookies, brownies, with hot fudge, whatever you can dream up:)

*Variation: If desired, you could add fun stuff to this for the last 10 minutes or so of freezing. Some ideas might be brownie crumbles, m&m's, whatever you can think of.

Alfredo Sauce

2014-02-19T13:25:00.002-08:00

Alfredo Sauce

This is a wonderful Alfredo sauce. It is delicious with all kinds of noodles, so pick your favorite.

2 tablespoons butter

2 teaspoons garlic powder

8 ounces cream cheese, softened

2 teaspoons salt

4 cups milk

2 tablespoons cornstarch

2 cups grated parmesan cheese

In a large saucepan, melt butter and add the garlic powder.

Dissolve the cornstarch with the milk. Add the milk to the saucepan. Add the salt and cream cheese as well. Stir it well. The cream cheese will need to be stirred extremely well in order to not be lumpy. (You could blend it with the milk in a blender before adding it to the saucepan, if desired.)

Cook the mixture in the saucepan until it starts to thicken. This can take 7-10 minutes. Once the sauce has started to thicken, add the parmesan. Stir it well. Turn off the heat and let it sit for a little before using.

Serve over your favorite pasta. You can add chicken, broccoli, or whatever else you desire to your pasta and Alfredo sauce.

My kids also love the leftovers in their lunches.

Lasagna Seasoning Mix

2014-02-19T13:11:00.001-08:00

Lasagna Seasoning Mix

I was saddened a while back when I discovered that I could no longer find the spicy spaghetti seasoning that I used in my lasagna recipe. I haven't been able to find it for a while. So, I set to work making my own seasoning mix. This is what I came up with and it is definitely fabulous!!

1/4 cup minced onion
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons italian seasoning
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper (add more or less if you want it more or less spicy)

Add all of these spices to your lasagna sauce and simmer. Continue making the lasagna just as it is in the lasagna just as it was written originally.

Pizza Crust

2014-01-23T12:52:00.000-08:00

Pizza Crust

This pizza crust is crispy and delicious. It might seem a little unusual to "frost" your pan with the batter instead of shaping the batter with your hands, but it is definitely a good crust.

2 2/3 cups milk, heated

10 teaspoons sugar

3 Tablespoons yeast

1 1/2 cups potato starch

4 cups of my GF Flour Mix**

3 teaspoons salt

1/4 cup olive oil

2 teaspoons vinegar

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

Heat the milk, but don't boil it. Add the sugar and the yeast and let it sit for a little.

In a mixing bowl, combine flour mix, potato starch, salt, olive oil, and vinegar. Add the yeast mix and mix well.

Your pizza crust is going to be pretty thin. You will need to "frost" your pizza pan with the pizza dough batter.

This recipe makes enough for two pizzas made in 15" jelly roll pans. (No, I have never invested in pizza pans--I have no idea why:)

Bake your crust without the toppings in a 425 degree oven for 10 minutes. Then you can put on your toppings. (Sauce, cheese, pepperoni, olives, etc.) Return the pizza to the oven and bake 10 more minutes or until desired crispiness. Cut with a pizza cutter and definitely enjoy!!

This is the Flour Mix I used:
1 cup white rice flour
3/4 cup sweet rice flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1/2 cup potato starch
1/4 cup cornstarch

Dinner Rolls

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Dinner Rolls

Dinner rolls are one of the most important parts of any Thanksgiving meal. Not to mention other meals where you just want to have a good dinner roll. Since we have started eating gluten free around our house, I have tended to avoid rolls. I have been frustrated that I just couldn't get them to taste anywhere close to "glutenous" rolls. Of course, it is such a vital part of our Thanksgiving meal that I always start working on it again around Thanksgiving. Well, I am pretty excited to say that this year I have FINALLY come up with a Gluten Free dinner roll that tastes wonderful. It is light and fluffy and delicious. I haven't been able to say that with any of the other dinner roll recipes that I have tried. You still have to make them in muffin pans to help the structure, so they tend to look like muffins instead of rolls. But, they definitely taste like excellent dinner rolls.

2 cups warm water
1/2 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons yeast
4 cups GF flour mix
2 teaspoons xanthan gum
2 teaspoons salt
2/3 cup powdered milk
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter, softened

Add yeast and sugar to the 2 cups warm water and let sit.

In a large mixing bowl combine GF flour, xanthan gum, salt, and powdered milk. Add the vinegar, eggs, and butter. Then add the yeast mixture. Mix well. The dough is going to be fairly thin. It will be something like a brownie or a muffin batter consistency. That is exactly what you want!!

Spoon the batter into greased muffin tins. Fill them about 2/3 full. Spray a piece of plastic wrap with cooking spray so it won't stick and cover the rolls. Let the rolls rise 20-30 minutes (or until they have grown over the tops of the muffin cups.) Remove plastic wrap and bake.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 15-20 minutes.

Enjoy!!

The flour mix I used for these rolls:
1 cup rice flour
3/4 cup sweet rice flour
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup potato starch
1/2 tapioca flour

***I would highly recommend using this flour mix with these rolls. I think that using different "heavier" flours would probably not give you the right texture for these rolls.

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2 cups yellow cornmeal1 teaspoon kosher salt1 tablespoon sugar2 teaspoons baking powder1/2 teaspoon baking soda1 cup buttermilk or unsweetened coconut Milk with 1 TBSPN lemon juice2 eggs1 cup creamed corn1 TBSPN honey2 tablespoons oil Directions:

1-Preheat oven to 425 degrees.2-In a bowl, combine the cornmeal, salt, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda. Whisk all ingredients together and set aside.

3-In mixing bowl, combine the buttermilk, eggs, and creamed corn and oil, combine thoroughly.

4-Add all the dry ingredients to the buttermilk mixture and mix to combine.

5-If the batter will not pour, add more buttermilk to the batter.

6-Spray a 13 x 9 glass pan. Pour dough into pan and spread evenly.

7-Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes.

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1-Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2-In a bowl, combine the cornmeal, salt, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda. Whisk all ingredients together and set aside.