tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52943987009380935312024-10-04T23:03:33.638-05:00recipes for easy and delicious gluten free livingJacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892960059608165355noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294398700938093531.post-15155231463551518312015-07-10T11:52:00.001-05:002016-01-18T09:43:47.514-06:00

Cheesy Scones! If you're in the mood for an afternoon snack, or a light breakfast, these scones are perfect. They have a nice light texture to them, and are similar to the last recipe I posted for Gluten Free Tea Biscuits, although these were inspired and adapted to gluten free from these Sun-dried Tomato and Cheddar Scones by Hilah at HilahCooking.com. I LOVE her. She's creative,

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Fluffy Tea Biscuits This is a recipe that I only created a month or two ago, but as soon as I did I wondered why I hadn't tried to before now. As a kid, I can remember having tea biscuits almost every Sunday night it seemed. My sister I would be fresh from bathing, into pajamas and watching tv and we'd hear the tell-tale sounds of measuring cups and two knives being arranged in the kitchen

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Happy Canada Day!!  Today I have another pretty simple recipe. It involves really only 3 ingredients, if you use the rice syrup as a sweetener (or something different if you prefer, like honey or maple syrup or even white sugar). I left the strawberries unsweetened, as mine were pretty sweet anyway. I added one and a half tablespoons of rice syrup to the frozen yogurt layer, just

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Here's a quick & easy smoothie recipe! This Monday morning I'm sharing a super easy recipe for delicious smoothies that can be made up in 5-10 minutes (cut this down to 2 minutes if you have frozen fruit already chopped up!). My kids loved this. I used Silk Brand Almond Coconut Blend, because I like that it’s unsweetened. I used fresh pineapple, but frozen would be fine too.

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I LOVE homemade mac & cheese. Do you? Please say yes. If you haven't made homemade macaroni and cheese before, give this recipe a try. It's pretty easy and so tasty. When I make macaroni, I always remember 2-2-2-2. I use two tablespoons butter, two tablespoons flour, two cups of milk and two cups cheese. This is always my starting point, and from there I can make adjustments.

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Pumpkin Waffles - a quick and fun breakfast My kids love a quick, ready to eat breakfast. Waffles are great for that. These are so quick to put together, but also, after I make them, I wrap the extras, put them in the fridge and then they are ready to pop into the toaster or use in a sandwich (my favorite - although not with pumpkin flavored ones.. haha) There is something about the little

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Gluten Free Perogy.   Or Pierogi.  Or  Pierogy. However you want to spell them, they are awesome.  I use perogy. Fun fact: I went to a Ukrainian school for a year when I was a kid.  Then I went to Ukrainian-Immersion for another few years. Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert on perogies or anything Ukrainian. haha (EDIT: You

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This recipe can be made as either muffins, or mini-loaves. This amount made 8 mini loaves and 12 muffins for me. For the muffins, I used paper liners in the pan and for the mini loaves, I just brushed the pan with oil.   We all loved these for afternoon snacks, and breakfast. Mash your banana, have all ingredients at room temperature and this recipe comes together

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Crackers are one of the things I missed most about having to be gluten free. Bread was definitely one, but crunchy, crispy crackers are probably one of my favorite snacks. I’ve tried my share of store bought crackers, but these ones, for me, are the best. They don’t taste like they’re made in a factory. They are crispy. They are VERY peppery, because I love pepper. If you don’t, cut back a

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Today’s recipe is a fun naturally gluten free recipe.  I make hummus pretty regularly because my daughter really loves it. So do I, but whatever gets her to eat more vegetables (for dipping) then I’m all for it.  This particular recipe came about after I made the salt and pepper crackers in the photos (recipe coming next week) and I wanted a hummus with a bit of a tart

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Somehow the weekend got away from me with dance recitals and hockey games and I forgot to post this. Last week’s chocolate cake recipe turns into cupcakes perfectly, and I simplified the process by not separating the eggs and not whipping the egg whites.  Other than that, and a shortened cooking time, the recipe is exactly the same as the cake.  I made a

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Hi. Just look at that cake.  It was pretty and sooo delicious.  I haven’t had a good chocolate cake (maybe even NO chocolate cake) in a couple of years.  I do love my fudgy brownies recipe for a good chocolate hit, but this cake gives me more options.  It turns into great cupcakes also, which I’ll post tomorrow.   But for birthdays, you can’t go wrong with

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I really do like this recipe.  So much that this is the third time I'm posting it here with a different way of decorating them.  It's so nice when a recipe comes together on the first try. It really helps make up for all the recipe failures.  This is definitely a no fail recipe that I always turn to. I hope you enjoy it too!  Check out the original post for Pumpkin

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I made my sugar cookie recipe the other day, decorated with royal icing, for spring.  We spent two days spring cleaning the house. My dad’s birthday is the day after the first official day of spring. Why am I telling you this? Because I woke up to snow on the ground again this morning.   So I’m posting these happy, bright spring cookies today to remind myself

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Hi! This morning I have for you a tasty, adaptable, and healthy recipe for black bean burgers.  These are perfect for a gluten free dinner or lunch and so great if you or someone in your house is also eating gluten free and vegetarian. My twelve year old daughter is experimenting with being a vegetarian, and sticks to it for most of the time, but that leaves me scrambling sometimes

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Today I thought I’d share a cake decorating idea. I made this one for my niece’s 5th birthday, as requested, in the style of the movie, Frozen.  The characters were from a game board I gave her as a gift. So I started out with a 4 layer chocolate cake.  I filled each layer with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream, and iced the outside in the same.  I tinted some

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Sometimes a dessert comes along that can make you forget about other desserts.  This is that dessert for me.  A soft and fluffy cake donut - cinnamon bun style. I wish they would have lasted long enough for me to go back and take another picture of the inside of this donut. The texture was wonderful. Soft cakey structure made light by pockets of air where the baking soda and

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It's been a while since my last post and in a effort to bring something new here today, I'm adding this twist on my favorite brownie recipe. If you've tried my brownie recipe then you'll already know how tasty they are. But add a peanut swirl in there? Excellent.  Peanut butter and chocolate seems to be a classic combination and a win every time in my house.  Also, I

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So it's pumpkin season, and I'm taking part enthusiastically this year. I don't usually like pumpkin, mostly because I haven't really given it a chance. I just wrote it off as gross after a really bad store-bought pumpkin pie. I made my first pumpkin pie this year for thanksgiving and actually liked it. Also I received a pumpkin from someone last week and I'm going to prepare it tomorrow

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Gluten free decorated sugar cookies. I realize I’m a bit late for Halloween in posting these pumpkin cookies, but the good thing about sugar cookies is, with different shapes and icing they are a year round cookie. Yum! So get your snowman and Santa cutters out, because Christmas is right around the corner.  (Only 51 days!!) A couple notes about these cookies: I used Xylitol, a

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Fall has firmly embraced the Canadian prairies.  Leaves are falling, I’m lugging around a heavy hockey equipment bag again every few days as my son attends practices, and we hosted another fully gluten free Thanksgiving dinner a few nights ago.  My favorite season.  Pumpkin recipes and fall treats are coming up on the blog, but first, this soup. For me, my favorite season is

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This isn’t a new recipe. The cake recipe I used for this graduation cake is my Very Vanilla Cake recipe. I just switched up the decoration process. Instead of fondant, I used a salted caramel swiss meringue buttercream (just a swiss meringue buttercream with added homemade caramel sauce) for in between the layers and covering the whole cake. I then used a fudge buttercream for the piped

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 Here’s another great dessert recipe. (I have a few non-dessert recipes coming next week)  But until then – make these.  So chocolaty and good. They are gluten free and flour free.  (I used almond meal) Also refined sugar free if you use organic coconut palm sugar like I did.  (Although I have used regular white sugar one of the five

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*This is a photo heavy post! Initially with this cake I had planned to try to find a recipe on the internet because I didn't have a whole lot of time to make it and I didn’t want to try developing a new recipe in such a short time frame.  I needed a birthday cake for my 12 year-old daughter Erika, who eats mostly gluten free (due to possible intolerance). After searching, I

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Mmm chips and sauce. Being gluten free doesn’t mean we should miss out on anything. Like yummy snacks. Great for parties, get-togethers, movie nights, football or hockey games on tv, weekend lunch sides with a salad, or for an appetizer just because the weather is nice - finally. Chips and sauce go with almost anything to me. I used gluten free corn chips with this. (For a

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