GF Killer Fudge

Killer Fudge

4 1/4 c sugar   + 1/4 c sugar
1 can evaporated milk
Dash of salt
1/2 c butter
2t vanilla
3 bags milk chocolate chip
3 c marshmallow


Directions:
add 4 1/4c sugar, milk and salt in a large saucepan. Cook over Med. till a rolling boil. cook for 1 min.   Turn to low and add vanilla, butter, chips and 1/4 c sugar. Stir till chocolate is melted. Then add Marshmallow. stir twice and dump on a cookie sheet lined with plastic wrap. and let set up

Black Eyed Peas Salsa

 Black Eyed Peas Salsa


1 can Black eyed peas
1 can shoepeg corn (green giant brand)
3-4 tomatoes diced
2-3 avocado's diced
1 bunch cilantro (cut up)
Dressing:
1 packet good seasons italian dressing made to the less oil directions add more vinegar than more water. Use Kano brand red wine vinegar italian flavored. (can buy it at lee's and albertsons.)

Directions:
Add all ingr. to a bowl add dressing and toss. You can eat it whenever but it is best if you let it sit for a while.

Gluten-Free Apricot Chicken

Gluten-Free Apricot chicken

Description:
This is one of our favorite quick and easy recipes. It literally takes minutes to make and minutes to cook.

Ingredients:
½ cup apricot preserves
2 T. soy sauce
1 T. chicken broth
1 T. vegetable oil
1 T. cornstarch
1 tsp.   minced garlic
¼ tsp. ground ginger
1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips
1 medium green pepper, chopped
½ cup salted cashews
Hot cooked rice


Directions:
In a large bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Add chicken and toss to coat. Transfer to a shallow microwave-safe dish. Cover and microwave on high for 3 minutes, stirring once.
Add green peppers and cashews. Cover and microwave on high for 2-4 min. or until chicken juices run clear, stirring once. Let stand for 3 minutes. Serve over rice. 

Gluten Free Crock Pot Chicken with Garlic Mashed Potatoes (Homemade GF Chicken Broth)

The chicken is so easy! Buy a whole chicken, rinse in cold water and take out the giblet bag. Place the whole chicken in the crock-pot. Add whatever veggies you have on hand to the pot: Onions, celery, carrots etc. Fill the crock-pot full with water add a Tablespoon of kosher or garlic salt. Cook on low for 6-8 hr. And there you have it. A beautiful moist flavorful chicken and 4-5 cup of homemade chicken broth. The chicken broth can be easily made into a gravy by adding 2T of cornstarch to 2T cold water. Then adding that mixture to a cup or two of broth. Heat it on the stove on Medium heat until thickened. If it is too thick add more chicken broth or if it is too thin add some more cornstarch.  Add some herb, garlic and salt for more flavor. The broth also freezes great.

Garlic Mashed Potatoes
6-8 Red Potatoes
4+ Whole Garlic Cloves peeled and stems cut off.

Cut potatoes in half then quarter. Drop all the potatoes and whole garlic cloves in a pot of boiling water. Cook till potatoes are tender. Drain water and mash potatoes and garlic with a potato masher or hand mixer. Add some kosher salt and you have yummy, easy garlic mashed potatoes.

Gluten-Free Cafe Rio Sweet Pork and Rice

Fry the corn tortillas like in meat or bean taco recipe.

RICE:

Ingredients
3 cups Minute rice
3 cups water
4 teaspoons chicken bouillon
4 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 bunch cilantro
1 can green chilies
1/2 onion

Chop cilantro, green chiles and onion together in a food processor. Bring water to a boil and add all ingredients, simmer covered 30 minutes.   

Cafe Rio Pork:

1- 3 lbs. Pork Roast
1 bottle taco SAUCE (found near the taco seasoning things in a bottle)

1 T Cumin
1 C brown Sugar
1 Can Coke


Put roast in crock pot and fill so that water covers 1/2 of roast.   Cook roast for 3 hours on high in crock pot.   After 3 hours- pull pork roast apart with 2 forks.   Dump out water.   Mix taco sauce, cumin, brown sugar, and coke in a bowl and put on meat.   Cook for 3 hours on low in crock pot.

Best GF Bread and Flour Mix

Starting out this diet I tried a million different flour mixes. I didn't like any of them. I found this blog and LOVED this mix. Not only is the flours in the mix cheaper it's not grainy. With 1/2-3/4 tsp of xanthum gum per cup of flour you can replace it in most all of your old gluten filled recipes.


1 1/2 cups Sorghum Flour
1 1/2 cups Cornstarch
1 cup Tapioca Flour


Keep this mix in the Fridge. 


When first starting the gluten free diet, I tried probably 10 different recipe and a gluten free bread machine and false miserably. Every time it would be flat or so over raised and crumbly. I tried this bread recipe from the Blog My Kitchen Gone Crazy. Not only did it turn out the texture was soft and held together great! 


4 3/4 cups Flour (See recipe above)
3 Tbsp Sugar
3 3/4 tsp Xanthan Gum
3 tsp Yeast
1 3/4 tsp Salt
4 Eggs
3 Tbsp Oil
3 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
1 1/2 cups Hot Water

Combine all dry ingredients in your stand mixer and sift with a fork. Add remaining ingredients and allow to mix for a few seconds. Scrape the sides of your mixer well and then mix dough for 4 minutes. Spray two loaf pans well and divide your dough between the two pans. Cover and allow to rise for 1 hour. Bake at 350 for 30-45 minutes.

This bread is wonderful fresh and keeps well for a few days. If you are going to keep it longer, then slice it up and place it in your freezer to keep it from going bad. Then just pull out the slices needed - thaw them or toast them before use. This bread really does keep well frozen and I love being able to have bread on hand all the time!

Quick Gluten-Free Breakfast

Here is an easy and quick way to eat breakfast. Pamela baking mix is by far the best gluten free pancake mix. They are soft, moist and don't fall apart. I usually make a large batch and freeze them for a quick breakfast. Farmland sausage is gluten free. Fry it up all at once then simply reheat and add some eggs. If you are not into pancake frozen Van's Waffles are really good. Here is a recipe for homemade gluten-free waffles.

OATMEAL CRANBERRY WHITE CHOCOLATE COOKIES with Gluten-Free Option

I got this recipe off the Ocean Spray Website and made it gluten-free.


2/3 cup butter softened
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups Gluten free old-fashioned oats
1 1/2 cups  GF Flour mix
1 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1/2 t Xanthan gum
1 6-ounce package Craisins
2/3 cup white chocolate chips


Preheat 375'

 Cream butter and sugar together.  Add eggs one at a time mixing well. Combine oats, flour, Xanthan gum,baking soda and salt in a separate mixing bowl. Add flour mixture to butter mixture slowly. Stir in dried cranberries and white chocolate chips. 

Drop by spoonful onto a slightly greased cookie sheets. Bake 10 minutes or slightly under done. Leave to cool on the cookie sheet. 

Gluten Free Breadcrumbs or Croutons

You won't believe of easy it is to make your own GF breadcrumbs. If you have ever bought GF breadcrumb I'm sure you tasted then and through them away YUCK! 


After making bread or buying GF bread I alway keep the butt-end of the loaf or miss shaped pieces in a bag in the freezer. 


Once I have a good size bag I take it out defrost and break the bread into small pieces or crumbs. spread out the crumbs in a single layer drizzle with a little grape-seed or olive oil. Toss until coated. 


Bake at 350' until  the mixture is slightly golden brown. (If you are going to be using the bread crumbs as a chicken coating you don't want the crumbs to be over cook because you will be cooking them again.)
Pulse the cooled bread crumbs in a food processor if you would like a finer crumb.


*This recipe could also be used as croutons. Break larger pieces and sprinkle garlic salt, rosemary and oregano on the bread right after you have coated them in oil.

Gluten-Free Parmesan Ranch Chicken with Brown Rice

 Gluten-Free Parmesan Ranch Chicken with Brown Rice 

13+ Raw Chicken Tenderloins or chicken breast cut into strips

1 bottle Kraft Ranch 

1c or more Homemade GF breadcrumbs crushed rice chex or GF corn flakes

1/2 Parmesan cheese

Preheat 350'

Line the cookie sheet with foil. Place a  cookie cooling rack on top, sprayed with Pam. (If you don't have the rack you can spray the foil with Pam and put the strips on that. The rack makes the chicken crunchy and less soggy.) 

Make a station of two large bowls. One filled with 1/2 of the bottle of ranch, the second filled with bread crumbs, parmesan and a sprinkle of kosher salt. First dip the chicken strip in ranch then roll in the bread crumb mixture. Lay flat of the cookie sheet rack. Have more bread crumbs and ranch ready if you need more. 

I found these racks at dollar tree. It came in a pack of two.  They fit perfectly on a jelly roll pan.

Bake for 20 more or less depending on the size of the chicken.  Serve with brown rice and a veggie.

Gluten-Free Ham and Cheese Pasta Bake with Edamame

Ham and Cheese Pasta Bake with Edamame 

1 1/2 cups Quinoa Rotelle Pasta (or other gluten free pasta)
1 cup cooked sliced ham
1/4 cup sliced green onions
1 jar Classico Four Cheese Pasta sauce (or other GF sauce)
1 cup or more of of Mozzarella Cheese


Cook pasta to al dente (Don't over cook or you will have mush). Drain and add pasta back to the pot. Add ham, green onions, couple sprinkles of kosher salt and jar of pasta sauce mix until well coated. Dump mixture into a casserole dish and top with grated cheese.  Bake 350' until heated and cheese has melted about 5-10 minutes. After the cheese has melted broil the top till there is a nice golden brown crust. Serve with cooked edamame sprinkled with kosher salt. 

GLUTEN FREE RECIPE LINKS

GLUTEN FREE RECIPES AND LINKS
Here are some recipes that I have found and loved on other sites and books.


                             Breadsticks or Hot Dog buns
 ( I got this recipe from a friend. I"m not sure where she got it from)

1/4 C shortening

3 TBS honey

2 eggs

1 packet yeast

1 C unflavored yogurt

1/2 C potato starch

1 1/2 C cornstarch

1/2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp xanthan gum

3/4 tsp salt

3/4 tsp vinegar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Combine all ingredients.  Mix well to remove all lumps.

The dough will be quite wet.  Place dough in a pastry bag with a large round tip (or use a plastic lunch bag with a bit of a corner cut off).  Pipe dough into long strips (5-6 inches is nice) on greased baking sheet.  Sprinkle with kosher saltand/or other toppings as desired.  Bake 10-12 minutes, until golden brown.  Makes 20-30 bread sticks, serves 10.

Chocolate Chip Cookies from

“Gluten-Free Baking Classics” by Annalise G. Roberts

1 C vegetable shortening (not butter or margarine)

1 C sugar

1/2 C dark brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 TBS vanilla

2 C plus 2 TBS Brown Rice Flour Mix

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp xantan gum

1/2 tsp salt

12 oz. chocolate chips

1 C chopped nuts, optional

Brown Rice Flour Mix:

Brown Rice Flour (extra finely ground - Authentic Foods Brand)      2 parts            2 cups

Potato Starch (not potato flour)                                                                 2/3 part           2/3 C

Tapioca Flour                                                                                               1/3 part           1/3 C

1.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Position rack in center of oven.  Lightly grease cookie sheet with cooking spray.

2.  Beat shortening and both sugars at medium speed in large bowl of electric mixer.  Add eggs and vanilla; beat until fluffy.

3.  Add flour, baking soda, xanthan gum, and salt; mix at medium speed until well blended.  Mix in chocolate chips and nuts.

4.  Drop heaping teaspoons of dough onto cookie sheet 2 inches apart.  Bake in center of oven for 8-10 minutes until light golden brown.  Transfer to wire rack and cool.  Store in an airtight container.

**I added a step.  I refrigerated the dough for 1 hour before baking.  It seemed to help the cookies spread less.

Main Dish

Crockpot Garlic Brown Sugar Chicken (serve over rice)

Crockpot Chicken with Black Beans and Cream Cheese (serve over rice)

Easy and Delicious Ranch Parmesan Chicken ( Use Gluten free bread crumbs and kraft dressing

Charlies Famous Chicken Salad with Grapes

Chicken Adobo

Thai Chicken

Thai Chicken Fried Rice (leave out Thai pepper if your family doesn’t like them)

Whole Chicken in the Crockpot

Tex-mex Chicken Bake (use mission corn tortillas)

Double-corn Tortilla Casserole (use mission corn tortillas)

Cheesecake Factory bang-bang Chicken and Shrimp

PF-Changs Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Panda Express Orange Chicken ( I leave out the flour and add 1/8 cup  corn starch)

Sides

Best Baked Potato

Curried Pumpkin Soup (Leave out flour add 1TBS corn starch)

Coconut Mango Rice

Quinoa Black Bean Salad

Desserts

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies (I pull these out of the oven a few minutes early, push in a Hershey kiss into each cookie and let the cookies rest on pan for 10-15 minutes (out of the oven)

Cinnabonish Cinnamon Rolls Gluten-Free (A lot of work but worth it!)

Bread

GF Bread

Gluten-Free French Bread

Flour Mix

Flour Mix

My Favorite GF Products

Ancient Harvest Quinoa
They have lots of different pasta shapes that you can buy but  I have found the rotelle to be the best. The other shapes seem to get mussy fast!


Crunchmaster Crackers

These crackers are cheap and good. I still buy these crackers because they are Taylor’s and I favorite.

Pamela's Baking Mix

This is by far the best pancake mix! You can use it to make muffins, cookies, waffles and tons more. Any of the Pamela's products are really good! I would buy it in bulk from amazon.com but you can also buy it at sprouts. Bob mills makes a pancake mix but we didn’t like it.

 Xanthan Gum
 It is vital for all gluten free cooking. It is like putting gluten back in the foods. It’s expensive but you only use a ¼-1 teaspoon here and there so it lasts a long time. (You do not need this if you are buying making mixes it’s all ready in it.)

Glutino Pretzels

 These pretzels are really good.  They are expensive; But I would buy them so he didn’t feel left out at preschool and nursery. You can find them at sprouts, marketstreet or amazon.com

  Glutino Crackers
These crackers are the closest to Ritz crackers. They are expensive; I didn’t buy them very often. You can find them at sprouts, marketstreet or amazon.com

Algo Corn Starch

This is the only gluten free corn starch that I have found. You can buy it at Walmart.


Soy Joy Bars
Lara Bars
These are great on the go bars. You can find this Target or Walmart