Lessons and Recipes for the Gluten Free Cook
Posted in Breakfast Recipes, Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jun 1st, 2008
Today is the first day of the 6 week Eat to Live trial and I opted for a fruit smoothie for breakfast. I picked up fresh Chilton County peaches at the produce stand yesterday and decided to pair them with frozen blueberries and fresh mint for a very refreshing start to the morning. I could [...]
Posted in Appetizer/Snack Recipes, Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Side Dishes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on May 17th, 2008
(Update: This is going to be the first in a series on Fried Southern foods - all gluten free. I had hoped to start this with my recipe for Fried Onion Rings, but I need to perfect the dipping sauce tonight. After that will be Fried Green Tomatoes, and my Grandmother Somerville’s Fried [...]
Posted in Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on May 2nd, 2008
Asparagus is my very favorite spring vegetable. I wait impatiently all winter to see those long green stalks standing up in their funny water trays at the front of the produce section. Since asparagus is quite pricey when it is out of season, we celebrate spring by eating asparagus as frequently as possible. [...]
Posted in Dessert Recipes, Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Dec 20th, 2007
This is the third of four posts on How to Bake Sugar Cookies. We’ve already learned how to cream butter and sugar, and performed some related experiments. This post will cover the basic Gluten Free Sugar Cookie recipe. And then after Christmas I’ll write a post on how to roll out the cookie dough. [...]
Posted in Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Gluten Free Side Dishes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Dec 2nd, 2007
One of David’s new words is “yum-yum”. It doesn’t come out very clearly, but anytime we give him one his favorite foods, like bananas or cereal, he says “yum-yum” before he digs in. In fact he said it this week when we gave him a helping of what was formerly knows as “Roasted [...]
Posted in Dessert Recipes, Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods on Nov 27th, 2007
Friends that make gluten free food for you are friends to keep. Years ago we were playing board games with our old college roommates and my roommate made gluten free Peanut Butter Cookies for John (I didn’t know I had problems with gluten at that point). You’ve probably seen the recipe for the cookies that [...]
Posted in Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Lunch Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Nov 15th, 2007
Leftover turkey is my favorite part of Thanksgiving Day. After stuffing (pun intended) myself for lunch, a late-night turkey sandwich is the perfect way end to the day. In fact, turkey sandwiches are so important to my family’s Thanksgiving celebration that we’ve even cooked a turkey at home before visiting relatives so that we’d have [...]
Posted in Breakfast Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less on Nov 12th, 2007
Last week when I was cruising the aisles of Whole Foods I found a treasure in a pile of bananas. Hidden beneath the plain Jane normal bananas was a whole hand of baby bananas! I haven’t found a good picture, but each baby banana is about as long as an adult finger. There are 15 [...]
Posted in Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Oct 26th, 2007
I first made these quesadillas a few months ago and realized that they would be perfect for Halloween. Besides being orange and black, these quesadillas are really fast to make which is perfect for a night when you’re trying to cook, trick-or-treat, and get kids to bed at a reasonable hour.
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Posted in Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Lunch Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Oct 8th, 2007
I love soup! So simple, so good, and so perfect for a quick lunch or supper. The daytime temperatures in Alabama are still in the high eighties, but the nights have a chill in the air, so I have declared soup season to be officially open.
John’s parents and sister visited us this weekend [...]
Posted in Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Side Dishes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Oct 2nd, 2007
Corn and zucchini are both great summer vegetables and they come together in this recipe to make a tasty and easy side dish. The veggies take all for two minutes to prepare and the dish can cook away on the stove while you’re working on the entree. If it gets done before the rest of [...]
Posted in Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Sep 26th, 2007
Kasha Varnishkes is the first of what I hope will be many Easy Gluten Free Recipes. By easy, I mean 5 ingredients or less for a main dish, and three ingredients or less for a side dish. Of course, if you scroll ahead, you’ll see that the Kasha Varnishkes has six ingredients. I’ve decided not [...]
Posted in Dessert Recipes, Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 18th, 2007
If you’ve been missing desserts since you went gluten free, then you’ve come to the right place. This is the last in a three-part series on eggs, and we’ve been learning how to crack and separate an egg, beat egg whites, and beat egg yolks. All three of these skill are used in [...]
Posted in Dessert Recipes, Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 16th, 2007
Here is a recipe for one of my favorite cookies. As a kid, it was so hard to wait for the cookies to cook overnight, but it was so worth it the next morning when we’d have cookies for breakfast =)
If you’ve never beaten egg whites before, check out this lesson before you get started.
Forgotten [...]
Posted in Dessert Recipes, Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 16th, 2007
I remember the first time I tried to beat egg whites by myself. I beat and beat and beat (with a whisk), and nothing happened. Luckily, Mom came into the kitchen right before I broke into tears and started questioning me about what I had done thus far.
“Did you dry the bowl before you [...]
Posted in Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Gluten Free Side Dishes, Uncategorized, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jun 12th, 2007
There are days in our house when the pantry is almost empty and the produce bin only holds a few [slightly shriveled] carrots and potatoes. For some reason, this is when I tend to revert to the cooking of my childhood….downhome Southern cooking.
Last Monday night was one of those nights. I rummaged [...]
