Gluten Free Sausage Balls

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); One of my absolute favorite recipes to make with my grandmother was Sausage Balls. I loved to grate the cheese with her Mouli grater, and then mix, and mix, and mix the dough to get all of the flour worked it. A few sausage ball sculpture appeared along the way too. I finally got… [Continue Reading]

Cranberry Orange Quickbread by the Ratio – How a New Recipe is Created

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); In my last post I mentioned that I was going to experiment with gluten free ratios and start weighing out my recipes.  To hold myself accountable (because we all see how well I’ve done with posting my bread experiments) I decided to join the Gluten Free Ratio Rally that Shauna Ahern of Gluten Free… [Continue Reading]

Gluten Free Pie Crust: Impossibly Easy

Recipe for gluten free Bisquick style Bisquick mix and introduction to gluten free pie crusts and gluten free Impossibly Easy Pie experiments.

Gluten Free Waffles

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Our family has found a new favorite weekend breakfast – gluten free waffles! You all know that we’ve been on the gluten free diet for years now, so that first bite of homemade waffles was absolute heaven!  We stuffed ourselves! The recipe is a  conversion of the “Basic Waffles” recipe in Joy of Cooking.… [Continue Reading]

Chicken Fajita Quesadillas

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); During the month of February I will be featuring some of my recipes that have recently been on the menu for Gluten Free Suppers.  Many of these recipes have not been published at Gluten Free Cooking School before because they are from my childhood or our pre-vegetarian days. And since they contain meat, I… [Continue Reading]

Breakfast on a Budget – Cream of Corn Cereal

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); The theme for January’s posts is Kitchen Management – things like gluten free grocery shopping on a budget, stocking a gluten free pantry, and how to clean a messy kitchen.  The posts will be shorter and more frequent than normal (since I won’t have to multi-test as many recipes) and there will be several… [Continue Reading]

Eggnog French Toast

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); This is a picture of my stove the morning after Christmas. The monkey bread that I made on Christmas morning was a little dry and the only milk-like substance in the house was a half empty carton of Silk Eggnog. So my little elf helper and I pulled out “Joy of Cooking” (picture a… [Continue Reading]

Gluten Free Bread: Banana Bread

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Last Monday morning I was cleaning up the kitchen and discovered that we had somehow accumulated 10 very ripe bananas in the back of the freezer. John has been asking for a loaf of banana bread for several months and he’d obviously done a good job at stashing away the bananas that I would… [Continue Reading]

Light and Fluffy Gluten Free Biscuits

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); A happy accident a few weeks ago led to yet another change in my gluten free drop biscuits recipe. I ran out of soy flour and added an additional 1/2 c. of cornstarch to make up for the shortfall. The result. . . fluffy, tender biscuits that I would put up against anyone’s gluten… [Continue Reading]

The Linguistic Challenges of Slicing an Avocado

When I posted my recipe for Black Olive Hummus I mentioned that I love hummus sandwiches with sliced avocado, tomato and lettuce. Amy B asked how one should go about slicing an avocado, so I took a few pictures to demonstrate my method. How do you slice an avocado?

Fresh Blueberry Scones – Gluten Free, Casein Free

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); A few weeks ago I posted a lesson on How to Make Gluten Free Scones Like a Bakery. Several of you asked for my scone recipe, so I made it again this weekend so that I could take pictures for the post. It was a close thing on the pictures though. I had to… [Continue Reading]

How to Make Scones Like a Bakery

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); One of my favorite things about scones is their shape. There’s just something about that wedge that makes a scone something more than a slightly sweet biscuit. A lot of the scones recipes that I’ve found online call for making drop scones, but it’s really easy to take a few extra minutes to cut… [Continue Reading]

Minty Purple Peach Smoothie

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); 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… [Continue Reading]

A Gluten Free Breakfast for Mother’s Day

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Are you looking for recipes for a special gluten-free Mother’s Day breakfast or brunch? Give these recipes a try: “Light and Fluffy Gluten Free Biscuits” “Gluten Free Banana Nut Pancakes” “Gluten Free Spiced Apple Pancakes” “Mushroom & Broccoli Quiche Recipe”

Gluten Free Breakfast Scones

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Please welcome a new guest author, Kristina Kofski, who shares her recipe for gluten free scones ~ Mary Frances I am not a morning person. In fact, I’ve been known to hit the snooze button for a good 45 minutes in the morning, until my poor fiancé is ready to throw the alarm clock… [Continue Reading]

Sweet Baby Banana! A Fun Fruit Topping Your Kids Will Love

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); 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… [Continue Reading]

Pumpkin Stuffed French Toast

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); We’re having our first freeze tonight and our house is cold. I’m bundled up in my favorite college sweatshirt with my hands wrapped around a mug of hot chocolate. It seems like the perfect night to write about a warm comfort food breakfast. Sunday morning we were up early since David didn’t realize that… [Continue Reading]

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Monday morning I was attempting to clear a path through the dirty dishes when I came upon an extremely ripe banana. With no idea what we were having for breakfast, I took this as a sign that we should have Banana Nut Bread. What followed was a typical early morning cooking experience in the… [Continue Reading]

Gluten Free Banana Nut Pancakes

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); I seem to be on a pancakes kick these days. John’s parents and sister are visiting us this weekend, so I needed a relatively easy, big breakfast for this morning. Pancakes seemed perfect and since I wanted to post something today too, I decided to make up a new recipe. Thus were banana nut… [Continue Reading]

Gluten Free Spiced Apple Pancakes

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); The fall air has made it back to Alabama this morning and it is lovely. A perfect day to drink hot tea on the deck and enjoy the cool air, sunshine, and birds. It was also a perfect morning to play with my pancake recipe. The Gala apples that have been sitting in the… [Continue Reading]

Black Bean Sausage Recipe

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Over the past week I’ve been working on simplifying our breakfasts. We’ve had a lot of smoothies, fruit salad, and toast and there will be some new recipes coming soon. This weekend I made a batch of “Gluten Free Drop Biscuits Recipe No. 2″ and these black bean sausages. You don’t have to be… [Continue Reading]

Gluten Free Drop Biscuits Recipe No. 2

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Gluten free breakfasts are a thorn in my side. My whole-grain loving self cannot stomach gluten free cereals and John only likes eggs for about two weeks a year. So for the last couple of months we’ve been eating a lot of pancakes, biscuits, and grits, and I and my scale are ready for… [Continue Reading]

Mushroom & Broccoli Quiche Recipe

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); I walked into the kitchen this past Saturday morning, babe in arms, and wondered what in the world we were going to have for breakfast. For the past few months our weekend breakfasts have been a regular rotation of my gluten free pancakes or my gluten free drop biscuits, and we were definitely ready… [Continue Reading]

Gluten Free Pancakes

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Just in time for the weekend, here is one of our favorite breakfasts: gluten free pancakes. We love to cook these on the weekend, when we have more time to sit and enjoy them. You can always top them with syrup, of course, but we’ve also enjoyed strawberries, blueberries, whipped cream and bananas. For… [Continue Reading]

Gluten Free Drop Biscuits Recipe

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); My husband loves biscuits. In the pre-gluten free days, one of his favorite Saturday morning breakfasts was a sausage and cheese biscuit. For years we used gluten free bread for our breakfast sandwiches, but a recent trip to Whole Foods inspired me to try my hand at biscuits. I have to say, these taste… [Continue Reading]