Lessons and Recipes for the Gluten Free Cook
Posted in Appetizer/Snack Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jun 9th, 2008
Have you ever seen the pineapple mango salsa at Whole Foods? In the store near our house, it’s almost always out for sample in the produce aisle and we almost always make sure we stop for a bit. We never bought it, though, until I decided that I needed a treat before starting Eat to [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jun 5th, 2008
So I do realize that Napoleons are a dessert and that they involve phyllo dough. But Eggplant and Portabella Napoleons sounds so much better than Eggplant and Portabella Napoleons Stacks, so that’s what we’re going with.
This was a really easy gluten free supper. All of the veggies were cooked on the grill and you can [...]
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, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Gluten Free Side Dishes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on May 20th, 2008
Vidalia onions may be the most famous crop of the state of Georgia. Mild and sweet, these onions are one of the treasures of spring. And in our house, the advent of the Vidalias can mean only one thing - fried onion rings.
I’ve adapted this batter recipe from Joy of Cooking and the name reflects [...]
Posted in Appetizer/Snack Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Lunch Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Apr 22nd, 2008
I’ve been sitting here for ages trying to figure out what to say about these tortillas. If you’ve been gluten free for long, you can understand why I’m speechless. The wonder of it all . . . to have tortillas that bend without breaking; that are big enough to actually wrap around something; that taste [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jan 24th, 2008
A few weeks ago Gluten Free Mommy called my bluff and asked me to post the Spinach Mushroom Lasagna that was in my menu for that week. I had to sheepishly admit that I hadn’t even come up with the recipe yet.
I gave it some thought and decided to go for a gluten free, [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Lunch Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jan 16th, 2008
Updated, but still lacking a photo =)
Here in Alabama it’s sleeting and there is the merest chance of snow. For me it’s the perfect night to enjoy a bowl of my Grandmother Somerville’s Vegetable Gumbo. Her recipe calls for two hours of simmering, but I have a stash in the freezer so that’s what we’ll [...]
Posted in Breakfast Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods on Jan 13th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods on Jan 9th, 2008
Now that I’ve given you my new all-purpose gluten free, soy free flour mix, you need a recipe to try it in. Based on the questions and comments I’ve received I decided to start with bread. And I even found a new sous chef for this experimental baking. Please let me introduce Sous [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Gluten Free Side Dishes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Dec 6th, 2007
Hi everyone! I’m reposting this recipe as I have updated it with a picture of the batter immediately after being poured into the hot skillet. One of the advantages of learning to cook with someone in person is being able to see how things look. Hopefully, this picture will be a step in that direction [...]
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 Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Gluten Free Side Dishes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Nov 21st, 2007
It looks like I’m getting a lot of first time visitors due to the holidays. If this is your first time on the site, I hope you’ll take the time to look around a bit or bookmark the site so that you can come back later. You can also subscribe (for free) to the [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Nov 21st, 2007
It looks like I’m getting a lot of first time visitors due to the holidays. If this is your first time on the site, I hope you’ll take the time to look around a bit or bookmark the site so that you can come back later. You can also subscribe (for free) to the [...]
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.
I’m going to give you [...]
Posted in Appetizer/Snack Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Gluten Free Side Dishes, Mystery Photo Contests, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Oct 20th, 2007
I made up a new recipe last night! This is a pretty common occurrence, but it’s always exciting because of the suspense when you take the first bite. I knew I’d hit on a good one when I wanted to go back and make more as soon as we were done eating. Unfortunately neither [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Oct 16th, 2007
For those of you who want to take a stab at making cream of mushroom soup, here is the recipe that I made in the How to Make Gluten Free Cream of Mushroom Soup tutorial. I’ve named the recipe No. 1 because I’m sure that I will come up with other versions at some [...]
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 Breakfast Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Oct 5th, 2007
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 pancakes [...]
Posted in Breakfast Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Sep 29th, 2007
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 fruit bowl [...]
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 Breakfast Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Sep 24th, 2007
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 a vegetarian [...]
Posted in Breakfast Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Sep 16th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Appetizer/Snack Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 30th, 2007
I can’t think of many things better than realizing that your recipe for Garlic & Cheese Biscuits is not quite right. Why? Because then you get to make Garlic & Cheese Biscuits for supper two
nights in a row!
These biscuits are based on my Drop Biscuits recipe and use my “Gluten Free All Purpose [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 26th, 2007
Roasted Vegetables over Brown Rice is a great supper recipe for at least four reasons. One, it’s an easy recipe so it’s great for a night when you don’t want to cook. Two, you can roast the vegetables in a toaster oven and not heat up the kitchen. Three, this recipe will use up some [...]
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 Appetizer/Snack Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 11th, 2007
What do you get when you need to figure out how to use the sage in your garden, you want to try a new recipe, supper needs to be on the table pronto, and you’ve been thinking about writing a post for Weekend Herb Blogging? Well, I have no idea what you would get, but [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 2nd, 2007
Fried Brown Rice is one of our favorite meals right now, and luckily for me it’s super easy and fast. “How,” you ask, “is any recipe with brown rice quick?” Well, if you want your fried rice to turn out as something other than a gluey mess, you’ll use chilled rice. Since it [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jul 30th, 2007
A few weeks ago I was in a cooking rut. We were eating the same things over and over and I never knew what I was going to be cooking for supper, until five minutes before I started. I somehow convinced myself that the solution to this dilemma was to plan my menus for a [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jul 6th, 2007
Friday night in our house is a date night of sorts. We often put the babe to bed and then make homemade gluten free pizza while sipping on a cold gluten free beer. When the pizzas are done, we top them with Parmesan and red pepper flakes and head to the den to watch a [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods on Jul 4th, 2007
One of my readers recently asked if she could substitute a non-bean flour for the soybean flour in the “Really Good Sandwich Bread” recipe. I did some research and responded back to her that I thought sorghum flour or buckwheat flour would work well as a substitution. Last night, I picked up some buckwheat [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jun 25th, 2007
Sandwiches are a staple of our diet. When John first started a gluten free diet we searched through grocery store after grocery store hunting the elusive frozen rice bread that our internet searches indicated should be there. We finally found some and, upon trying it, promptly spit it out. It was horrible! John kept eating [...]
Posted in Breakfast Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jun 15th, 2007
Just in time for the weekend, here is one of our favorite breakfasts: gluten free pancakes.
Gluten Free Pancakes
(Yield: one dozen)
2 1/3 c. “Gluten Free All Purpose Flour Mix Recipe”
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 c. soy milk (or cow’s milk)
3 Tbsp butter, melted (or canola oil)
2 eggs, beaten (or 6 Tbsp. water [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Breakfast Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jun 7th, 2007
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 loaf 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 [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods on Jun 2nd, 2007
The gluten free item that I most often reach for is my homemade all-purpose flour mix. When I first started cooking gluten free foods I bought Gluten Free 101 by Carol Fenster and rushed home to bake some goodies for my GF husband. I eagerly flipped to the section on flour blends and was incredibly [...]
