Lessons and Recipes for the Gluten Free Cook
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 Gluten Free Side Dishes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on May 9th, 2008
Risotto is such a wonderfully versatile dish. The rice is like a blank canvas just waiting for flavorful food combinations to be thrown on top. The Asparagus & Mushroom risotto recipe below is the first in a series of seasonal risotto recipes that I’ll be posting this year. It would make a [...]
Posted in Gluten Free Side Dishes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on May 6th, 2008
Has anyone else noticed that they are eating a lot of rice now that they’re gluten free? We never, ever ate rice before gluten free. Comments such as the following were not unhears of: “The stuff has no flavor”. “Do we have to have rice?”
Now….we eat rice all the time.
But that’s no reason to [...]
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 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 Lunch Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Mar 25th, 2008
“Last of the Sweet Potatoes” Soft Tacos
(made 4 large soft tacos - which we ate in one sitting)
2 medium sweet potatoes, diced and boiled
1/2 onion, diced
1 jalepeno, diced
1 can black beans, drained
1/2 Gala Apple, diced
1 packet Guacamole seasoning*
Romaine lettuce, chopped
4 Flour tortillas - Hagman recipe w/ my flour mix.
Instructions:
1. Peel and dice two sweet [...]
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 Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Dec 9th, 2007
Somehow we end up with orphaned packets of taco seasoning in our pantry. I’m not sure how it happens; maybe there is a taco seasoning fairy. But when they show up, we’re always happy to see them because it means we’ll be having Black Bean Enchiladas for supper.
This recipe started out one night at my [...]
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, 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 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 Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Oct 17th, 2007
Falafel on Flat Bread. Fast Food for the Gluten Free Family. That’s what falafel is for me - a meal that seems as indulgent as stopping by McDonald’s. It’s not that it’s really fast….it just tastes like it should be.
Start by making the dressing. It needs some time in the fridge for all [...]
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 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 Lunch Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Sep 12th, 2007
Here’s the follow-up recipe for the spinach meatballs featured in “Spinach Meatballs over Spaghetti”. I really liked this recipe - I enjoyed having a meatball sub for the first time in way too long and I enjoyed how quickly the meal came together.
We used Kate’s wrap recipe, but you could use any gluten [...]
Posted in Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Sep 10th, 2007
It doesn’t seem right to call meatballs that are made with beans “meatballs”. They should be called beanballs. But that sounds like something that you might hear in a whispered conversation between fourth-grade boys. Regardless, these meatballs made with beans make a quick and satisfying supper with plenty of leftovers for meatball sandwiches later [...]
Posted in Appetizer/Snack Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 28th, 2007
Eggplants are one of those prolific summer vegetables for which we run out of recipes long before we run out of produce. Last week we had a couple of eggplants that had been lingering in the refrigerator for several days. Several readers had requested a gluten free recipe for eggplant parmigiana, and [...]
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 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 Appetizer/Snack Recipes, Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 8th, 2007
After feeding and bathing a fussy toddler last night, I needed a quick and easy supper. Quesadillas made with corn tortillas are a old stand-by in our household, and since they have the advantage of not requiring an oven, that’s what we had.
I had a refrigerator full of vegetables from my visit to our local [...]
Posted in Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Aug 6th, 2007
Nana’s Texas Spaghetti is an original creation of John’s maternal grandmother, Janie Cook Smith (Nana to the grandkids). When John and I first started dating, I would suggest that we have spaghetti for supper, and he would refuse. For the longest I thought that he just didn’t like spaghetti. Then we visited [...]
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 Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jul 29th, 2007
I’ve decided that we must always come back from vacation on a Saturday. I had such a sense of peace yesterday when we came home to a mostly clean house, enough food for a few days, and nothing that had to be done till Monday.
This morning I made Gluten Free Mommy’s Carrot Zuchinni Muffins [...]
Posted in Supper Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jul 16th, 2007
Eggplant Florentine is one our favorite pantry suppers. I usually have all of the ingredients on hand, and it’s a breeze to throw together. If you like diced tomatoes, they are an optional ingredient. My husband is not too crazy about tomatoes, and as seen in the picture above, I sometimes leave them out.
I [...]
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 [...]
