An Amazing Brined Gluten Free Turkey Recipe for Thanksgiving

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Here’s the last Thanksgiving recipe for this year….and it’s possible that I have left the best for last. This was the absolute best turkey John and I have ever eaten. Hands down, no contest, BEST TURKEY EVER. Now, this turkey does take a little more planning to pull-off, but it’s so very much worth… [Continue Reading]

Gluten Free, Casein Free Bread Stuffing for Thanksgiving

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); Having grown up on Cornbread Dressing, I had quite a mental block about making Bread Dressing. However, I have to say ,this recipe is quite good and it’s easy to make. So, if you’re still looking for a GF Thanskgiving stuffing/dressing recipe, this is a great option.  If you need to be gluten free… [Continue Reading]

Green Bean Casserole (Gluten Free & Casein Free)

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); There’s a reason that Green Bean Casserole is on every Thanksgiving table. It’s so easy! It’s not quite as easy when you can’t open up a can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup, but it’s still not hard. I’ve used toasted pecans as the crunchy topping for my casserole. If you’re really yearning for… [Continue Reading]

Simple Suppers: Bean Burritos in Gluten Free Tortillas

These tortillas are an improved version of the gluten free tortilla recipe that I posted a couple of years ago. The new version is much more flexible and the dough is easier to roll out.

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 Fried Chicken Tenders

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]

Chicken & Spinach 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]

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]

Dad’s Brown White Rice

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); My mind has been drifting towards Thanksgiving this week and I’ve been testing out a few side dishes. Side dishes are, after all, my favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal and all of you give me a great excuse to enjoy them for weeks instead of one little weekend. This recipe is from my… [Continue Reading]

Gluten Free Pizza: Homemade Gluten Free Pizza Crust

A recipe for a crisp homemade gluten free pizza crust.

White Bean “Crab Cakes” with Savory Peach and Corn Salad

Want homemade crab cakes without the fuss of dealing with the crab? Try these white bean “crab” cakes for a tasty, healthful, inexpensive and gluten free supper.

Asparagus & Mushroom Risotto: Spring

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

Risotto: A Step by Step Cooking Lesson

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

Roasted Asparagus

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

No More Naked Burritos: Gluten Free Flour Tortillas

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); For more great recipes like this one for gluten free tortillas, make sure to check out my online Cooking School. I’ll walk you through step-by-step how to cook great gluten free food using easy to find ingredients. You can find out more about the online Cooking School here. I’ve been sitting here for ages… [Continue Reading]

Last of the Sweet Potatoes Soft Tacos

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); “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 gluten free flour tortillas Instructions:… [Continue Reading]

Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna (GF,CF,SF)

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

Vegetable Gumbo Recipe

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

Black Bean Enchiladas Recipe

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

Gluten Free Cornbread Dressing Recipe

GA_googleFillSlot(“GFCS_Top_Rec”); My grandmother made the best Cornbread Dressing. I loved helping her crumble up the stale hamburger buns to mix with the cornbread and gushing my fingers through the gloopy mixture of cornbread, spices and chicken stock to make sure that everything was well mixed. When John started a gluten free diet five years ago,… [Continue Reading]

Thanksgiving Leftovers: Toasted Turkey (Tofu) Sandwich with Cranberry & Arugula

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

Halloween Quesadillas

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

Falafel on Flat Bread with Creamy Cilantro Sauce

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

Gluten Free Curried Carrot Soup Recipe

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

Gluten Free Kasha Varnishkes

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

Spinach Meatball Sandwiches

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

Spinach Meatballs over Spaghetti

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

Gluten Free Eggplant Parmigiana Recipe

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

Roasted Summer Veggies over Brown Rice

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

Savory Sage Corn Cakes Recipe

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

Summer Veggie Quesadillas

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

Nana’s Texas Spaghetti

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

Gluten Free Fried Brown Rice Recipe

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

Singapore Street Noodles Recipe

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

Green String Penne Pasta

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

Eggplant Florentine Casserole

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

Gluten Free Pizza Recipe

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