Lessons and Recipes for the Gluten Free Cook
Posted in Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jun 18th, 2008
If you haven’t guessed by now, most gluten free bread recipes are a bit scarce in the nutrients we’re accustomed to seeing in wheat bread. One reason is that wheat breads are usually fortified with vitamins and minerals during the manufacturing process, and the other is that gluten free breads depend heavily on starch flours [...]
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, 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 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 Breakfast Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Mar 5th, 2008
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 (or me) out [...]
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 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 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, 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, 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, Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Oct 31st, 2007
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 Pickett [...]
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 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 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 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 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 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 Lunch Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Sep 3rd, 2007
Before the summer gets completely away from us and we want more than sandwiches for supper, here’s a classic Southern recipe for pimento cheese sandwiches. I had no idea until I read this NPR story that pimento cheese is just a Southern thing. I probably should have guessed though, since we often eat pimento cheese [...]
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 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 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 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 Gluten Free Side Dishes, Lunch Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jul 21st, 2007
As promised in my previous post, “Five Reasons to Shred Cabbage with a Knife, and How To Do It.”, here is an easy recipe for all of the cabbage that you’re shredded by now. I usually use white cabbage (it’s green, really), but the red cabbage (purple, really) that I had on hand worked just [...]
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 Breakfast Recipes, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jul 11th, 2007
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
