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                                                               Today brings us to Friday, and our fifth Halloween recipe.  This recipe is for your adult Halloween party, although if you have kids that like deviled eggs, these eyes may just disappear before yours.  

 These devilled eggs are gruesome looking but really taste great and they will be the hit of the party.  For the best bloodshot effect serve them within 2 hours of preparation.

Bloodshot Ghoul Eyes

 What You Need:

• 3 Cup of hot water
• 2 Tablespoon red food coloring
• 1 Tablespoon of white vinegar
• 6 hard boiled eggs, cracked but not peeled
• 1/3 Cup of Kraft mayonnaise (it’s gluten-free)
• 1/4 Cup of green onions, chopped fine
• 2 Tablespoon cilantro, minced
• 2 teaspoon gluten-free Dijon style mustard
• 12 ripe olives, sliced
• 1 teaspoon ketchup Read the rest of this entry »

Today, I have a main dish entree for your Halloween party. 

These witches fingers will really “grab” your guest’s attention.  The Cajun seasoning gives these strips a bold taste while the cornflake covering helps to keep the chicken moist during baking. 

These chicken fingers are really good, but if you are making them for children leave out the cajun seasoning, as it may be too much bite. Read the rest of this entry »

                                                                                                                                                                         So I got my hot little hands on the current issue of Delight Gluten Free magazine yesterday. 

I almost cancelled my subscription to this magazine about a year ago.  There was always good information in it, I just think the original staff and publisher just weren’t ready for the popularity of the magazine and possibly got overwhelmed by due dates.

The issues came out late, (even as a subscriber I received the fall issue in the following spring).  That being said, I am sooo glad Ididn’t cancel.

The magazine has a new staff and I think a new publisher also, and this issue is totally fantastic.  As you can see Guy Fieri from Food Network is on the cover.  My thoughts were Wow! can’t wait to read this.

As I’m checking out the cover I see that there are several articles that look interesting.  Like WeightWatchers the gluten free way, Italian inspired gluten-free dishes and a Back to School guide.

But I have to tell you the thing that excites me the most is that they have “More than 60 delightful recipes inside”. 

Woo Hoo!  I love to cook and bake and looking at these recipes I just cannot wait to try…the Apple Cobbler Muffins, the Mediterannean Halibut, the Broccoli & Cauliflower with Parmesan Custard and the Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Pancakes.

There are just so many yummy looking recipes in this issue I could go on and on.  There are even tips for making cupcakes.

Guy is introducing his new line of Gluten-Free Barbeque Sauces, but he also has a lot of really good information, from a chef’s point of view, on how to go out to dinner at a restaurant and have a very pleasant gluten-free experience.

Guy also talks about the Cooking With Kids organization he founded in 2011.  The really cool thing is that Delight Gluten Free Magazine will donate a portion of the fall 2011 issue proceeds to the Celiac Disease Program at Children’s National Medical Center to support gluten-free cooking with kids programs.

You can learn more about the CWK Foundation here and the Celiac Disease Program at Children’s National Medical Center here.

If you decide to purchase Delight Gluten Free Magazine, I’m sure you will enjoy reading this issue as much as I did.

I got an email from a newsletter reader over the weekend.  I thought it might be of interest to other readers of my blog.  So here’s her question and my answer:

Hi Mary,

 

I just found your website and am pretty excited! I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and have been reading and hearing a lot of things about gluten possibly exacerbating the symptoms of fibromyalgia. 

 

My question is that I love, Love, LOVE crackers – saltine crackers – plain, with cheese, spiced up with oil and spices, just to sit and snack on them makes me happy.  I looked for a gluten free saltine cracker recipe (to make crackers from scratch) on your website and just wondered if you have one or know where I could find one?

 

Thank you so much!           

I’m sure you’re wondering about the title to this post today.   If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may remember that Courtney, my 7 year old granddaughter, was diagnosed back in December as gluten intolerant.  You can read about that here.

Well, Courtney came to visit from Kansas for 2 weeks at the end of July, and as it turns out she is not only gluten free, she is also lactose intolerant, and has an allergy to peanuts,  (fortunately, not as bad as some children that could die from peanuts), but bad enough that she cannot eat them at all.  So I had to go back to seriously “reading” labels, not just checking to make sure nothing had changed.

I have to say, that I think breakfast was by far the hardest meal to make.  I live on 10 acres, with 10 chickens and 1 rooster, so breakfast at our house is usually eggs, and before she was diagnosed, Courtney loved having the farm fresh eggs for breakfast.  Yeah, I could have fallen back on the cereal and Lactaid milk for breakfast, (and some mornings that is what she wanted), but I really wanted to give her something yummy. 

I actually found some frozen waffles (Van’s) that were gluten, milk, and egg-free.  They were really tasty. 

For lunch we had corn tortilla wraps.  I would steam the tortillas to soften them up and then top them with a variety of things.  One day we had chicken salad made with vegan mayonaise.  Yum!  I usually use Kraft Miracle Whip, but the last ingredient in that is…you guessed it, egg yolks.

I’m not a huge fan of peanut butter, but we always have it in the house.  (My hubby loves it on a spoon, and Charlie, my lab, likes it in his Kong).  Courtney of course couldn’t have peanut butter but she asked for Almond butter.  If you haven’t tried Almond butter yet, you have got to try it.  We had wraps with almond butter.

I made a gluten free/milk free, cream of chicken soup for my crockpot chicken dinner with Lactaid milk. 

Wow!  You parents that have gluten free/casien free children, my hat is off to you.  This is definately not easy. 

I’ll have more info about making food for Courtney coming soon, including a gluten free/milk free/egg free, ice cream recipe coming for you soon.

 

Carolyn Woodie says:

May 16, 2011 at 9:48 am

I went to purchase Ortega taco mix based on your list and noticed in the ingredient list that it has maltodextrin in it. I’m new to this GF, but I thought that we could not have maltodextrin. Am I wrong?

Wow Carolyn, you opened up a can of worms. 

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If  the kids are making this for mom, have dad cook the steak.

Herbed Steak Salad Read the rest of this entry »

I had a question from a subscriber to my newsletter the other day and it was a question that I thought my blog readers might be interested in.  So here is her question, (I excluded her name in case she wanted to remain anonymous), and my answer:

  Hi Mary,
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> I recently had dna testing done and they say that I am Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I gave you a recipe for a gluten free salad for your Easter Dinner.  Today I have a dessert recipe, and if you read all the way to the bottom, I have a freebie for you also.

 Banana-Orange Casserole Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever heard of Quinoa?  (Pronounced Keen-wah)  If not and you are a Celiac, eat a gluten free diet, or are a vegetarian, keep reading.

Quinoa is a grain-like seed Read the rest of this entry »