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I’m back today with another recipe for you. 

Are you having kids at your Easter dinner this year?  If you are here is a great little salad that is perfect for all the little bunnies. 

These are cute little salads that can be placed at any child’s place setting.  They’ll get a giggle out of seeing the Easter bunny at dinner. 

This salad is naturally gluten free, so your gluten free child doesn’t have to feel different.

Enjoy!

Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton Tail and Peter Salad Read the rest of this entry »

I promised you all a quinoa recipe so I hope you enjoy this one as much as my family does.  Not only is this tasty, but it’s fairly easy to put together and off to the oven.

Turkey and Spinach Quinoa Read the rest of this entry »

I babysit 2 of my granddaughters almost everyday.  Mhairi, is only 6 months old and still on breast milk.  The older one, Eilidh, is 3 1/2 years old going on 40.  Most of the time she is a pretty good eater, but Read the rest of this entry »

Today I have another recipe for Beverly and her son, the picky eater.  Hopefully, Beverly, your son likes macaroni and cheese.  The gluten free store bought can be sooo expensive and not really tasty.

This recipe is a twist on Food Network Good Eats Chef, Read the rest of this entry »

I had a comment/question the other day from Beverly.

Beverly says:

February 23, 2011 at 8:04 pm

My son is on a gluten free diet, however I have found it difficult to feed him. He is very picky. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I have some kid friendly lunch options for you.  It can be really tough finding lunch food for gluten free kids.  So I have two recipes for you today.

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It’s hard to believe that we are about to celebrate a new year’s arrival.  I feel like 2010 just flew by.

This is always the time when I start making my  New Years Resolutions. 

One of my biggest resolutions this year is eating more healthy.  Although I try to eat a well balanced diet everyday Read the rest of this entry »

Well after much baking, cooking, and measuring, my new cookbook is finally for sale.  As you can probably figure out from the title of this post, it is called Gluten Free Get-Togethers and you can find it for sale at Easy Gluten Free Foods. 

Now let me give you a little background on how this cookbook came to be.  If you’ve been reading this blog for a while then you know that I have been a Celiac since 1987.  For a very long time I “did without” all the goodies that I had loved before my diagnosis.  But then I started missing all the great party foods and lets face it,  the “Parties” too.  So I decided that I would take all the foods that I had loved before Celiac Disease and make them gluten free.

Now, I have been making the gluten free recipes in this cookbook for well over 15 years, but anyone who cooks a lot can tell you that you can get so familiar with a recipe that you stop measuring the ingredients and that’s pretty much what happened with me.  But then I went to a live internet marketing event that totally changed my life.  This cookbook is the direct result of that event. 

Now let me tell you a little about the cookbook.  I think the title says it all.  When people get together for any reason, parties, picnics, potlucks, everything revolves around the food.  But when you’re a celiac or gluten intolerant, you have to worry about everything surrounding food.

In Gluten Free Get-Togethers I show you exactly how you can be a part of the party scene again without worrying so much about things like cross contamination when attending a party, how to host a party without fear of your condiments being contaminated, and most importantly, how to host a party and have food that you can safely eat, but your guests will never guess are eating gluten free.

This cookbook has a variety of foods from appetizers to casseroles to breads, desserts, and muffins.

This was a labor of love for me and I hope you find it helpful too.  Especially right now as we head into the most food oriented time of the year.

It’s hard to believe that here in the United States Thanksgiving is just a little over a week away.  I have so much to be thankful for this year.  A loving husband, adult children that are also our friends, 3 healthy, beautiful granddaughters, ages 6, 3 and 2 months.

I thought that today I would share a recipe for a nice moist turkey without all the time it takes to roast a whole turkey. 

                                                  Tender Juicy Turkey Breasts  Read the rest of this entry »

Barbara asked me last week, “What do you do to make good bread?”.  Bread is probably the hardest thing to make gluten free and still taste good.  I have yet to find a good store bought loaf.  Most of it tastes like cardboard or a dried out sponge.

Barbara also asked if I’d be willing to share a recipe.  So I decided that I would share a bread recipe from my new gluten free cookbook, A Gluten Free Holiday, that will be available within the next month.

A Gluten Free Holiday E-book Cookbook is filled with recipes and tips for getting together with family and friends.  It has the kind of food that you will be able to serve your guests or take with you to pot luck dinners and no one will guess that they are eating gluten free.

I hope you all enjoy this recipe.

                              Better Than Store Bought Gluten Free Bread 

• 3   Extra Large Eggs, beaten
• 3   Tablespoons Olive Oil
• 1 1/2   Cups Warm Water
• 1   Cup Sweet Rice Flour
• 1   Cup Rice Bran
• 1 1/2   Cups Brown Rice Flour
• 2 1/4   Teaspoons Xanthan Gum
• 3 1/2   Tablespoons Granulated Sugar
• 1 1/2   Teaspoons Salt
• 1/2   Cup Powdered Milk
• 2 1/4   Teaspoon Active Dry Yeast

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Sift all dry ingredients in a bowl.  In a separate large mixing bowl, mix all wet ingredients until well blended.  (I use my electric stand mixer with the dough hook attachment.)  Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, 1/2 cup at a time while mixer is mixing and beat well, until dough is thick but not too stiff.  Pour batter into a greased loaf pan. 

Cover and set aside in a warm location for one hour to rise.*  Once dough rises, bake for 50 – 60 minutes or until edges are well browned.  Remove immediately from pan and brush butter or margarine on top of bread.

Yield:  1 loaf (about 12 – 16 slices)

*I heat a cup of water in my microwave oven for about 1 – 2 minutes and then place my bread dough in the warm microwave to rise.

This bread is more like a whole wheat loaf of bread, rather than a loaf of white bread.

If you try this recipe, please let me know what you think of it.

I forgot to say that you want to keep your gluten free flours in the refridgerator or freezer.  Then bring to room temperature before using.    

Actually, gluten free baking works best with all ingredients at room temperature before using.