Bacon - a great christmas gift - Gluten Free, Nightshade free, Dairy free

Who doesn't love bacon? Well that is rhetorical. Be nice!
The guys at the shop loved to share food. I often have to decline. I did joke once I would bring in chocolate covered bacon for food sharing day.
They all said they would devore it!

But to be honest... I may just look into this recipe.
Smoked pork belly

http://www.takepart.com/sites/default/files/styles/tp_content_wide/public/DIYBacon.jpg
Why wouldn't you want a few pounds of this DIY smoked meat in your fridge? (Photo: Ian Knauer)

cookie stamping - recipes

I found that while shopping for a gift for someone... This gluten free cookie recipe seems to bode well for stampable cookies...
http://www.cookiestamp.com/scottish_sb_rice_flour

Scottish Shortbread

This is a sweet-biscuit-type recipe. Scottish shortbread is famous in many parts of the world and although it is traditionally eaten at Christmas and Hogmanay, it is enjoyed the year round.

Ingredients

                                            

4 ounces (115 grams) flour
2 ounces (57 grams) rice flour or ground rice
4 ounces (115 grams) caster sugar
4 ounces (115 grams) butter
Extra caster sugar for sprinkling
Method

Sift the flour and rice flour or ground rice together. Add the sugar and rub in the butter. Lightly knead the dough on a foured board until smooth. Press the dough into a floured mold or into a greased and lined baking tin. Stamp the dough with a cookie stamp and score with a knife,  prick with a fork if desired, and bake at 375° F (190· C.) for about 25 minutes or until it is beginning to turn brown. Remove from the oven and cut the shortbread into pie-shaped slices, but leave it in the tin or mold to cool. Sprinkle with caster sugar to serve.

From www.myholidayplace.com/christmas/recipes/christmas-breads-dressings.html (Recipes not on the page)

Getting ready for the HOLIDAY POTLUCK - Gluten free, Nightshade free "Cream of Something" Cream Soup Substitute

Okay folks.  Just in time for the Holidays, the potlucks at work, and the "take something with that you can share even though they will already have everything... cause you need some gluten free guaranteed food.

This is a great idea!  Many of you are trying to find happy and safe ways to survive making family meals.  This blogger [ One Orange Giraffe] comes up with a great recipe for making cream soup stock.  ENJOY!
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Photo from One Orange Giraffe's post

Cream of "something" soup recipe

1 cup non-fat dried milk

3/4 cup cornstarch

1/4 cup bouillon (if you have cubes you have to smash them up)
  You can use whatever kind you like (ie, beef, veggie)

4 Tablespoons freeze dried minced onions (I used the minced onions from Sam's Club)

1 teaspoon dried basil

1 teaspoon dried thyme (I couldn't find the thyme so I used dried parsley instead)

1 teaspoon pepper

(For the equivalent of one can of condensed cream soup, mix 1/3 cup dry mix with 1 1/4 cup water. Cook until thick)

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"Kevin" comments:this would be the recipe to fill a 1 gallon container (I multiplied it by 7 instead of 8 so your 1 gallon container wouldn't be overflowing):

7 cups non-fat dried milk
5 1/4 cups cornstarch
1 3/4 cups boullion
1 3/4 cups freeze dried minced onions
2 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon dried basil
2 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon dried thyme
2 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon pepper

Credit for Original source  One Orange Giraffe: Anything You Wanna Call It Casserole

Raw Food, Brownies that look SOOO good.... try them

I have cravings!  Don't you?
Some people say that when you stop eating certain foods, you crave them. Well YEAH!!! We hate being told what to do, and what we can't have.

So I am going to tell you what you can have.
These delicious brownies serve my needs as I am an AVACADO junky!
I am a certified chocoholic and I have a desire for BROWNIES!
So, today I happen to find this recipe.
Hope you like Brownies too and will share with me the links you find to Gluten Free/Dairy Free/Nightshade Free treats.

Raw Brownies Recipe

Recipe created by Toni Bark

 Makes 16 brownies.

Published on June 18, 2012

Photo: Richard Majchrzak/Studio D -

Raw Brownies Recipe

Recipe created by Toni Bark

Makes 16 brownies

Ingredients

Base:

• 2 cups walnuts or pecans
• 13 ounces pitted baking dates
• ⅛ tsp. coarse sea salt
• ⅛ tsp. orange zest
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 avocado, pitted and peeled
• ½ cup raw cocoa powder

Frosting:

• 3 avocados, pitted and peeled
• ⅛ tsp. sea salt
• ½ cup raw cocoa powder
• ½ cup raw agave nectar, plus more to taste

Directions

Active time: 40 minutes
Total time: 3 hours, 40 minutes

In a food processor, mix all base ingredients, then pat down in an 8-inch square baking pan. Puree all frosting ingredients in a food processor and spread on base. Cover and freeze at least 3 hours. Cut into 2-inch squares and serve cold.

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/food/Raw-Brownies-Recipe#ixzz25tMaLuRc

Looking for great Gluten Free Brownies For Passover?

Try these! moist, and delicious and I recommend the decadence.

Nigella Lawson’s Flourless Brownies
slightly adapted from Nigella Express: Good Food Fast

need to take your own condiments?

Lifehacker has some great ideas, often! Today's is especially useful for those with food allergies or Celiacs.

Take your own salt and pepper and know they aren't contaminated.
take a little garlic, some butter, etc.

Soda pop upcycling

100th post - DELICIOUSNESS abound

Pamela's makes a lovely mini-single serving cheesecake.
Commonly found in the gluten free area or Organic section, are a single serving cheesecake. I find them useful for last minute indulgence. I also find that if I put a little dish together before an event, and take my own little treat that looks THIS GOOD, I am not jealous of the plethora of treats that are at the holiday parties. Make sure to pack a few cookies and possibly a wonderful little surprise that will make everyone jealous of YOUR TREAT.
Just remember, don't share the spoon with someone who has been including gluten foods in their feasting that day. Get a clean spoon and share, and don't let them double dip.

1 mini-single-serving cheesecake
1/2 cup walnuts
1/2 cup frozen red raspberries
GF Chocolate Syrup.

Here is what my cheesecake for a guest looks like when I am done.

Are your French Fried Gluten Free? Are you sure?

I am not a Fast food person -but for those of you who are; McD's French Fries are no longer GF:
Potatoes, vegetable oil (canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor [wheat and milk derivatives]*, citric acid [preservative]), dextrose, sodium acid
pyrophosphate (maintain color), salt. Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to
preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.
CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK.

Some celiac forums are claiming since they can eat it and it doesn't make them sick, it must be gluten free. Be careful of what you read, and find the source.
Personally regardless of the dedicated friers, Mcdonalds still does not claim the fries are gluten free, why? Cause the average fast food worker isn't really all that careful of cross contamination - they are getting paid minimum wage, which is honorable that they have a job, but commonly, they aren't that concerned with handling buns then fries. they aren't working in an environment that is allergy friendly.
Just keep that in mind when you shop for a quick break for food.

Celiac Awareness Day. September 13, 2011

did I miss the boat? yeah, I guess with the blog being about dealing with and being a celiac, I should have posted. I was instead, preoccupied with many endeavors, including sewing a new pocket for my BRAND NEW NOOK, and reading and reading and reading.
I battled a headache that was spurred on by the wildfires of Minnesota, and the smell reaching the middle of Wisconsin. WOW, it smelled like smoked fish and sausages being grilled at the house next door. It was wildfires, and barometers going nuts.

So in apologizing for the remiss post, let us read something that made my heart practically cry and seize at the same time. A narrative and story in Living Without Magazine. I love this magazine as it really does make a person with Celiac lifestyles, challenges, and HOPES!

In college, I suffered debilitating dizzy spells, spitting up blood, bloating, passing out, and horrible cramps. But I told people only that I thought I had the flu, AGAIN. Here, here is a story that made me cry... you too might find it useful.
Living Without Magazine article Link

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This is a day for "Did you know that? "

Did you know that?
Latex allergy is associated with sensitivity to foods: HIGH - bananas, chestnuts, avocados; MODERATE: apple, carrot, celery, tomato, kiwi, papaya, potato, melon. Others are low or undetermined. Reference: Greer Laboratories, Inc. TM Allergy Update, Fall 1995. (credited website)

My new thing I am discovering that DETOX is what makes my recovery easier from an accidental Glutening. So I have eliminated Dairy and ALL NIGHTSHADES from the diet for 30 days.
I am on Day 6 and feeling absolutely GREAT.
Brain fog is lifting... This is like a whole second set of curtains that were infront of me. like the backdrop and stage "curtain call" layers of fog are lifting!

Nightshade: Brinjal, Cayenne, Capsicum, Eggplant, Ground Cherry, Banana Pepper, Bell Pepper, Chili Pepper, Green Pepper, Red Pepper, Sweet Pepper, Paprika, Pimento, Potato, Tabasco, Thorn Apple, Tobacco, Tomato.

Gluten free over a decade Day 4 of Dairy-free, Nightsahde -free

When you restrict your diet more, you find more reasons to want to enjoy your food.
Arugula Delicious!

3* oz Arugala
1 Very Large Cucumber (peeled if it isn't organic)
1 Avocado
2 cups celery
1/2 cup Craisins
1/4 capers
1 can salmon. small would be better as this is not a salmon salad.

1 large salad bowl

1 small bowl for salad dressing
5 tblspn Grapeseed Veganaise (dairy free and no paprika)
2 tspn lemon juice
2 tspn juice from capers
1 dash garlic powder
1 dash Marjorum
1 dash Thyme
1 dash basil
DO NOT USE MRS DASH... it has nightshades in it, unless you are only going for gluten free, than dash away....
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Obviously the large bowl requires the ingredients to be chopped so;
dice or chop celery into smaller than bit sized pieces,
the cucumber, I lengthwise halved, then sliced, then halved the semi-discs,
the Avocado you cut in half, and if you are looking for easy ways to get rid or extract the pit, try this **, then gently insert a butter knife and dice avocado flesh inside its shelf, invert shell over salad, and whalla.. easy and mess free.
toss in the Craisins
Crumble the salmon onto the salad terrain.

Dressing? Yes please
mix Veganaise, lemon juice and caper juice first... this thins it out a little bit, and makes it better for the rest of the ingredients to be tossed in and whipped up.

serve out the arugala onto plates, then top off with the nice chutney you just prepared.

Enjoy!



*doesn't sound like much but remember 5 ounces is a tub that a roasted chicken could fit in... so don't fret, I am not making a small salad

Cold "breakfast soup?"

Yes, that is typed correctly. Cold? Breakfast soup?
What is soup?
the irony is that the word originally "soupe" or "sop" included the mechanism of sopping up with bread. Well that would be tragic, as this, soup, needs no bread, or starch what-so-ever.

So here we go.
you can prepare the mango chunks and freeze them overnight, or you can buy a bag of Dole mango frozen chunks. This level of preparation will be left up to you.

Mango Fage cold Breakfast Soup.

(FAGE) mango soup:
2 cups frozen mango chunks
2 cups Fage Total
1 cup Silk Almond milk
Margarita setting on the blender
BLEND, pour in a bowl, insert soup spoon, Enjoy!

Grilled shellfish - Gluten free easily

Summer time. The grill comes out and the flames burst skyward.
So, pull out that gluten free grill (don't use the grill rack if gluten has gotten on it, they are cheap to replace).
Find yourself some vegetable or shellfish baskets.. and here we go...
I think you will enjoy this link with a little beach story, and some grandiose taste bud instigators.





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Summer Shell Game: Grilled Clams, Mussels, Shrimp

by T. Susan Chang

To read the recipes and see more pictures.... here you [CLICK]

Gluten Free Summer soothers, cocktails etc

I was looking at a recipe;

Lynchburg Lemonade
1 part Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey
1 part triple Sec (edited in Grand Marnier)
1 part sour mix
Stir in 4 parts lemon/lime soda
to be garnished with fresh lemon

... well that sounds refreshing!
Then it occurred to me, Triple Sec... is it gluten free? I know Jack Daniel's actually tests their batches for gluten. So I feel safe there, but Triple Sec, I do recall being warned about that!

I should find out.

So, here is a website I have so far found to be reliable. I am not of the belief, nor is my body that all alcohol is gluten free, as some tout the gluten is distilled out, I think we can agree, that our bodies know best.. and three days of gross writhing in agony tells me NAH, not all distillery processes gain gluten free status. So,
Gluten free alcohol
Good to know. here's to you [ clink] Enjoy your summer cocktails

Tennessee Tea
1 1 part Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey
1 part triple Sec
1 part sour mix
2 parts cola (Coca-Cola is gluten free) not all colas are.

Now you should also know, the Jack Daniel's Mustard is gluten free, and tastes great on the brats that you had grilling on the gluten free grill.
ENJOY
TATA!

Mango Lassi - GLUEN FREE and summery - Refreshing

Delicious!
Nutrient rich!
Summer Treat.

• 1 Cup Fage yogurt ( Fage Greek yogurt site )[they ARE gluten free]
  
• 2 Tblspns Honey or Agave Nectar [ easily gluten free]
  
• 1 dash Cardamon [research your spice company, make sure here are no fillers]
  
• 1 dash Nutmeg (prefer ground at the time of use) [research your spice company, make sure here are no fillers that is partly why I grind my own]
• 2 cups Silk (R) Almond Milk (I am sure you could use Whole or 2% milk too) non-fat just isn't as creamy
  
• 2 cups Frozen Mango Chunks.
  

OR

• 2 cups Fresh Mango Chunks and 1 Cup Ice cubes

Blend in the blender.


I found smoothies and making soups in my Oster Fusion - All Metal Drive blender.
ENJOY!

Could it be Celiac Sprue related?

Depending on what you are reading or sourcing you will find hat 1:250 1:150 , 1:133 American have some level of gluten intolerance or Celiac Sprue.
That being said, there are so many things that people suffer and find a gluten free diet puts their symptoms into remission or better, they find they could no longer get diagnosis if they were tested today.
Epilepsy is one that has common links with Celiac Disease.
You might find this article interesting.
http://epilepsyfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/celiac-disease-gluten

A Celiac at a rummage sale

What is more exciting than finding a great antique chaffing dish fo $1.00 at a garage/rummage sale? The disappointment of realizing that gluten free really does mean for me, that dish will never serve my food. I can't stress enough that gluten free risk is usually a betting man's upper hand. It is simple, thee was stuffing or sauce or something vital gluten put in that dish, and the healthier and more long-term gluten free you become, the less you tolerate gluten. So I don't use Grandma's China, or Great Aunt Elizabeth's gravy boat for food. I found ways to store things in them that assure me the joy of the memories of childhood dinners, such as a wrapped candy dish for the gravy boat, or floating candles in the water of a chaffing dish, an awesome use for a tea cup that was handed down? I planted miniature Thyme plants in two, and they are loved often.

So, second hand tupperware is not such a deal anymore, maybe start a Target Wishlist, or amazon account for the new stuff that you will want. Make sure to pass on the dinnerware set to someone in need, I put mine up to freecycle and requested any social workers that were dealing with a displaced family, contact me. After the floods I go to give a family dishes, pots and pans. HOW COOL IS THAT?

So remember as much as I love Freecycle.org, and rummage and reduce, reuse, recycle, I have to go with the 4th R, respecting my body over my emotions of a cute dinner setting I go a great deal on.