Warm banana Delight and home made banana nut pudding

Warm Banana delight

1 banana sliced in half or in pieces 

A frying pan warmed, cook until the banana is warm then add cinnamon, nutmeg and honey to your taste liking. serve warm. very yummy. Tastes naughty but its not.


Banana nut pudding 
1 banana
3 tbs peanut butter
1/2 cup of yogurt, plain or vanilla

mash the banana add your peanut butter, mix till smooth. Add your yogurt and mix all of it together very well. Serve chilled.

Peanut butter cake

No sugars, no flour no carbohydrates..And yummy!

1 cup peanut butter
1 banana
1 egg
1/2 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp of almond extract


mix it all together till smooth the longer you mix the better. Butter a cake pan and bake at 350 degrees for 20 mins..Then slice and enjoy.

Banana pancakes

The easiest pancakes in the world.....Are you ready?

1 banana mashed up
1 egg

mix the mashed banana and the egg together. Get your pan hot on the stove spread some butter in the pan and fry the pancake on both sides.

We serve Halaynas with honey to avoid the sugar of the syrup. This time we served it with pumpkin bread and orange juice. I will be posting the pumpkin bread recipe soon.

snack wraps

My kids have been asking for snack wrap, so it was time to figure out a way to make them gluten free.

Tortillas:

1/2 cup gluten free flour

1/2 cup corn meal

1 cup of water

1 egg

Mix it all together to make a thin batter and transfer to a measuring container.

Heat up a non stick frying pan, after pan is hot turn to medium heat.

Pour batter into hot pan and swirl the batter around the pan. Cook on this side til the edges begin to curve up, then flip for the other side. Remove from pan place on a paper towel and cover with another paper towel. Make sure you mix the batter before you pour your next one into the pan. 

 Fill with what ever you would like and enjoy. 

corn chips

 follow the link below to make the tortillas, after you have made them, cut them into what ever shape and size you want. Deep fry them for a few minutes and sprinkle with salt if you want, then eat. They were so good and so worth the effort.

candy cookies

Now this is a winner of a cookie. Who doesn’t love snickers candy and peanut butter cups? We are going to take the candy and hide it in a cookie, so you chose which candy to use, me I do a double batch using both kinds.
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
mix it all together very well
1 tsp xanthan gum
2 cups brown rice flour
1/2 cup potato flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
combine wet and dry ingredients and mix well
It is easier if you chill the dough for like 20 min
Grab your bag of candy and warm up the oven to 375
theres two ways to do this cookie, use which ever is easier for you

now you can wrap the dough around your candy and then place it onto a greased cookie sheet or you can take a muffin pan and scoop the dough into the muffin pan bake your cookie for 9 min and as soon as it comes out of the oven push the candy in the center. We have done both ways and they are both yummy. Make sure you let the cookie cool before removing it from the cookie sheet or the muffin pan. Again these are gluten free so you want to freeze any that wont be eaten with in 2 days

Almond flour bread

Oh the SCD diet..What I am calling the strict celiac diet. As my daughter diet is no longer just removing gluten but other things that bother here being a celiac. I had to find a new bread so I read the book breaking the viscous cycle and found this..

2 1/2 cups almond flour
1/4 cup melted butter
1/2 cup of honey
3 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt optional

Bake at 375 degrees. Cover when it turns golden brown and continue baking until a tooth pick comes out clean.

I have a ton of gluten free recipes as well I need to put up on here, but they will contain corn and carbohydrates so if you have issues with this as well as wheat then keep checking for new ones as i go on this journey of yet another new diet with my daughter. In the mean time you can look up the book and the strict carbohydrate diest and get some starter recipes for your self .

yummy bread not store bought

This is the bread we make and use. I make it gluten free for the kids and I also make it gluten free and diabetic acceptable for husband. There are a lot of ingredients and some of which most people don't just have around. When preparing to make this make sure your eggs and butter are up to room temperature.Also you don't want your water to hot or to cold around 110 degrees.
dry mix:
6 cups flour mix ( I will put the flour mix on the bottom, it is not gluten free flour)
1/2 TBS xanthan gum
1 TBS unflavored gelatin
1 TBS egg re placer
1 1/2 TSP salt
3/8 cup sugar
3/4 cup dry milk
3 1/2 TSP dry yeast

wet ingredients
2 eggs and 4 whites
1/2 cup soft butter
1 1/2 TSP vinegar
2 TBS honey or molasses we use honey
2 1/4 cup water 110 degrees

combine dry ingredients and set aside

on low begin to beat wet ingredients..eggs, whites, butter, vinegar, honey, add the water
begin to beat in dry ingredients..slowly adding. beat for on high for 2 to 3 mins

spray your bread pans, this makes 2 loaves of bread at a time. Put your mixture divided evenly between your 2 bread pans. Make sure you pat them smooth. This allows for all the air bubbles to get out. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and set to rise for about 45 mins.

Pre heat your oven to 400. you are going to cook the brad for 15 min un covered then 25 more mins with foil on top.

When its done let it cool for a min before removing them from the pan and placing them on a wire rack.

After completely cool you want to slice the bread to the size you want. In between each slice place a sheet of deli paper or wax paper and place it all into a ziplock bag. You want to freeze the bread, gluten free bread doesn't have a long shelf life. As you need bread pull the amount of slices you need and toast them. They will become un frozen and ready to make the way you like them.

Bread flour mix

4 cups rice flour
4 cups tapioca starch
4 cups corn starch
4 TBS potato flour

This is very good bread and very temperamental. Make sure your yeast is fresh. Also a few other tips. Take a baking tray and put ice cubes on it put it in the oven at the same time you put your bread in. The steam helps the bread rise while baking and also keeps it m

chocolate chip cookies

Chocolate chip cookies

2 1/4 cup gluten free flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp xanthan gum
1 tsp salt
1 cup soft butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup of packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup of M&M's

preheat oven to 375

mix flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl and set aside

beat butter and sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl with mixer till creamy. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg. Slowly beat in your flour mixture. Add chocolate chips and M&M's. Place your round drops of cookie dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 9 to 11 mins or until lightly golden brown. Let the cookies cool on baking sheet for about 2 mins before placing them on a wire rack. This makes about 5 dozen cookies if they are small enough.

I leave a good amount on a plate for the kids and the rest I place in a ziplock freezer bag and put them in the freezer for later. You have to remember gluten free products will go stale very fast if not frozen. They also defrost very quickly so there always ready for when you need them.
 

rgluten free muffins

This was our breakfast the other morning.

I make my muffins a smaller size so that they are perfect for my kids. I made blueberry and chocolate chip muffins out of the same recipe.








So here is what you need:
a bag of chocolate chips
frozen or fresh blueberries
2 cups of gluten free flour (for non gluten free use 2 cups all purpose flour)
1 tsp of zanthan gum
  1/2 cups of sugar (I had to use diabetic sugar)
  3 tsp of baking powder
  1/2 tsp of salt
  3/4 cup of milk (use lactose if your intolerant)
  1/3 cup of oil
  1 egg beaten

So i always mix all my dry ingredients together and put them off to the side. Then in my mixer I start with the egg, get it beaten up and add the rest of the wet ingredients. After the wet ingredients are mixed well I add the dry to the wet and mix it well. When that is all mixed well I add my chips or blueberries. Now scoop your batter into your sprayed muffin pans.. So here is what you do next:

  3 tbs of sugar
  2 tbs of brown sugar
mix them together and sprinkle on top of your muffins
place your muffins in a 400 degree oven for about 15 mins, but keep an eye on them time depends on your oven.
  Let them cool in the muffin pan a few mins before putting them on a wire rack. Then eat them up, they are so yummy. They also freeze very well for another day or for large batches.