5 star dishes and best wishes

5 star dishes and best wishes
food for the family

Tuesday 8 March 2011

gluten free cheese its

Theses are very good.They smell like and taste like cheese it's, best part they are gluten free. Thanks Ashley for the recipe. ( I will include the link to Ashley's blog so you can find this and other tasty treats)


  So here we go:
2 TBS butter
1 large egg
1/2 TSP salt
1/8 TSP pepper
2 cups sharp cheddar cheese
1/4 cup potato starch
1 TSP zantham gum
salt to sprinkle on top

preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix butter until creamy, add salt, pepper and egg. Beat until blended. Beat in cheese gradually. Stir in flour and gum. Work the dough into a ball. If it is not sticky enough add 1 TSP of water at a time. Roll the ball to about an inch thick. Now I roll mine right on the cookie sheet with a small roller. Then I take the pizza cutter and cut them into small squares. Sprinkle with salt and bake for about 8 to 10 minutes. Store in an air tight container so they don't go stale on you.

Friday 4 March 2011

Snack wrap

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 regular flour for non gluten free)
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.  
 Now if you want take the snack wrap let it sit for a day, then throw it in the deep fryer and you have home made corn chips

stcky buns

Gluten free sticky buns were a success !!!!

okay here we go
 6 to 7 cups gluten free flour (all purpose for the others)
2tbs zanthan gum
2 tsp salt
2 pkg active dry yeast
1 cup water
1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
1 egg


Combine 2 cups of flour, zanthan gum, yeast and salt in your mixers, mixing bowl. In a sauce pan heat up milk, water, butter. In a small dish beat your egg. Once milk,water and butter have all melted together add it to our dry ingredients and add your egg. Beat at medium speed for like 4 minutes. Stir in and additional 3 cups of gluten free flour, so while mixing it is pulling off of the side. Next kneed it by hand with another 1 to 2 cups of flours. Place your dough in a bowl, place plastic wrap over it then a cotton towel, let it rise for 45 min to an hour.

After it is done rising take half of your dough and roll it out on a floured surface into a rectangle shape. Okay now use a basting brush if you have one and paint the dough with a light layer of soft butter. Next I mixed 1/2 cup of stevia (you can use sugar) and 2 tbs of Cinnamon, mixed it to gether and dusted it on top of the dough. I used all of it, just make more for the other half of your dough. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 30 mins.  Remove them from the pan as soon as they are done cooking. You will want to drizzle a little something extra on top. So 3/4 cup of powdered sugar, 1 tbs of butter, 2 tbs of milk 1/4 tsp of vanilla mix it real well and drizzle over the sticky buns. Serve warm and enjoy.

vanilla crisp

Vanilla crisp
for non gluten free use 2 1/2 cups regular flour
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups gluten free flour (use regular flour for non gluten free)
1 tsp zantham gum (leave out for non gluten free)

Creme together your butter, shortening and sugar, add your vanilla, and the eggs 1 at a time. Blend in your flour.

Drop by the spoonful on a non greased baking pan. Or roll into a log and cut, flatten with a dusted cup. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes.

The frosting

2 cups of confectionery sugar
2 tbs of butter
2 tbs of milk
1 tsp of vanilla
2 tbs of nuttela (or whatever else you have like melted chocolate)

fried chicken with homemade honey mustard

Here we go, lets grab our supplies;

mustard, any kind you like
eggs, we use brown
a dash of milk
sea salt
pepper
sweet rice flour or regular rice flour
regular flour for non gluten free
a zip lock bag
boneless, skinless chicken

I will give you more items to grab later for a home made hone mustard sauce for dipping fun

The batter. I used 5 eggs, about 1/4 cup of mustard, salt and pepper to your liking, and a dash of milk. Mix it all together.  So take your chicken and give it a bath in the egg mixture.

So place your sweet rice, or rice flour and put it in your zip lock bag, toss in your dipped chicken pieces. Close the zip lock bag and toss the chicken around until it is well coated. Now off to the sauna of hot oil it goes. Canola or peanut oil are good ones to use for deep frying, healthier as well, but use what you have on hand. Our pieces are small so it took about 10 minutes in the deep fryer. Place the cooked pieces on a plate. Now lets make your dipping sauce.

All right home made honey mustard sauce. Very simple and you probably have everything you need already. So we need 
mayo, for  my husband and I, I did 5 heaping tbs.
mustard, I used 2 different kinds, one was a spicy mustard the other was regular mustard. Jut a few squirts of the spicy and 3 good squirts of the regular.
Honey of course about 1 big tbs
and extra virgin olive oil, just a few drizzles.
salt and pepper to taste.
Mix it up, give it a taste add accordingly.

We had mashed potatoes and corn to go with ours. Plate it all up and our ready for some fantastic fried chicken with home made honey mustard.

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

Doughnut Drops

    Gluten Free Doughnut Drops

   This is what we had for breakfast, after playing around with the ingredients we successfully made yummy gluten free homemade doughnuts.

                   Heres what we did:

Get you deep fryer up to 375 degrees

1 1/2 cups gluten free flour (use regular flour for non gluten free)
1 cup sugar (we used stevia for diabetic)
2 tsp baking poweder
1 tsp zanthan gum (take out for non gluten free)
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
 Mix all the dry ingredients together

Next add 1/2 cup of milk
2 tbs oil
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla

Drop rounded spoon fulls in your deep fryer, cook about a minute in a half on each side. Place warm doughnuts on a paper towel. We rolled ours into a cinnamon, sugar mixture while they were still hot.
1/2 cup of sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon.

Eat and enjoy.
 They were actually pretty quick. Prep time was around 5 minutes and cook time was very quick. I can't say how many you will you will get, depends on how big you make the doughnuts