Betty Crocker

Oh yes! Betty Crocker has gluten free desserts!!!

http://www.bettycrocker.com/products/gluten-free/



I'll let you know how they are after I try them. :)

Turkey Tortilla Casserole

This is from Rachael Ray and I have made it GF by using all GF ingredients. A simple lesson is learned from this. You do not have to go crazy looking for GF recipes. You can tweak recipes that you would like to try to make them GF. Happy Cooking!

INGREDIENTS:

2 limes, quartered

1 lb turkey breast cutlets

salt

1 lg onion finely chopped

one 4 ounce can of diced chili's with liquid

Two 14.5 ounce cans of Muir Glen's Fire Roasted Tomatoes

One pound GF (Green Mountain Gringo) Tortilla Chips crushed

14.5 ounces of chicken broth (Rachael Ray brand)

1 lb Mexican shredded cheese

1 cup sour cream at room temperature

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat a grill pan to medium-high. Squeeze the limes over the turkey cutlets; season with salt. Grill the turkey until just cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Let cool, then slice into 2-inch-long strips.

2. Preheat the oven to 375°. In a large bowl, combine the onion, the chili's with their liquid and the tomatoes. Add the tortilla chips and turkey and toss well. Transfer the mixture to a greased 9-by-12-inch baking dish. Drizzle with the chicken broth and top with the cheese. Bake until the cheese is golden around the edges, about 40 minutes. Serve with the sour cream.

UNO's Chicago Grill!!!

UNO's Chicago Grill in Maryville, TN has started serving Gluten Free Pizza! It is the best Gluten Free pizza that I have eaten thus far. It is served on thin crust with homemade marinara sauce. You can choose between cheese and pepperoni for your toppings. My son and I chose cheese. We like the pizza so much we ordered a cold one to go so we could bake it later. I recommend that you try this pizza!

Christmas Dressing

This dressing is a bit of work but worth it. I grew up eating this dressing. My grandmother made it, my grandmother's mother made it, my mother made it, and when I had to go GF I was worried I would never eat it for the Holiday's again. However, I attempted it on Thanksgiving and it turned out just as good as the original gluten filled dish. Have fun making it and enjoy your Christmas.

You will need to make homemade buttermilk biscuits and homemade corn bread.

Buttermilk Biscuits

1 1/2 cup Domata Living Flour (you can pick this up at Roman's Pizza also)
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 1/4 teaspoon Baking powder
*Mix these dry ingredients together well.
One egg beaten
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 cup buttermilk
*Mix wet ingredients before adding them to dry ingredients.

Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well. Ideal measure is 1/3 cup measuring scoop (ice cream) that you have sprayed with cooking oil or drop by large spoonfuls onto a baking stone or sheet pan. Bake in hot oven 450 degrees F for about 12-15 minutes.

Cornbread

2 tablespoons shortening
2 tsp baking powder
1 egg
2 cups Arrowhead mills Organic Yellow Cornmeal
1 tsp baking soda
1 3/4 cups buttermilk

Put shortening in cast iron skillet in 400 degree F oven. Mix corn meal, baking powder, soda, salt, egg, and buttermilk. Batter should be thick. Add heated shortening to batter and put batter into heated skillet and bake in 400 degree F oven for 25-35 minutes or until brown.

Christmas Dressing

biscuits
cornbread
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
3 celery sticks
1 small onion
sage to sprinkle

Crumble the biscuits and cornbread into a large baking pan. Dice celery and onion, and put into cornbread and biscuit mixture. Crack two eggs into the baking pan, and mix. Add 1 1/2 cups chicken broth, and mix. Then sprinkle sage to taste, and mix. Put into oven for 1 hour (cover with aluminum foil). Stir half way through. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Never ask McDonald's if their milkshakes are Gluten Free :)

Because they will look at you and say, "I don't know man. I'd say they weren't. I'll go check for you." Meanwhile, a young lady who works there would say, "I know it's gluten free because I give it to my daughter all of the time and she doesn't throw it up." Then you would say, "Oh does she have the disease?" And she would say, "Yes, I forgot what it was called but she had to have her esophagus checked and everything. She had to have a big ol' biopsy. Trust me, the milkshakes are gluten free." Then a young man who worked there would argue with her telling her that they aren't gluten free because there is sugar in the milkshakes. She would say, "It's not in sugar, gluten is its own thing." By this time you would be pretty uncomfortable. Then the man who was checking would come back and tell you that it is hydrolyzed, pasteurized, multiplied and divided. How about you just avoid that whole situation. :) If your child can have milkshakes, and doesn't have a casein sensitivity make your own milkshake.

Chocolate Milkshakes

4 scoops Edy's vanilla ice cream or Edy's frozen yogurt

3/4 cup cold milk

1/4 cup Hershey's chocolate syrup

Directions
Place ice cream, milk, and chocolate syrup.. Blend until smooth.

Knoxville Celi-Act Website

There is a very informative website called Knoxville Celi-Act. Not only will you find GF information but they have an email mailing list. You can connect with other GF peeps in the Knoxville Area. Here is the website http://celi-act.com/

Not Cooking tonight

But if I was....I would cook this!

Apricot Chicken

1 lb of chicken tenders

1/2 cup of Smuckers Apricot Jam

1/2 cup of Kraft Catalina dressing

1/2 a package of Lipton onion soup

1)Preheat oven to 350 F.

2) Brown chicken in extra virgin olive oil.

3) Meanwhile mix apricot jam, Catalina dressing, and Lipton onion soup in a mixing bowl.

4) After chicken has cooked for 3-4 min on each side transfer to a 13 x 9 glass pan.

5) Pour sauce mixture over the chicken.

6) Bake for 25 minutes.

Serve with brown rice and a salad. :)

Gluten free is delicious!