Simple Calzones

So simple. So yummy. I like things easy, and this was once I remembered the trick of rolling dough out on Saran Wrap. An important thing to remember!!

Ingredients

1      Small onion 

3      Cloves garlic

1/2   Can Rotel tomatoes

1/4   #     Turkey burger

1/4   Cup shredded cheese

1       Container Pillsbury Gluten Free Pizza Crust Dough

Directions

Preheat oven to 375

Sauté onions and garlic. Cook meat. Combine. Remove from heat. Add tomatoes. 

Divide dough into 6 pieces. 

*Roll out (on Saran Wrap!) a piece of dough into an oval shape. 

Place 1/6 of meat mixture on one end of dough. 

Top with 1/6 of cheese. 

Fold empty side of dough over the top (where Saran Wrap comes in handy. Fold the Saran, then peel Saran off the dough, beautiful!); crimp closed all the way around. 

Slit top for ventilation. 

Repeat from *

5 more times :)

Bake 15-20 mins 

Enjoy

Taco seasoning.

This is a very easy mix to make.  I use it for tacos, taquitos and fajitas and other recipes. It can easily be modified to your taste and is easy to increase or decrease the size of the recipe you make , to fit in the size storage container you wish to use :)

Taco seasoning

3/4     C          Chili Powder

1        Tbsp.    Red Pepper Flakes

1        Tbsp.    Garlic Powder

1        Tbsp.    Onion Powder

1        Tbsp.    Dried Oregano

2        Tbsp.    Paprika

6        Tbsp.    Ground Cumin

2        Tbsp.    Salt

4        Tbsp.    Black Pepper

Mix well. Enjoy. 

I use 1-2 Tbsp. with about one pound meat. 

No Bake Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies

No Bake Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
 
(will get a picture next time) :)

Ingredients:

1.5 cups white sugar
0.5 cups brown sugar
0.75 cups butter
0.66 cups almond milk
1 (3.4 oz) box instant vanilla pudding
3.5 cups Gluten Free rolled oats
1 Tbsp + 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

In a saucepan, combine sugars, butter and milk. Bring to a boil. Boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat and add in the pudding mix, stirring to combine completely. Add in pumpkin pie spice, vanilla and oats. Stir to combine and let stand for 5 minutes. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper, and allow to cool completely. Store in airtight container.
Freezing Directions:

Follow directions above. When completely cool, transfer to gallon sized freezer storage bag.
Servings: 36 cookies

Chocolate Chip Muffins

These are good, but NOT sweet. No added sugar. There is sugar of course in the semi-sweet chocolate chips, but that is all.

Chocolate Chip Muffins

1 3/4 C GF Flour Mix 2 (recipe on another blog post)
1 Pkt. Stevia (approx. 1/4 tsp)
2 tsp Baking powder
1 Egg
3/4 C Milk
1/4 C Oil
3/4 C Chocolate chips (semi-sweet)

Combine dry ingredients. Set aside. Combine wet ingredients. Add to dry ingredients mix until combined (will be more like dough than the usual lumpy batter that one usually has with muffins.) spoon into muffin pan.

Bake at 400* for 15 minutes or until done.

Made 8 muffins that were no taller than the muffin cup. They don't rise. (Make 'em the size you want 'em)

GF Flour Mix 2

This is my own mixture that I have made with the flours I can find easily here, where I live. Pre-made all purpose mixes are too expensive for me, for as often as I use them… and some of them leave a horrible taste in my mouth… and home baked goods, come out looking not quite right and tasting "different" :).
Both this mix  and the previous mix will trade out perfect 1:1 with regular flour in every recipe I've tried. We all like this mix as well as the first one.  I like this one better...

Gluten Free Baking Mix

1 C White Rice Flour
1 C Brown Rice Flour
1 C Tapioca Flour
3 C Coconut Flour
3 C Almond Flour
1 C Potato Starch
1 Tbsp Guar Gum

Mix together, store in airtight container.

GF Flour Mix

This is my own mixture that I have made with the flours I can find easily here, where I live. Pre-made all purpose mixes are too expensive for me, for as often as I use them… and some of them leave a horrible taste in my mouth… and home baked goods, come out looking not quite right and tasting "different" :).

This mix will trade out perfect 1:1 with regular flour in every recipe I've tried, and my family seems to like the way things made with this mix best.

Gluten Free Baking Mix

3 C White Rice Flour
3 C Brown Rice Flour
3 C Tapioca Flour
2 C Coconut Flour
1 C Almond Flour
1 C Potato Starch
1 Tbsp Guar Gum

Mix together, store in airtight container.

Shortcakes

We had strawberry shortcake lasts night, my FAVORITE dessert of all.

It took very little modification to make these yummy, moist, not too crumbly shortcakes.

These are yummy as part of strawberry shortcake or great as a biscuit with jam.

Shortcakes

Preheat oven to 425*

1/4 C Sugar
2 C GF flour mix
2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 C Butter
1 Egg, beaten
2/3 C Milk
1 tsp Vanilla extract

• Stir together sugar, flour and baking powder. Cut in butter until mixture resembles course crumbs.

• Combine milk, egg and vanilla. Add to dry mixture. Stir. I had to get my hands in it to get it to fully mix together. (Kind of like a sticky pie dough)

• Break into the size and shape of biscuit you want (I made six, about the size of my fist).

• Bake 15-20 minutes.

• Let cool.

Top however you like, enjoy!

Chocolate "Peanut Butter" Cookies

I tried a Paleo "peanut butter cookie recipe I found online somewhere. A word to the wise, read the recipes before you try them. If you now any tricks that work for you, and a recipe doesn't follow what sounds right to you, follow your instincts! The batter for those cookies was as liquid as soup! I had to double the flour, then though they had decent flavor, I just wasn't pleased with how they tasted (didn't stop me from sharing them at a church event and getting several compliments on them, lol)


So this recipe is a tweak on that recipe. If I ever make that recipe again, I will make other changes, and it will be my own, then so I can share it, but these...


These came out SOFT, and chocolaty and peanut buttery, without being too strong on either flavor. yum. But the ARE peanut free and egg free.


Chocolate "Peanut Butter" Cookies


2 C Almond Flour

3 Tbsp Truvia

1 box chocolate pudding mix

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1 Tbsp Vanilla

1/2 C Wow Butter (any soy or sunflower seed butter should work fine)

1/2 C Oil of choice (I used Coconut)


In my mixer I blended the Wow Butter and oil, then added each of the remaining ingredients in the reverse order of how I have them listed :)


The dough will be a little soft.


Then place in a cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls, and bake in 350* oven for 10 minutes. Let cool on cookie sheet for a couple minutes before moving to wire rack to finish cooling.


The cookies should be very soft and crumble kinda easily, so move gently when taking them off the cookie sheet :)


Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

I tried them after they cooled a little, they were good, but soft and crumbly. For the yummiest experience, freeze 'em! YUMMM!

Taquitos

Another super simple, kid approved recipe. :)

1 small Onion, chopped
1/2 # Ground Beef
1/2 can. Refried Beans
1/2 Tbsp + 1 tsp Taco Seasoning
1/2 C. Shredded Cheese
12 small Corn Tortillas
1/4 C. Oil


Preheat oven to 350*

Sauté onion until tender add meat, cook until browned. Add taco seasoning and refried beans, cook until heated through. Turn off heat, stir in cheese, set aside.

Heat oil in skillet, pass tortillas through oil to soften. Put 1/12 meat mixture in each tortilla, roll tortillas and place in 8 X 11 in. pan.

Bake approx 35 mins.

Yum!

Chocolate Chip Cookies, again...

These came out wonderful!!  They look like cookies, taste like cookies and don't crumble like gluten free :)  Thomas has been trained to say "it's good, but doesn't have the same flavor or texture as gluten, but its good"  so I don't know what he thinks, aside from the dough being good (yes, I let my children taste raw cookie dough! If I don't share with them, I cant have any either, because they are ALWAYS watching! LOL)


Yes! even the dough was hard-to-stay-out-of yummy!

Re-remake of Our Standard Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

:

1 Cube    Butter or Margerine

1/4 Cup  Coconut Oil

1 Cup      Packed Brown Sugar

1 Cup      Sugar

2              Eggs

1 Box      Vanilla Pudding Mix

1 Tbsp       Vanilla Extract

1 Tsp       Baking Soda

3  Cups   Gluten Free Flour (Mixed together Brown Rice Flour, White Rice Flour, Tapioca Flour                                                 and Potato Flour)

2 Cups    Chocolate Chips


Combine butter, oil, and sugars.  Add Eggs.  Add pudding mix, vanilla extract and baking soda.  Slowly add flour, a little at a time. Stir in Chocolate Chips.  Drop by Tbsp fulls on to cookie sheet bake at 350* for 10 minutes.  Cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes, transfer to wire rack to cool completely.  made about 6 dozen.

Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are not only Gluten free, but they are also egg free and peanut free :)

Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies


1/2      C      Mashed Ripe Banana

1/2      C      Packed Brown Sugar

1\4      C      Butter, softened

1         tsp    Vanilla Extract

1 1/4   C      Gluten Free Flour

2         C      Gluten Free Oats

1         tsp    Baking Soda

1/2      C      Chocolate Chips



1.  Preheat oven to 350*


2.  Combine first five ingredients in a large bowl; beat with mixer at medium speed until well blended.


3.  Combine next three ingredients in separate bowl; stir with whisk.


4.  Add flour mixture to banana mixture.  Beat with mixer at medium speed until well blended.  Stir in chocolate chips.


5.  Drop by tablespoonfuls onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray.  Bake at 350* for 10 minutes or until golden.  Cool on pans 2 minutes before removing to cooling racks. Cool completely and enjoy!!

Lefse

Lefse is a traditional Norwegian Flat Bread. Saw this recipe on Pinterest, and thought I would give it a try. I really liked it... here is the link to the recipe. I left out the Xanthan Gum and it seemed to work well anyway.

http://glutenfreemamafriends.blogspot.com/2009/12/gluten-free-lefse.html


I used leftover mashed potatoes, and it was really yummy with honey drizzled on top. :)