Coffee cookies

I found Coffee flour at Trade Joe's and had to try something with it.  These are pretty yummy, I think.

Coffe Cookies with Salted Caramel Chips
 
2 Cubes    Butter or Margerine


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    Salted Caramel 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 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.

Better gluten free sourdough waffles

B1 1/2 C rice flour 

1 1/2 C gluten free flour blend 

1/2.   C sourdough starter 

2.      C warm milk (or buttermilk)

2.       Eggs 

1/4.   C milk

1/4.   C oil

2.      Tbsp sugar

1.      tsp soda 

1/2.   tsp salt

In a large bowl, combine flour, flour blend, starter and 2 C milk; beat until blended. Cover, let stand at room temperature for 45 min. 

Beat together eggs, remaining milk and oil. Add to flour mixture and stir until blended. Combine sugar, soda, and salt. Stir into batter, then let stand for 5 minutes. 

Preheat en electric waffle iron. Bake according to manufacturer's directions until richly browned. Serve immediately or let cool on wire racks, package airtight, and freeze; reheat frozen waffles in toaster 

These have no after taste like the others waffles did. My daughter preferred the others, the rest of the family preferred these :). 

Enjoy!

Sour dough waffles (gluten free🙂)

2 Cups sour dough starter

2 Cups milk

2 Cups gf flour, divided 

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda 

1 tsp baking powder 

3 Tbsp granulated sugar 

2 Tbsp oil

2 eggs 

The night before, mix together starter, milk and 1 cup flour. Stir until combined (lumpy is okay). I left it at room temperature for the night. (Supposed to be spongy looking in the morning)

The next morning, add remaining ingredients. Stir well, until fully combined, but lumps are OK. Batter may get bubbly. 

Spoon batter in to warm waffle iron (non-stick iron will probably still need to be greased). Mine took 4 minutes per waffle. 

Sourdough starter

When I made this starter, I ised the recipe as I found it in a gf bread machine cook book (125 Best Gluten Free Bread Machine Recipes):

3 Cups warm water

2 Tbsp granulated sugar 

2 Tbsp instant yeast 

3 Cups sorghum flour 

1. In a large glass bowl, combine water and sugar. Sprinkle with yeast, gently stir to moisten and let stand for 10 minutes 

2. Add sorghum flour and whisk until smooth. 

(Or combine steps 1 & 2 and just dump it all in at once and whisk together!  That is what I did, lol!)

3. Cover with cheese cloth or loose-fitting lid. Secure so that it is not touching the starter. Let stand at room temperature for 2-4 days, stirring 2-3 times a day. When ready to use, starter has sour smell, with small bubbles 

4. Store, loosely covered, in the refrigerator until needed. If not used regularly, stir in 1 tsp of granulated sugar every 10 days. 

Then as I have used the starter instead of going out and getting more sorghum flour, I have been adding whatever gluten free flour or gluten free flour mixture I have handy. 

Feeding the starter :

To replace each cup of starter used in a recipe, add 3/4 Cup water, 3/4 Cup gluten free flour (so far it doesn't seem to matter) and 1 Tbs of sugar to the remaining starter. Stir well, cover loosely and let stand at room temperature for at least 24 hours. 

Lemon Cookies

I bought some lemons a few weeks ago and have wanted to do something with them.  Thomas and Barbara wanted lemonade, that was easy enough.  I am trying to motivate myself to make a lemon merangue pie, I really dobt need to eata whole pie and nobody else will eat it :) so...  but i was thinking lemon cookies woukd be good. But I was wanting something lemony tart like pie, but soft and kind of cake like... this is what I came up with :)

Lemon Cookies

1       Stick   butter or margarine
1/3    Cup    Shortening
3/4    Cup    Sugar
1       tsp      baking powder
1       dash   salt
1                  egg 
1       tsp      vanilla
2      Cups   Gluten free flour blend
1/4   Cup    fresh squeezed lemon juice

extra sugar and a juice glass


Preheat oven to 375*

Combine all ingredients.

Spoon by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheet.

Use juice glass dipped in extrs sugar to flatten cookies.

Bake 7-9 minutes.

Let cool on cookie sheet 2 minutes, move to cooling rack to cool completely.

makes approx. 3 dozen cookies.

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.