Gluten Free Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

This makes a thin but chewy cookie that I lined out tonight and fell in love. I wanted an egg free PB cookie because I don't care for the texture, and since I need them wheat free, oats was my best option for a binder. Using Margarine made them dairy free, but I added mini-chocolate chips (yum!) But you can use real butter if you don;t need the dairy-free that tends to make a different textured cookie than margarine. As a matter of fact if you use GF oats, no egg, and no dairy, the only allergen in them is nuts.
Makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies
Ingredients

• 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 4 Tbsp margarine
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla

GF Masa Flatbread

Basic Recipe
1 c. masa harina
1 1/2 c. water
1/2 tsp. salt

This was easy. Mix it together. Heat your skillet with 1/2" oil. Spoon batter in and flatten to 3-4" circles. Fry on each side until brown. Drain on paper towels and salt lightly.

Pictures coming soon!!

Gluten-Free Flour Mix

I have borrowed every GF cookbook my libary has. I have tried different mixes from heavy on rice, to heavy on sorghum, to heavy on cornstarch - this one was fluffy and so YUMMY - like a flour cake... next day it was like eating sawdust cake!

My favorite comes from the gluten free waffle recipe, so I just made a huge batch. I have determined that (so far) for the things I have made, it doesn't matter if I use potato starch or tapioca starch. So use what you can find of the two, just make sure it is STARCH and not a flour...

Gluten-Free Cooking Tips

Having a had time making your GF recipes like you'e used to?  Can't find (or afford!!) guar or xanthan gum? Or maybe it just doesn't agree with your already sensitive digestive tact?  Try some of these tips I've discovered since I started my GF lifestyle.

Gluten-Free Holiday Cooking Challenge

I was surfing through old bookmarks and found some holiday recipes I had wanted to try last year... and I didn't. But it got me thinking. This year there is going t ohave to be a whole new kind of recipe experimentation for the holidays.... gluten-free! So I sat here and wrote out our traditional Thanksgiving & Christmas Menus for me to create a new cooking challenge for myself.

Gluten-free Childhood Faves: Marshmallow Rice Treats

So I have been seeing in stores that Kellog's is marketing Rice Krispies as gluten free. Of course the first thing I thought was RICE KRISPY TREATS!!!!!! But I wanted to eat the 100% natural, whole grain, gluten-free brown rice puffs I bought first. I like them. Really. But I only eat them plain, straight out the canister - they get soggy in milk. So it's taking me a while.

Tonight Kaelyn was asking to eat a marshmallow so I pulled out the bag we got for camping of these HUGE marshmallows and they were labeled "Gluten-Free!"  Maybe all marshmallows are gluten free?? I don't know, but my first thought was "Why don't I make RKT out of the cereal I have?"

Gluten-Free Potato Bread

Oh! So. YUMMY!!!! This stuff is soooo amazing I had to put my.. 3rd? 4th? slice down to type this!!! No, I'm normally not such a pig but I LIKE THIS STUFF!!! It has been so long since I had a GF bread that I like!! Even Kaelyn has come back several times just to ask for more bread.. plain bread!! Of course it is great toasted with jelly too!!

Gluten-Free Cornbread Recipe

My husband loves cornbread with his chili. I prefer crackers, Well a wheat free girl only has so many options. I'm not ready to try my hand at crackers yet so I opted for a GF cornbread...

Gluten-Free Homemade Twin Bars

I found this recipe here @ "The Sweet Details" (CHECK OUT THIS BLOG!!!! Drooooollll!!!) and wanted to make it for father's day, so I adapted it to GF and slightly larger for the size pan I used.... I apparently also can't read because I just realized that I used sweetened condensed milk, but hey, it worked so I'm leaving it! LOL!

Please ignore his wheat laden Oreo Frosting topped

Confetti Cupcake that The Princess wanted to make him also....

FOCUS On the yummy wheat free "twix "bar!!

Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes

I am finally getting the hang of this!!! I wanted carrot cake! I LOVE CARROT CAKE! But I wasn't crazy about some of the ingredients I found in the GF recipes online... mainly xanthan gum that I am staying away from on the principle that it's expensive and I can't pronounce it... and coconut??? Uhm.. ew? I also don;t like raisins in my carrot cake and George doesn't like nuts in his breads/brownies/cakes so this is also without those but walnuts are traditionally added (3/4-1c).

Hopefully you remember (and have tried!) the last post about gluten-free waffles that I raved over. I made them again and they came out just as yummy! I really liked the texture so I based the flours for this recipe on that one.

And in the mornin.. I'm making (gluten-free) WAFFLES!!!

Yes, I know.. Donkey..Shrek. Everytime waffles are mentioned in this house... EVERY TIME.. someone yells out that quote, and now I am tagging them gluten-free because I found the PERFECT recipe in the Complete Gluten-Free Diet and Nutrition Guide that I borrowed from the library.

Gluten-Free Waffles!
What a break from the gluten free cereals I've been having!!

Gluten Free Corny Flatbreads

Perfect as a flatbread, mock pancake, or perfect snack!!
Adapted from Bob's Red Mill Gordita Recipe.

Ingredients:

• 3 1/2 c Masa Harina
• 1 tsp Sea Salt 
• 1/2 cup Sorghum Flour
• 2 tsp Baking Powder 
• 2-1/4 cups Warm Water 
• 1/4 cup butter, softened to room temp

Preparation:

Gluten FreeTamale Pie!

I made this "shepard's pie" style where you make a filling and add a "crust". I'll definitely be making it again and SOON!!! It seems like a lot of ingredients, but I keep all these spices on hand. I can't use pre mixed taco seasoning because it has flour in it.. big no-no on the GF diet!

Wheat-free/Gluten-free roux

So I was finally able to get some Bob's Red Mill Organic Brown Rice Flour to try in the roux for my gumbo today! here is what I learned...

A turning point...

So i'm an idiot...

I've been looking at this diet as things I can't have like:

I can't have wheat (I become a swollen sinus tissue snot factory)... so there goes pasta, pizza, crackers, cookies..

My stomach hurts like hell when trying to digest meat... so there goes a lot of "base" meals...

Ok yeah it's a lot when you think about the general american meal...

But I got the digestive herbal stuff (look for one with enzymes like papain - a papaya enyome- that helps naturally break down protein) a friend on my mommy boards suggested and let me tell you IT WORKS!!! I can take it one with each meal I wanna splurge on with meat (and maybe the one after with some high fiber greens to be safe) so can have meat on occasion and not feel like death has arrived in my small intestine.

Then it hit me...

I eat rice crackers.
I eat rice crust pizza.
I eat rice flour pasta.

MAKE A FUCKING POT OF RICE & GRAVY!  DUH!

Ok maybe that is a little harsh, but really.. I am a southern girl!! I grew up on rice and gravy... beans and rice.. WHY IS THIS SO HARD FOR ME TO FIGURE OUT!!!

Most gravies I make I can scoop the gravy out without getting meat.. I usually cube the chicken or steak or I make meatballs. So far as I can tell the broth from the meats don't hurt me, and I can always take an enzyme extract to make sure. Beans & rice are like a God send as I can actually eat with my family!!!

Today is a turning point in this diet! WOOT!!!

They like the soups and veggie dishes I make. I usually cook a slab of animal on the side for the hubs and my kids could really take or leave meat.

Then the other day George (DH) actally said "I don't see why we don't just all eat like you?"
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I was like.. "YOU... aren't gonna eat... meat?"
He was like.. "Well... besides that.."


I guess SOME sacrifices are just too much to ask for LOL!

Wheat Allergies

So I'm fairly sure I have a wheat allergy.

After doing the Anti-inflammatory/Elimination diet strict for a few weeks and then eating regular, meats seem to bother my digestive tract.. as in someone stabs me in the stomach with a pitch fork after I eat it.. and wheat does this:

Gluten-Free

Links Coming Soon!

Gluten-Free Marshmallow Rice Treats

Gluten-Free Potato Bread

Gluten-Free Cornbread

Gluten-Free Homemade Twin Bars

Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Cupcake

Gluten-Free Waffles

Gluten-Free Corny Flatbread

Gluten-FreeTamale Pie

Gluten-Free Roux