Gluten Free Dairy Free Recipes

Banana Chocolate Calzones

Lisa — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:24:18 +0000

This is a tricky way to get your kids to eat bananas…um, not really. There’s no tricking here. It’s chocolate, bananas, and peanut butter. It’s dessert! And what kid (or adult) doesn’t like dessert? These are so fun to make, but seriously…I need to stop.

1 recipe pizza dough
6 T cocoa powder
3/4 cup peanut butter
3 bananas
3/4 cup gluten-free dairy-free chocolate chips

Make a recipe of my Pizza dough, adding 6 tablespoons of cocoa powder to the dough. Divide into 6 balls, rolling each one out to form an oval. On one side of the oval, spread 2 tablespoons peanut butter, top with 1/2 banana, chopped, and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons chocolate chips. Repeat on the other dough ovals. Fold the other side over the filling, pinch the sides together, make some slits in the top with a knife and bake for 20 minutes in a pre-heated 450 degree oven.

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Perfect Roasted Potatoes

Lisa — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:04:24 +0000

Any French fry loving kid will love roasted potatoes. They taste the same, but there is obviously no need to fry. I thought everyone roasted potatoes, but every time I make these for company, I am asked how I do it and there are never any leftovers. These are a great sidekick to burgers as well as a base for breakfast. Serve some meat and eggs over them, maybe a little green chile, and you will have one of the best breakfasts ever!

5 potatoes (I usually assume one potato per person)

1 T olive oil

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

Gluten free cooking spray

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Cut the potatoes into cubes and toss with the olive oil. Spread onto greased cookie sheets and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake for 20 minutes, stir, then bake for an additional 20 – 30 minutes. Your potatoes should come out brown and crispy.

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Ribs

Lisa — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:06:28 +0000

Sometimes you just need some ribs. Okay, maybe you don’t, but they sure do taste good and are really easy to make and I like easy. Sprinkle some spice on them and walk away. What is easier than that? My big kids feel big when they eat them too because we don’t cut the meat off the bones for them. Now if only we could get the kids to do the dishes, then life would be easier too.

1 package of pork ribs
1 T chili powder
1/2 T smoked paprika
1 teaspoon cumin

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Put in a roasting pan and bake for 90 minutes.

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Sugar Free Lemonade (Calorie-Free too!)

Lisa — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:37:32 +0000

Does the juice of a lemon have calories? I didn’t think so. If it does, my apologies, but either way this nice twist to water, which we apparently are supposed to drink a lot of, is easy to whip up, refreshing and yummy and won’t make you fat. I am so excited for spring and summer to get here! I am celebrating its arrival with this yummy Sugar Free Lemonade.

Water (sometimes I fill up a 24 oz. glass, but if you use less it will obviously taste less watered down) \

the juice of one lemon

1 packet of Truvia, or stevia of your choice

Fill a glass with water. Cut a lemon in half or quarters and squeeze the juice into the water. Pour the packet of stevia into the water. Stir.

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Whole Grain Vegan Gluten Free Waffles

Lisa — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:26:44 +0000

I recently went vegan for 3 weeks. I did it because I saw a couple of movies (one of them very popular) about the diet and thought it was worth a shot…just to see. I was expecting to feel amazing. Turns out, I already do. The diet did force me to get creative in the kitchen again and cause me to really think about where our food comes from. While on the diet, I created these. These vegan gluten free waffles are light and flaky. My kids LOVE, LOVE these vegan waffles. My youngest ate three (Belgian quarters) at one sitting and that NEVER happens.

1-1/2 cups whole grain sorghum

1 cups gluten free steel cut oats
1/2 cup quinoa flakes

2 cups coconut milk (homemade or So Delicious)

1 cup water

2 T apple cider vinegar

2 T vanilla

***Stir the above together in a bowl and let sit overnight. The next morning will be a big mushy bowl of goo. Steel cut oats are big soaker-uppers! Now…I will tell you the ingredients that you will add to your blender and the order to add them, however I recommend doing it in two different batches (so split everything in half). The first time I did it, I couldn’t get the stuff to blend all that well. AND, I found that I have to PULSE, PULSE, PULSE, PULSE (LOTS), and then just turn it on and leave it on.

2/3 cup coconut oil, liquefied

1 cup pumpkin

1/2 cup coconut milk

(grain mixture, from above)

1 t sea salt

2 T baking powder

1T cinnamon

1/2 T nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon powdered stevia

Bake in a preheated waffle iron.

Shared on the following sites: Wellness Weekend, Whole Food Friday

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Easy Spiced Shredded Chicken

Lisa — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:05:06 +0000

My plan was to make chicken like the buffalo barbacoa that my family loves. With just a couple of tweaks, this chicken turned out perfect. Just ask my family. My kids said this shredded chicken recipe was the best chicken EVER!! We all loved it, so I believe them. I served it on a bed of refried beans and topped it with chopped tomato and avocado. Leftovers…well, I’m sure they taste great the next day, but we didn’t have any.

1/2 T olive oil
2-1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup water

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Heat the olive oil in a dutch oven, or large oven-proof pot, over medium/high heat. Add the chicken thighs and sprinkle all of the spices over the chicken. Cook for 2 minutes, turn and cook for 2 more minutes. Add the water. Put an oven-proof lid on the pot and put it in the oven for 3 hours. Take the lid off after the three hours, increase the heat to 350 degrees, and cook for another 30 minutes or until most of the liquid is gone. It shreds SO easily with a fork.

As seen on the following sites: Allergy Free Wednesday

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Breakfast Calzones

Lisa — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:41:09 +0000

We have family come from out of town a few times a year and I now know what I will be serving them when they come. This was also a great way to get my picky breakfast eater to get some protein and veggies in with her most important meal of the day. They turned out great. Serve them with green chili or salsa and your meal will be complete.

1 recipe Pizza Dough

3 gluten-free dairy-free sausage links

2 cups spinach

1/2 large red onion

3 Roma tomatoes

6 eggs

1 T oregano

Make the pizza dough and roll out into 6 ballls. Roll each ball into an oval. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Cook the sausage, spinach, onion and tomato in a large frying pan until cooked through. Add the eggs, beating as you add them to scramble them. Stir in the oregano. Spoon 2/3 cup onto each half of the oval. (You will have some leftover, but putting a cup onto each made them REALLY full and some of them had a hard time staying together.) Fold the other half of the dough over the filling, pinch the sides together, make three slits on top of each with a knife, and bake on cookie sheets for 20 minutes.

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Easy 5-Second Cheesecake Dip

Lisa — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:48:28 +0000

It will probably take you longer to read this post than to make this delicious dip. Is it cheesecake? Nope. Does it taste like cheesecake? Yep. Does it have thousands of calories like real cheesecake? Nope. You’re welcome.

1 spoonful of coconut butter (might have to soften this in the microwave for a minute if it is solid, but that would obviously be called Easy 1-minute cheesecake dip…sorry)
1 spoonful of fruit preserves (jam, jelly…whatever you use)
Serve with sliced fruit, such as apples

I can’t believe I’m typing instructions for this…

Stir the coconut butter and the jam together. Serve with sliced fruit.

As seen on the following sites: Allergy Free Wednesday

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Gluten Free Dairy Free Lasagna

Lisa — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:54:03 +0000

Whenever I cook anything with tomatoes, the kids smell it and automatically think we are having pizza and get excited. Lucky for me they aren’t disappointed when they find out that isn’t what we’re having, because lasagna is almost as good and tastes a lot like it. There weren’t any leftovers in our small family of 5, and this is loaded with veggies, so I will count that as a win!

2 lbs. ground beef or buffalo

1 large onion, chopped

3 – 5 garlic cloves, minced

7 large tomatoes, quartered and demolished in your food processor

1-1/2 t sea salt

1/2 t pepper

1 T dried oregano

2 t dried basil

12 oz. frozen spinach

10 oz. gluten-free lasagna noodles

Preheat the oven to 350-degrees. Brown the beef, onion and garlic in a large pan over medium heat. Add the next 5 ingredients (thru dried basil) and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the frozen spinach and simmer for another 10 minutes. Pour 3/4 cup of the beef mixture in the bottom of a glass 9 x 13 pan. Top with half of the lasagna noodles. Top with half of the remaining beef mixture. Repeat layers. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 1 hour.

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Taco Salad

Lisa — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:37 +0000

Growing up, my sisters and I had to take turns making dinner. They usually made fun of me, because every third day (yes, there were three of us) we would sit down to eat taco salads. Why? Because they’re great! The exact amounts aren’t included because they aren’t necessary. Use what you want, mix it up, and salivate!

Romaine lettuce, enough to fill a large bowl about 3/4 full

1 bag of chips (you won’t use the whole bag…probably just a couple of handfuls and then CRUSH them)

1 lb. lean hamburger

1 onion, chopped

salsa

No Fry Refried Beans

a tomato or two, chopped

In a frying pan, over medium heat, brown the hamburger with the onion. When it is brown, turn to low and add some No Fry Refried Beans…about a cup. Add some salsa if you need to thin things up and stir together. Chop up the romaine and put it in your bowl. Add the chopped tomato, chips, and hamburger/bean mixture and stir. Top with some salsa. Seriously easy. Seriously good.

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