Dessert: Blackberry Fools

I just started receiving "Everyday Foods" this past month and have enjoyed several of the recipes. I didn't alter this one bit, but halved the recipe, which was a perfect size for two people. One recommendation, a larger opening to your serving vessels. I have margarita glasses that would have been a better choice.

Martha's Blackberry Fools- serves 2
1 cups blackberries, plus more for garnish
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1 cups heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Blend berries, sugar and lemon juice in the blender. Pour through a fine mesh strainer to remove all seeds. Note, I used a splatter screen and it involved real work getting the berry mixture through it... I'd recommend something a bit more porous than that.

Whip cream and vanilla in kitchen aid until stiff peaks form. Fold whipped cream into berry sauce. Put in serving glasses and chill. Top with 2 whole blackberries and some reserved berry sauce as a garnish.

Gluten Free Fried Rice and Sesame Chicken

Gluten Free Fried Rice and Sesame Chicken
Serves 2

2 chicken breasts
3 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp gluten-free soy sauce or tamari
1 tbsp ginger
1 tablespoon oil
2 tbsp garlic
1 tbsp corn starch
3 tablespoons sesame seeds
2 cups rice
1/2 cup green onions
1/2 cup red pepper, diced
1/2 cup red onion, diced
4 eggs
salt and pepper to taste

Begin by bringing 2 cups or rice and 4 cups of water to a boil. Simmer until rice is light and fluffy and water is gone. To time meal properly finish boiling rice before beginning the chicken.

Trim chicken breasts of obvious fat and cut them into bite sized pieces. Cook on medium heat until partially cooked.

Mix together sugar, tamari, ginger, oil, garlic and cornstarch. Pour mixture into chicken and slowly simmer until thickened.


Put rice into wok or large non-stick pan with several tbsp of olive oil. Fry rice, stirring occasionally for 10 minutes or so. The goal is to add a good fried taste to you rice.

Push rice to one side of wok. Add chopped veggies, onion, green onion and red pepper. Cook until red onions are translucent. Make sure not to burn the rice, meanwhile, but do not mix it with the veggies until they are done cooking. Then mix veggies in and push rice to the side again. Crack 4 eggs into exposed part of the wok. Mix and scramble periodically with a chop stick. When egg is fully cooked stir everything together.

Sprinkle chicken with sesame seeds, and plate on top of rice.

Gluten Free Strawberry Waffle Recipe

Gluten Free Strawberry Waffles:
Makes 4 Waffles:

2 eggs
1 1/2 cup Pamela's Bread and Pancake Mix
3/4 cup milk
2 tbsp oil
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp sugar
3/4 cup chopped frozen strawberries

Separate egg whites from yolk. Beat whites into somewhat stiff peaks using kitchen aid. We find this really helps the waffles become springy and light.


Mix egg yolks, Pamela's, milk, oil, vanilla, sugar and baking powder in a bowl. Add whipped egg white and strawberries last, carefully folding in egg whites. Just barely blend the whites in with the batter so you don't lose any airiness.

Cook in waffle maker per your machine's recommended time. You can also add chocolate chips or other fruit in the place of the strawberries.

Gluten Free Cobb Salad Recipe

Adapted From Martha's "Everyday Food"

Gluten Free Cobb Salad Recipe
Makes 2 large dinner salads, for a smaller salad, subtract a head of lettuce and a hard boiled egg.
About 30 minutes

3 slices bacon
1/4 cup low-fat buttermilk
2 tbsp light mayonnaise
1 tsp red-wine vinegar
1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese (2 ounces)
sea salt
pepper
2 small heads Butter Lettuce
2 thick slices Pepper deli turkey
2 plum tomatoes
3 hard boiled eggs
1 ripe avocado

Begin by hard boiling 3 eggs. We cheat and have a special egg cooker device, which is entirely unitasker, I know. Bobby will not part from his unnecessary kitchen gadgets. So, google how to hard boiled eggs if you don't know. I wait for the bell to ding.

Meanwhile cook the bacon in a non-stick skillet at medium high heat.

Mix dressing: combine buttermilk, mayo, red wine vinegar, pepper and blue cheese crumbles into a bowl and set aside.

Wash the lettuce heads, hand tear them into bite sized pieces. Put them on a plate.

Cut up turkey slices into small cubes. Have your deli slice your turkey into thicker slices (about 1/4 of an inch) for perfect turkey cubes.

Assemble various sliced toppings on lettuce. Cut tomatoes into quarters, one tomato per plate. Break bacon into bite sized bits. Cut avocado into small cubes, putting a half of the cut avocado on each plate. Cut eggs into bite sized cubes as well. Put 1 and 1/2 egg on each plate. Pour dressing into small bowl and position in the center. Salt and pepper to taste.

Gluten Free Easy Dinner: Salmon, Rice and Side Salad

Easy-Peezy Dinner.
I don't know about you, but after we get home from work we hardly want to spend hours in the kitchen. This can barely be claimed as a unique recipe, but sometimes its hard to come up with even quick and easy gluten free menu options, so I figure I'll share.

Salmon, Rice and Spring Salad Recipe -15 minutes
skinless fillet of salmon, 1 per person
1 lime
dash of lime pepper spice
dash of garlic salt
dash of cracked rock salt
dash of pepper
1 cup rice
Spring salad mix- 1 bag
3 tbsp red white vinegar
3 tbsp Extra virgin Olive Oil
Garlic
1 tbsp Dijon mustard

Cook rice, bring 1 cup rice with 2 cups water to a boil. Cook until fluffy and water has boiled out. Quite truthfully my rice making skills remain woefully inept. I know there is a perfect rice/water ratio, but I inevitably add more water to my rice as it drys out before the rice is tender enough, so generally cook rice with a bit more attention than I know is good for it.

Sprinkle salmon with lime pepper spice, garlic salt, salt and pepper. Cook on both sides 2-4 minutes on medium heat, until opaque. Squeeze lime juice over plated salmon.

For Salad Dressing: Mix red wine vinegar, olive oil, diced garlic and mustard together and pour over spring greens.

Gluten Free Strawberry Muffin Recipe

Adapted from Katrina at the glutenfreegoddess:
And a variation on another of my recipes Gluten Free Golden Raisin Applesauce Muffins

Recipe makes 6 Muffins (for 2 people) in one muffin tin, generally to be eaten with a salad.
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.

Mix together:
1 egg
1/4 cup olive oil
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup sour cream (low fat)
1/4 cup applesauce (note: you can use a 1/2 cup of either sour cream or applesauce if you are missing one of these ingredients).
1 cup Pamela's GF Baking and Pancake Mix
1/2 cup frozen strawberries

Mix together egg, olive oil, brown sugar, vanilla, sour cream, and applesauce untill smooth. Then add GF flour and strawberries. Stir and pour into sprayed or lined muffin tin, the recipe will make 6 muffins. Pour batter to the top of muffin tin.

Cook for 20-25 minutes, until toothpick comes out dry. Muffins will be very moist.
The GF muffins do not fluff up spectacularly, and do tend to fall apart if treated aggressively... but they are still absolutely excellent.

GF Product Review: Pamela's Baking and Pancake Mix

Pamela's Baking and Pancake Mix:
Great Gluten Free Pancakes and Waffles!
We use this for just about everything. Follow the pancake instructions and lovely, fluffy, tasty pancakes will result.
When making waffles we follow the waffle instructions fairly closely, but I whip the egg whites into soft to somewhat stiff peaks and then carefully fold them in with the other ingredients at the very end. We also add a touch of baking powder to give them a bigger boost. This results in very light and springy waffles. You can add some fruit or chocolate chips for a variety. I'll post a how-to guide (we are proud of our waffle success) the next time we make waffles.
When I adapt a non-GF recipe into a GF recipe I generally use Pamela's mix to substitute half of the required flour and then use a variety of other flours (which vary depending on what I'm making).
From my reading of other GF blogs it seems that other accomplished GF chefs are also using Pamela's all the time. So if you have been recently diagnosed and feeling lost, try Pamela's first.

Pamela's is such a staple in our GF arsenal that I've been contemplating setting up an automatic delivery from Amazon (where it is discounted a bit) every three months or so. We keep all of our GF flours in clear, labeled plastic jars so we know when we need to purchase more.