Rough Day

Hamlet:
Madam, how like you this play?

Queen:
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I MUST PROTEST! Yesterday was rough. I had a Light and Fit yogurt... which i had thought was gluten free.... but alas.... no... and i was doubled over on my couch for several hours not able to move.....

But despite the sickness... i did have a new recipe for you all

Baked wings

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 cloves garlic, pressed
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 10 (or more) chicken wings (DE THAWED)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Combine the olive oil, garlic, chili powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper in a large, resealable bag; seal and shake to combine. Add the chicken wings; reseal and shake to coat. Arrange the chicken wings on a baking sheet.
3. Cook the wings in the preheated oven 1 hour, or until crisp and cooked through.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baked-Chicken-Wings/Detail.aspx

KAIT's note: flip them over half way through the time!

ooo and the best part THE BBQ SAUCE

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup cider vinegar
• 1/2 cup HEINZ ketchup
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon onion salt
• 1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning
• 1 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
  
• 1 teaspoon Savory paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon of fresh ground pepper
• Worcestershire sauce.... enough to taste!
  

Directions

1. In a medium bowl or bottle, combine EVERYTHING. Mix well and store in the refrigerator until ready for use.

the sauce was so delicious... we had them on the potatoes .... and the wings...... mmmm delish.


So gluten might have conquered my afternoon. BUT WE CONQUERED DINNER.


Does the lady protest too much? Nah..... just enough.
K8

What's for Dinner??

Alas, poor Gluten! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite
jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a
thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is!
My gorge rises at it.

OK My major thunder is Bob's Red Mill products. They have a pizza dough and flower and pancake mix that is all gluten free...

GF Buffalo Chicken Pizza

1 package of Bob's redmill pizza dough (follow instructions.. but make sure you put butter on the ends of the crust when you bake it with toppings... gives it a nice taste and color)

Buffalo Dip recipe

Ingredients

* 2 (10 ounce) cans chunk chicken, drained (trader joes is GF)
* 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
* 3/4 cup pepper sauce (Frank's Red Hot® is GF)
* 1 1/2 cups of GF Mozzarella that i shred with a carrot pealer

Directions

1. Heat chicken and hot sauce in a skillet over medium heat, until heated through. Stir in cream cheese. Cook, stirring until well blended and warm. Mix in half of the shredded cheese. Sprinkle the remaining cheese over the top.

Now add on top of pizza and bake with the cheese on top. (The Bob's red mill has the pizza directions)

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Citrus Salmon and Salad

* 4 (4 ounce) wild salmon fillets
* 3 teaspoons olive oil
* 4 (12 inch) squares of parchment paper
* 1 blood orange, sliced into rounds
* 1 lemon, sliced into rounds
* 1 lime, sliced into rounds
* 1 bunch fresh dill weed
* 1/2 teaspoon lemon pepper

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (220 degrees C).
2. Brush each piece of salmon on both sides with a light coating of olive oil. Fold each sheet of parchment in half and use scissors to round out the corners so that it is almost a circle. Open the sheets back up.
3. Place the salmon fillets skin side down onto the center of each piece of parchment. Sprinkle with lemon pepper, then place a sprig of dill onto each fillet. Cover with one slice of orange, one slice of lemon and one slice of lime per serving. You may add more to taste. Lay another sprig or two of dill over the citrus slices.
4. Fold each piece of parchment up and over the fillets. Holding both edges of the parchment together, roll the edge down making several folds as you go until the fish fillets are tightly sealed in their packets. Place packets on a baking sheet.
5. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until fish is able to be flaked with a fork. You may need to open one of the packets to check. To serve, place packets onto serving plates and use scissors to cut an X in the center, being careful not to cut the food.

(from all recipes.com)


I love to have this on spring mix lettuce with chopped sweet onion, GF crckers from Costco, and home made honey mustard dressing (Helman's mayo, Dijon mustard and honey mixed with a freshly squeezed lemon)

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Coconut Shrimp

(i modified a recipe i found online!)

Ingredients

* 1 egg
* 1/2 cup brown rice flour (topped off with flax seed flour)
* 2/3 cup coconut milk (instead of beer)
* 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/4 cup (of the brown rice flour flax seed mix)
* 2 cups flaked coconut
* 24 shrimp
* 3 cups oil for frying

Directions

1. In medium bowl, combine egg, 1/2 cup flour, milk and baking powder. Place 1/4 cup flour and coconut in two separate bowls.
2. Hold shrimp by tail, and dredge in flour, shaking off excess flour. Dip in egg/milk batter; allow excess to drip off. Roll shrimp in coconut, and place on a baking sheet lined with wax paper. Refrigerate for 30 minutes!!!! really important!!! Meanwhile, heat oil to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) in a deep-fryer.
3. Fry shrimp in batches: cook, turning once, for 2 to 3 minutes, or until golden brown. Using tongs, remove shrimp to paper towels to drain. (then put into oven to keep warm)

(make sure to defrost shrimp! water and oil do NOT mix!!)

Serve warm with your favorite dipping sauce.

DIPPING SAUCE!

I use orange marmalade, mustard and horseradish mixed to taste... heated them on the stove and mixed together.. delish! yum yum yum







I enjoy cooking, and the best part of this whole going GF is figuring out WHAT's for Dinner...

I will keep on keeping on! and fill you all in... who ever you are. :)

K8

Let me Recap my Gluten Free journey thus far!

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Mr Shakespeare that sounds great.... but was I eating food that was poisoning me?

My best friend since first grade decided to go Gluten free in January... I was intrigued, and asked around about it. Found out that her mother had also gone gluten free, and my mother had seriously reduced her carb intake...... what was their common reaction. They felt a lot better.

Things about me. I am in theater... I dance, i am very active... and i kept gaining wait. I did have abdominal pain... weak sense of smell, was stuffed up/ cold like symptoms often.... bloated.... you get the picture. I felt like my body was just getting bigger and bigger and there was nothing i could do about it.

The last week in January 2010. I thought.... hey maybe I should try going gluten free. And thus started my journey. First i had to figure out what was gluten... what is it in.... how to recognize and avoid it. (i also decided to give up alcohol for lent to help me see the difference in how the food effects me without that clouding my system)

Gluten: Gluten is a special type of protein that is commonly found in rye, wheat, and barley. Therefore, it is found in most types of cereals and in many types of bread. Not all foods from the grain family, however, contain gluten. Examples of grains that do not have gluten include wild rice, corn, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, quinoa, teff, oats, soybeans, and sunflower seeds. (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-gluten.htm)

SO i have eleiminated these things from my diet.

Things i have noticed:
I can SMELL THINGS (for better or for worse)
I lost 15 lbs quickly..... hmmm interesting
I have a lot more energy


Interesting! Another thing is one day I decided.... "Hey i don't really think i have a problem with gluten." ....and decided to eat brunch at Piper's Pub. an Irish Boxy. which is a potato pancake that engulfs other stuff. I used to eat this whole thing.... when i went the one weekend after going gluten free... i got sick after 1/4 of it.


Interesting...... I will be updating you all with how this goes..... OoOoO and adding my recipes!!