Beef gravy

This was one of my favorite recipes from mom growing up and now it is one of my families favorites too.

Ingredients:
1 lb of ground beef
1/2 cup of gluten free flour
3 tbs of corn starch or tapioca flour
2 cups of milk
4 oz cream cheese
1 tbs garlic salt (optional)
1 tsp salt (optional)
1 tsp pepper (optional)



Directions:
1. Brown the ground beef in a pot big enough to make the entirety of the gravy.
2. If the beef has oil (depending on the fat ratio), drain all but a tablespoon or so. If there is no oil add a tablespoon of butter.
3. Pour the flour and corn starch into the meat and stir until the meat is covered with the flour.
4. Pour in the 2 cups of milk, stir. Then add the cream cheese. make sure to stir every so often. The mixture should start to thicken up. If the mixture is too thin whisk in more corn starch. If the mixture gets too thick add small amounts of milk until you get the desired consistency.
5. Add in slats and pepper.
6. Pour on to of rice or mashed/ baked potatoes.

GF Banana Bread

Banana bread. 

Ingredients:

2eggs

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup cooking oil

1/2 cup sour cream (or Apple sauce)

2 bananas mushed

1tsp vanilla

1tsp almond extract (optional)

2 cups Bob's all purpose GF flour

1tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°

2. Beat the eggs and sugar for about 3 minutes. The mixture should turn white and elasticy.

3. Mix in the oil, sour cream, bananas, vanilla, and almond. Mix For about 1 minute. 

4. Mix in flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix for 30 seconds. 

5. Grease and flour a bread pan. (You can use a small loaf but the cook time skills only be 40min) 

6. Pour the mixture into the bread pan and put in the oven. Cook for 55 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.

7. Let sit at least 5 minutes before taking out of the pan.

Creamy chicken and Rice

Gluten Free Creamy Chicken and Rice

This recipe pre celiac called for a can of cream of chicken soup. But I've modified it so that you don't need it anymore

Creamy chicken
2-3 chicken breasts boiled and shredded
2 cups of water
2 tsp better than bouillon chicken flavor
1/2 cup corn starch
1/2 cup cream cheese
Salt
Pepper
Garlic powder

1. Boil the chicken till it is cooked, usually about 20 to 30 minutes. Just make sure ours not pink. You can do this anytime during the day but of you do it right before you cook I put the chicken in the fridge to cool down before I shred it.

2. In a medium pan medium heat the water and the bouillon.

3. Right before boiling start to slowly whisk the corn starch into the water. You can add more corn starch or water to get the consistency you want.

4. Mix in the cream cheese. You may add more for more creamy or less for less creamy.

5. Shred the chicken and mix it into the sauce. Add any Seasonings you want to the sauce. I always put some salt, pepper, and garlic salt. But you can really season however you want.

Serve over rice our mashed potatoes.


It's a super simple recipe so have fun!

The Best Gluten Free brownies

Dan's grandma has the best brownie recipe. It was one of the things I was super sad about losing. However, after 4 attempts I think I got it down gluten free. You can use the recipe for any brownie base but my favorite is pecans.

There are a couple of tricks to the recipe. I'll go over them in the instructions.

These were so good I even liked tasting the batter. I took them to the super bowl party last night and didn't let anyone know they were gluten free till they were practically gone. People were shocked!

Here are the ingredients

2oz square unsweetened chocolate

1/2 cup butter

4 large eggs

1/4 tsp salt

2cups sugar

1cup Bob's all purpose flour

1 tsp vanilla

2 cups of nuts (optional, you Can use any thing you like In your brownies really)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350° f

2. Melt chocolate and butter in a small saucepan on low. Stir occasionally.

3. While chocolate is melting beat eggs and salt slightly. Slowly pour in sugar. On medium beat sugar and eggs till the color lightens and the mixture is thickened usually about 5 minutes.  I'll show a picture of what it should look like below. 

4. Add in the chocolate mixture. Mix until blended. 

5. Slowly add in the flour and vanilla mix

6. Add in nuts.

7. Grease a 13 by 9 dark pan. Pour in mixture.

8. Bake for 30-35 minutes. Make sure a toothpick comes out clean.

9. The hardest part is to let cool for 30 minutes before cutting.

The process sounds hard but trust me if I can do it any one can. 

Beef and broccoli

If you are celiac and go to any Chinese food place the only thing you can eat is rice (maybe). 

My favorite recipe for beef and broccoli had flour in it both in the soy sauce and the thickening. 

The local grocery store had beef flank steak on sale today so I thought I would give this recipe a try.  The recipe calls for low sodium soy sauce and I couldn't find any gluten free low sodium so I gave the recipe a try with normal sodium. The final product was way too salty. It was perfect for my salt loving boys. 

The recipe is a little more complex from what I usually do but still not to hard and worth it!

Here it's the recipe:

1/2 tsp baking soda

1tps sugar

1tbsp corn starch

1 tbsp low sodium gluten free soy sauce

2 tbsp vegetable oil

1 1/2 lbs flank steak sliced into strips.

1. Whisk baking soda, sugar, corn starch, soy sauce, water, and oil. Cover steak with marinade and refrigerate for at least an hour. 

1/2 cup low sodium gluten free soy sauce.

2 tbsp brown sugar

1/2 tap garlic powder ( you can use 4 cloves of garlic instead)

2 tbsp corn starch

1tbsp apple cider vinegar (I have left this out before and it still worked)

3 tbsp vegetable oil

2 heads broccoli (I use carrots and zucchini sometimes)

1. Stir together soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, corn starch, and vinegar. Set aside.

2. In a large frying pan, heat 2 tbsp of oil over high heat. Add vegetables and saute for 3 minutes. Put in a bowl and set aside.

3. Reduce heat to medium high.  Add 1 tbsp of oil to pan. Add meat and half the sauce mix. Cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring often. Stir in vegetables and remaining sauce. Cook for 1 minute more. Serve over rice. 

Big Flat Pancakes

Here is attempt one at a Tyler family staple. We call them big fat pancakes but in reality they are crepes.

They are supposed to be round but because I used tapioca flour I couldn't control the batter as well as I could with wheat flour.
The recipe I used was:
2eggs
1cup of milk
1 tbsp of vegetable oil
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1tsp sugar
Dash of salt

I used a skillet at first but a round frying pan is how I finally contained the runny batter.
1. Turn frying pan on to medium high heat
2. Mix the ingredients in the blender.
3. Pour onto the heated pan
4. Move the pan so that the batter spreads around the whole bottom.
5. Cook till the side of the pancakes is light brown and flip.
6. Cook the other side till it is light brown.
7. Prepare pancake how you want.

We like to put butter and sugar on our pancakes. Dan sometimes puts syrup, yogurt, jam, out even cheese and scrambled eggs on his.

Be as creative as we aren't!

Some notes:
 The pancake will thicken while it cooks. If you add a extra tapioca flour to thicken the batter up the batter will get kinda rubbery.

I buy my tapioca flour at WINCO because it is cheap there. They sell it in their bulk food bins.

Introduction

The main purpose for this blog is to simply baking and cooking for those that have or choose to eat gluten free. Since so many of my family members are affected hopefully this will help them and others enjoy life a little more.

I have a lot of my favorite recipes and foods that I cannot eat any more so I want to easily convert those to gluten free eating.  I don't like picking through recipes that require tons of different flours and lots of ingredients that are not normal to a standard kitchen.

I'm going to start by telling you that most my recipes I either replace with Bob's all purpose gluten free flour (I'm loving this stuff), tapioca flour, or corn starch.

I'll post the successes and the failures. I'm going to do a kid test and a husband test to see if they can tell the difference or not. So here we go❤