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Showing posts with label easy cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label easy cooking. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Gluten Free chocolate fudge! :D

This one was so easy but the wait time takes forever. I'm still waiting and I put it in the fridge at 2:30pm, it's about 9:30pm. I cheated and ate some... so awesome tasting. Anyway...

Go to your cold closet and your food keeper columns and get this stuff:
1/2cup milk
2 1/2cup powdered sugar
3tbs butter
6tbs of Coca Powder (I used Hershey's Special dark chocolate)
1/4tsp salt
1tsp vanilla
Something witty here. 
 Next, add everything in a medium sauce pan except for the vanilla. Stir frequently and bring to a boil, then turn it to low, add in the vanilla and stir until it's mixed in well. Then just put in a small pan that's greased with butter and let sit until firm. So easy. Picture jus' 'cause it's what I do. I sort of hate finding a recipe and not having any idea what texture it's suppose to be or how it's suppose to look. Sort of why I started doing this since GF foods are so different looking and feeling.
Add
Stir.

Boil.

FRIDGE!

 Happy noming! :D

Friday, February 18, 2011

Gluten free millet bread! :)

Tonight after making dinner, a heart felt meal of waffles, lol. I decided to make some millet bread because I had never used to before tonight, I put it in the waffles along with buckwheat. I looked around for some good recipes and mostly found ones that needed oats, which I don't have due to no gluten free ones being around, so I just experimented until I thought it'd go okay.

What you need:
3 1/4 cups of cornmeal (I used the yellow kind)
2 1/2 cups millet
2/3 cup buckwheat
2 1/2 cup warm water
2 tbs (one packet normally) active dry yeast
1/3 cup brown rice flour
2/3 cup potato starch
1/2 cup tapioca starch (or flour)
4 tsp Agave Nectar (OR honey, both are pretty much the same thing)
2 eggs
2 tsp vegetable oil
2 tsp salt

I forgot to take a picture of everything together. You get to see my ferrets instead. Say hello.
No, seriously; start waving and yelling hello.
Do this stuff:
Okay you're going to need three bowls, two small, one large. In a small one add 2 tsp of the 4 tsps of agave (OR honey) warm water, and yeast and let sit. Next, in a small bowl add 2 tsp of agave (OR honey), the eggs, and oil, mix and let six. Next in your large bowl, add the rest of the stuff in. All of it will be dry.






Mix the dry stuff really, really well. After the yeast has risen a good amount add the egg mixture to it and stir. Once it's mixed slowly add it to the dry mix. It will look watery, don't worry. It's suppose to be that way, I thought it was going to turn out terrible because it wasn't doughy, but it turned out so, so good.
The yeast is awake!



This is too watery, just keep mixing.

This is juuuuuuuuuuusssst right!
Okay now add to your oiled bread pan (mine was glass and oiled with vegetable oil) at let sit for about 35-40 minutes. It won't rise much but you can tell it did a little bit. Then cook for about 40-50 minutes at 350 degrees (F). Let cool, then eat. I brushed mine with agave nectar, it made a really good glaze.
Yes, that is a Wii balance board. What? It's level and not prone to getting kicked around.


This is it glazed.
Well, I hope it tastes good for you!

Happy noming!

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Gluten free Mozzarella sticks! It only took me about 20 minutes to make, and it's super easy!

Okay so the mozzarella sticks are so awesome. They're made pretty much like gluten ones. I won't really have measurements on this one because it depends on how much you want to make!

What you need:
A mouth or two.
Some string mozzarella
2 eggs
1 tbs milk
any GF flour (I used my home GF blend of tapioca flour, brown rice flour, and potato starch but any type of flour should do fine)
GF bread crumbs ( I used four pieces of bread)
Oil for frying

Do this:
Okay so I didn't buy premade GF bread crumbs I used some of the rice bread I had to make them. I toasted it on the cooking machine because I don't have toaster bags or a toaster that's just for GF stuff.
Toast.
You can try to crumble the toast with your hands or something but I gave up shortly after trying and used the ear ripper of doom, better known as the Magic Bullet. Any blender with a dry blade should work though. Just tear up the bread before you blend it.



Next chop your sticks in half if large. Next mix the egg and milk in a bowl and put flour in a separate bowl. In this order roll the sticks. Flour, egg-milk mix, crumbs. Set aside until all are rolled.





Next in heated oil (I used canola), fry them.



OMNOMNOM. I should have used more bread but they tasted awesome for a first try. Enjoy!