gluten free O'Henry Bars!

How does so-o much time just slip through ones fingertips??  I'm not entirely sure how this happens but it has!!  Sorry for the very long, long delay!

In a large pot bring sugar and corn syrupn to a boil, stirring constantly.   Make sure the sugar is completely dissolved (doesn't feel gritty between your fingers, but be careful sugar gets very hot!!): 

1 c white sugar
1 c corn syrup

Stir in:

1 c peanut butter until smooth
6 c nature's path corn flakes

Press into a cookie sheet (with sides) use water on your hands to press down (this way you won't stick).

Optional frosting:

Melt a regular bag of milk chocolate chips in a glass bowl in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until chipits are fully melted.  Pour over cornflake base and spread with a knife.

Cool, cut and enjoy!!

GF Chocolate Chip Cookies

This are da bomb!!!  They are the absolute best!!  They are soft and chewing and hmmmmm!!  And are still awesome the next day too!!  All credit goes to Chatelaine.com!!  Check out: http://food.chatelaine.com/Recipes/View/Gluten-free-crispy-and-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies

1/2 c cornstarch
1/2 c sorghum
1/4 c ground almonds
1/4 c brown-rice flour
2 tbsp flax meal (I omitted this because I didn't have any on hand)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp of salt
1/4 tsp xanthum gum
1 egg
2/3 c packed brown sugar
1/4 c butter at room temperature
1 tsp vanilla
140 g of dark chocolate coarsely chopped or 1 cup dark chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350F.  Line baking sheet with parchment paper.  Wisk butter, sugar and vanilla together.  Mix all the other dry ingredients together in a separate bowl.  Add the butter mixture.  Stir in chocolate.  Scoop and bake 7 to 8 minutes and remove sheet to a rack and leave 2 min, cookies will continue to bake.  Transfer cookies to rack to cool completely.  Let baking sheet cool before baking next batch.  Makes 20 with a medium scoop, they claim 24, but I can't get that many with my scoop.


Note:  You can freeze these in balls and store for upto a month.  Bake 9 minutes from frozen and let cool completely on a baking sheet. 

Shortbread cookies!

We love, love shortbread cookies and I use the Jules flour recipe for these.

1/2 lb plus 2 tbs of butter
1/2 c of icing sugar
2 c Jules flour mix (might need a little less, make sure the dough is soft, so only add last 1/8 c only if you need it)

Sift the flour and cut into butter and icing sugar. Mix well, it takes a few minutes to get past the lumpy stage to a ball of dough. I use my hands to finish the mixing. I roll out using Jules flour to dust the counter and the rolling pin. I like my shortbreads a little thicker so I don't roll them as thin as I would my sugar cookies.

Bake at 300F for 12-15. Hmm enjoy!!



Oh, what to serve??

Sometimes I hear people wonder what can we serve your family if we invite you for a meal??  It may seem to be a daunting task, but really it's not so bad!!  Here are a few off the top of my head ideas for meals to serve your guests for whatever the occasion maybe!

1. Lasangna-buy some gf brown rice noodles at Superstore or Nutters and use Prego tomato sauce and you're off!

2. Spagetti-using gf brown rice noodles and Prego tomato sauce and voila!!

3. Ribs and rice, Compliments brand from Sobey's has a gf soya sauce, and rice is gf all by itself!

4. Roast beef and yorkshires!!  Use onion and Montreal Steak spice, which is gf to flavour your roast and yorkshires follow the recipe on a previous blog!  Thicked gravy with cornstarch!

5.  Roasted chicken and mashed potatoes!  (Just be careful of seasonings or spices.   McCormicks spices will list glutens.)

6.  Shake 'n' bake chicken and cubed baked potatoes following my post of making gf shake 'n'bake!

7.  Meat balls and mashed potates or rice or gf brow rice noodles, just use rolled oats from Bob Mills that are gf, I like to grind them in the coffee grinder to make them finer.

8.  Mennonite sausage, from Superstore!  Delicious on BBQ or pan fried or baked!  With rice or potatoes!

9.  Hotdogs, using Harvest or Freybe!  Udi's have buns at Safeway in the frozen section!!

10.  Tacos using the soft shell recipe post or the hardshells or cornflour or Old Dutch Taco chips, I phoned they are gf!

11.  Jamalaya!!  Check out allrecipes.com, they have a great video link on how to make a great jamalaya!!

12. Of course veggies are always gf, healthy and delicious!!

I know there are several more ideas but I wanted to list the ones that I have posted recipes to!!  I will add to this in the future!! 

Yorkshire Puddings!!

Okay, these are a family favourite!!  We love roast beef and yorkshires!!  I have been meaning to take a picture of these guys for months and months now but since they are usually ready just before we sit down, I have continually forgotten to take a picture!!  Finally I remembered!!  These do shrink after they are in the cooler air, but are still nice and puffy, and indistinguishable from wheat ones :)

This is the gf flour mix that I like the best for yorkshires, I've tried several...

gf flour mix:

1/2 c cornstarch
1/2 c rice flour
1/4 c tapioca flour
1/4 tsp certo
1/4 tsp xanthum gum

Mix in a plastic ziploc bag...no dust this way!! 

Yorkshire puddings!!

Preheat oven to 425F, measure 1/2 tsp of canola oil in each muffin cup and put in the oven for about 5 minutes to heat the oil.

1.  4 eggs, blend in blender for 2 minutes
2.  add 1 c milk, blend for 1 minute
3.  add 1 cup of the gf flour mix, blend 30 sec or longer if lumpy
4. add 1 tsp salt, blend for 10 sec
5. pour the mixture into the hot oil of the muffin pan, pour evenly among 12 muffin cups
6. bake for 25 min for soft, if you bake longer they will stay puffy but crisper, it depends how you like them.

Serve with gravy and roast beef!!

Oh my goodness...butter tarts!!!

These are soo-o absolutely fantastically awesomely awesome!!!  Can't even believe these are gf!! 

I use my pastry recipe, from a previous blog, but only half the reciepe to make 12 tarts.  You will have a little dough left over, freeze it and use it later or make a sugar pie.  A sugar pie is left over crust rolled out and then mix white sugar, cinnamon and milk, and smear the thick stuff on top and bake for about 15 min at 400F.

Anyways back to the tarts! So this is a recap of the pastry recipe:

1/2 lbs lard
2 c flour plus if necessary so it's not sticky roll out but still nice and soft, I use Jules gf flour mix that I have on my blog from youtube
1/2 tbs brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda

1.  cut the above dry ingredients over the lard
2.  in a measuring cup add 1 egg and 1/2 tbs of vinegar, and then add enough water to fill to 3.5 oz mark.
3.  add to dry/lard ingredients
4.  let rest for 20 min
5.  roll out and cut with 4" cutter, or do as I do and us the peanut butter jar lid :)
6.  grease your muffin tin well, I like to use stoneware

Butter tart recipe:

1/3 c butter melted
1/2 c corn syrup or cane syrup
1/2 c brown sugar
approximately 2/3 raisins
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 tbs of Jules gf flour mix

1. mix the above ingredients, except for the raisins, with a wisk to ensure they are well mixed
2. heat oven to 400F and place tarts in with out the buttertart recipe for 5 min, then remove and drop in raisins into each cup
3. I use a pampered cheft medium cookie scoop, and scoop the mixed butter tart recipe in, it will be perfect about for 12 tarts
4. bake at 400F for 15-20 min.

Wait til they are cooled!!  They will be piping hot!!  So hard, but try to wait, and then ENJOY!!!

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins, MMMMM!

These are soo-o good!  They will be gone before you know it!!  Everyone loves these, celiac or not!!

1/2 c sorghum flour
1  1/4 c of gf flour mix, in this batch I used Jules flour mix
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 c sugar
1/2 c butter
3 eggs
3 large or 4 small bananas
1 c chocolate chips
3/4 c nuts optional

1. beat butter and sugar until fuffly.
2. blend banana's then add eggs and beat for 30 s.
3. add flours and rest of dry ingredients.
4. add chocolate chips
5. bake at 375 for 20 minutes, makes 24 muffins using large pampered chef scoop.