Fresh hot Donuts!

1 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup of potato flour
1 cup brown rice flour
1 1/2 tsp yeast
1/2 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup shortening (I use Spectrum Naturals Organic Shortening)
1 1/2 - 2 cups warm water




Add all the dry ingredients together and mix well. Add in the shortening and mix till crumbled well.

Slowly add in the water till mixed and a thick cake like batter and then beat for 2 mins.

Heat up a pan of oil for frying. Put 1/2 batter into a cake decorating bag and when oil is hot carefully make donuts into hot oil. Fry up on both sides till golden brown.
Cool for a second on a wire rack and then shake in a bowl of cinnamon sugar or your other choice topping!
Enjoy HOT YUMMY GF/DF Donuts! :-D

Makes about 15 donuts.



As you can tell my son LOVED them... along with my husband and I who ate all of them! :-D Share

Yummy Gluten and Diary Free Breadsticks

1 cup cornstarch

1/2 cup of potato flour

1 cup brown rice flour

1 1/2 tsp yeast

1/2 tsp xanthan gum

1 tbsp sugar

1 tsp salt

1/4 cup shortening (I use Spectrum Naturals Organic Shortening)

2 cups warm water

Add all the dry ingredients together and mix well. Add in the shortening and mix till crumbled well.
Slowly add in the water till mixed and then beat for 2 mins.
 
Oil a cookie sheet with olive oil.
Put the bread dough in a cake decorating bag and cut the tip about 1 inch open.  Squeeze dough through bag to make sticks. Set for 5-8 mins. Cook for 10-12 mins or till brown. 
Enjoy!
 
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New Gluten Free Bread Recipe!

I found another recipe for GF bread I wanted to try out, I found it off this site but changed it just a tad as I only had reg potato starch. ( And I can't WAIT to try that recipe for Dinner Crepes! Sounds so nummy!)

GF Bread
Makes 2 loaves

Mix up the following in a bowl:
2 cups GF brown rice flour
1 cup sweet rice flour
1 1/3 cup potato starch
2/3 cup tapioca starch + 4 tablespoons tapioca startch
5 teaspoons xanthan Gum
Mix up in Heavy duty mixer the following and let proof for a few mins:
5 tablespoons sugar
5 teaspoons yeast

2 cup warm water
Once yeast proofs add the rest of these items to your yeast:
1 1/2  teaspoon salt
4 large to extra large eggs
2 teaspoon rice or Heinz distilled white vinegar (corn based)
6 tablespoons oil


Mix in the dry ingredients with your electric mixer. Scrap the edges every so often. Mix for about five minutes on High. Place into 2 sprayed, oiled or greased non-stick 9 x 5 inch loaf pan. Shape slightly with a rubber spatula. Let rise for 35-45 minutes.
Bake in a preheated 375˚ F oven for 20 minutes. Cover with aluminum foil. Bake for 20 minutes more.

Eat fresh but after one day slice and freeze for later. GF bread tends to be crumbly so this helps with stopping that! Share

Gluten Free CornBread

I think I have got this GF/CF cooking down a bit more! (After many many not so good meals with it for awhile!) I made this batch of cornbread tonight to go with some chili and it turned out quite good!
So here ya go!



G/F Cornbread

Mix:
1 cup milk or rice milk or soy milk or buttermilk or water
1 egg or 2 egg whites
¼ cup oil
¼ cup sugar

In a separate bowl, mix these dry ingredients with a wire whisk:
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup rice flour (brown or white or a combination of both)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ to ½ teaspoon xanthan gum
¼ to ½ teaspoon salt

Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix gently but well for about one minute, then pour into a 8 or 9 square baking pan that has been sprayed or oiled. Bake at 400F for 25 minutes. Serve warm, directly from the pan, or let cool for 5 to 10 minutes. Share

Can we say Cheese?

The other day I came across some people talking about recipes for Velveeta Cheese on a Coupon site I go to alot, then today a friend of mine was blogging about a recipe she had for Queso with it in it (a must). And I must say I have not drooled over food in awhile but I seem to be drooling over the thought of cheese so much lately! Why? Becuase I can't have it....

When my son was a bit over month old, I came across some info on having a Dairy allergy after trying to find out if babies can be allergic to "seasonal" allergies. And all of my sons problems seems to fit everything they were talking about to a T! So I decided to try out going off Dairy for 3 weeks (It takes the long for it to clear out of mom's then babies when nursing) just to see if it did any good.

1 week off of it my son had a HUGE change in some of his problems. I was shocked.... and scared. I love dairy to much!!!!

By 3 weeks off of dairy Joshua had cleared up alot of his problems but not all. I snuck in bits of dairy here and there and paid for it later when it hit his system. But deep down I wasn't 100% sure of my self diagnosis of him being allergic to dairy. I loved my dairy to much.

I cont' on my diet of trying to be CF (Dairy allergy is known as a Casein Allergy =CF) to my best ablities and we seemed to be doing good just not normal still. My son still projectile vomited instead of "spitting up" (ask anyone who held him for more than a few mins, my son became well known for giving people a awesome gift) and still did not have 100% normal stools but the foul smell was gone and his extreme diarrhea had gotten alot better. Along with his eczema, flushed face, and respiratory problems.

So after 3 months of CF I decided to go Gluten Free (GF = which is a wheat allergy) also to see if it helped at all with the rest of his problems.

After 2 weeks my son stopped his PV (projectile vomiting) and was a normal baby! 

Mind you with ALL of his problems my son was still the most happy baby ever! He never screamed or had colic which made me wonder sometimes but I think he has a VERY high pain tolerence since being in the NICU for a week being poke SO many times!

So we are now a CF/GF family... and boy it is so hard! If I HAD to pick having to do one over the other I could TOTALY do GF any day over CF :-) Dairy is SO hard to give up! Its quite hard for a cheese lovin, heavy cream for coffee lovin kind of girl.

And to make me 100% sure of my craziness and help me KNOW I am not over doing it and being an over protective mommy, we had a set back not to long ago. I had eatin something that I thought was GF/CF and not checked and made 100% sure before I stuck it in my mouth, and I ate a good amount of it..... and my poor son reverted back to before diet problems for a few days before I could pin point WHY he was getting sick again... poor guy. It was bad. We still arn't 100% back to normal from it but are on the road to recovery and have 100% peace of mind that we are doing the right thing. Even if people think we are crazy! I will take not having my cheese any day over making my son sick. Makes being parents just a tiny bit easier when your 100% sure of something!

So, in saying all that, anyone got some awesome blogs or websites that have lots of good nummy recipes for CF/GF foods? I have learned to bake GF bread already with the help of a good friend. But need lots of different ideas for different foods before I go crazy eating the same ol same ol thing! Share