Soft & chewy pb oatmeal cookies

I've struggled to find a good gluten free oatmeal cookie that didn't melt in the oven until today!  And Bc I like pb cookies but they don't like me I added pb chips to these and got the best of both worlds. 

**btw, if you're still drying up your milk (unless you want to boost your production, these are excellent lactation cookies) don't make these cookies .. It bumped me from 99% dried up to engorged** 

This is a recipe I modified to be gluten free from allrecipes.com 

Ingredients

1 cup of gluten free margerine 

1 cup white sugar 

1 cup of brown sugar packed 

2 eggs 

1 teaspoon of vanilla 

1 cup of rice flour

1/3 cup of tapioca flour 

2/3 cup of sorghum flour

1 teaspoon of xanthan gum 

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 teaspoon of salt 

1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon

3 cups of gluten free quick (I just used rolled and it worked as well) oats

1/2 cup of peanutbutter chips (obv optional)

Cream margerine, eggs & sugars.  Once well mixed add vanilla.  Then add in your dry ingredients adding the pb chips in last.  Place in fridge for about an hour. 

Preheat oven a 375F.  Now I used my hands to form balls and I scooped them onto parchment lined baking sheets.  They will not "melt" so you can get 10-12 on a sheet.  Bake for 8-10 mins. They WILL still be soft and super squishy when you first bring them out of the oven so don't fret! Once they sit for a bit they will set up nicely. 

Now I didn't want to have that many cookies because I'm the only one who eats them so I put the other half of the mixture in the freezer (I wrote on the Baggie what it is, how long to bake it and what temp).  

Enjoy! 

❤️ Mélissa 

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Chicken nuggets

These are my husband's creation.  The other thing on my plate is poutine, curds & wedges. 

3 cubed chicken breasts 

Coating

1 cup of gluten free bisquick (states only, we beg people to bring us some when they return) 

Spices/Coating part 2 

1 tsp of onion powder

1 tsp garlic salt (powder will do)

1/2 tsp of fresh cracked black pepper

1 pinch of coarse salt 

Egg wash (mix) 

2 eggs 

1 tbsp Tabasco 

Take bisquick and coat the chicken.  Take the coated chicken and toss it in egg move it around.  Take remainder of bisquick and add in the spices/coating ingredients. Toss chicken chunks in mixture.  Shake off excess flour and deep fry! 

Place on paper towel to take away excess oil and serve alone or with favourite dip!!

Enjoy 

❤️Mélissa 

You won't believe it's not Campbell's veggie soup

Look at that! Two posts in one week! 

So as the snow is melting I got motivated to make soup and without finding a recipe online I made this one up. I tested it tonight after dinner.  Tasest exactly like Campbell's soup less the alphabet letters.  I promise it will fill that mastication desire for it's gluten filled counterpart!

It's soooooo easy to make .. I made up the recipe as I went. 

1 carton of vegetable broth

1 can of wax beans(drained)

1 can of green beans (drained)

1 can of mixed veggies 

1 can of potatoes (drained, i cut them smaller)

1 can of diced tomatoes I ran through with the emersion blender 

Toss in crock pot on low, stirr periodically.

It made 9 servings I portioned out put 2 in the fridge the rest in the freezer. 

Enjoy ❤️Mélissa

Dq style ice cream cake

Yes you can get one from dq without the cookie crumble but it's not the same & it's at the description of the location owner. 

My daughters 1st birthday is this Saturday so to celebrate I have made a gluten free ice cream cake! This is not am easy task and takes a couple days to assemble & make.  

Now, I have an ice cream maker so I made my own ice cream but you could use store bought just be sure to let it warm up/soften. 

What you need to make this is a pie pan or small round cake pan and a larger spring form pan (that you can fit the pie pan in).

I used the chocolate ice cream recipe from my ice cream maker manual 

(Cuisine art) 

3/4 cups of coco powder

1/2 cup of sugar

1/3 cup of dark brown sugar

A pinch of salt

1 cup of whole/homo milk

2 cups of table cream 

1/2 tbsp of vanilla 

Mix your dry, add the wet less vanilla using an Emerson blender then add in vanilla.  Chill in fridge for at least one hour , better if over night.  Follow directions for your maker if you have one.  Place ice cream in pie pan and freeze until it's all set up and solid.  Once it's solid use a knife along the rim then flip upside down in the middle of the spring form pan.  Place a hot hot damp cloth on the bottom of the pie pan and it will fall down.  Place in freezer. 

Fudge(from wiki how): 

A can of condensed milk (mix dry ingredients before adding

3 level tablespoonfuls of butter

3 cups of powdered sugar

6 tablespoonfuls of quality coco

Pinch of salt

1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract

Mix the dry, add in wet less vanilla in sauce pan.  Bring to boil stirring constantly then lower heat.  Fudge is done when it will ball when dropped in water.  Add vanilla.  Pour into the pie pan lined with Saran Wrap and refrigerate. 

"Oreo" crumble 

I bought a pack of k-too's and painstakingly scraped the icing off the cookies and added it to the last cookie of each row and enjoyed :p.  Place the cookies in a container and mash with a potato masher (it takes no effort).  Pull fudge out of the fridge and smooth cookie crumble on top & press down with hands, place back in fridge for now to set up a bit more. 

Vanilla Ice cream (cuisine art)

Double batch

2 cups of whole/homo milk

2 1/2 cups of sugar

2 pinches of salt

4 cups of table cream

1 tbsp of vanilla 

Mic all the ingredients but vanilla with Emerson blender then add in vanilla and chill for at least an hour, better if over night.  Follow directions for your maker if you have one.  

Assembly ... LETS GET TO IT! 

Take your fudge & cookie duo and carefully remove the Saran Wrap and plop onto the chocolate ice cream core.  Oreo will fall a bit it's all good. 

Place in freezer until vanilla is ready. 

Start packing the vanilla down the sides. I used parchment to help it not stick to the sides.  Then add vanilla ontop of the cookie layer, just be careful not to move the cookie layer around too much. 

Place in freezer to set up.  Here is what mine looked like the next day: 

I have to smooth it out which adding icing will do.  Once that's done and after it's been cut into I'll post a cross section photo 

Enjoy & happy eating 

❤️Mélissa 

Great gluten free bread!

I was impairment so I didn't let my yeast feed as much as I normally do .. Normally it's taller. 

I modified this recipe from the Canadian living website. 

Ingredients:

1 cup of tapioca starch 

1 cup of brown rice flour 

3/4 cup of sorghum (it called for potato I didn't have any today)

2 tsp of instant yeast not the bread machine kind

3/4 tsp of salt

1 1/3 cups of warmer milk

2 eggs

1 tbsp of liquid honey

2 tsp of oil (it called for olive oil which I didn't have)

1 tsp of vinegar (it called for apple cider vinegar which I don't have) 

I have to hand wash my dishes so I mix most of my recipes sort of backwards but it always works out. 

Warm milk, start oven at 350F.  Once milk is warned add in yeast and honey and stirr. Let sit for 5-10 mins until your yeast-milk mixture "heads" like beer.  Then whisk milk, eggs, honey, oil & vinegar.  Add in dry ingredients one at a time mixing well between each additive.  

Scrape into parchment lined (or heavily oiled pan...I have run out of parchment currently) loaf pan.  If your parchment won't stay you can coax it by gently sprinkling water the inside of the loaf pan then adding in the parchment paper.  Scrape in mixture.  Wet the spatula with water to help it spread out more evenly.  Cover (I use a damp clean burp cloth .. Perfect size) and place in warm draft free area for 20-40 mins.  We have a convection microwave with steam so I'll set that to steam while I'm mixing so it's nice and warm and moist for rising.  Then place in oven for up to an hour.  It may bake longer or shorter depending on your oven. 

Now I'm sure you're wondering why run the oven that long .. Well preheating it well in advance ensures that the oven temp is even all over. 

Enjoy!

❤️Mélissa