Gluten free cake in a mug!

No need to pay the outrageous cost for the instant add water too version. 

I made this from a gluten infested recipe about a decade ago. It's delish and a fair bit so best to share with a friend. 

2 tablespoons of rice flour 

2 tablespoons of tapioca flour 

1/4 teaspoon of gwar gum

4 tablespoons of sugar 

2 tablespoons of coco powder

1 egg

3 tablespoons of white or chocolate milk 

3 tablespoons of oil

3 tablespoons (or just eyeball) chocolate chips (or peanut butter chips or white chocolate chips or skor bits or all of them lol)

3 drops of vanilla (something I never measure) 

You need a large coffee mug, a shorter fat one works best.  If you don't then mix your ingredients in a bowl aka transfer to the cup once mixed. 

In your mug mix all the dry ingredients & whisk them well.  Add in your wet then your chocolate chips and whisk well.

Put in microwave for 3 to 3 1/2 minutes and enjoy! 

Tonight I am trying mine topped with Philadelphia chocolate cream cheese. 

Stuffed breaded chicken

Yup breaded!!! 

This is a collaboration of the hubby & I. To make this yummy meal you need: 

Boneless chicken breasts

Gluten free bread crumbs (we used Auora ones this time)

Herb & garlic cream cheese (we used Philly brand)

A bread of some sort torn up(we used an udi's hot dog bun)

Egg

Corn starch

Mexicasa salsa (we puréed ours)

Flatten the chicken out with a kitchen mallot between two silicone baking sheets or plastic wrap.  I find filleting it further can help get it even.  In a bowl mix some cream cheese with your torn bread.  It may help to heat up the cream cheese a bit in the microwave first.  In 3 bowls prepare your egg wash (crack egg into bowl & mix), corn starch (really any gluten free flour will work), and bread crumbs.  Place the desired amount in the just off middle of the chicken.  Roll in ends and then roll the remaining.  Dip rolled chicken in corn starch then in your egg wash then bread crumbs.  Place on rack in a roasting pan (no lid).  Place in oven at 375 and bake for 40 minutes.  This time will vary depending on how hot your oven is and how many piece you have.  Top with the puréed salsa for extra yumminess (or with marinara sauce). 

Bonne Appétit 

❤️Mélissa 

Pancakes my oh my!

I crated this recipe in my early gluten free days from the Andy Griffiths Aunt Bea of Mayberry cook book, Goober's 57 pancakes.   This works great for waffles too, just add a bit more milk. 

1/2 cup of rice flour 

2/3 of a half cup sorghum flour 

1/3 of a half cup tapioca flour (sorry I don't know how to break it down further .. Anyone? .. I eyeball it). 

1 1/2 teaspoons of gluten free baking powder 

1 teaspoon of gwargum

1/4 teaspoon of salt 

1 1/2 teaspoons of sugar 

1 egg 

2/3 of a cup of milk

1 tablespoon of oil

Vanilla to taste 

Mix your dry ingredients, whisk to mix, add in your wet ingredients, whisk until well mixed. 

Heat griddle or frying pan, use Pam or butter/margerine to lube up the pan and start pouring in batter as desired.  Flips easiest once the top looks dry & holey. 

You can add in chocolate chips & coco powder, sub chocolate milk for white milk, or add fruit.  It works great.  I have subbed the egg for a 1/4 cup of bananas and it has turned out fine just strong  in flavour. 

This recipe feeds two or one hungry person, or like me: me & baby.  Sorry the pic looks like they are a bit burnt.  I tried to use my starwars forms(from Williams & Sonoma .. they work better for cookies) to shape the pancakes but not so smart with a kiddo as young as mine when I'm home alone. The piggie one turned out not too bad (a jo!e pan). 

Enjoy and happy breky!

❤️Mélissa 

Cheddar & broccoli soup

I got this recipe from: http://m.dairygoodness.ca/recipes/classic-broccoli-cheddar-soup

I modified mine some as I don't like/will not eat onions lol

• 4 stems of broccoli
• 2 small baking potatoes, peeled and diced
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 2 cups of home made turkey broth (my very first!!)
• 1/2 tsp (2 mL) dried thyme
• 2 cups (500 mL) milk, (approx.)
• 1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt, I added more 
• 2 cups (250 mL) shredded Cheddar cheese 

Instructions

Peel and chop broccoli stems, cut or dice.  Make sure you don't have any of the "skin" it hardens like a rock.  It said to add the tops later I didn't read that part and it turned out ok. 

In a pot, combine broccoli , potatoes, garlic, broth, and thyme; bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 10 min. simmer, covered, for 5 min or until vegetables are softened.

Use an immersion blender(this can be noisy, I made this at 1030 at night, thank the gods my infant daughter sleeps like a brick!) in the pot and purée soup, adding milk, until smooth.  Heat over medium heat, stirring, until steaming, but do not let boil. Stir in more milk if soup is too thick. Season with up to 1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt. Ladle into bowls; sprinkle with cheese.

In the picture I added delicious Breton gluten free original flavoured crackers.  They are made by dare just an hour from my home... I will have to travel to the factory store get them fresh.  They are cheapest at Walmart just 2$ a box BUT they go on sale when the regular crackers do for the same price!!

If you made any modifications that made it better let me know! As it's just myself and my infant daughter eating it I left it a little chunkier so she can eat it with her fingers (and like the other day paint her belly with it once she was done). 

Bonne appétit!

❤️Mélissa 

Welcome!

Yea I know what you're thinking, everyone has a gluten free blog these days what's so special about yours?

Well I'll tell you!

I'm a wife and a mother of an infant child.  I am a celiac and have been now for 6 1/2 years.  I hated it at first but as I did not cut all gluten out as I was still cheating here and there with minimal repercussions, I didn't fret too much.  Once I got pregnant that all changed, it had to change.  If you have a gluten intolerance even just a wee bit and you eat gluten you raise the risk of a miscarriage and after loosing a baby earlier that year (abdominal ectopic, that baby was trying to grow feeding off my right ovary, it was just a mass when they terminated it looked nothing at all like a fetus) I was not willing to take any risk this time.

As most pregnant women I had cravings, salt, olives, air popped popcorn, s'mores, tatertots (once at 9pm I HAD to have some) and licorice.  The only one I couldn't have was licorice (and once I get myself a candy thermometer I will try making it again Bc I almost had it a couple years ago).  Anyhoo, I digress, with my daughter on hard core solids now I find it frustrating that all I can offer her as snack foods that can travel are nutrios by Heinz, chex, baby & toddler mum mums (sometimes I get her the mum mums snax), and gerber cheese puffs.  Other babies can have Rice Krispies, goldfish crackers, wagon wheels, the list goes on.

I know there are other moms and dads and caregivers out there that would love to have more affordable alternatives.  So that is what my blog is all about.

My goal is to put out one "any one can cook because really who all is a real chef" recipe a week.  If I have a source I will give them credit and I'll note any changes I made.  Some of my recipes are modified from my favourites growing up.

So stick around, enjoy, comment, happy eating!
Mélissa