This gluten free easy pot pie recipe transforms leftover beef or chicken stew into a delicious and hearty winter meal. You can also make this ahead of time and freeze for up to six weeks! Can be made as a large pie or as mini pies. I'm so glad it's fall. As I write this, a cinnamon-vanilla scented candle burns near my laptop (but luckily not too near). A bowl of popcorn sits temptingly on the table nearby, left by my roommate with the invitation to help myself. I am trying to resist. ...
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Gluten Free Tacos
These easy gluten-free tacos are great for a fun taco party with friends or family! This is basically the fastest dinner party you can put together! In 30 minutes you can have all your toppings ready and your buffet laid out! So last year I decided I liked tacos. My family didn't eat out a lot growing up. It was just simpler with everybody eating gluten free, and restaurants had very few gluten free options seven or so years ago. But after I went to college... My parents are ...
Gluten Free Huevos Rancheros Tostadas
These easy gluten free huevos rancheros tostadas make the perfect breakfast or lunch! Super easy and ready in 40 minutes, this makes the perfect easy meal. Well this is it. The last four weeks before school ends. I can feel the extra anxiety all around me. The number of students in my classes have swelled to much bigger numbers than I thought possible as everyone tries to resurrect their grades before finals. There's a sense of approaching doom. For some, there's nothing left but ...
Roundup: Gluten Free Easy College Recipes
Here you'll find a whole pile of gluten free easy college recipes...that don't just have to be for college! You can cook these cheap, delicious, and 30-minutes-or-less dishes for your family too! This roundup has breakfast recipes, lunch & dinner recipes, dessert recipes, and snacks for any hungry moments in between. It IS possible to be gluten free and healthy in college without breaking a budget. ...Oh, yes, in this roundup it is assumed that you have a kitchen. I do plan to do a microwave ...
Easy 30-Minute Gluten Free Pizza Crust Recipe
Try this super easy and fast gluten free pizza crust recipe next time you're tempted to order pizza (I'm talking to you, college students and busy humans). Two weeks ago during Finals Week, I finally caved. Besides those cookies (nuf said), I'd been good all semester at staying pretty much gluten-free. I didn't stop at that burger truck that afternoon, even though I could smell it from a mile away and my stomach yearned for some. I didn't buy that burrito that one very hungry day I ...
Gluten Free Enchiladas With Chicken and Corn Tortillas
These easy gluten free enchiladas are ready in twenty minutes and made with simple and inexpensive corn tortillas and chicken. The perfect college weeknight meal! Having now become a college veteran (basically I’m an expert after being here two months), I’ve realized that there are several very specific types of hunger in college (or really in life in general): 1. Real hunger. “I’ve just been in class or running between classes for the past 6 hours and I’M DYING HERE.” 2. ...
Gluten Free Egg Roll Wrappers
These gluten free egg roll wrappers are some of the easiest gluten free egg rolls I've ever made. Made with just six ingredients, the dough is easy to handle and it doesn't tear easily. Roll it as thin as you can for the best possible gluten free egg roll wrappers! While egg rolls are sometimes considered an appetizer, we make extra large egg rolls that can be eaten as a main dish. Just slather on some homemade sweet and sour sauce and you're set! Also note that these aren't spring ...
Sausage, Pepper & Tomato Breakfast Frittata (dairy free options available)
With summer finally going full throttle, we have a ton of extra eggs tossing about in the house. When my sister remembers to collect them, anyway. Usually she leaves them out in the chicken house for several days so that they can get properly…seasoned. Then we lose several of the eggs to Ralphie. He's the cat (but don't tell him that--he's convinced he's actually a benevolent dictator). But every morning Ralphie is there, squeaking away whenever an egg appears. He can identify eggs in ...
Ten Gluten Free Cold Lunch Ideas for Work, Airplanes, School, and Anything Else
Between wishing I could just sleep a little bit and wishing the whole ordeal would be over, it hit me: Airplane food is really, really bad. Especially gluten-free airplane food. Airports are no better. Besides coffee, it's hard to find anything decent that is also gluten-free and not full of disgusting ingredients that would make your stomach wish it never existed. Since I'm not exactly what you'd call a "working professional" it took me a little while after my airplane realization to realize ...
Gluten Free Waffle Sandwich
Make this delicious waffle sandwich for a quick lunch! All you need is sandwich filling ingredients and some waffles leftover from breakfast. I've left winter behind me. Not to brag or anything, but right now I'm looking over a view of pristine ocean and miles of green mountains. 7,000 miles from home (according to my geographic calculations, which aren't great). But I'm several thousand miles from home, I think. In the beautiful, glorious green of New Zealand. All I know is, I'm a ...
Quick Lunch: Tortilla Pizza
In this quick and easy tortilla pizza recipe, you just sprinkle on some toppings and cook. How does gluten free pizza in under 30 minutes sound? There are wars at our house. I like to think of them as tortilla pizza wars (we also have pan wars, bread wars, dish wars, cleaning wars, kindle wars, and lately a rather worrisome cardboard war, but currently I'm just talking about the pizza wars). Pizza Wars involve a great deal of fighting, secrecy, hiding, shady deals, and sometimes fire ...
Balsamic Molasses Marinated Skirt/Flap/Blade/Flank Steak
I would like to make a confession. I am an amateur. At what, you ask? Well, pretty much at everything, life included/especially. But I’m referring specifically to the fact that I’m an amateur when it comes to cooking meat. Confession #2: I have never, ever even cooked a steak until today. Which is sort of embarrassing, since I do live on a cattle ranch. My family produces beef. I remember one time we were at a friend’s house, and they were wanting to fry a steak. They ...
Yam Salad
Okay, I just need to let you know before we get started: This could very well be a sweet potato salad instead of a yam salad. My sisters and I have been arguing about yams vs. sweet potatoes for a long time now. I looked it up on the internet but there were varying definitions, so I’m still not completely certain which is which. It’s a sad world when you don’t know the difference between a yam and a sweet potato. I’m of the opinion that yams are orange and sweet potatoes are ...
Chuck Roasts
My family once had this weird discussion starting with “If you had been starving for two weeks on a desert island, and you were finally rescued, what would you most want to eat?” Nobody really said much about sweet desserts or chocolate. Most of the responses included “good thick bread with butter” and “very creamy mashed potatoes.” All responses included some kind of meat. I mean, we grow beef for a living. Of course we’re going to eat it. A high number of the responses included a ...
A Week of Eating Gluten Free
So recently I’ve had a bunch of people asking me what we eat for meals. I didn’t really think about it before, since usually breads and pancakes and desserts are what people miss, but really it is hard to make good, healthy gluten-free main dishes. Cooking used to be so much easier, right? On nights you didn’t feel like it, you could just make some mac and cheese or hamburgers or go out to dinner. Now you can’t do that anymore. So anyway, last Wednesday I decided to take a week to track ...
Breakfast Pizza
I’m really excited to give you this new recipe for gluten free breakfast pizza.. I’d thought that I had exhausted the breakfast possibilities, but really breakfast can be much more interesting than just eggs and pancakes. You can have pizza for breakfast. Honestly, what could be better? I was delighted with the flavor of this pizza. I’m usually not big on cooked eggs (I hate keesh), but the spinach, yeasty dough, and cheese toned the eggs down and made them delicious. The ...
Gluten-Free Stuffing
This is my Mom's recipe for stuffing (and I think it's absolutely delicious). She's made it every thanksgiving for a long time. (And if anybody's wondering why this is in the main dishes section, you ought to know that for me stuffing is a main dish. The pilgrims might not have had it but they darn well should've!) NOTE: For store-bought gluten-free bread, you can use pretty much anything. We actually have ended up using Ener-G's gluten free bread, and if you ask me that stuff is nasty. ...
Pizza Crust (no bread-maker used)
Since my bread-maker is officially a goner, I had to make pizza crust without a bread-maker (*looks shocked*). I had to make pizza crust because it was my sister's birthday and they ALWAYS ask for pizza. I'm not kidding. Always. A little originality here, please? Whatever. I don't have anything against pizza. Just the work. And time and time again I've attempted to enslave my little siblings to help, but since they happen to hate grating cheese and cutting up toppings, well...Yeah. It's ...
Grain Free, Dairy Free Pizza
I made this pizza and the Grain Free Cheesecake for my sister's eighteenth birthday. My Mom doesn't eat dairy, and my Dad doesn't eat grains or sugar, so it doesn't have anything in it. Since I couldn't find a recipe for a grain free yeast pizza crust online, I made my own. It rose really well and resulted in a great meal. Note: Cook this pizza crust slightly longer than you would cook your average pizza crust; the almond flour takes some time to cook through all the way. Note 2: ...
Bread Maker Pizza Crust
Gluten Free Pizza The usual birthday meal demands at our house involve lots of gluten free pizza. Since we don’t have pizza often (it’s a lot of work no matter how easy to you make it), it’s always a treat. This recipe should make it as easy and fast as possible, since all the kneading is done in your bread maker! This recipe makes 2 large pizzas. Since I’m cooking for a family of nine, I usually double the recipe! Wet Ingredients 3 large eggs 1/2 cup olive or grapeseed oil 1 cup milk 1/2 ...
Stacked Potatoes
This was an experimental idea I came up with about three years ago. It is a great gourmet potato with lots of seasonings. We sometimes call these 'Diced, Sliced, and Grated Potatoes'. This recipe is set up to serve 8. You can use whole rosemary leaves, but then keep the saucepan on the burner for longer until the rosemary leaves are softened. Ingredients 6 medium sized red or white potatoes 1 tablespoon ground rosemary 1 tablespoon rubbed sage 1 teaspoon thyme ¼ ...
Moist Pizza Crust
If you want a seasoned pizza crust, add 2 ¼ teaspoons pizza seasoning to the dry ingredients. You have a choice between a thick crust and a thin crust. If you want a thin crust, use by 12” pans. If you would rather a thick crust, use 16 by 12” pans. Dry ingredients 2 ¾ cups rice flour 1 ¾ cups tapioca flour, plus two tablespoons 3 teaspoons xanthan gum 4 ½ tablespoons dry milk powder 1 ½ teaspoons salt yeast mix ½ cup sugar 1 ½ tablespoons yeast 2 ¼ cups warm water wet ingredients 6 ...