Black Bean Quinoa Burgers

Yes, I'm on a quinoa kick. I had some leftover red quinoa pilaf and really wanted to try another quinoa burger recipe - a black bean one I found here. So I threw the leftover quinoa into the food processor with a few other ingredients, and presto - DH gets something other than a salad for dinner! Yes, I've been tired lately and not cooking much. Hopefully DH will like these quinoa burgers

Crock Pot Chicken with Quinoa

I tried red quinoa for the first time today. It's interesting...it has a nutty taste, and the texture is firmer than plain quinoa. This makes it a good candidate for a crock pot dish. You can use either plain quinoa or red quinoa in this dish - either one will taste great. I feel like jumping up and down about this recipe - it's easy and fast, and for such a simple dish it's really yummy.

Quinoa Veggie Burgers

While searching for ways to use quinoa (because it's awesome and I love it), I came across this recipe for Quinoa Burgers at Enlightened Cooking. Hello, Yum! I only tinkered with the recipe a little bit. It's awesome. It is really, really good. I've always loved veggie burgers, but try finding the ones at the grocery store that are not made with soy! Impossible! These are super easy to

My Mom's Carrot Bread

This is one of my mom's recipes. It's old and tattered now. I copied it years ago from one of her old and tattered recipe cards. Even after making it GFCF friendly, it remains my favorite carrot bread recipe. This makes two loaves of bread - I always freeze one of them to enjoy later.4 eggs 1 1/2 cups sugar 3/4 cup canola oil1/2 cup applesauce 3 cups GF flour blend (I used this one) 2 tsp.

Cinnamon Raisin Bread

This bread smells amazing while it bakes and it makes really excellent toast for breakfast. It'd make good french toast, too!2 3/4 cups GF flour blend (I used this one)3 tbsp. sugar2 tsp. xanthan gum1 tsp. salt1 tsp. cinnamon1 cup warm rice milk3 tbsp. melted ghee or canola oil1 tsp. sugar2 tsp. yeast2 beaten eggs1/2 cup raisins1/4 cup walnut meal, if desiredFor the bread machine:Sift together

Fresh Berry Cobbler

The other day DH came home with a large container of strawberries. What better excuse than to make a strawberry cobbler? I threw in a pint of blueberries and the color of the baked fruit was a beautiful deep purple-red. It tasted as good as it looked! Fruit-based desserts like this are my favorite - even better than chocolate.

Berry Filling
4 - 5 cups fresh strawberries, or enough to fill an

Chocolate Ice Cream

Just a few ingredients come together to make this chocolate dairy-free, soy-free ice cream super fast, super easy and super yummy. Sorry the picture is not so great, but it's what I could do before the ice cream disappeared altogether.(With Hot Fudge Sauce, ooo la la!)2 cans coconut milk1/3 - 1/2 cup sugar3/4 cup semisweet or bittersweet chocolate morsels1 tsp. vanilla extractPlace 1 can coconut

Lamb Kofta Meatballs

These are good served with the apricot dipping sauce for Chicken Kofta. The original recipe for the lamb kofta can be found here.1 1/2 pounds ground lamb2 eggs, lightly beaten1/2 cup finely diced red onion3 cloves minced garlic1/4 cup fresh minced parsley1/2 cup gluten free breadcrumbs2 tsp. ground cumin1/2 tsp. cinnamon1/2 tsp. pepper1/2 tsp. salt1/4 tsp. allspicePreheat oven to 350 degrees.

Chicken Soup with Dumplings

Yesterday I made a 4 pound, plain, no-fuss Crock Pot Chicken. It turned into Chicken Salad for the girls, Chicken Shawerma for DH and me, and the leftovers made Chicken Soup today. I am feeling under the weather today and there's nothing like chicken soup with dumplings to beat the under-the-weather-blues. I just got The Gluten Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Healthy and decided to try her

Shawerma Dressing

There is a mediterranean grill in town that makes a most excellent chicken shawerma. A shawerma is meat slow-roasted on a skewer. Pieces of cooked meat (chicken, beef or lamb) are sliced off with a sharp knife and served with pickles, tomatoes and a garlic dressing. A shawerma sandwich is the meat all wrapped up in a pita with pickles, lettuce and tomatoes and the dip is served on the side.

French Onion Soup

I really like French Onion Soup - it's so easy to make and a good soup for when you are feeling under the weather (Megan can attest to this - she's getting over pneumonia and scarfed this soup up - I nearly fell over!). I used homemade beef stock for the soup I made last night and needed to add about an extra 1/2 tsp. pepper and 3/4 tsp. salt to the soup since my broth was low-salt. It also