Gluten Free Recipes

Favorites in the Huy Household:


Chocolate Chip Muffins


Graham Crackers

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Chip Cookies - NOTE: if you choose not to use their flour blend recipe, you need to add Xanthan gum!

Pound Cake - Simple and good!

Vanilla Cake

Thankful Thursday – Years End

 

 

This year I had the goal of “living.”  There were a lot of times when I was stuck at home with sick kids, but the veil had lifted and I was free to be who I am.

The thing that I am thankful for today is that I can look back on this year with no regrets and can truly say that I did LIVE life this year, with abandon and to it’s fullest. 

There were a lot of lessons learned and a lot of sweet memories.  I went to Canada and Guatemala and rode in a hot air balloon this year.  I survived kids with chicken pox and the measles!

Goodbye 2009, and welcome to 2010 – the year I will turn 30 and will birth my 6th child.  My 2nd darling little girl!

 

January

February

 

March

 
Vancouver, Canada

 

April

 
Easter

 

May

 

Hot air balloon ride!

 

June

Camping in Yucaipa

 

July

Mission Trip to Guatemala

August

VBS Local Outreach

 

September

 Grandpa’s 70th Birthday

 

October

San Diego Zoo Trip 

 

November

Thanksgiving

 

December

Christmas

 

Wordless Wednesday

 

Toolbox Tuesday – Fit & Fresh Portable Drink Mixer

 Things that make my life easier.

Fit & Fresh Portable Drink Mixer

I love, love love my supplement mixer!  I mix a lot of supplements into juice, rice milk and tea and I love how this thing mixes so quick and easy with no yucky lumps left behind.

I’ve had mine for about 2 years and it might be time for a new one, but so far it is working ok still. 

There are many versions of these mini mixers and some that come with different attachments.  For my supplement mixing purposes, this one works just fine.

Just thought I’d share this nifty gadget I found that has been super helpful in our autism journey.

 

 

Spinning Plates or Spinning Wheels?

We’re at the new year turning point again.  The point where I take stock in where we are at and get busy making a plan for next year. 

Things aren’t all peaches and cream around here although they are going very well.

Nathan is having a hard time right now.  Well, some of the time.  Some of the time he is doing very well.  He suddenly learned to hold a pencil correctly and he has been tracing letters and doing mazes and dot to dots and addition and counting and circling the numbers ALL on his own and ALL for fun.  That is new and that is very good.  That and the fact that when I finally decide to teach him to read he’ll already know how because he’s doing that too.

He’s struggling in other areas.  Transitions, frustrations with people misunderstanding him and his lack of ability to express what he is trying to get across.  He is very short fused.  He is not willing to work it out and will burst into tears crying.  His speech is airy and slow and almost stuttery.  He has unusual voice inflection and is often monotone.

It’s time to get busy again.  He has been off supplements and medication and we no longer have a DAN doctor.  He was doing super well and then we dropped everything and now we are slipping back into things that I remember from a year or two ago.

Sometimes I get so frustrated that if I don’t keep the plates spinning people falter. 

 

Timothy is on a protocol from the DAN also and when I keep up my part, he is even and nice and pleasant. And when he is like that I feel terrible that he may have had the opportunity to be that way his entire life if only I had known what he needed.  How was I to know that his chemicals were off and he is prone to depression, anxiety and droopiness? 

How was I to know that with some support he could act like a human being?!

But when I let things slip, people slip and slide and our household goes into disarray and then these poor kids get in trouble because their bodies get them into such a state that they can’t cope with the world around them.

I guess I’m just thinking about the new year and what it holds and what I want to focus on and these two boys definitely have to be up there on the list.

And that is not to mention the daughter that has begun to twitch again, a mystery that I am still trying to figure out.  Last time it was solved by going on vacation with Grandma and taking specific supplements twice a day…

Does that mean I am supposed to start packing her suitcase????

 

 

Things are good.  I just gotta focus and think and pray. We have mountains of things to be thankful for and mountains of victories behind us.

 

      But those who wait on the LORD
      Shall renew their strength;
      They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
      They shall run and not be weary,
      They shall walk and not faint.

 

Recent Postings

You can find me lately over at our home school blog.

And Katie Ann just posted about her birthday and how to make an American Girl Doll bed.

 

 

 

 

Need Ideas!

Alright, I need your help.  I am taking a Holistic Nutrition class and I need ideas for my project.

The assignment is to take meals from 3 categories like a soup, a casserole and a stir fry and compare and contrast 3 different options. The 3 different things I have to compare/contrast are conventionally processed foods, a more natural type and a whole foods - homemade from scratch type.  I can’t use anything packaged or canned for the whole food option.

 

I think for sure I am going to do bread:

1. Wonder bread
2. 100% Whole Wheat Bread (packaged)
3. Homemade Bread

I was so excited when I read that packaged whole wheat bread contains an ingredient called azodicarbonamide that is banned in the UK, most European countries and Australia.  Apparently, it is used in the production of foamed plastics and not really a good thing to eat.

From my assignment point of view, I need the stuff to have something bad in it so that I have material to write about! 

I’ve thought about a chicken noodle soup or a stir fry.  The best would be a frozen pizza, but do I really want to talk about hand making dough and tomato sauce and everything? I don’t know!

I also have to talk about the health problems or  diseases that may come from eating the ingredients and also the feelings and experience of preparing each one.

Got any good ideas??

 

Saturday Baking

I’ve been baking a lot this pregnancy.  It started with brownies and cakes because I was craving those in my first trimester and being GFCF, I couldn’t just go buy them.

I took a slight break through the fall, but since Thanksgiving hit, I’ve been back at it again!

It also has a lot to do with the fact that Maury loves to cook with me and the best way to keep him entertained is to be in the kitchen!

Today we made Gingersnap Cookies with Lemon Meringue filling. I found this recipe in a Sunset magazine and substituted the flour, added xanthan gum and we were all set!

I think if I ever made these again, I’d run the blender for another 10 min and get a stiffer meringue for the center.  Either that or just use frosting, they would be super good with frosting. 

They’re great now, just a little too messy. This is as much as Maury ate them, he didn’t like how all the filling ended up just squishing out. 

Nathan had other methods.

I take that back, I just went and checked them again and the meringue as set some and they are not all squishy crazy anymore. They’re quite nice.

Did I ever tell you about the Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes with Meringue frosting that I made the day after Thanksgiving?  They were YUMMY!

 

 

GFCF Oatmeal Gingerbread Cookies

 

Oatmeal Gingerbread Cookies

Dry Ingredients

1 cup sorghum flour

1 cup brown & white rice flour mixed

3/4 cup potato flour

1/4 cup tapioca flour

1 1/2 cup gluten free oats (Bob’s Red Mill)

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. ginger

1/2 tsp. nutmeg

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

3 tsp. xanthan gum

 

Wet Ingredients

1 cup shortening or Earth Balance soy-free margarine

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup molasses

1 egg

 

Mix together dry ingredients and set aside.

Soften shortening or margarine (we used a 1/2 cup of each) and beat together with sugar until creamy. Add molasses and egg and beat well.  Slowly add flour mixture, mix well.

Cover and chill for about 30 min.

Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Roll out dough on floured surface about 1/4 inch thick. Cut with cookie cutters and transfer to ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on wire rack.

 

Frosting:

2 cups icing

1/2 cup rice milk or water

Measure icing into small bowl and gradually add milk and stir until desired thickness. Spread on fully cooled cookies and decorate with gfcf sprinkles, chocolate chips or whatever you would like.

Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

A Wee Huy Thanksgiving - GFCFSF

In case you don’t know, our last name Huy, is pronounced “wee.” 

Our Thanksgiving was very unusual this year due to the measles.  My mom cooked the whole dinner, GFCFSF mind you, and then brought it to our house.  Good thing we live a house away from each other! 

After our meal and clean up, she went home to cook another thanksgiving meal for my sister and her family who has little ones who have not had the MMR.  My brother and my sister in law were real troupers and followed the Thanksgiving meal trail from house to house! ;)

It was an odd day, but it was fun too. A sort of adventure to see if we could actually pull it off. :)

 

I used a sorghum, rice, potato, and tapioca flour mixture for the pie crusts this year and they turned out much better. Someday I’ll get recipes up here… someday.

 

These sweet potatoes were not very photogenic, but they tasted wonderful! They had the kosher marshmallows on them that are dye free.

 

The stuffing was made with Kinnikinnick rice bread.  Timothy tried it for the first time this year because he found out that stuffing is just stuffed in the turkey for flavor and is not in fact, turkey innards.

 

Good ole marshmallow salad.  They sell mini marshmallows in the brand, but they didn’t have any so Katie Ann cut them by hand! :)

 

Katie Ann colored our centerpiece for us.

 

That was our 2009 GFCFSF Thanksgiving meal! :)