Thanksgiving dinner
My son was coming to visit, he has celiac disease and I wanted to make something special so I found my favourite gluten free pastry recipe, filled the pie with sliced Fuji apples and my own mincemeat made from spartan home grown apples and green tomatoes!
My daughters boyfriend who is vegetarian rated it 10/10. I was very pleased with the results, maybe not be best choice if you have diabetes but using local ingredients mad me proud.
Category: Gluten Free Recipes
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Gluten Free Apple Mincemeat Pie
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Gluten Free Soups
On the coast, it’s a great idea to make your own soups from scratch, choose the ingredients that are added, and adjust the salt with a variety of vegetables and herbs.
I’m looking for a soup that is dehydrated, easy to prepare, high in salt to maintain sodium levels for an athlete who is competing in the upcoming Tougher Mudder, an 8 hour overnight, 50 mile race in Los Angeles
He wanted a gluten free chicken noodle soup. Haven’t been able to come up with this… but there are a few alternatives, only the chicken bouillon cubes are available dehydrated, so far in my search.
Not that anyone else on the coast is crazy enough to do this race but see the best choices that I found:
GoBIO Organic Chicken Bouillon Cubes with 451 mg sodium per cup
and Campbells Herb Chicken & Rice with 770mg sodium per cup!
Please note I’m attempting to find high sodium (salt) soups!
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Sugar Free Gluten Free Trifle
For those of you that complain about not enjoying your favourite foods because you have diabetes or are celiac, I prove you wrong. My challenge for this christmas was to make a gluten free sponge cake and a sugar free trifle. Yes I cheated a bit and forgot to substitute the sugar with truvia, my favourite stevia based sugar substitite, in the gluten free sponge (the cake actually didn’t look great, fell after baking but this didn’t affect the flavour of the trifle), but was a purist for the rest of the recipe, choosing sugar free raspberry jello, homegrown blackberries, birds eye custard made with truvia and whipping cream with a bit of truvia in it. It was decorated with home grown kiwi fruit, that are ripening fast. Oh, forgot to mention the sherry, yes I added a small amount.
It really was the best trifle that I’ve ever made, and this our traditional dessert for Christmas. It was not low in calories but we had a large group to fed so portion size made up for this. Just want to make this clear, you can still enjoy some of your favourite foods without too much difficulty and they can still taste delicious! Don’t ask me to post the calories-the yield for this recipe was 12 servings.