Gluten Free Recipes

Flax seed meal should be stored in frig or freezer. Use to add fiber in just about everything. Add a teaspoon to a tablespoon to each cup of flour in waffles, muffins, cupcakes, breads, pancakes, sauces. A little in everthing does better than abunch in just one thing UNLESS you are using it medicinally or as an egg replacer. For fresh fruit instead of frozen, just reduce the liquid in the recipe a little bit. and use the same amount of fruit it calls for in the recipe. If the recipe calls for dried fruit and you want to use fresh, then reduce the liquid by half or more depending on how juicy your fruit is. When baking I often use oil instead of margarine, the best oil I have found with a neutral flavor is sunflower oil. This works well except in cookies, for them I use fleishman's unsalted or shortning. I use a lot of olive oil and nut oils and avocado oil in skillet and cold recipes (extra virgin). I use Smart Balance shortning in my fryer. Children need LOTS OF FAT in their diet to properly develop their brain tissue and canola is not one of the best. Use a balance of several oils in the diet including flax seed oil, sunflower, olive, and even some animal fats. flax seed meal is a good way to get flax oil into the diet or keep some oil in the frig and sprinkle on salad or on food after cooking. Also use cod liver oil from Kirkman's. This we mix into ketchup with a fork and serve with french fries. Pizza - we just lately have ordered Tofutti's cheese at our local HFS and it is great! Not like a real real cheese but just as good as a processed cheese, we got American, Roasted Garlic and Mozzerella and it melts on pizza! So get your grocery or HFS to order it for you. Otherwise what we did before was do without it at all. We did pizza with sauce and hormel turkey pepperoni on it. A quick pizza fix is this, take bread and toast it, or tortilla chips and put sauce, cheese and a pepperoni slice on it then warm in microwave. For frozen mini pizzas make a bunch of crusts, freeze them overnight, then put toppings and sauce on them, lay on cookie sheets in the freezer until frozen and then individually wrap and store in freezer. Bake like usual without first thawing. Another good hiding place for zuchini is pasta with sauce. I use a grater to grate long strings of fresh zuchini into a bowl then add cooked pasta and sauce. He thinks it is just more pasta! I can use almost half and half now. Angela