My sister got a Danish Pancake maker for Christmas so i put it to good use!
These were tasty! I just followed the recipe on the instructions of the machine but subbed the flour for my gf flour mix or rice flour.
It was fun and interesting to cook!
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I bought the meringues ready made, they are around Christmas time.
You could fill it with fresh berries and dust with icing sugar too. Or:
I put a spoon of some sorbet i bought from the shops and sprinkled with shredded coconut and chocolate syrup (gluten dairy free kind, i recall the bottle costing 8 bucks but there are many cheaper alternatives that taste quite as good)
Or for some ice magic action melt some cooking chocolate and pour on top!
This combines 2 recipes!
Chocolate nest.
and Naughty Custard!
Naughty Chocolate Custard
In a small saucepan add orgran custard power (2tbsp) and 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp chocolate powder ( i use cadbury's drinking chocolate which has trace amounts of dairy), and rice milk to make paste. Heat. Keep adding milk till it’s about half full gradually. Add 8 (or 2 rows) large cubes homebrand dark compounded cooking chocolate. Then when it starts to thicken, KEEP STIRRING. When it’s nearly done, turn off. It should randomly turn dark and chicken poo consistency. Then add the splash of cream de cocoa baitz spirits and mix ahoy! (if you add a lot it doesn’t develop a skin!)
Sprinkle with vanilla dust, mini kiss sprinkles, 100s and 1000s or icing sugar.
It starts randomly and quickly getting darker and thicker, mix faster, take off heat when a good consistency.
For the adults? Add a splash of :
BAITZ CREME DE CACAO
www.liquorhomedelivery.com.au/showProduct/LIQUOR/LIQUEURS...
nest
roast shredded coconut.
Add melted chocolate, peanut butter to it. Mix. arrange in a nest shape and add a chocolate egg ( these weren't dairy free so i picked them off and gave them to my boyfriend.)
rice cake crumbled, coconut...
peanut butter and chocolate melted
mix
top with GFCF coloured chips!
Almonds, Peanuts, Coconut and Chocolate.
Melt with one of above. Pour in mold (i used heart shape silicone ice cube trays)
set in freezer or fridge.
16 9 10
Rice sheets set in hot water, then wrapped
stuffing is carrot, lettuce, ham, cucumber
dip is peanut butter mixed with soy sauce.
One is nice, i personally can't handle these flavours they make me feel sick. I'm weird i know. If it isn't sweet, i feel sick (weird eh?)
This is not sweet.
Sweet Apple Sago
½ cup sago
500ml Rice milk
1 apple
Cinnamon
2tbsp brown sugar
Water
3tbsp white sugar
¼ c sultanas
Soak sago in milk for over an hour.
Cube the apple and add a dash of water and brown sugar and some cinnamon and simmer for about 20 minutes.
Boil and simmer sago for 15 minutes.
Add sultanas, almonds, sugar and applesauce at any stage of this. For softer almonds add them early.
Pour in a container and chill in fridge.
Decorate top with slices of apple and almonds in a formation in the centre, if you like.
I made these with peanut butter, dairy gluten free chocolate, and some gluten free noodles.
They were tastier than the dairy and gluten kind i made for my family and bf.
I drank it with green rose tea.
When a Muffin gets friendly with a cookie, you get a Muckie!
They came out slightly dry and quite a rough texture and a unique taste...and the measurements are approximate. I'll have to test it out again one day to perfect it and add some moisture content to it!
½ cup margarine
¾ cup sugar
½ cup hazelnut meal (roughly, add to texture)
2 tbsp cocoa
3 eggs
1 tbsp Vanilla essence
1/3 cup rice flour
¼ cup choc chips or raisins
Sprinkling of GFCF coloured choc drops/kisses
1 tsp baking soda (optional)-ew taste!
Icing sugar to dust on afterward.
Blend with a blender until combined.
Top with coloured sprinkles.
Bake for 15 minutes on 150 degrees.
Once cool dust with icing sugar
My favourite toppings for Rice Cakes!
Scroll below for recipes.
I've tried all the rice cakes there are, and truth be told...these are the ones I can eat and love and their uses. I choose 3.5 main ones. I don't brand favourite, what eve is cheapest or on sale usually.
For sweet toppings nothing beats plain boring rice cakes, or the apple and cinnamon new ones out!
I prefer the thin ones myself, i find them easier to fit in my tiny mouth and the crumble factor is less annoying.
For savory toppings the Tomato and Basil tops the charts. I'm sure the cheesy ones are better, but i cannot eat these unfortunately.
BUT, if what you are eating is salty or otherwise flavoured, or you don't feel like salt (the tomato and basil are quite salty!) then the best way to go is good old corn cakes!
I used to eat the rice AND corn cakes, only because corn tastes so great, and i had an allergic reaction to corn. For now that reaction has seemed to dissipate so I'm with the full corn, but the half half is a good compromise. I get an irritatingly burning itchy sensation in my mouth, tongue and throat for a good 2 hours. Now saying that i still will not dare touch polenta or chorizo sausage (that gave me a really scary, painful intense reaction).
What to put on top, you ask?!
Praise 97% fat free Mayo, with Tuna in old, or John West Pink Salmon, green Olives or kalmata olives, splash of lemon juice, Avocado, Mushrooms, Perino Tomatoes and some Spinach/rocket/mixed salad/alfalfa= DELISH! Anything you like really.
Mayo is sweet, I'm a sweet tooth. I love mayo with fish! I love lettuce!
Tip? I find if my topping is wet to use a lettuce leaf both below and on top, this stops the cracker from getting too soggy and falling to pieces and the top ones keep my fingers dry!
Opening a tin, splashing on some fresh vegetables, and squeezing a tube is my idea of a great, quick, healthy meal!
Alternatively you could use ham. I personally dislike it and am not in the mood for it 95% of the time. You can use chicken too, bacon, etc. My other alternative is egg. I love egg because it contains so many health benefits, i don't let the cholesterol scare me away. A, D, E, Iodine, Phosphorus, protein, lutein, glutamine and much more.
Want more of a quick snak? Rice crackers! Pick up some tomato and Basil Sakatas (my favourite flavour- they have kick according to me) and try some "yumi" Dips, my favourite is the olive (and mayo). Or try making your own dips! (I'm yet to try this, guacomole, hommus with tofutto cream cheese, or plain toffutu cream cheese, perhaps with grated frozen soy cheese for another kick!)
Tip: If you freeze soy cheese you can GRATE it! I was so excited when i discovered this!Now for actual Recipes! Scroll Below:
CORN:
BASIL and TOMATO:
Oysters in oil, black olives, lettuce, mayo and a normal rice cake. The mayo makes it. Praise 97% fat free is GFCF.
RICE AND CORN:
300 "has no" self raising flour from aldi (i added more flour later, i didn't measure)
55g castor sugar
1/4c belite margarine (GFCF)
40ml Rice or Almond milk
1/4c lemonade
1/4 c sultanas
preheat to 220. Grease tray. Mix ingredients. Knead. Roll them into balls or roll them out to 2cm and use a cutter. Brush tops with rice milk (optional), sprinkle sugar or cadbury's drinking chocolate on top. Cook for about 20 minutes or until golden.
They taste DEVINE, the lemonade really adds something and the butter and really soft and light texture of the flour makes it seem all melt-in-your-mouth-ish. DEVINE!!!!
Eat fresh from the oven! Makes about 20 small scones or 10 large fluffy ones!
Finally a recipe i did not screw up!
Now, a few days later they are STONES!!! Maybe half this batch and only eat it fresh alternatively...
TIP! i find success in literally holding it under a running tap and saturating it. Then zapping it in the microwave for about 20 odd seconds. It soaks up the water and leaves it slightly moist once more! :)
Just realised a lot of what i bake isn't in fact savory. I'm a bad person...
Grill salmon, serve on bed of spinach leaves with some rice and sun dried tomatoes with parsley and a good squeeze of lemon.
Flours:
YUM-bland
Arrowroot
Tapioca Flour
Glutinous Rice Flour
White Rice Powder/Flour
Potato Starch
Samo/Moraiyo
Tolerable but still pretty bad aftertaste
Sorghum
Red Sorghum
Buckwheat
Corn Starch
Corn Flour
Sago Flour
Teff
Soya Flour
Finger Millet
Ew
Green Bean
Chickpea
Amaranth/Rajgaro
Millet
YUCK NEVER AGAIN
Tapioca Starch
Lentil Flour
Water Chestnut/Singhara
Chocolate- Pink Lady Dark Chocolate
Runner up- Nobel Choice Mint Chocolate Bar.
Others- Sweet Williams rice pop is ok, but pretty boring tasting. Though does resemble the milk chocolate taste if you like that. Homebrand Dark Cooking Chocolate Compounded is best for cooking.
Bread Mix- I am so confused with these they all taste decent but are awful in texture if not fresh from the oven.
Laukes Easy Baker White gluten free flour. (I add almond meal so it tastes even better!)
The real bread...Aldi Has no...bread mix.
Orgran bread mix...
Naughty Indulgence -Melinda's heavenly chocolate fudge brownies (nothing will beat this)
Runner up - Leda - Rum Balls/Rowies chewy cookies (depends what I'm feeling up to. Usually the cookies, they are dry but beautifully creamy tasting even though that's an oxymoron. The rum balls are moist however)
Savory Snak- SAKATA balsamic tomato and basil
Runner up- CCs corn chips with dorrito dip
Others- Thin Rice cakes tomato and basil, Arnott's Corn Crisps are nice but corn irritates my mouth. (not any more....so corn thins are lovely). Snakata bbq.
Breakfast- Cookie Bitez
Runner Up- Orgran Buckwheat pancake mix (add sugar and etc)/freefrom pancake mix,
Other- Lowan “Cocoa bombs”
Naughty snak- Almond bread
Runner up - Choculence (it's worth the buy but not HEAVENLY)
Runner up- Freefrom “Choc Crunch cookies”
I just watched Julie and Julia last night and I sat here thinking... I should do that! I should start a food blog!
So i have.
As a wog, I love my food, but at the end of last year I began to find that every thing I ate made me sick. "Surely it wasn't EVERYTHING that was making me sick, rather just something was wrong with me, not the food" I thought. So I got it checked out after it persisted over 2 weeks, to find the cure so I could go back to feeling well again. After MONTHS of nothing changing, visiting the doctors regularly who kept saying I was fine, and dozens of long and annoying and painful tests (I have a fear of needles which cause me to freak out like a deranged child; crying and fainting)...They found out what was wrong... I had IBS...Non treatable. And what triggers symptoms? Oh, only most food groups... (the yummy ones)
Dairy
Gluten
Fructose
Along with select other food items I am allergic to or also trigger an attack, such as seeds, large amounts of soy, and corn. Doesn't sound like a lot of food, but nearly every product on the shelves contain wheat or some gluten derivative, and if it doesn't...it contains dairy or some derivative, and if it DOESN'T contain that, there has got to be some vegetable or fruit matter in there somewhere. Which is fructose for those playing at home. So what does that leave that I can eat as much as I want?
Meat/Fish/Poultry etc Eggs Rice Herbs Nuts That's it.
Fat protein and Carbs. And like most women I'm attempting to be healthy (at least some of the time) and lose that spare tire, but how can I on that diet?! I didn't feel healthy on it either, I felt blah! Long sigh later, a few tantrums, and crying until the wee hours of the morning I've more or less accepted it. After being on a bland diet of literally just rice and meat for 6 months and feeling just like what i ate (a rice bag stuffed with meat) I finally got off my bum and decided to write a cook book (for myself, not to be marketed) full of foods and brands I enjoyed, trying new things...etc which didn't make me sick.
Gluten free cooking is hard, because it either tastes funky, or falls to pieces (gluten keeps things elastic and together). I was forced to be creative. And I recently decided to include more fructose, just within reason, as it gives me the less hassle of the 3 "bad" foods, for me, but is necessary for health. I love me food to LOOK good, and to taste good! And a bonus if it reminds me of "actual food" or tastes just as good or if not better that the real thing!
I believe that cakes should be UNHEALTHY, so I don't mind using copious amounts of butter and such. But I should only consume these once a week. Bread however, as such a staple, should be jam packed with healthy nutrients!
I prefer rolls over bread because the crust helps hold it together and moisture in!
Happy Baking!
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Olive bread (savory)
Basic seed bread
chocolate sweet bread rolls!
Gluten dairy free of course
chia seeds high in many nutrients and omega 3
cashews, almond meal
flax seeds
sunflower
poppy
sesame
Beat egg whites until stiff, whisk in almond meal. Plop on a greased tray and bake.
DELISH!
served on a gluten dairy free bun, i bought these, for 4 crumbly rolls it cost $8!!!
Rissoles
Bacon, mince, parsely, olives (green are intense too!) garlic, egg. Tomatoe sauce, rice flour coating, season. Fry. Really self explanatory.
orgran buckwheat pancake mix!
i put cocoa and chocolate syrup in one batch, and almond and vanilla syrup in the other.
Put any topping on it,
100s and 1000s
chocolate sprinkles
sunflower seeds
peanuts
pecans
etc
trailing sauces.
Margarine and maple syrup worked the best.
Olive bread (savory)
Basic seed bread
chocolate sweet bread rolls!
Gluten dairy free of course
chia seeds high in many nutrients and omega 3
cashews, almond meal
flax seeds
sunflower
poppy
sesame
i Got this recipe from a book. Yum. Tasted a bit like pop tarts.
Yum
Papadum in an indian bread. It is more like a cracker. It is gluten free (check packet or make some yourself!)
Fill in some microwaved papadums for a change from boring rice cakes!
Or use corn crisps!
roast shredded coconut
melt chocolate with peanut butter and mix in coconut
top with 100s and 1000s!
Make lemonade!
I decided not to sulk and make an assortment of things and freeze half, for when i can't be bothered cooking. And i made many things! An almond loaf. Muffins. A cinnamon loaf and Miranda's chocolate brownies!
