Muckies

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

Rice Cake Sandwiches

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:

Lemonade Scones

Scones dusted with cocoa
Originally uploaded by tiny_teesha

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! :)

Anchovie maltese gluten free pizza

Anchovie maltese gluten free pizza
Originally uploaded by tiny_teesha

Maltese pizza has olives, potato, spinach and anchovies on it.
they are pretty lazy poor fellas, the maltese (as myself)

So! The gluten free dairy free base was from a box mix. :) ( i think)

Salmon and rice

Salmon and rice
Originally uploaded by tiny_teesha

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.

Best Of - Awards

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”

Diagnosis

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!