Betty Crockers Gluten Free Mixes!!!!!

I was so excited when I heard that Betty Crocker had come out with a line of Gluten Free Mixes. I bought them this week and I hope to try them out soon. I will let you all know how they hold up. I am hoping that the chocolate cake mix will work for homemade Oreo cookies. Once I test them out I will post the recipe.

Curry Chicken Pot Pie

This recipe comes from Alton Brown on the food network but I cut it in half and changed some of the ingredients to make it more Gluten Free Friendly. This recipe would also make a yummy curry if you double-to-triple the amount curry powder and serve over rice instead of baking in the oven with crust.

2 C frozen vegetable mix
1T oil
1 1/2 T butter
1/2 C celery chopped
1/2 onion chopped
3/4 C ck broth
1/4 C milk
1 1/2 T Rice flour
1 t curry powder
1 T dried parsley
3/4 C Potatoes chopped up small
1/2 t salt
1/4 t pepper
1 C cooked chicken
1 GF biscuit mix or pie crust of your choice (I like Bette Hagman's biscuit mix recipe or dream pastry crust recipe, but if you want something easier, buy the Gluten free pantry's Quiche mix and one of the options on the back is to make buttermilk biscuits.***If you don't have butter milk on hand use regular milk with and 1t of vinegar or lemon juice)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Spray cookie sheet with cookie spray and spread veggie mix and potatoes out and spray coat with cooking spray put in over and cook till golden brown.

In a large pan, 1/2 T of butter with onions and celery, sprinkle with salt to let them "sweat" and pull the moisture out.

In another saucepan or in a microwavable container heat up the milk and chicken stock together.

Add the remaining butter to the pan with the onions and celery and add the flour and curry and stir. Cook for 1 to 2 min. Whisk in hot milk and broth mixture into the pan. and cook till it thickens. Add the parsley and salt and pepper. Toss in the browned vegetables and the chicken. Pour into a 9X9 baking dish.

Scoop spoonfuls of the prepared biscuit dough on top of the mix. You will not need to use all of the biscuit dough. You can cook the remaining biscuit dough in and separate pan to serve with meal. Or you can cover with pie crust of your choice.

Bake for 12-15 min. or until bubble and browned.

GF Flour Tortillas

I have been searching around for a good flour tortillas recipe and even have tried one of Bette Hagman's but it just didn't turn out. Some recipes call for bean flour, which I find to taste a bit odd, so I was happy when I found this one.

http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/gluten-free-casein-free-flour-tortillas/

Good Foods to Buy

Amy's Brand Foods
http://www.amyskitchen.com
- Rice Maccaroni & Cheese
- Rice Crust Pizza
- Some of her other frozen dishes are really good as well

Health Valley
- Canned Cream of Chicken, or Mushroom Soup (This works well for all those recipes that call for Cream of Chicken Soup, though since its not concentrated keep in mind you don't need a lot of extra moisture)

Annies Brand Foods
http://www.annies.com
- Annie's Gluten Free Rice Pasta Maccaroni and Cheese

Kinnikinnick Brand Foods
(What I like about Kinnikinnick, is that you can order in bulk directly from their headquarters, see their website for details. So far as I have tasted you can't go wrong with any of their products.)
www.kinnikinnick.com
- Pre-baked frozen pizza crust
- Montanna's Chocolate Chip Cookies (The best!)
- Kinni-toos "Oreo's" (Not quite the same, but very good)
- White Bagels
- Cake donnuts
- Cinnamon Rolls
- White Sandwich Bread
- Waffle/Pancake Mix

Passing of one of the Gluten Free Greats

I was doing a search to find a link so everyone could enjoy the great recipes from Bette Hagman's cook book series and sadly discovered that she recently passed away. I thought the tribute on this blog was appropriate in showing the impact she has made on so many peoples lives.

http://www.bookofyum.com/blog/gluten-free-bloggers-unite-to-honor-bette-hagman-a-tribute-to-bette-the-gluten-free-gourmet-800.html#comment-41920

Search for her books on Amazon under Bette Hagman.

Coming Soon

Homemade GF Stuffing (Dressing)
How to make great tasting GF gravy
GF Poppyseed Dressing Recipe

If you are looking for a good recipe for something, leave a comment and I will see what I can find.

Gluten Free Meatballs & Swedish Sauce

Meatballs- This is a good standard meatball recipe you can use with marinara or any other sauce. I am going to give you my families special Swedish Meatball recipe we have every Christmas.

Swedish Meatballs One batch makes about 20 small meatballs.

Meatballs
1 lb. Ground Beef
1 C Ground up Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes, Chex or any other type of none sweetened gluten free cereal (I used rice krispies, place about 2 1/2 C cereal in a zip-loc bag, roll over with rolling pin to ground them up. This should make at least a cup ground up, but I would measure this so your meatballs have the appropriate consistency)
1 Egg
1/4 C Fresh Finely Chopped Onion
Salt and Pepper to taste

Sauce
1 (16 oz.) Jar Grape Jelly
1 (12 oz.) Jar "Homemade" brand Chili Sauce (in the ketchup section)

Form into balls. (I used about a 1.5" cookie scoop.) Place on broiler pan and bake at 400 degrees in oven for 40 mins or till nice and browned. (I took mine out at about 35 mins or so because I was going to be keeping them warm in a crock pot for a while and didn't want them too dried out.)

When the meatballs are 10 mins. from being done, combined Jelly and Chili sauce in a large low side pan on medium high. Once it starts to bubble turn down to low and wait till meat balls are finished. Add meatballs into sauce and coat. Simmer with lid for 20 min.

Or for a crock pot, I added the Jelly and the Chili sauce in the crock pot once I put the meatballs in the oven and set the crock pot on High. Once the meatballs where cooked I put them in the crock pot and let them warm on high for 2 hrs and then turned it down to low. I serve this over rice for a main dinner dish.