It’s possible to make wonderful gluten-free pies and I have done so many times. In my recipe book, 25 Gluten-Free Recipes to Satisfy a Sweet Tooth, I have several delicious pie recipes, as well as one for pie crust. There is a pumpkin pie recipe in my Gluten-Free Holiday Recipes book that you’ll love, too!
But, this year, because I am eating gluten-free AND casein-free, it means no more pumpkin or cream pies at our house. We’ll still be having delicious desserts, though. We’re having COOKIES!
We’ve decided on two of our favorites: GF/CF Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies and GF/CF Christmas Sugar Cookies. Recipes for both can be found in Gluten-Free Holiday Recipes. Of course, you can make the sugar cookies into any shape. Turkey-shaped cookies are always a favorite with my grandkids.
I’m also going to try a new recipe this year from Christine:
GF/CF Golden Yam Brownies
Brownies:
1 can yams
1 cup oil
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon guar gum
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups gluten-free flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Frosting:
1 cup powdered sugar
3 tablespoons water or casein-free milk substitute
1 tablespoon lemon juice (can use other flavoring, lemon juice cuts the sweetness)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a 9×13-inch baking pan with shortening or cooking spray. Mash yams with a potato masher. In large bowl, cream together yams, oil, brown and white sugar, eggs, guar gum, and vanilla. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir into yam mixture just until blended. Spread the batter in baking dish. Bake for 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Mix together powdered sugar, lemon juice and milk. Spread over the brownies while they are still warm. Some of the glaze will soak into the brownies.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Halloween is always a fun time of year for kids, especially the anticipation of all the candy they are going to get when they go Trick-or-Treating. It can be tricky when your child is on the GF/CF diet, which is why we wanted to put together a comprehensive list of candies that are safe for this diet. This is a list of candies typically found in your child’s trick-or-treating bag, but there are also many GF/CF options in organic/specialty stores.
GF/CF Halloween Candy List:
Airheads (bars)
Applehead
Big Hunk
Bottle Caps
Candy Lipsticks
Candy Corn (Brachs or Gummi original)
Charm Pops
Cherryhead
Chewy Runts
Circus Peanuts
Dots
Dum Dums
Fruit Leathers
Gobstoppers
Grapehead
Gummy Bears
Gummy Worms
Fun Dip
Hot Tamales
Jelly Beans
Jolly Ranchers
Jujubes
Jujyfruits
Kidz Rings
Laffy Taffy
Lemonhead
Mary Janes
Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses
Mellowcreme Pumpkins (Brachs)
Mike N Ike
Nerds
Now N Laters (original)
Peeps Pumpkins and Ghosts
Pez
Pixy Stix
Redhots
Riviera Spooky Candy Rings
Runts
Shrek Ogreheads
Skittles
Smarties
Sourpatch Kids
Spongebob Gummy Krabby Patties
Spree
Spree Chewy Candy
Starbursts
Sunkist Gems
Swedish Fish
Sweet Tarts
Talking Pumpkins
Tart N Tinys
Warheads
Resources:
gfcf-diet.talkaboutcuringautism.org
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We grew our own pumpkins this year. When they were about the size of an orange I carved the names of our grandchildren in them.
This is the first year that my oldest granddaughter, Joscelyn has carved her own jack o’ lantern. The pumpkins from our garden were surprisingly easy to clean, since they had less slime. Joscelyn did a great job, and cut hers by herself! I guess 6-years-old is a great age to start!
We prepared the seeds to roast together, as a fun project. Gavin was on hand to help too! To do this we did the following:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Wash pumpkin seeds under spray nozzle in strainer. Remove any strings or chunks of pumpkin. Dry seeds on dishtowel or papertowel. Pat dry. On baking pan pour 4 Tbsp olive oil. Place pumpkin seeds one layer deep. Using brush, mix seeds to coat with oil. Sprinkle with garlic salt and seasoning salt. Bake for 25 minutes. When done, Remove from pan onto a plate covered with a paper towel.
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People always ask what I eat for dinner. Click on the link below to see what I had for my last 7 dinners:
CLICK HERE for “What Do I Eat?”
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Breakfast is always a tough one for me. I’m not a big breakfast person, but I have loved having Larraine’s breakfast recipes. My kids gobble up her applesauce pancakes when they are lucky and I actually make them. Usually, though, I’m pretty lazy and will make some quick scrambled eggs or hand the kids some fruit. This morning, however, I decided to be a nice mommy and make a treat.
Muffins:
Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups GF flour
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 t guar gum
1 T baking powder
1/2 t salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp lemon juice
1 cup water
Glaze
1/3 cup lemon juice
2 cups powdered sugar
Water
Combine the dry ingredients. Add eggs, oil and water and beat for 1 minute. Use an ice-cream scoop to measure the batter, which is just the right size for perfectly proportioned muffins, and drop the batter into a well-greased muffin tin. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes.
While the muffins are cooking, combine powdered sugar and lemon juice and mix thoroughly, adding just enough water to give it a glaze consistency.
Filed under Recipes by on Sep 18th, 2010. 1 Comment.
I recently was brave and took my kids with me on a vacation to see my family in the Midwest. It was mostly fun, although super stressful as well. Honestly, the thing that stressed me out the most was when I was driving a mini van, and my oldest son with autism, Garrett, walked right up to me to try and get some treats. I was mortified because I realized that he now knew how to undo his seat belt. I spent the next couple of hours scouring the stores for any kind of childproofing device to put over the seat belt buckle, so that I could keep Garrett safe while we were driving. It was extremely frustrating because I couldn’t find anything like that at any of the stores that I visited.
Happily, on the first day of school, I told Garrett’s bus driver to keep an eye on him because he can undo his seat belt and might get up during the ride. This was when I was given a glimmer of hope. She told me that she would use a seat belt buckle guard and bring me one the next day that I could use in our car.
I just wanted to share the news for those other frustrated mothers out there. There are products out there to childproof the seatbelt buckles. Seat belt buckle guards can be purchased online at amazon.com.
Filed under Autism by on Sep 15th, 2010. 1 Comment.
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