Posted on February 27, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
Last week, Steve of Gluten-free Steve asked a number of gluten-free bloggers a number of questions. The whole event can be found on his blog and is definitely worth the read. One of the questions he asked was: “What is your favourite gluten-free snack recipe?”. Well, he actually had a fill in the blank questionnaire [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
Nothing is simplier and tastier on a weekend than a nice roasted chicken - it only takes a few minutes to prepare and an hour to roast. You can accompany the chicken with almost anything: pasta, rice, potatoes, salads, carrots, broccoli etc. etc. anything goes!
The key to my recipe is the spice mix and the [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
For those of you with celiac, gluten-intolerance or any other food allergy, you are probably very good at reading food product labels. Reading labels is a necessity. I firmly believe that you are what you eat — junk in equals junk out.
What most people don’t realize is that the other additives to our food come [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
I just bought a new gluten-free cookbook: “Great gluten-free baking” by Louise Blair.This is an excellent book. Lots of yummy, easy and very tasty baking recipes. Beautiful photographs for many of the recipes, and easy to follow instructions.Here I have made one of Blair’s recipes, modified it a bit as I didn’t actually have [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
This dip is thick so you can dip crudites or GF bread sticks or spread this on a lovely GF bagel. I’ve heard you can also use dip/spread recipe instead of using pesto.The artichokes have quite a strong woodsy flavour, so if you do not like strong flavours you’re not going to like this dip/spread [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
Ever wanted a really nice pork roast but were far too lazy to make one?This recipe is simple, easy, and quick. Five minutes prep time. Yup.FIVE MINUTES!Well, it might be longer if you don’t have barbecue sauce on hand and have to make your own gluten-free BBQ sauce. I already have my [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
Next weekend there is a baby shower for my partner’s new niece. I was conned into volunteered to make all the food for the party. My problem: they wanted cupcakes. Anyway, long story short: I had to test drive a cupcake recipe for next weekend. I found this cupcake recipe on all-recipes.com and tweaked [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
Today I’m too lazy to write an intro for this recipe. The photo speaks for itself. YUMMY!
Ingredients
1/2 lbs (220 g) green beans
1/2 cup (125 mL) sliced scallions (green onions), whites and greens
1/4 cup (60 mL) ground almonds
1 tbsp (15 mL) butter, olive oil, or non-dairy substitute. I used butter.
Directions
Boil green beans in a pot of [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
I recently discovered that El Peto factory, a company that claims to be the “Gluten-free specialists”, is less than a 10 minute drive from my house. Naturally I went to their factory outlet store (yes, the products ARE a LOT cheaper at this factory outlet compared to the same product in the grocery store) and [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2008 by Shauna McCabe
I’ve decided to put a domain name on my blog. While you can still access this blog at http://crazyorangeturtle.wordpress.com I’d prefer if you’d access the blog using:
http://glutenfreeturtle.com/
Super duper!
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