dinner with cheese in it!

Macaroni and Cheese, please! 

Jena's favorite- first time in over a month!

*note that cheese is NOT in phase 1

Mac N Cheese Recipe

bake 350 for 30 minutes

Brown onions and green peppers in 1/2 stick of butter

Add 1/4 c brown rice flour

Add @ 1 c whipping cream and 1/2 c rice milk

bring to boil- thicken

stir in @ 4 ounces of cheese- monterey jack and colby

stir in cooked elbow macaroni noodles

bake in an oiled casserole dish

Make a rue: Butter, onion, green pepper- brown rice flour, then add whipping cream, rice milk- I added a bit of cheese, both colby and monterey jack- probably about 4 ounces

Mix in brown rice elbow noodles (already cooked and drained)

Mix together

oil a casserole dish with olive oil

Mac and cheese into casserole

top with paprika and pop in the oven for about 30 minutes or so

out of the oven! Looks and smells great!

Recipe for Sandwich Flat Bread


mix dry ingredients together
3/4 c oat flour
3/4 c brown rice flour
3 t baking powder
1 t kosher salt
3 packs of stevia
oops. I might have added a t of xanthan gum- I can't remember, sorry!


add 1 beaten egg
3/4 c homemade mayo
@ 3/4 c cold cooked rice cereal (leftover from brkfst)


mix each in
then add whipping cream until the right conistency- not too sticky
Press into an oiled pizza pan

I have quite a collection of alternative flours I'm learning to cook with!

press down dough into a pizza pan

Flatbread, scored, salted and ready for the oven

Flat bread with build your own sandwich fixings: homemade mayo, pesto, lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, tomatoes, chicken

This was so good!
2 kinds of coleslaw, spinach, pinto beans, green beans,  mac n cheese, open face chicken sandwich, 9 veggie soup

flat bread, pesto, tomatoes, chicken, sprouts- what a treat! We really miss sandwiches!

Coleslaw 2 ways


Cabbage shredded in food processor
divide into 2 bowls
Mayo added to one bowl-and a little more salt and pepper
Vinaigrette in other bowl- apple cider vinegar, olive oil, kosher salt, ground pepper, stevia

Parsley Pesto

Recipe for Parsley Pesto

1 bunch parsley

1 T garlic

2 green onions

2 handfuls of walnuts

1 tomato

kosher salt to taste

apple cider vinegar to taste

blend in food processor

stream in extra virgin olive oil until creamy

this is the container I keep the walnuts, almonds, pecans in. I keep it in the fridge. It keeps them pretty fresh.

breakfast with cheese

eggs for breakfast

 We added a little cheese to our diet today. We were pretty excited about it. We'll see how that goes... We have been on the diet for about a month now. 

We're a little leery about adding things, it's not like we're feeling much better yet. I actually have had the most benefit so far. My hot flashes are gone and I am off the medications for them. I am starting to get some energy back. My husband thinks he is having less headaches, but he still has a daily low-grade headache. Our daughter is still very sick, however, and rarely well enough to leave the house. The Dr. added more supplements for her. We're hoping they help. One of them, though will increase the "die off", so she may feel even worse before she feels better. She may feel flu symptoms, with nausea and fever. She was very dizzy yesterday, and was in bed most of the day. Today should be better.

There is a powder for chronic fatigue that you mix with liquid. We tried it in water, in smoothie, and in hot tea. It mixed the best with the tea. 

The smoothies for this breakfast turned out great.

I used the smoothie that I had frozen the other day:

put it in the blender and added

2 handfuls of frozen strawberry slices

rice milk- @ 1 c

1 dropper full of stevia

blended on low for 1 minute

Eggs

olive oil

brown together in pan:
bacon
1 green pepper
2 green onions
whip 9 eggs together and add to veggies
sprinkle in pepper and k salt
when almost done top with slices of montery jack and colby cheese
fold eggs in half so cheese melts on the inside

serve with fresh parsley and tomatoes

Soup and slaw

For the soup I heated up the 9 vegetable drink, added a little chicken fat with onion, seasoned with salt and pepper

Coleslaw- mix shredded cabbage, homemade mayo, lemon pepper, sea salt, and cumin. Seriously, not bad...

9 vegetable cocktail p. 237 "The Yeast Syndrome"

1 pt fresh tomatoes
1 cucumber sliced
sprigs fresh parsley
1 radish
1/4 onion, sliced
1 green pepper
1 lettuce leaf
1 pt ice cubes
optional: k salt, pepper, herbs and spices, 1 carrot, 1 celery stalk

Blend in blender adding a few ice cubes at a time.
*Recipe courtesy of the VitaMix Corporation
The taste test- We thought it was OK and drinkable, but we might like it better as a soup.

Mayo p. 237 "The Yeast Syndrome"

2 eggs at room temperature
1 tbs freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 t sea salt
1 1/4 c safflower or virgin olive oil

Combine all ingredients except oil in blender at high speed for 1 minute. Slowly add oil. Store in glass jar. Refrigerate.

This will be nice to use in coleslaw, on eggs, chicken salad, etc. It is a long way from "miracle whip", but it will do for now. The olive oil I used was probably too strong of a taste for this. I'll try something milder next time.

Morning eggs

eggs (mostly egg whites), muffins, yogurt, strawberry sauce

a full fridge, dinner is made for the next few days

Trading coffee for herbal tea ; a tough trade

We're trying to get used to starting our day with herbal tea...

Oh, so lonely in the morning... all of our coffee fixer equipment standing ready to serve- and no takers, boo hoo. No beans being ground, no milk being steamed, no smells of morning coffee wafting through the air!

Instead- it's herbal tea. It's Ok, but not really a decent substitute for a strong cup of morning java.

dinner 2-16-11

cooking down the pinto beans

Rinse the Roasters, stuff with celery, put it in the roaster,  surround with onions
cooking down the giblets- this is actually for tomorrow's dinner. Tonight was ribs.

blending the smoothie

beautiful smoothies with cinnamon

mashed cauliflower with bacon

green beans

dinner!

my plate- That's a piece of chees on the cauliflowr. Tonight was the first night for a little cheese. We aren't into phase 2 yet, but Dr. said we could add cheese-might help our daught to eat a little more, she's losing too much weight. Can you tell I took a half a garlic! yum!

dessert- apple muffins with topping choices
frozen smoothie, vanilla pudding, cooked down berries, strawberry sauce, blueberries, whip cream, pecans, walnuts

writing up the recipes with my 2 fave guys on the TV. Fred and Gene. Love them!

Bison

I bought a chunk of Bison that looked like a chuck roast- this was my first go at cooking bison! It was so tasty! Well worth the $

brown each sid 5 minutes in olive oil. add garlic, k salt, pepper
braise in apple cider vinegar
add beef broth, bring to boil
add onions, celery, carrots, green pepper

simmer until done

Mashed Potato Imposter (cauliflower)

Mashed Cauliflower

Boil Cauliflower until very tender
drain well
add butter, almond milk, k salt, pepper

Whip together
fold in cooked bacon pieces

other add ins- onion, garlic, top with cheese in phase 2

Fake Biscuits

Biscuits

400 degree oven
25-30 minutes

2 c. brown rice flour
1 t. baking soda
1/4 c coconut oil or olive oil
1/4 t sea salt
2 T flax meal
optional 2 t stevia, chopped walnuts

mix together
add water to form dough
press between parchment paper
cut into squares, or use round biscuit cutter

Crackers, sort of

Fake Crackers
bake at 400 for 25- 30 min

1 c. brown rice flour
1 c. chick pea flour
1/2 c. flax meal (this seemed like too much- try reducing to 1/4 c.)
1 t garlic powder
1/2 t koser salt
2 t baking powder
6 T olive oil (coconut oil, or ghee)
1/2 c. water (approx)

mix dry ingredients, slowly until right consistency- not sticky
spread on parchment paper on cookie sheet-
press down very thin
score and top with kosher salt

Simple Veggie Dips

Greek Yogurt with chopped tomatoes, rosemary, garlic

Greek Yogurt with rotissery herbs

Greek Yogurt, sour cream, avacado, garlic, herbs, k salt

Greek Yogurt, sour cream, lemon juice, chopped tomato, chopped onion, chopped cucumber

Marinaded chicken

Marinade chicken in mix of apple cider vinegar, olive oil, K salt and pepper.

Simmer with 2 chopped onions.

Serve with:
basamati rice
Roasted veggie mix- squash, bokchoy, celery, carrots

Ham in a Wok

If you can find some ham w/o sugar, any -ose, nitrates, or any of the other things we can't have...

Heat up wok- add olive oil (careful about too high temp with olive oil)
Add and stir fry-
diced ham
red pepper
onions
celery

Add veggie broth and simmer a bit, add a beaten egg and some greek yogurt
K. Salt and pepper to taste

Top with greek yogurt, tomatoes, avacado, sliced olives (can only have certain kinds)

Fake Pizza, no wheat, no cheese, no sugar, no nothing, blah

When you are desperate for pizza- this isn't really a good substitute unless you have an unbelieveable imagination:

Crust- if you can call it crust...
Bake about 10 min.
375

1 c. rice flour
1/4  c. oat flour
1 T. flax meal
pinch xanthan gum
blob of greek yogurt
1 T. apple cider vinegar

this turned out pretty crumbly- maybe more yogurt next time?

Smear on tomatoe paste mixed with pizza herbs
Smear on cream cheese

Bake again for about 10 min.

In phase 2 we are looking forward to adding cheese :)

Muffins, and more muffins- no sugar, no milk, no wheat

Note to self: need to try cheese muffins, Jamie prefers blueberry muffins, Jena prefers Strawberry, pecan muffins

For all the muffin: You know the drill. Mix the dry stuff, mix the wet stuff. Mix them together (I use one of those pastry cutter things sometimes). Don't over mix- leave it a little lumpy. Oil the muffin tins a smidge. 


Apple Muffins


baked at 375 for 10-15 minutes (convection oven)

1 c. brown rice flour
1 c. oat flour
1/2 c. coconut flour
2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. cinnamon
1 t. allspice
1/2 t. kosher salt
2 t. xanthan gum
2 t. flax meal

1 beaten egg
1/2 c. rice milk
*1/4 c. coconut oil (I put it in as a liquid- and it solidified a bit when added to the milk and egg)
3/4 c. chopped green apples


Oatmeal Muffins

375 for 15-20 minutes

1 c. flour (used 1/2 c. oat flour 1/2 c. brown rice)
2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. kosher salt
pinch of xanthan
3 pks of stevia
1 T. flaxmeal

1 egg beaten
1/2 c. rice milk
1/4 c. olive oil



Strawberry Muffins

375 for 25 min.

1/2 t. kosher salt
2 t. baking powder
3 pk stevia

1/4 c. oil
1/2 c. rice milk
1 t apple cider vinegar
1 egg or 1/4 c greek yogurt
1 c. chopped strawberries

Roast Chicken

I rinsed 2 roasting chickens- put the innards gross stuff in a pan to boil for gravy and maybe some liver paste or some such thing...
stuffed them with some celery to keep moist. Put them in the roaster surrounded by onions and garlic. Added water about a third of the way up the chicken. If it cooks down enough, I'll add spinach, and maybe some carrots- we'll see...
I'm going to go check on it and see how it's looking. I'll add some herbs and such. What herbs would be good on it? maybe rosemary? thyme?

Ribs

Beef ribs

I rubbed the ribs with a texas mix that we can have
Browned them on the grill.
Drizzled olive oil in a big pan- and a little coconut oil
Chopped green peppers, sweet onions, tomatoes, garlic and placed the ribs on top- covered with foil and bake in oven at @ 350.
Looks good! Hope it is good- we'll find out later! It's making our house smell delicious.

Dinner 2-16-11

Yeah! Turned out great! Don't you think that ribs never have enough meat on them.
(Served with mashed cauliflower, green beans, pinto beans, and leftover this and thats :)


Another Rib recipe that turned out good:

Pork ribs


OK folks, this has been one of my favorites so far! I'll definitely be making this again!


brown ribs in pan to seal juices - turn to all sides 
add garlic and sun dried tomatoes to pan, season w/ kosher salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, dry mustard, celery seed, marjoram, thyme, cayenne


braise in apple cider vinegar- about 1/2 way up the meat
top with red onions


simmer for awhile
stir


add tomatoes on top


simmer awhile


(served with roasted zucchini, yellow squash, eggplant- all cut lengthwise) YUM!

Frozen berry smoothie

@ 2 C. greek yogurt
equal amount of ice
juice of 2 lemons
@1 C. frozen strawberries
@1 C. whipping cream
@ 1/2 C. water
8 - 10 drops stevia
cinnamon maybe 1 1/2 T ??

(later I added to this recipe- 1 more dropper full of stevia, 2 more handfulls of berries, more rice milk)

turned out pretty good, maybe a little sour- could use more stevia and whipping cream maybe
we each drank a cup, and I froze the rest in a bowl
Do you think it will scoop like ice cream later?
If it does, I will serve it with whip cream and strawberry sauce- sounds pretty good I think...

It's later.... the answer is no. It froze so solid- like a brick! We nuked it a little to soften it so we could eat it. It's a little on the sour pucker up side. I think next time it needs a little less lemon and a little more stevia. I wonder if more whipping cream would make it freeze a little softer.

His and Hers breakfast, getting used to no cereal...

Rice cereal fixed our way...

I like mine with berries, whipping cream, and chopped almonds. He likes his with berries, and rice milk. I like licorice tea. He likes chamomile.

Valentine's Food

Valentine's day without sugar is pretty different. No chocolates, no little candy hearts, no gooey cupcakes... no red wine or chocolate martinis! We substituted a little fruit and cinnamon. Not a good substitute, but we don't want to start over! So this was our pity party food:

Breakfast- Hot rice cereal, with blueberries and cinnamon. A "fake biscuit" and lemon ginger tea.

zucchini with sauce from last night's chicken drummies- onions, tomatoes, simmered with chicken.

Rice noodles with tomatoe sauce.

Salad with guacomole, cucumber, tomatoe dip. Turkey meatballs. Baked beans. Zucchini mixture. Pasta with tomatoe sauce.

Turkey Meatballs
@ 1 lb. of ground turkey, season with kosher salt, pepper, pizza spices
mix with 3 eggs, @ 2T av (apple cider vinegar), 1/4 c rice flour, 2 T flax meal
brown in oven @ 375 for 20 min.

Vanilla pudding with triple berry sauce and whipped cream.

Triple Berry Sauce comes from simmering frozen berries in water until it reduces down.

I adapted this sugar free version of the pudding from the following recipe:

Instead of sugar I used 3 packets of stevia, and 1 tsp xanthan instead of cornstarch. 1/2 Rice milk, and 1/2 whipping cream replace the milk.
I am having trouble keeping this smooth. When I put in the xanthan I get gelled bits. I tried beating it into the egg yolks first before adding to warm milk, but I used a full T. which was too much. maybe it should go in the warm milk first and use 1/2 T. 

Ingredients

• 4 egg yolks
• 1 cup sugar (can substitute half with Splenda)
• 3 cups milk
• 3 heaping tablespoons cornstarch
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 scarce pinch salt

Directions

This antique recipe has been modernized by use of the microwave, yet it retains its classic flavor and variability.

1. Scald the milk in the microwave while doing the next step. (Watch so it doesn't boil.)
2. Separate 4 eggs and beat the yolks, adding the sugar and cornstarch. (Do not use whites. If it is too thick to mix, add 1/4 cup of the milk to make it work.)
3. Add egg mixture to hot milk, mixing well -- electric mixer works just fine.
4. Cook till desired thickness, taking out every 2 or 3 minutes to mix for a moment.
5. Add butter, salt, and vanilla. Stir well.
6. Serve hot (eat slowly), warm, or later when cold.

Serves 6.

Read more at Suite101: Basic Homemade Pudding Recipe: How to Make Pudding For Everyday or Festive Occasions http://www.suite101.com/content/basic-homemade-pudding-a73898#ixzz1DzpFmN4S