Gluten Free Bread: Crouton Magic

You go out to start making some gluten free bread. Ok, gluten free bread mix…check. Eggs…check…milk…check…butter or oil…check…vinegar…check. Everything is a go. Plop the ingredients into the bread machine as instructed. Bread dough looks a little stiff but let’s try it anyway.  I know people say you need to adjust things based on the weather,…

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Gluten Free Desserts: Easy Apple Cobbler

This easy apple cobbler recipe is one my mom used to make all the time when she was the cook for a small school. They had the proverbial One Room School House. It consisted of 1st grade thru 8th with about 90 students total. This is when we lived in a rural ranch area. Small community from…

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Gluten Free Recipes: How to Make Pumpkin Butter

Forget hours of baking your pumpkins, do this instead to have puree in 30 minutes. On the quest for a good recipe, I started scanning my cookbook shelves (of which I have many). Finding the canning books, I figured, there’s got to be a couple recipes for pumpkin butter in my 18 cookbooks on canning,…

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Gluten Free Recipes: Homemade Organic Applesauce

This past October, we went to a local U-Pick farm and grabbed two boxes of apples for me to use. That’s 80 pounds of apples since each box weighs in at 40 pounds a piece. My son had been nibbling away at them and I probably ended up with 70 pounds this past week. Not…

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Gluten Free Bread: Pumpkin Rolls

I always say one can never have too many good gluten free recipes, especially bread ones! You can make these the day before and gently reheat in the oven for serving. Just remember, these gluten free bread rolls have no preservatives, so they will go stale faster than store bought rolls. But that’s a good…

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Gluten Free Budget: Decorated Halloween Candy Treats

I used to sell “craft” items at our local boutiques. My sister and I would make floral arrangements, Christmas ornaments, table clothes, painted wood items and all kinds of stuff. I remember one year we had made these angel tree toppers. You would have thought they were gold! We literally had a “run” on the…

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Gluten Free Budget: Roasted Pumpkin seeds

We’re getting ready to carve our pumpkins for Halloween. All that wonderful gooey stuff in the middle. As Garfield says “It looks of the lasagna persuasion!”. I don’t think I’ll try and turn this into lasagna. If any one has a pumpkin seed lasagna recipe, give it up!    This is an easy snack made…

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Halloween Skull Gluten Free Cupcakes

It has been so much fun to make “spooky” Halloween deserts that are all gluten free, especially gluten free cupcakes. My family went wild over all the different cupcake decorations that I came up with. The Gluten Free Halloween Cookbook has enough recipes and ideas for your Halloween Party.  Most of them are super simple…

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Apple Annies U-Pick Farm

Here we are! Being silly and having fun as a family. Sometimes you just gotta get out of the house. We’re at Apple Annies in Willcox Arizona. They have the most amazing corn maze going on right now. The thing is huge!! You could get lost in there. Every year they plant a different one…

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Gluten Free Cookies: Creepy Bug Cookie Recipe

  These gluten free cookies are so cool. The boys in your family will love them. And talk about easy. Just press and bake. This is definitely going to be at my Halloween party this year. Creepy Gluten Free Halloween Cookies Ingredients: 1 pkg. Gluten Free Shortbread Cookie Mix (Bobs’ Red Mill brand used) Ingredients…

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