Baking with Parchment Paper

The Ultimate Non-Stick Surface. Gluten free baking is hard enough to master with all the funky ingredients and weird sounding names. I never even heard of xanthan gum before until now. Having the right kitchen tools makes it a lot easier. One of the cheapest and most helpful gluten free products you can have is…

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Make Your Own Gluten Free Flour Blend

Can’t find a flour that works for you? Make up your own. Many people are not just gluten free. Some are allergic to nuts, rice, corn or various other things. While it’s great to able to find so many gluten free flours on the market, for some they contain flours that cause them trouble. So…

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DIY Jerk Seasoning

Making your own seasoning blends is easy. You read a recipe. It calls for a special seasoning blend to give it that perfect flavor burst. Taking a peak in your spice cabinet and realize you have to go to the store to get it. Or do you? Why not make it yourself? If you keep…

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Asian Ginger Pepper Chicken Stir Fry

Now that school has begun, life just gets busier and busier. I want to put a good meal on the table for dinner, but how and when and who has time to slave over anything these days. Not me!  So here’s to easy gluten free recipes! Time to turn to one of your handiest gadgets…

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One Room School House Apple Cobbler

Small School Cook makes apple cobbler. This 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…

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Warm Peanut Butter Brownies

Ready to bake in 5 minutes and no xanthan gum needed. Growing up, my mom would get after me for dipping my spoon into the peanut butter jar and pulling out a hunk of the stuff. I would sneak off and slowly eat it off the spoon. I still do it today, but no one…

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Gluten free tips for muffins

Let’s bring back the lowly muffin. Cute, compact, portable, endless variations, easy to make, practically impossible to screw up on, muffins need to make a big comeback on our breakfast, lunch and dinner tables. Muffins can easily be made with gluten free whole grains, have no problem cooking all the way through (unlike larger loaves…

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Gluten Free Recipes: Skillet Mac N Cheese

No boil cheesy gluten free macaroni goodness. Having trouble cooking your gluten free pasta correctly? Does it turn to mush before you pull it out of the water? Does it stick together and form a large gooey mass? Skillet cooking to the rescue. One pan, no mush, easy to do.  Adding the water and other…

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Gluten free Pull Apart Dinner Rolls

These gluten free rolls receive an almost perfect “5” from reviewers. Using a very short list of ingredients, a little time and some patience these may just be the “perfect” dinner rolls ever. Receiving a 4.8 rating out of 5 is pretty amazing, especially for a gluten free recipe. Go make these this weekend. Make…

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Easy Gluten Free Blender Pancakes

All you need is this one kitchen appliance to make pancakes lickety split. Okay, everyone one of you has this handy gadget in your house. They are everywhere and come in a bunch of sizes, colors, and shapes. You can use them for single servings or to for a hungry crowd. What are we talking…

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