Showing posts with label Lunch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lunch. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Allergy-Free Product Review #4
Amy's new gluten free, dairy free rice macaroni with dairy free (daiya) cheese! It was FANTASTIC and incredibly satisfying. I couldn't believe it. Although I don't eat much frozen, processed food, I had to try it because it was a GFDF product. It was very exciting. High recommended 5/5 stars!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Product Review #2 (sounds good)
So here is the first of many to-be allergy-free product reviews. These are incredibly important to those allergy folks out there because many store-bought allergy-free items taste like... crap or shredded cardboard.
So for your viewing pleasure we have a customer review of Gluten Free Dairy Free frozen pizza. Yes, people that are forced to eat healthy crave processed food too.
I was pleasantly surprised with the lake of cardboard-ness. The crust was like a thin crust pizza. The lack of cheese was fine with the sweet onion sauce. The toppings were nothing to talk about. Could add prosciutto, sausage, real roasted peppers or sun-dried tomatoes. But for a late night snack after paper-chain making and working on a Halloween costume, it was satisfying. Rating 4/5 stars (mostly because of the crust).
Excellent pairings for this pizza: Sweet Baby Ray's which always adds something to any meal or whiskey. In my case I chose both. Yay for my Friday night on a Monday night!
So for your viewing pleasure we have a customer review of Gluten Free Dairy Free frozen pizza. Yes, people that are forced to eat healthy crave processed food too.
I was pleasantly surprised with the lake of cardboard-ness. The crust was like a thin crust pizza. The lack of cheese was fine with the sweet onion sauce. The toppings were nothing to talk about. Could add prosciutto, sausage, real roasted peppers or sun-dried tomatoes. But for a late night snack after paper-chain making and working on a Halloween costume, it was satisfying. Rating 4/5 stars (mostly because of the crust).
Excellent pairings for this pizza: Sweet Baby Ray's which always adds something to any meal or whiskey. In my case I chose both. Yay for my Friday night on a Monday night!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
More cookin' with BACON
Monday night I made Gypsy Soup, a recipe my sister passed on. It's sooo delicious and spicy: cinnamon, cayenne, basil, bay leaf, paprika, etc. I had my folks over to eat it with me.
Soup in the makin:
That night I mixed up a Bob's Red Mill yellow cake which was fairly decent. I used 1 flax egg and 2 Ener-G eggs which was good (vs. 3 flax eggs-would have been tough). It was a pretty... doughy cake and was tricky to spread in a 9x13 but, it rose well. My housemate Marie whipped up some DELICIOUS vegan frosting with, a stick of vegan butter (expensive margarine), cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and vanilla. It was thick and fantastic after being used to powdered sugar icing. Photos turned out fuzzy-it's not much to look at anyways. :)
Here is my epic BLTA today. I could eat this three times a day. It's epic because I realized I'm a social bacon eater, meaning I don't cook it at home but will happily eat it else where. I think it's in part to the fact that I currently live with 5 vegetarians and I'm very considerate. Today though-you could feel the grease in the house (with apologies). It was made with my special bread, vegan mayo, BACON, spinach, Gramma's tomatos, and avocado. Mmmm!
Unfortunately, avocados are getting lame, I wish I knew someone who would ship them to me from Miami. Later today I was making chicken and noticed I had left the bacon-greased frying pan on the stove on accident. So... yes, I threw my chicken breast and veggies right on in it and it was glorious.
Soup in the makin:
That night I mixed up a Bob's Red Mill yellow cake which was fairly decent. I used 1 flax egg and 2 Ener-G eggs which was good (vs. 3 flax eggs-would have been tough). It was a pretty... doughy cake and was tricky to spread in a 9x13 but, it rose well. My housemate Marie whipped up some DELICIOUS vegan frosting with, a stick of vegan butter (expensive margarine), cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and vanilla. It was thick and fantastic after being used to powdered sugar icing. Photos turned out fuzzy-it's not much to look at anyways. :)
Here is my epic BLTA today. I could eat this three times a day. It's epic because I realized I'm a social bacon eater, meaning I don't cook it at home but will happily eat it else where. I think it's in part to the fact that I currently live with 5 vegetarians and I'm very considerate. Today though-you could feel the grease in the house (with apologies). It was made with my special bread, vegan mayo, BACON, spinach, Gramma's tomatos, and avocado. Mmmm!
Unfortunately, avocados are getting lame, I wish I knew someone who would ship them to me from Miami. Later today I was making chicken and noticed I had left the bacon-greased frying pan on the stove on accident. So... yes, I threw my chicken breast and veggies right on in it and it was glorious.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Trying out new delicious-ness!
I wanted to whip up Gypsy Soup but, feeling ill, it just didn't happen. So after home-roasting some garlic and peppers. I made roasted red pepper hummus (never made it before) and curried tuna salad (never had it before). Mama picked me up a gluten-free vegan sourdough loaf from New Cascadia Bakery. Awesome!
Dig in! Great combo!
Roasted Red Peppers
Why don't I do this everyday! OH it was so good!
For beginners: try not to make the smoke detectors go off. When they say watch the peppers like a hawk they mean it. Let's just say I had issues with that. Here's a great tutorial with lots of photos. Garlic was simple, mainly because I have a garlic roaster from momma. But here's a tutorial using a muffin tin instead, again with lots of photos.
Curried Tuna Salad
1 6- ounce can of tuna, drained and flaked
1 large. or 2 small ribs of celery, diced
1 Tablespoon chopped onion
3 teaspoons curry powder
3- 4 Tablespoons of mayonnaise
salt and pepper, to taste
In a bowl, combine all ingredients. Apparently: chilling for 1- 2 hours is strongly recommended, to allow the curry powder to interact with the other ingredients-leftovers might be better than. Enjoy.
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus, started with this recipeone can chickpeas (drained and rinsed if using canned)
1 roasted red pepper, coarsely chopped
1 head garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped
2-3 Tbsp olive oil
juice of 1 lemon
sea salt
I added 2 TBS water because I ran out of EVOO :(
Directions: food process, eat and then eat more.
Dig in! Great combo!
Roasted Red Peppers
Why don't I do this everyday! OH it was so good!
For beginners: try not to make the smoke detectors go off. When they say watch the peppers like a hawk they mean it. Let's just say I had issues with that. Here's a great tutorial with lots of photos. Garlic was simple, mainly because I have a garlic roaster from momma. But here's a tutorial using a muffin tin instead, again with lots of photos.
Curried Tuna Salad
1 6- ounce can of tuna, drained and flaked
1 large. or 2 small ribs of celery, diced
1 Tablespoon chopped onion
3 teaspoons curry powder
3- 4 Tablespoons of mayonnaise
salt and pepper, to taste
In a bowl, combine all ingredients. Apparently: chilling for 1- 2 hours is strongly recommended, to allow the curry powder to interact with the other ingredients-leftovers might be better than. Enjoy.
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus, started with this recipeone can chickpeas (drained and rinsed if using canned)
1 roasted red pepper, coarsely chopped
1 head garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped
2-3 Tbsp olive oil
juice of 1 lemon
sea salt
I added 2 TBS water because I ran out of EVOO :(
Directions: food process, eat and then eat more.
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