Go Ahead Honey Spiced Peach Cupcakes

So now that i am finally back in the gluten free blogging world i went in search of some of the fun things that use to be up to do and i came across Go Ahead Honey, It's Gluten Free which was always fun before. There is a theme and you create a recipe. This months event was hosted over at The Whole Gang and the theme was "It All Ends Here". A dessert theme honoring the newest and last Harry Potter movie. I decided to make some wonderful moist Spiced Peach Cupcakes with fresh Whipped Cream on top.

curry infused lemon chicken

I wanted curry for dinner tonight but neither the ingredients nor the desire to go shopping so I used curry spices and coconut milk to bring new flavor to lemon chicken. Also if you like this recipe you should check out real food weekly which is an amazing collection of recipes using real ingredients

1 pound thinly sliced chicken breasts
juice of 1 lemon
1/2 can coconut milk
1/2 tsp garam masala
1/2 tsp curry powder
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 onion chopped
1/2 red pepper chopped
1/2 cup chopped carrots
2 cloves garlic chopped
1 tsp olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

Saute vegetables in olive oil over medium heat until softened then add spices. After another min of sauteing add lemon juice. Then add chicken and brown on all sides. finish by adding coconut milk and allowing to simmer for 10 mins. serve over your favorite rice.

I like my lemon flavor to be strong and my sauces to be thin enough to flow through my rice you can decrease both the lemon juice and milk to make a thicker less acidic sauce. Also you can increase the curry to get more heat or toss in some chopped jalapeno. I didn't ave any or I would have.

Cupcakes for the wedding part 1

So my mother is getting married soon and I wanted to not only make the cake but be able to eat the cake. It was a process to narrow down what she wanted and how she wanted it done. (lol love you mom) So we decided on a cupcake tower with a small cake for the bride and groom to take home. We are doing 3 flavors raspberry lemonade, chocolate peanut butter, and strawberry cream cheese. So after along day of baking i am able to post the recipe for 2 of the cake batters. The Lemonaide Cupcake and The Chocolate Cupcake

There will be much more to come as I prepare for the wedding but if cake is not your thing check out my first appetizer Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms

Flour blends and Baking mixes

There are a lot of great mixes and blends on the market now a days but they are not all suitable for all needs. I was recently asked/offered to make a gluten free cupcake tower for my mothers wedding and learned that a light flour makes a light cupcake and a heavy flour makes dough balls. Now I love Bob Redmill mixes and all purpose blend but like many other gluten free bakers I find the bean flours to heavy in both texture and flavor for delicate flavors such as my raspberry lemonade cupcakes and my local stores always seem to run out of the coveted King Arthur gluten free flour so what was I to do?
Well I had to go back to basics you know before so many companies jumped on the gf band wagon and blend my own flour. Now there are many complicated 15 ingreident blend recipes available but mine is so much less. I use only 3 ingridents and find the texture very nice. i feed my test cupcakes to the neighbors who are not gf but have fallen in love with my baking on first bite so I decided to share my blend enjoy
Baking Flour Blend

Beans and Rice

So last night was my first attempt at my rice and beans recipe. I am really bad at writing things done so I always have to run a batch to get the recipe, but in my tiredness of the week I must have missed an ingredient or 2 last night because they didn't have the flavor I am use to. Fortunately they were still tasty enough that some hot sauce was all i needed to scarf them down, but I am gonna hold off posting until I can make the recipe perfect

Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger June Round up

So I think the turn out this month was great and am so ashamed that I am the one who didn't get my entry done. But here is my warning to those of you with thyroid problems listen to your body. I started feeling yuck about 2 months ago but didn't go the doctor because I thought it would pass. Well it didn't and I ended up in the hospital for a week to try and get my levels back down after I went off the deep end. Now on to the wonderful round up

1. Rachel at Living Without Wheat adopted Diane at The W.H.O.L.E. Gang and tried her Spinach, Mushrooms and Bacon with White Wine
2. Amy at Life Minus Gluten adopted Jill at Hey, that tastes good and recreated her Molasses Softies
3. Sarah at Good Eating adopted Carol at Simply... Gluten Free and went for some yummy Ricotta Lemon Pancakes
4. Thomas at GFCF Experience adopted Kate at Gluten Free Gobsmack decided on a favorite summer time treat of Ice Cream Sandwiches
5. Heather over at Celiac family adopted Gina at The Gluten-Free Gourmand and made some awesome Gluten-Free Tempura

If I missed anyone it is because I did not receive the email so please just resend it and I will add you. As far as my post I hope to have it up soon please bear with me because also my husband is home on leave now as well.

Royal Foodie Joust June

This months ingredients were a real challenge but also alot of fun. I choose a dish that could be a dessert or side dish. I have only recently discovered quinoa and how versatile it is. OK on to my dish.

Quinoa with Roasted Strawberries and a Basil, Lemon balm Infused Syrup

Simple Syrup

1 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup basil
1/4 cup lemon balm

heat sugar and water over medium heat until sugar is dissolved.

place syrup and herbs in blender and pulse a few times to chop herbs


Quinoa

cook on stove according to package's direction

roast strawberries in oven until soft and juicy.

Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger June edition

Sea has a couple of very busy months coming up and with all the excitement coming her way she has asked for volunteers to host the Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger event.Since I have no life this month i was eager to help out

Participation is simple.

1) Pick a gluten-free blogger whose recipes you admire and adopt them by commenting on this post with your name, blog name and their name and blog name.

*Blogger’s recipes must all be gluten-free or have a way to sort and read ONLY gluten-free recipes
*Please pick a different blogger every time you participate

2) Pick one (or two!) of your gluten-free blogger’s recipes to try.

3) Make the recipe, photograph it and write a post in your blog introducing the blogger and their recipe. Link back to this event announcement in your post.

*Follow the recipe as written, as closely as possible. And, please don’t print their recipe on your post- just provide your reader a link to their original recipe.

4) Email me at BBOOP2177(AT)YAHOO(DOT)COM with your photo of the recipe, the URL of your post, name of the recipe and the URL of the original blogger’s recipe post.

*Note: PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR THIS MONTH

5) Post YOUR POST’s URL in a comment to this post, and if possible please try to visit two other blogger’s posts that are posted here (and comment!).

*The goal is to make this event more interactive and fun!

Deadlines:
Sign up BEFORE June 26th (loose deadline; late sign-ups are ok)
Post your Review and Email me by July 3 (firm deadline, no foolin’)

If you don’t have a blog, you are still welcome to adopt a gluten-free blogger. Sign up to adopt a blogger, write a review of one of their recipes, including your name (or pen name), the recipe URL and recipe title. Then take a photo of the completed recipe (if you can) and EMAIL ME the review and photo. I’ll create a special page just for our non-blogging participants and post it for you.

I am going to adopt Nweames over at Creating from Scratch. It took awhile to find a blog I had not yet tried a recipe from.

Adoption Sign-Up Sheet:
1. Nweames at Creating from Scratch (adopted by Terri at Faking it GF Style)
2. Kate at Gluten Free Gobsmack (adopted by Thomas at GFCF Exeperience
3. Gina at The Gluten-Free Gourmand (adopted by Heather over at Celiac family)
4. Carol at Simply... Gluten Free (adopted by Sarah at Good Eating in NZ)
5. Heather of Celiac Family (adopted by Cheryl)
6. Jill at Hey, that tastes good (adopted by Amy at Life Minus Gluten)ps Amy is new to the gf lifestyle so look her up and show her some love and support
7. Diane at The W.H.O.L.E. Gang ( adopted by Rachel at Living Without Wheat)

Chinese Dumplings

The Daring Cooks Challenge this month was to make Chinese dumplings. Before going gluten free I use to love wontons, crab ragoons, and egg rolls. I have toyed with idea of making my own wrappers but never gotten around to doing it, so I was very excited but nervous. I used equal parts white rice flour and tapioca starch.
I pressed the dough out into small rounds similar to how I press tortillas out but smaller. My filling was a mixture mushrooms, yellow peppers, onions, garlic, ginger, and soy sauce. I steamed the dumplings and served with a dipping sauce of soy sauce and lemon juice.
They turned out pretty good but the skins needed to be thinner. I will definitley work on perfecting these before I post a recipe but I had fun and enjoyed my first challenge.

Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger - I am Gluten Free

Sea over at The Book of Yum hosts a wonderful event Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger where you find a gluten free blog and recreate one of their recipes and tell everyone about it. I have not participated in awhile but it is a fun event and you learn about many new blogs.

This month I adopted Ellen over at I am Gluten Free. She has many great vegan and raw recipes on her site that it was hard to choose. I chose her most recent recipe for sunflower seed sushi. This is the first time I have tried anything raw and I have to say I loved it. It was easy to make once I remembered to soak the seeds. I ate sushi for 3 days off this salad the first day I made it just like the recipe except for the sauerkraut which I am not a fan of. The next 2 days I made some rolls like hers and some with brown sushi rice.

Even though I do not eat raw I love sushi ad will be making this quite often in the future.

i have pics but my son lost my camera cable so as soon as i can i will upload them