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Gluten Free Recipe – Bacon Wrapped Broccoli

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Gluten Free Recipe – Bacon Wrapped Broccoli

 

Bacon Wrapped Broccoli

Salads are great – and can really provide long-lasting energy. Especially if you take the time to add some variety and some satisfying proteins along with all those yummy vegetables.

Here’s a very satisfying addition to today’s lunch salad, that is gluten free, dairy free and paleo friendly. Also – you don’t need many of these as they are very rich and very filling.

Ingredients:

  • Broccoli spears
  • Uncured bacon slices, cut in half

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 425F

Wrap the bacon around a broccoli spear stem, then pin the end into the stem with a toothpick. Cut the toothpick so that just an 1/8 of the end is visible. Three for each person is plenty. Place them in a glass baking dish on their sides.

Bake uncovered for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and using a basting brush, pick up some of the bacon fat from the bottom of the pan and brush the broccoli heads. Then return to the oven for another 10 minutes or so, or until the bacon is cooked to the desired doneness. This will keep the broccoli from getting too crispy.

When the bacon is cooked, the broccoli will be too. Drizzle the broccoli heads with the remaining bacon fat, let them cool 5 minutes and serve!

Once the broccoli is in the oven, you have time to make an epic salad to be the main course!

 

 

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Gluten Free Recipe – Salade Niçoise

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Gluten Free, Dairy Free Recipe – Salade Niçoise

Salade Niçoise

 

Ingredients list:

  • a soft-boiled egg
  • a handful of cherry tomatoes, quartered, slightly seared
  • 10 haricots verts (French green beans), slightly steamed
  • a couple red, orange, and/or yellow baby bell peppers, also slightly seared
  • a couple fingerling potatoes, boiled fork tender then quartered
  • 3 or four slices of cucumber
    1/2 ouce field greens
  • 1/2 ounce baby spinach
  • 1 sardine fillet, packed in oil, drained
  • a teaspoon of capers
  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
  • 1/8 teaspoon freshly crushed black peppercorns
  • a pinch of salt

Mix together the olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Arrange everything around the sardine fillet, drizzle with the dressing mixture. Voila. A delicious and hearty gluten free, dairy free meal that will fill you up and give you long-lasting energy for quite a while… and fish breath. (cats will love you)

 

 

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Gluten Free, Dairy Free Thanksgiving Day Tacos

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Turkey Day Tacos

Gluten Free Dairy Free Turkey Day Tacos

(AKA: Thanksgiving Tacos)

Prologue to the Recipe:

Traditions (from “The Fiddler On The Roof”)
“Here in Anatevka, we have traditions for everything.”

“How to sleep.” 

“How to eat.” 

“How to work.” 

“How to wear clothes.”

“For instance, we always keep our heads covered, and always wear a little prayer shawl. This shows our constant devotion to God.”

“You may ask, how did this tradition get started?”

“I’ll tell you.”
“…I don’t know.”
“But it’s a tradition.”

Thanksgiving – The Tradition That Keeps On Giving

Part of the Thanksgiving tradition is to always prepare way more food than any person should ever eat, and then for the week that follows, trying to find creative ways to get junior to eat them . Why? I don’t know…  but it’s a tradition.

This year, instead of just warming over leftovers and slogging through another big hot dish of tradition, today I broke with tradition and went with my craving. Hence:

The Thanksgiving Taco

Just dice up some of your favorite Thanksgiving Day leftovers and spoon them into some taco shells. I jazzed up the cranberry sauce with some cayenne pepper, and I was in taco heaven. Our forefathers (or should I say “antepasados”) would be so proud.

BTW – This is a gluten free, dairy free recipe. With the right shells, it could also be made grain free. For a vegan recipe, you could leave out the turkey, perhaps replace with some tofurky or seitan. Thankfulness is for everyone. Viva el taco!

 

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Gluten Free, Dairy Free Recipe: Crustless Salmon Quiche

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Crustless Salmon Quiche

 

Several people on Instagram asked for a recipe for this. Traditional quiche has cream, cheese and a flaky crust, but since this is gluten free and dairy free, it’s way easier!

Here’s the world’s easiest gluten free, dairy free (and grain free) recipe for crustless salmon quiche:

  • 1 lb sockeye salmon
  • 1/2 lb green beans
  • 6 farm fresh eggs
  • 1 tsp olive oil

Broil the salmon in the oven, skin side down 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until it flakes in the middle when you poke it with a fork.  Sauté the green beans in a teaspoon of olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat until tender.

Mash the salmon into bite size pieces with a fork, and spread it around in the baking dish. Spread the green beans around in the baking dish. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs slightly just to break the yolks and pour them over the salmon and green beans.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until the egg is cooked in the middle of the baking dish. Voila.

Some other ideas for this: I could have added onions,  sautéed along with the green beans, or almond milk to make it fluffier, or broccoli instead of green beans… you get the idea.

That’s what I love about quiche, it’s rife with possibilities!

 

 

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Raw Vegan Sushi With A Side of Cauliflower “Rice”

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raw veggie sushiI just did not want another salad today. 😀 My Asian heritage and and abundance of vegetables led me to this:

Raw Veggie Sushi With A Side of Cauliflower “Rice”

Gluten free, Dairy Free, Grain Free and Raw Vegan

Recipe:

– Gather up your favorite raw veggies: carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, asparagus, peppers, scallions, spinach, etc. You name it.

– You will also need:

  • Nori Sheets
  • Wasabi Paste
  • Gluten Free Tamari (soy sauce)
  • Pickled Ginger

1. Rinse your veggies well in cold water then julienne them into thin strips about 3″ long, as narrow as you can get them.  (If you need help with julienne, check out this video) Put a couple crowns of cauliflower into the food processor and pulse until it looks like rice. (Careful not to over pulse.)

2. Put a tablespoon of wasabi powder in a small bowl. Add a few drops of water and mash it around with a  spoon. Add a few more drops of water and mash again, until you get a thick, play-doh consistency. Then mash some more. (The more you mash, the hotter it gets…)

3. cut the nori sheets into strips 2″ wide and 8 or 9″ long. Put a few tablespoons of water in a small bowl and keep nearby.

rolling sushi
Rolling Sushi

4. Lay a strip of nori on a wooden cutting board or other smooth flat surface, lengthwise away from you and place a few pieces of each veggie in the sheet about 2″ from the closest end.  Let some veggie pieces stick out further than others for better presentation. Dip your finger in the water bowl and wet the far end of the nori sheet, all the way from the top, down to the veggies.

5. Carefully roll the nori away from you, while pulling the veggies toward you, trying to keep the roll as tight as you can without tearing the nori.

6. Press the “riced” cauliflower into a small bowl and quickly put it upside down on your serving board to make the mound.

7. Serve on a sushi board with a small bowl of tamari, the wasabi paste and ginger.

Tanoshimi kudasai!