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Mexican Pizza Recipe

Mexican Pizza Recipe

I love food but especially gluten and dairy free pizza.  Usually no two pizzas are the same in my house.  I am always changing up ingredients.  I’ve had requests to share some of my pizza recipes.  Here is one I shared for a Gluten Free Quick and Easy event.  Well I actually only talked about [...]

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Homemade Hamburger Helper Recipe

Homemade Hamburger Helper Recipe

School is back in session and family meals can get pushed off for busy schedules.  I know how busy it can get but instead of grabbing a boxed meal like a Hamburger Helper with ingredients that can’t even be pronounced, how about making your own. I promise this recipe takes the same amount of time [...]

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Chipotle BBQ Sauce Recipe

Chipotle BBQ Sauce Recipe

Summer time is the perfect time to fire up the grill and barbecue.  I know you’ll love this sauce which is gluten free and vegan (no dairy).  If you have subscribed to The WHOLE-istic Life newsletter than you have already received this recipe a couple of months ago.  One bonus to subscribing. I thought I [...]

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Twisted Chocolate Bark Recipe

Twisted Chocolate Bark Recipe

This Twisted Chocolate Bark recipe has a secret.  It’s full of nuts, seeds and legumes!  Yes I said legumes.  I’ve been playing with different ways to use my Roasted Chickpeas in more ways than just eating them by the handful.  Of course the hardest part is they are so amazing eating them by the handful [...]

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3, 2, 1 Chili Recipe

3, 2, 1 Chili Recipe

I love 3, 2, 1 Chili because you change up what you add as your 3, 2, 1! This recipe is 3 types of beans, 2 types of onions, 1 type of meat.  You can change this up according to what you have on hand and what you like to eat.  You can even make [...]

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Chicken and Roasted Green Chile Soup Recipe

Chicken and Roasted Green Chile Soup Recipe

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West African Chicken and Peanut Stew Recipe

West African Chicken and Peanut Stew Recipe

At the beginning of this year, before things started going crazy,  I was reading one of the really good food blogs I follow, Kalyn’s Kitchen.  She has great recipes and so many of them are naturally gluten free.  Make sure you take time to look around her blog. She shared a recipe for West African [...]

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Scallop, Chorizo and Purple Sweet Potato Tacos Recipe- Gluten and Dairy Free

Scallop, Chorizo and Purple Sweet Potato Tacos Recipe- Gluten and Dairy Free

This is a fast and easy recipe to make on a night when you really just want to eat and not cook.  It’s gluten and dairy free and full of the most amazing flavor.  This recipe will make enough for 12 tacos with leftover filling for an omelet the next morning. This recipe was also shared with [...]

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Easy Homemade Fresh Chorizo Recipe

When a recipe calls for chorizo you can’t beat using fresh over cooked links.  I do like those links and use them often, but there are times where that just won’t work.  For instance, you wouldn’t want hard pieces of those links mixed in your Turducken Burger.  Sharing that recipe tomorrow. I bet you think [...]

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Recipe for Gluten and Dairy Free BBQ Jalapeño Poppers

Recipe for Gluten and Dairy Free BBQ Jalapeño Poppers

Review of The Pioneer Woman Cooks cookbook by Ree Drummond and my gluten free, dairy free version of her BBQ Jalapeno Poppers.

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Chili Shrimp and Chicken with Avocado Salsa, Roasted Jalapeno and Pablano Peppers Recipes

Chili Shrimp and Chicken with Avocado Salsa, Roasted Jalapeno and Pablano Peppers Recipes

Are  you looking for a new fun menu for your next picnic or tailgate party?  Then you might want to give this Chili Chicken and Shrimp with Avocado Salsa, Roasted Jalapeno and Pablanos a try.  This meal traveled well, tasted delicious, and was easy to pull together.  All of the ingredients are gluten free, dairy [...]

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North African Meatballs and Glazed Carrots with The Next Food Network Star

North African Meatballs and Glazed Carrots with The Next Food Network Star

I love to watch The Next Food Network Star each year.  Each week the contestants are given different challenges to test their skills and their culinary point of view.  This year on Season 5, I picked my winner early.  I really liked Melissa d’Arabian.  She was fun, spunky, and didn’t cook in a restaurant.  Her [...]

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Chili Piquin Vegetarian Tortilla Soup

Some like it spicy, some like it hot and others like it to burn the @#*!! out of their mouth, eyes watering clear out your sinuses red face hot.  I’m in the middle, my son Andy I believe just loves it as hot as it can be. I think it started when we were out [...]

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Pupusas- Salvadoran Stuffed Tortillas with Spicy Slaw

These little gems are as much fun to make as they are to eat.  Wait, that sounds like an old commercial.  But, if you are looking for a low cost meal you hit the jackpot.  I first saw pupusas at the DC United Soccer game.  There was a little stand in the stadium that sold [...]

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Spicy Slaw

This is the side dish I made in 2 minutes while my pupusas were cooking.  Technically a pickled slaw is served but I didn’t think that far ahead.  It worked either way. Ingredients: 4 handfuls Green cabbages sliced thin 1-2 jalapeno, seeded and diced 2 green onions, sliced both green and whites Handful of shredded [...]

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Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger –Rock Day Taquitos

Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger –Rock Day Taquitos

Every month Book of Yum hosts Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger.  You’re supposed to make one of the recipes of whomever you adopt and then share a post on your adventure on the first of the month.  This month I adopted Blog Schmog (aka glutenfree4goofs) and my adventures in getting to write this was nothing [...]

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