Recipes

Baked Sweet Potato Chips

2 Large Sweet Potatoes- pealed, and sliced 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick
3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
Pinch Sea Salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Add olive oil to a cookie sheet, arrange sweet potato slices.(Be sure they are of similar thickness to insure equal cook time.) Sprinkle sea salt over potatoes. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes and flip, return to oven and bake for a further 15-20 minutes. Best served warm.

Rolled Sugar Cookies

1/3 Cup Butter or Margarine (softened)*
1/3 Cup Shortening
2 Cup Flour*
1 Egg*
3/4 Cup Sugar
1 Tablespoon Milk (Rice Milk)*
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
Dash Salt

Beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add half the of the flour, egg, sugar, milk, baking powder, vanilla, and salt. Beat till thoroughly combined. Beat in remaining flour. Chill for one to 3 hours.
On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8 inch thickness and cut with desired shape. Bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 8 minutes. Cover with sprinkles or powered sugar icing.

Powder Sugar Icing

1 Cup Sifted Powdered Sugar
1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla
Milk or Orange Juice (Rice Milk)*

In a bowl combine powdered sugar and vanilla. Add milk or juice, one Tablespoon at a time to till you have reached drizzling consistency. Yields about 1/2 cup of icing.

Country Apple Pie

5 Large Apples, peeled and sliced thin
1/2 Cup White Sugar
1/2 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour*
3/4 Teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/8 Teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 Tablespoons Butter or Margarine*

Roll half of pastry to 1/8-inch thickness, place in 9 inch pie plate; set aside. Combine dry ingredients in a small bowl and mix until thoroughly combined. Place apples in a large bowl, sprinkle dry mixture over apples 1/4 to 1/3 at a time. Stir apples gently after each addition. Spoon filling  evenly into pastry shell, and dot with butter.
Roll out remaining pastry crust and top pie, trim and fold edges. Cut slits in top of crust, cover edges with aluminum to prevent over browning. Bake at 450 for 15 minutes, reduce to 350 for additional 35 minutes.
(I like to baste my pastry with some melted butter, for a soft flaky golden color.)

Double-Crust Pastry

2 Cups all-purpose flour*
1 Teaspoon salt
2/3 Cup plus 2 Tablespoons shortening
4 to 5 Tablespoons cold water

Combine flour and salt; cut in shortening with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle cold water (1 tablespoon at a time) evenly over surface; stir with a fork until dry ingredients are moistened. Shape into a ball; chill.

French Bread

2 Tablespoons flax meal
1/3 Cup warm water
3 Cup gluten-free all-purpose flour with xanthan gum such as Domata
1 Tablespoon rapid rise yeast
2 Teaspoons salt
2 Cups warm water
3 Tablespoons olive oil
1 Tablespoon honey

Mix flax meal and water. Let stand for 10 minutes.
Combine flour, yeast and salt in a separate bowl. Add water, olive oil and honey. Stir thoroughly.
Add flax meal mixture and blend until thick. let stand for approximately 2 hours. Scoop dough out and from onto a lightly greased bread pan. Bake at 450 degrees F for 30-35 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.

Best if served warm with the butter of your choice. 4 out of 5


Banana Chocolate Chip Granola Bars

2 Medium sized ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 Cup honey
2/3 Cup Enjoy Life brand Chocolate chips(mini are best)
2 1/2 Cup GF rolled oats
1/2 Cup GF Rice Krispies

On an ungreased baking sheet, spread your oats evenly and bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes, stirring them up once during cooking.
Remove the oats from oven, leaving the oven on, and let the cool completely. While oats are cooling, you can mix together the remaining ingredients in a large bowl. After the oats are cooled, add them to the bowl and mix all ingredients together. lightly spray an 8x8 inch backing dish with cooking spray and place mixture evenly into the dish, using your fingers to help push it down flat in the dish and corners. Bake for 25 minutes. Cool completely and cut evenly into 12 bars.

As they were described in my our house, You can taste the healthy. 4 out 5

*Be sure to use ingredients that are appropriate to your food allergy as a substitution.