Betty Crocker GF mixes can be CF too!
Last modified on 2010-06-30 18:41:06 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Whoo hoo! As I may have mentioned before, I’m not much for spending a lot of time in the kitchen. (What with working full time in my video editing business and being a wife and mother… well, there’s just not a lot of time to make anything but the essentials.)
But being GFCF is really making me change my ways. I make more and more things at home, but still don’t take the time to make a “luxury” item like baked goods. So when I found out the new Betty Crocker Gluten Free Mixes can be modified to be Casein Free as well, I was so excited! I have yet to try these recipes but wanted to post them as soon as I found them. I’ll post back when I make some nice GFCF baked goods using the Betty Crocker mixes.
Fast ‘n’ Easy Banana Bread
Last modified on 2010-04-26 18:21:32 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Oh, how I love my bread. How I missed my breads when I first went gluten free and now casein free. But slowly but surely, I’m finding ways to get ’em back!
I stumbled across my latest find at my local Super Target. Tucked in with the Betty Crocker GF mixes was a box for Simply Organic Banana Bread. I drooled over the moist bread picture, torturing myself with what I’ve had to give up for just a moment (I tend to do this.. but that’s for another post…) I was just tearing my eyes away when I noticed up in the little left had corner of the box there was an inconspicuous little “Gluten Free” label. What?! I can have this yummy looking bread?! Yeay! I immediately grabbed it, scanned for casein ingredients and found none. So I bought it and when I got home, true to form, I had a few overripe bananas. So I whipped up a great banana bread in no time at all! With only three ingredients (eggs, water and bananas), no rise time or anything else, it was super easy and fast.
And yummy. Oh, was it YUMmmmmmmy. Moist and banana-ey, no one even knew it was GFCF. It was so wonderful that it didn’t even last a full 24-hours. My son and husband (and myself) loved it so much we just kept going back for slice after slice. “Just a one more. Mommy… pulllleeeeesssseee?!” our 5-year-old son kept pleading. He loved it! I had it toasted with Earth Balance in the morning for breakfast. Oh, it was so good.
Great. Now I’m drooling again! I have to go back to Target and get another box (or 10)!
And the Simply Organic website has a bunch of other recipes you can make with this mix as well: Baked Bananas, Right-side Up Fruit Cake and more… I’ll definitely be making some of these in the future!! Now, where are my car keys… Target, here I come!
Frozen GFCF Treats!!
Last modified on 2010-03-25 02:38:39 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Oh my gosh!!!!!!! I never thought I could have another treat from the Ice Cream freezer section again. But I was so wrong!!!!!! I found these WONDERFUL coconut, non-dairy, gluten-free frozen treats at the grocery store yesterday.
The brand is So Delicious and the treats I purchased were Coconut Almond Mini Bars. And I must admit I was more than a little dubious about them. Any company that gives itself a name like that is either trying too hard to make up for a poor-tasting product or not terribly creative in the name department. But after I tried them I actually agreed with their self-chosen moniker because they really and truly are SOOOOO delicious!!!!!
I was so very, VERY excited as I sat there rolling my eyes in yummy ecstasy, reveling in the fact that there are actually yummy dairy-free treats out there. And apparently there are a lot more from the same company!! Before I ate the Coconut Almond Bar, I did a quick search to be sure it was GFCF (it says Dairy Free all over the box and the ingredients seemed safe, but I just wanted to be sure about the Gluten). When I got to their site I found that So Delicious is a very, very allergy friendly company. (I don’t know why I was surprise to see this… with an “ice cream” treat that’s not made from milk, their target allergy demographic should have been obvious to me!) But they have a wonderful Allergy ID Chart that lists every product they have and if it’s ingredients include Almond, Coconut, Corn, Dairy, Egg, Gluten, Peanut, Pecan and Soy. They even have downloadable PDFs of their charts by “All”, “Gluten Free” and “Chocolate Free”. Since all their products are Casein Free (no dairy at all in any product at all – how wonderful!), I’m going to download the Gluten Free PDF and stick it in my Evernote app so I can easily view the chart next time I go to the grocery store.
For the first time in three challenging GFCF days I really and truly believe that this can be done again. Thanks So Delicious!!
Yum.