GF and Reduced Sugar chocolate covered Almonds and Pomegranant cookies

I had three different kinds of gluten free flours left over. Domata, Pamela's Kitchen and Betty Crocker GF Bisquick. I used one cup of each of these flours to make these cookies.
I also had leftover chocolate covered almonds and Pomegranates that I had bought in bulk.
I took a normal chocolate chip cookie recipe. When making these cookies, instead of creaming the butter and sugar together, I used honey instead of sugar. The only sugar in these cookies is whatever sugar is in the chocolate covered Almonds and Pomegranates. These cookies came out with a cake like density. I took them to a friend's bonfire and everyone loved them.

GF and Sugar Free Peach Croustade

Gluten Free and Sugar Free Peach Croustade

This is the same recipe as Ive posted in the past, but I replaced all refined sugar with 100% pure maple syrup and honey

Peaches:

• 1 1/2 pounds small ripe yellow peaches (about 6-7), unpeeled, quartered and pitted

• 2 tablespoons honey

• 2 tablespoons maple syrup.

Crust:

• 2/3 cup slivered almonds

• 1 cup gluten free flour

• 1/4 honey

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 7 tablespoons chilled unsalted butter (cut into 1/2 inch cubes)

• 1 large egg yolk

• 2 tablespoons honey

Honey Yogurt

• 1 1/2 cups plain Greek-style yogurt

• 3 tablespoons honey

Crust:  In a food processor, coarsely chop almonds.  Transfer nuts to a bowl (do not wash processor).  Blend flour, honey in processor.  Add butter, using on/off turns, process until mixture resembles coarse meal.  Drop egg yolk through feed tube and blend just until moist clumps form, using on/off turns.  Gather dough into ball, flatten into a disk.  Wrap in plastic and freeze 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 F.  Roll out dough disk between 2 floured sheets of parchment paper to 10-inch round, sprinkling with .  Remove top sheet of additional flour as necessary.  Remove top sheet of parchment.  Sprinkle dough evenly with 1/2 cup chopped almonds.  Replace parchment atop crust and roll to 11-inch round, embedding nuts into dough.  Invert crust and parchment onto heavy baking sheet, nut side down.  Remove top sheet of parchment.

Put peaches in the center of the dough. leave a 1 1/2 to 2 inch plain border.  Using parchment as aid, fold outer edge of crust over edges of peaches.  Drizzle peaches with maple syrup and honey.  Sprinkle with remaining chopped almonds over crust and peaches.

Bake until crust is golden brown, about 30 minutes.  Cool 20 minutes.  You can try and transfer the croustade onto a platter, but I generally leave mine on the baking sheet and serve.

Gluten Free and Vegetarian Dinner

Gluten Free Veggie Burger, Hummus, Sweet Potato chips and Scallops sauteed in olive oil and garlic


I recently went Vegetarian. Needless to say, eating a gluten free and vegetarian diet is a challenge, but also it is the reality for many people who find that they don't digest meat very well. I have only been vegetarian for two months. After getting my fill of black beans and avacodas for dinner each night, I decided to branch out. The meal above is not only super delicious, but it is very high in protein, which is essential to a vegetarian diet. 



Veggie burgers are great because you can pick them up in your local supermarket's freezer and pop them in the toaster. I cooked my scallops with only salt and pepper in olive oil for about 10 minutes on each side on medium low heat. I put some fresh garlic in the pan at the end.