Waffle Cones & Bowls

2/3 cup featherlight flour
Pinch of xanthan gum

1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup milk

Plug in waffle cone maker to heat up.  Mix together flour, xanthan gum, and salt in a small bowl and set aside.  Whisk together eggs and sugar for 1 minute.  Add flour mixture, melted butter, vanilla and milk.  Whisk until combined.

Scoop 1/4 cup of batter and pour into the center of the hot waffle cone maker.  Close the waffle cone maker and set timer for 2 minutes.  Using a thin silicone spatula, remove waffle cone and immediately use the roller or bowl press so the cone can dry in the shape you would like.

If making a waffle cone:

    Take hot waffle and lay flat on parchment paper.  Wet the edges a small amount and roll with a cone shaped roller.  Hold it together and press until dry.  It will harden into a cone.

If making a waffle bowl:

    Take hot waffle and place on top of lower bowl.  Press top bowl down over it.  Let sit for 2 minutes while your next waffle cone is cooking.

Fill with ice cream and enjoy! 

Makes 9 - 10 cones.  

Korean Beef Bowl

This is a quick and easy meal to throw together last minute, and it tastes amazing!  My kids love it!  You can serve it with just beef and green onions, or you can add vegetables!  You can saute some squash & carrots or whatever you have in your fridge, or just buy a bag of frozen mixed veggies!  

1 lb hamburger

3 cloves garlic, minced

1/4 cup brown sugar, packed

1/4 cup GF soy sauce 

2 teaspoons sesame oil

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon crushed red-pepper flakes (optional)

2 green onions, sliced (optional)

1 lb frozen mixed vegetables

In a small bowl whisk together brown sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger and red pepper flakes.  

Brown hamburger in a large skillet.  When it's almost done, add the garlic.  When browned, drain excess fat if needed.  

Add the sauce and green onions to the meat and simmer 3 - 5 minutes.  If you're adding vegetables, add them when you add the sauce and cook until the vegetables are tender.  

Serve over rice.

Note:  If you double this recipe, don't double the sesame oil until you taste it to see if it needs it.

Freshly Squeezed Lemonade

 Nothing says summer like freshly squeezed lemonade!

1 cup lemon juice, about 6 - 7 lemons
2 cups water
2 cups sugar
1 cup cold water

Squeeze the juice out of the lemons, enough for 1 cup of juice.  In a medium saucepan, bring 2 cups water and 2 cups sugar to a boil.  Cool to room temperature.  Combine lemon juice and simple syrup.  Add 1 cup cold water.  Mix.  Serve in glasses with ice.  If it's too tart, you can dilute it with more water, or more ice.

Sweet Potato Fries

Sweet Potato Fries, yes please!  These are quick and easy to throw together and are more delicious than many sweet potato fries I've tasted in restaurants!  I love, love, love the Redmond salt and the organic garlic pepper!  They're delicious on these!  I've decided I need to double the batch for my family because they devour them!

4 small to medium sweet potatoes
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon garlic pepper 

Preheat oven to 450º.  Slice sweet potato into 1/2 inch strips.  Coat with 3 tablespoons olive oil.  In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, salt and garlic pepper.  Pour over sweet potatoes and coat.

Cook in a single layer on a cookie sheet for 15 minutes.  Using a spatula, turn fries over, and cook for another 5 - 10 minutes.  Serve immediately.

Butter Syrup

This butter syrup is the perfect addition to a fruit filled Swedish Pancake, or to top a waffle!  The recipe can be easily doubled.  

2 cups butter
2 cups sugar
1 cups milk

Put all ingredients in a medium saucepan.  Stir and bring to a boil.  Boil for 3 minutes.  

Fruit Pizza Cookie

This might be one of my all time favorite desserts.  The cookie I use is my Cream Cheese Cookie recipe.  It is light and fluffy with a hint of almond.  The topping is lighter than a cream cheese frosting and goes well with fruit.  You can top it with any fruit you'd like!  It's a refreshingly delicious dessert!  

Cream Cheese Cookie:

1 cup butter, softened
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
5 cups GF featherlight flour, divided
1 1/2 teaspoons xanthan gum
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

Place butter and cream cheese in a large stand mixer and mix together well.  Add sugar, eggs, vanilla extract and almond extract.  Mix together well.  Add 3 cups flour, xanthan gum, baking powder, and salt.  Mix and then add 2 more cups flour.

Mix well and chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or overnight.  You can speed chill for 30 minutes in freezer.  It works best to wrap in plastic wrap to chill.

Roll out on floured surface about 1/4 - 1/2 inch thick, and use a cup to cut circles.  Bake at 350º for 9 - 14 minutes.  Don't over bake.  (Convection oven:  300º for 9 minutes.). Cool on wired rack.  

This recipe makes about 50 3-inch cookies.

Topping: 

3 8 oz packages cream cheese, softened
8 oz whipped topping

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Using a mixer, combine until well mixed.

Wash and cut fruit.  Frost cookies with the topping.  Place fruit on topping.  

Make sure the fruit is dry before placing it on the cookies.  

Shrimp Tacos

These tacos are delicious and quick to make!  Serve them in a corn tortilla with cabbage, avocado cream sauce and pepper-jack cheese!  We like to warm the tortilla with some cheese first, before layering with cabbage, shrimp and avocado cream sauce.

Corn Tortillas

Cabbage, chopped

Shrimp

Avocado Cream Sauce

Pepperjack cheese (or any cheese you'd like)

Shrimp

24 oz shrimp, raw and deveined with tail off

2 tablespoons butter

1/2 teaspoon minced garlic

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1 tablespoon chili powder

Melt butter in a large saucepan.  In a bowl, toss shrimp, salt, paprika and chili powder.  Add shrimp and garlic to the buttery pan.  Saute, stirring occasionally until shrimp is pink.  About 4-5 minutes.

Avocado Cream Sauce

1 avocado

1/4 cup cilantro

1 clove garlic, minced

1/4 cup sour cream

3 tablespoons avocado oil

juice of 1 lime

Place all ingredients in a blender.  Blend until smooth.