Gluten Free Picnic and Potluck Recipes

Picnic FoodPicnic and backyard barbecue season is finally upon us – I was starting to get worried there with the crazy up and down weather. We had snow and ice pellets the last week of March and that kind of thing doesn’t usually happen in this part of Virginia after Spring starts.

Glad to see some sunshine for a change and we’re ready to fire up the grill, enjoy beautiful days, and we’re definitely ready to pack some picnics for days filled with soccer games and places to go.

If you’ve ever been on any kind of diet or had a food allergy, I don’t have to tell you how difficult it can be to attend simple events like family get-togethers, graduation [Read more...]

Ethan’s Gluten Free Triple Chocolate Birthday Cake

Ethan is definitely the sweet tooth of the family. For most of us this was to the point of “too much chocolate,” but he loved every single bite.

Ethan's Gluten Free Triple Chocolate Birthday Cake

So it’s a chocolate cake with chocolate chips mixed into the batter, a layer of chocolate chips on top during baking, then a chocolate pan frosting like you might use on a Texas Sheet Cake or a Mississipi Mud Cake, and then a full layer of chocolate chips on top of that. It’s a lot of chocolate!
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Big Fluffy Homemade Gluten Free Waffles

Homemade waffles always make for a great weekend morning. Brian’s mom bought us a waffle maker / omelet maker. At first we weren’t sure if we’d be using it very often, but so far it’s been firmly planted on the counter top next to the stove. We’ve had gluten free waffles three times since Christmas, including once for dinner!

Gluten Free Waffles!

I took an old “regular” waffle recipe that I had and tweaked it a bit and toyed around with some changes. Here’s my new basic waffle batter recipe…

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