This is an easy recipe for one-pot, homemade, quick and easy, delicious bison dirty rice. Plus it is naturally gluten and dairy-free! Bison Dirty Rice I love Cajun dirty rice. In the old days before I had to clean up my diet, I lived off of Zatarain’s New Orleans Style Dirty Rice Mix. Loved it so much! And although it is gluten-free, it...
Gluten-Free Puff Pastry Beignets Yes, please! They were good. Really, really good. And it only took three ingredients to make these amazing little gluten-free puff pastry beignets. We recently discovered that Schär makes a gluten-free puff pastry dough. And it is lactose-free too (no dairy ingredients as far as I can tell). I can’t even describe how excited I was. Right now the only...
Chocolate Zucchini Muffins These gluten-free, dairy-free chocolate zucchini muffins are so easy to make and really delicious. The hubs definitely approved of these for breakfast. There are lots of flavor and nutritional goodies packed into a chocolate-y muffin! I love hiding veggies inside of a sweet treat. We have a wonderful recipe for sorghum millet spiced zucchini muffins, sorghum millet banana muffins, and carrot cake...
DIY Hamburger Buns There is nothing better than fresh homemade bread out of the oven! I make my own homemade hamburger buns and freeze them for when we need them. But this bread recipe is very versatile and can make loaves as well. The hamburger buns are perfect with Asian turkey burgers, or with herbed meatballs and red sauce as meatball sandwich or when we make...
Pimento Cheese Recipe #2 I love pimento cheese. I could eat an entire gallon of it in one sitting. So I was really excited to be able to make it again when I started to use goat cheese in recipes that I used to make all the time. Like this Died and Went to Heaven Pimento Cheese. It’s really is just a combo of cheese,...
Game Day Noms These ranch cucumber bites were so easy to make with just five simple ingredients. Well easy except for me trying to figure out how to add the piping bag to the decorating tips and not succeeding. But the rest is so easy. They are naturally gluten-free and made with goat milk cream cheese from Trader Joe’s, artisan goat milk yogurt, ranch spice...
I love to mix up textures in salads but also get as much color as I can for the variety of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and dietary fiber. Eat the rainbow indeed! Leftover Pork Tenderloin Salad One of my favorite dinners is Apple Cider Brined Pork Tenderloin. It is so lean and clean and flavorful. I make an apple cider from organic apple juice...
Cider-Brined Pork Tenderloin I’m not gonna lie, this cider-brined pork tenderloin with roasted apples and carrots is ridiculously delicious! It is truly the best pork tenderloin I’ve ever had. We all know how well apples go with pork chops, but brining this tenderloin in apple cider takes it to another level. And leftovers are amazing the next day. Yum! And tossing the apples and...
For the Love of Salads! I eat a lot of salads for lunch. Usually, I incorporate leftovers like the PF Chang lettuce wrap mixture into an Asian salad or left-over taco meat into a taco salad, but my absolute favorite is a Greek salad! Check out this round up of 14 super delicious and nutritious salads from the blog. Eating a ton of vegetables is...
Ghormeh Sabzi is a traditional Persian Herb Stew made with various herbs and veggies, beans, stew beef, and dried sour limes. It is naturally gluten-free and dairy-free. For the Love of Persian Food My mother was Persian and growing up it was a huge treat when she would cook a traditional Iranian dish because she was pretty westernized and preferred not spending too much time...
This blog is about cooking real food from unprocessed ingredients to make simple and naturally gluten-free meals and mostly casein-free/dairy-free (except for a little aged Parmesan and goat milk). We try to "healthify” and clean up our favorite comfort foods using organic fresh veggies, lean proteins, healthy grains and lots of spice!
