Gluten Free Spooky Spaghetti

Spooky and child friendly gluten free dinner idea

Want to make a Gluten Free Halloween Meal for your little one.  Don’t want to spend a lot of time on it? 

You can make Black Spaghetti. 

Ingredients

Gluten free spaghetti noodles of choice

Black icing paste (the paste used to color icing)

Water

Salt

Your Favorite gluten free spaghetti sauce

(Orange icing paste can be added to the sauce or you can even make the sauce black as well.)

Prepare your water for the spaghetti as directed.  Add in the black icing paste to the color you desire.

(Note: the amount of paste that you use will determine the color of the spaghetti that you get.  With less color you will get purple noodles, with more you will get a rich black.  Either color works well for this.) 

Boil the spaghetti to the directions

While the spaghetti is boiling heat up your sauce on the stove top in a pan.  If desired add the color you wish to get a spooky effect.

Some people make meatballs that look like eyes to add to this.  Let me know if you wish that recipe?  

Halloween Gluten Free Cocktail Ideas

I was thinking Halloween.  I mean most people are.  Only a few days away and I realized that I am not ready?  You would think with all the time they give you prepare now that I would be able to get my act together and get the holidays right.  Well the issue this year is that I am working.  This leaves me with little desire to do anything when I get home.  If it doesn’t include eating, working out, or relaxing then you can write it off my list.  I may have gotten used to working my schedule now.  However, that doesn’t always mean that I am full of energy when I come home.  Ok, anyway enough defending myself.  While I am going out on Halloween after I hand out the fantastic candy stuffs to the little ones.  I still was thinking about some great drinks that I could serve.  A lot of Halloween based drinks have Oreos in them which makes them full of gluten.  While you can use the gluten free sandwich cookies as a substitute and still have a fantastic drink.  I found one that really knocked my socks off.  Well two.  I am going to share these drinks with you.  Fun, gluten free and alcoholic drinks to share with your friends on Halloween night or at a party. 

The Brain Hemorrhage.  I am sorry if you have seen this everywhere, I just can’t get over how cool it is.

most of a shot glass of peach schnapps
1 tsp Irish cream
2 drops grenadine syrup

Pour the peach schnapps into a shot glass. Slowly add the Bailey's, top with the grenadine, and serve.

Want an Alien Brain Hemorrhage?  Just add a small amount of blue curacao and allow it to settle before adding the grenadine.

Ingredients

Ingredients for Candy Corn Vodka: 

1 1/2 cups vodka

1/2 cup candy corn

add the candy corn to a mason jar and pour the vodka over it.  Close tightly and allow it to sit for 5 days out of direct sunlight.

Candy Corn Martini

5 ounces of Candy Corn Vodka

1 ounce of vanilla Vodka

2 ounces Orange Liqueur

The Juice of 1/2 a lemon

Candy Corn (for a garnish)

Directions: Mix the candy corn Vodka, the vanilla vodka, the orange liqueur and the lemon juice together.  Shake over ice and add to your glasses.  For an extra  snazzy look, pour the mixture over candy corn at the bottom of the martini glass.  

What are your favorite Halloween drinks?

Philly Cheesesteak Stuffed peppers

This dish is fantastic and naturally gluten free.

8 oz. Thinly Sliced Roast Beef

8 Slices Provolone Cheese

6 oz.  Mushrooms

2 Large Green Bell Peppers

1 Medium Sweet Onion

2 Tbs. Butter

2 Tbs. Olive Oil

1 Tbs. Garlic – Minced

Salt and Pepper – to taste

Gluten Free Mac and Cheese Recipe

Ingredients: 

4 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon seasoning salt
3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 teaspoon Mustard Powder
4 cups milk
4 Tablespoons Rice Flour
4 cups shredded cheese
1 Box Gluten Free Elbow Macaroni

Directions:

Cook macaroni according to package directions I undercook it by a few seconds.

Drain macaroni and set aside.

Melt butter in medium saucepan.

Add Rice flour to the butter to make a roux.

Mix in the milk

stirring constantly, cook over medium to medium low heat until thickened

Add the Salt, pepper, and dry mustard

Slowly add the shredded cheese into sauce until melted;

Combine cheese mixture with macaroni.

Optional:  For a nice crust to the top of the Mac and Cheese, bake the mixture in a greased pan at 350 for 30 minutes.  

GF Lasagna Recipe

Gluten Free Lasagna
(Not Lactose Free)

GF Spaghetti Hot Dogs

Such an easy and fun GF dinner, this way guarantees that you get the right amount of spaghetti per hot dog piece.  This is a fun child friendly dinner.  Also with the right pasta sauce this is a great way to get some veggies in with the meal.  Personally I like to serve this with salad. 

GF Chicken Nuggets

1/2 cup Gluten Free Bisquick

1/3 cup crushed rice chex

1/2 cup Parmesan cheese grated (or toasted GF Bread crumbs)

1 tsp paprika

1/2 tsp garlic salt (or salt)

1/2 tsp red pepper (optional)

1/2 tsp chili powder (optional) 

1 tsp sriracha (optional) 

3 chicken breasts cut into ½ inch cubes (or other fun shapes)

2 eggs lightly beaten (or egg substitute)

3 tablespoons of butter (or butter substitute) melted

Semi-Homemade Gluten free Eggplant lasagna Recipie

Ingredients

2 medium or large eggplants
¾ cups olive oil
3 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons ground black pepper
1 jar of spaghetti sauce
1 lbs hamburger meat browned
1 clove garlic, minced
1 large container Cottage Cheese
1 cup Parmesan cheese – grated or shredded
2 large eggs – beaten
3 cups mozzarella cheese – grated

Cauliflower Pizza Crust

I started out a journey to learn how to make a decent GF pizza crust.  This led me to using cauliflower.  It worked! It was gluten free, not all that hard to make and it tasted pretty good.  Think of all the calories you are saving?  I used my saved calories on a little extra cheese.  I want to share with you the recipe that I used

Tasty Bites - Review

One of the largest issues with being gluten free is the lack of easy meals.  I am not talking a frozen burrito or a pizza; I am talking easy meals that are quick, healthy, and perfect for the week day.  Tasty Bites has come up with a solution to this.  

Rice Chex treats

I love to snack.  But there is an issue; most of what I want to eat, I can't.  I eat a lot of Rice Chex for breakfast.  This got me thinking: I have fruity pebble treats, why not a rice chex treats? It couldn't taste that different from rice crispy treats.

Gluten Free Butternut Squash Pasta

A great gluten free dinner idea that I found and slightly altered from simply gluten free.  This looked so good, and is a mixture of healthy and comfort food.  

Pineapple Shrimp Kababs

Temperatures have started to rise and that brings to mind a grill day, or at least a lighter meal.  Here is a fantastic gluten free recipe that is sure to please almost everyone (who doesn't have a shrimp hating ward).  I can't wait to start grilling this year.  Sadly, I will have to wait until I have moved. Only then will I have a place to grill.

Split Pea Soup Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 lbs split peas
• 6 cups Chicken stock or water
• 1 pounds ham or bacon
• 2 onions, thinly sliced
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 3 Bay leaves
• 3 stalks celery, chopped
• 3 carrots, chopped
• 1 potato, diced

Gluten Free Okonomiyaki Recipe

I love Japanese food but so much of it now contains gluten.  I finally mastered a way to make this Japanese dish without using gluten.  You will need to have Gluten Free Bisquick and a gluten free soy sauce, also as you know make sure to watch any premade broths.

GF Spaghetti Taco Bake

I was out of ideas and basic go together ingredients and too lazy to go shopping, so I came up with this one.  I was surprised to learn I am not the first; however, this is the gluten free version.

Left Over Taco night Idea!

Being Gluten free means that you can still enjoy many foods.  However, I am not a fan of corn tortillas and many people can't have them.  I ended up making a Fantastic gluten free dish out of taco night leftovers. 

Left Over Easter Candy Ideas

Now that Easter is over with we have a lot of candy that we really don't need in the house, especially if you want to be ready for summer.  So here are a few ideas to help you get rid of the candy.  Also they are slightly better than just eating the candy straight.

A Gluten Free St. Patrick's Day!

This was supposed to post at 6 this morning and for some reason schedule failed me. I checked in to see how everything was doing and noticed that this post still said draft.   So I am posting this now.  Yes it is a little late for St. Patrick's Day seeing as how it is after five pm.  However, I am not going to let my work go to waste.   

Nail Polish: Nail Scribbles

Ever doodle in class and just make a mess out of lines.  Even though you made a complete mess it looks kind of neat.  Did you know that you can do with your nails? This look is based on the coffee designs.  If it works for coffee why wouldn’t it work for nails?