Delightfully Gluten Free

January 16, 2008

One of These Days…

Filed under: Main Dish — Cassandra @ 7:33 pm

I will take a course in photography. My pictures need some serious help. Today’s picture is not very exciting, but the food is! I made a chicken alfredo pizza tonight – it is my absolutely favorite kind of pizza. It’s actually very simple (especially since I use the jarred stuff).

I used the crescent roll recipe – Montina style – for the crust. About a third of the flour was Montina today. At least I can say that I got some good fiber from this dinner, lol.

I chose to make things easier on myself (I thought) and roll it in a rectangle and put it on a cookie sheet. Well, the kitchen fates were not kind to me today, and I kept ripping the thing up. Oh, well. It patted in nicely. I baked it at 350° for 15 minutes, then topped it. I used part of a jar of alfredo sauce, chicken (I used Costco rotisserie chicken) that I cut into tiny pieces with scissors, and mozzarella cheese. It spent another 15 minutes basking in the heat of the oven.

For those of you pizza purists, I’m sorry, but I cut it into squares. The kids were hungry, and all. Braden ate 7 pieces – that was even more than me! He said, “I loooove this pizza!” From the mouths of babes…

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Grady’s Fried Onions

Filed under: Appetizers, Holiday Menu Items — Cassandra @ 3:01 am

I have been waiting to post this for a month and a half! At the beginning of December, my local support group had our annual Christmas party. At one of these parties a few years ago, my friend Grady brought a green bean casserole that he made with onions he had fried himself. I don’t eat green bean casserole – can’t stand the stuff. But these onions were so good I kept picking them off my husband’s plate. So, back to the future, I mean present (or recent past). I show up to the party and Grady hands me this sandwich-sized ziploc container. Truthfully, I was a little puzzled at first (all I could see was paper towel). Boy was I excited to open it up and find it full of the fried onions! He had brought me a whole bunch of them, sans casserole! I sneaked a few and then hid the box in my purse, so as to save them from the other party-goers.

I have finally gotten the recipe from him and his wonderful wife, Kitty. So, without further, ado:

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Grady’s Gluten Free Fried Onions

Ingredients

1 big honking onion (color of your choice)
3 Large eggs (well beaten)
2 cups Brown Rice GF Flour Mix (with xanthan, or add 1/2 tsp)

Seasoning:

1 tsp salt

1 tsp black pepper

1 tsp onion powder

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp paprika

1 tsp cayenne pepper

 

Directions

1. Slice onions into strips (or rings), and place in freezer.

2. In a separate bowl, mix flour and seasoning.

3. Dip a small hand full of onions into the eggs and shake off excess.

4. Place onions in flour/seasoning mix. Coat well. Shake off excess.

5. Place onions back into eggs, and shake off excess.

6. Place onions back into flour/seasoning mix. Coat well. Shake off excess.

7. Deep fry @ 375º for approximately 5 minutes. (until golden brown)

8. Place hot onions on paper towel and salt and pepper to taste.

9. ENJOY

 

As you can probably guess, Carter kept stealing the onions as I was trying to photograph them. I guess a picture really is worth a thousand words (though his word of choice every time he sees that picture is “MMMMM”).

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