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Gluten Free with a side of Paleo for the everyday kitchen.

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Gluten Free Steak Stir Fry

Steak Stir Fry

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What a weekend it has been! Our refrigerator decided to it didn’t want to work right anymore. Why? Because when everything decides to go wrong it does. Thankfully it ended with the fridge. However, I am not going to jinx it. We also have another fridge downstairs so we were blessed this time! Besides I get to tell you about this awesome gluten free steak stir fry! 

Anyways, I have had to cook a lot of food because of that incident and I had about 1 1/2 pounds of steak that I had no idea what to do with but maybe make food for the dogs… Yeah I though that would a bit of a waste too….

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Gluten Free Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies

The BIGGER the BETTER! 

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Why is everything bigger always better? In the store if you buy the bigger quantity of something it is always cheaper, more affordable and of course it lasts longer. Or, what about in the bakery the muffins are always bigger than when you actually make them at home. I mean hello, why can I not make them that way? (unless you have a giant muffin tin of course!) My point is that usually bigger is better and these giant chocolate chip cookies filled with chunks of chocolate and yummy goodness are seriously the bomb diggity ( I heart someone say that once so it is definitely a thing!). 

Who doesn’t like giant chocolate chip cookies? Big, chocolaty, sweet, soft and warm (if they are fresh!). All of the things I look for in my perfect relationship; well my relationship with sweets that is. I have always been more of a cookie or bar person with the exception of my mom’s Texas Sheet cake which is to die for! Otherwise, I would rather reach for a cookie or 2 because they are so easy to grab and eat. No hunting for a knife to cut with and fork to eat with. I do not even want to get into the mess of what a cake can make. …

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Gluten Free Hush Puppies

It’s a Southern Thing 

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And by Southern I mean it truly is awesome too! Hush puppies are a delicacy of the South and prone to being served with fish and by golly are they amazing! 

I am from Florida originally. You know, the place that is so South it is North? Why? because most of the people that live there today are from Northern states that go to retire and never be cold again! Florida also has some of the best fresh seafood and fish ever! However, everywhere you go it is just different. 

Here in North Carolina they don’t ask you if you want sweet or non iced tea because well everything is sweet. We go to a great seafood restaurant here where I live where everything is either fried or served with something fried and you may not exactly know what it is but it is fried so people eat it anyway….

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola Bars

 

Any Chocolate Peanut Butter Lovers? 

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Currently sitting here eating one of these scrumptious chocolate peanut butter granola bars as dessert after dinner and thinking, man these are so darn good! 

We always try to have these types of snack around opposed to chips and cookies because us as a family (by family I mean John, my boo, my mom and I) are trying to steer clear of processed foods. SO much harder than it looks trust me! Especially when you want those french fries so bad but it will probably take you a century to make them because your left handed and everything just takes longer. I have put a lot of thought into this! 

Regardless though these are my obsession and i would prefer these over french fries any day. Unless I get myself a spiralizer and make those amazing curly fries that I saw on Facebook a little while ago. Then it would be some massive competition but right now in my after dinner bliss I am totally in heaven with these chocolate peanut butter granola bars chilling, half eating, on my little round saucer as my dog stares hopelessly trying to thinks of way to look cuter so she may get some….

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Gluten Free Banana Streusel Muffins

I am going Bananas! 

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Bananas for these banana streusel muffins! Yes I am! Corny? Yeah, probably, but I am serious though! I have had one of these for breakfast everyday since I made them this last time. Pretty darn good if I do say so myself. 

A few weeks back my mom asked me what I wanted her to do with these overripe bananas. So, like any baker I told her to freeze them and I would find something to do with them. A couple days later I was planning posts for my amazing audience and I had this bright idea: How about banana muffins? YES! And these banana streusel muffins were born. 

I must say I am rather proud of myself about using things out of the freezer because I am just like everyone else when it comes to remembering that they are in there. I don’t then they are freezer burnt and I have to throw them away. Happens quite often, but I am getting better at it!! …

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Gluten Free Garlic Parmesan Crackers

I ♥ Garlic and Parmesan!

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Easily the best food combination. Right up there with peanut butter and banana, and cereal and milk (serious try a PB and banana sandwich!). So it is naturally fitting that these garlic parmesan crackers would make it to my little cut of the internet!

Garlic and Parmesan is seriously a combination that just about anyone enjoys! From spaghetti, pizza, garlic bread with cheese on top and of course the ever popular chicken parmesan it is something that just makes us think of big amazing dinners that you leave feeling so super satisfied and so sleepy afterwards. I PROMISE  these garlic parmesan crackers will not do that to you, but they will make you think to grab some tomato soup and throw them in!…

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Oriental Ginger Dressing

Quite the dressing or dip!

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Your salads will never be the same after you make this amazing oriental ginger dressing! It tastes very similar to the dressing a top the ever famous oriental chicken salad from Applebees that I am constantly craving!  However, this one is not bottled and shipped all across the united states and is fresher too!

How many of you crave salads? I think I crave salads mainly because of the dressing. I have always loved having a salad especially if it has ranch anything on top. My favorite dip was ranch, my favorite dressing was ranch and if there was a flavor of ranch on chicken I am pretty sure I would love it. Then I became slightly lactose intolerant. Slightly mean I could still eat it but if I had one teaspoon too much my stomach would certainly let me know about it….

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Gluten Free Avocado Egg Rolls

It’s Guacamole Roll Time! 

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Okay, so not my best work on the puns, but these avocado egg rolls are off the chain!  

Seriously, OFF the CHAIN! I am secretly singing that to myself as I take a bite into my last one that I have made from this batch. 

Are you a lover of avocados? Well you are among a great friends here as avocado is my most favorite fruit that doesn’t go into a fruit salad ever! Yes, I had to say it. I only wish I could grow an avocado tree in my backyard, but since there is snow on the ground here yearly (about 5 inches) they will not thrive and house avocado trees do not bare fruit. I guess I will just have to move somewhere more tropical, darn… haha!  …

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Gluten Free Egg Roll Wrappers

It’s Totally a Wrap(per)!Gluten Free Egg Rolls Wrappers

Yes, I am just full of puns today! Mainly because it is Friday and also because I am so happy to have a recipe for gluten free egg roll wrappers! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am patting myself on the back literally.

Are you a huge fan of egg rolls? Maybe you are but have recently had to change your diet for health reasons, or other reasons. It is a huge feat for me to have this in my recipe repertoire because I could probably make these every week and eat egg rolls all the time.

The first time I made egg rolls, they were extremely yummy, yet super messy. I am not going to even lie when I say to you that it is a mess then it probably is. I have since perfected my egg roll boogie and use so many less dishes now, but the fact remains that they are still yummy!…

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