That’s what we had for supper tonight. My kiddos didn’t like the Thai sauce…it was quite spicy so one of them just had Bragg’s Liquid Aminos on his beef and then had peas instead of broccoli and one of them just had plain beef and peas. I was inspired to try something like this after watching JJ Virgin talk about low carb dinners on About.com. I’ve heard JJ before on the SavingDinner podcast. I listen to that a lot and have learned so much! Anyway, JJ was talking about using Red Thai sauce over veggies and chicken to make a yummy dinner. I only had a whole frozen chicken and didn’t have time to thaw and cook it so I used some stew beef instead and added broccoli to the plate. It was quite good! My husband liked it as well so I’ll probably make it again. : )

Here’s the recipe for the Red Thai Coconut sauce:

½ cup canned tomatoes

grated Coriander about 3/4-1tsp

1tsp Cumin

1tsp Ginger

1TB +1tsp Xylitol

1TB lemon juice

3TB coconut milk

1TB chili powder

1/4tsp cinnamon

8 jalapeno pepper slices out of the freezer

¼ cup shredded coconut…I have Bob’s Red Mill dried so I added a bit of water and warmed it in my toaster oven before I added it.

Puree all in food processor.

I use the word “Thai” very loosely seeing as how I am not an expert of Thai food. I should probably say it is “Thai inspired”

I also made Elana’s coconut flour muffins but instead of using cranberries, I used blackberries. Yum!

Yum! I made an all gluten free supper tonight. I usually don’t make “bread” with our suppers but my husband loves it so tonight I made some garlic cheese biscuits. I adapted a recipe off the back of my Bob’s Red Mill sorghum flour bag. They have a great gluten free scone recipe that my family all likes. I left out the sugar and raisins and added garlic powder, onion powder and cheddar cheese.

I get my Bob’s Red Mill sorghum flour from Vitacost.com. It is fairly reasonable for a gluten free flour – comparable to the bulk organic buckwheat groats that I get from a health food store for 2.00/lb.

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cup sorghum flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp sea salt

1 tsp xanthan gum

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese (approx)

1/2 cup coconut milk (cows milk should work fine too) or 2/3 cup plain yogurt (I had to add dashes of coconut milk until the dough barely held together…you don’t want it to be too wet)

4 TB cold butter cut into 1/2 inch slices

1 large egg, beaten

Directions:

Mix dry ingredients. Cut butter into dry ingredients.  Add cheese. Add beaten egg and milk. Mix all together and mash a bit with your hands until the dough forms a ball. Turn out onto cutting board and press until 1/2-1″ thick. Cut out with biscuit cutter or ring for a mason jar. Place on cookie sheet or stone. Bake at 400 degrees for 12/15 minutes. MMmmmmm….

My entire supper menu was gluten free salmon patties, organic steamed green beans and gluten free garlic cheese biscuits. I used the Salmon Dill Burger recipe from Elana’s The Gluten Free Almond Flour Cookbook. I used lemon juice instead of lemon zest, minced garlic instead of dill, almond meal instead of almond flour and canned salmon instead of fresh. I love this recipe, though. The almond meal gives it a crunch when fried! I love to use grassfed beef fat to fry in…SO GOOD!!!

This weekend we went to a birthday party and the cake was not going to be gluten free so I needed to come up with something else for my kiddos to eat. I had some GF brownies in the freezer leftover from the Super Bowl but I thought they might like to try something new. So I was at EarthFare and found these great little GF ice cream sandwiches. They are made with almost all organic ingredients. What I didn’t realize until just now is that they are made in a facility that uses wheat. : ( We’re still pretty new to the gluten free journey. I’ve been doing it for a year now and the boys have been 90% for a year but I’ve just started in the last month with a strict gluten free diet. I try to read labels carefully but sometimes my eyes and brain just get tired. I know some Celiacs don’t get reactions from stuff made in facilities that use wheat and some do. My boys aren’t Celiac that I know but I’m trying to be as careful as I can without being obsessive.

Anyway, the ice cream sandwiches were really good and the boys were glad to have them when everyone else was eating cake. I’m on a no sugar diet so I just ate my cucumbers and buckwheat pancakes. : ) I do love being able to have stevia. I especially love Sweet Leaf’s flavored stevias.  I just ordered the berry and grape flavors from iHerb.Ok…”Squirrel” : )

Details: Julies Organic Ice Cream Glutenfreeda Gluten Free Organic Cookes. $5.99 at Earth Fare for 4 sandwiches. Total 14oz. www.juliesorganic.com