Showing posts with label rice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rice. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

2-Ingredient, Snack-Size GFCF Pancakes

Ingredients

24 Rice Crackers (I used Superstore's plain, "no name" crackers)
3 Eggs

That's it!
I used my "Magic Bullet" and first made the rice crackers into crumbs then blended in the eggs. I spooned the batter into a non-stick frying pan and cooked just til the batter seemed to start firming up, then flipped them over. Watch that they don't burn.
****This recipe only makes 8 very small pancakes, each about 2 inches in diameter. They were perfect with honey!

A few months back, I was craving french toast and didn't have any gfcf bread in the house, so I crunched up some rice crackers, mixed in some eggs, and poured the mixture into egg molds in my frying pan. They were pretty good, and I've turned to that often as an inexpensive french toast alternative.

Today I wanted something more along the pancake line, and since I'm just recovering from some sort of something or other, I knew I needed something with protein that would be light on the stomach and wouldn't take long to make. These worked out to be a perfect solution. Obviously this doesn't work well for families having a big pancake breakfast, but as a snack or as part of a larger meal for 1 or 2 people, these are fantastic.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Birthday!

My son LOVES food. He loves seeing it, smelling it, being around it, touching it, preparing it...and EATING IT!!

For his birthday, he and I decided to do up a birthday buffet. The menu went something like this:

-Homemade Soda bar with 5 different flavours
-Cream Puffs with Creamy Almond Filling
-Double-Chocolate Cashew Cookies
-Brownies
-Homemade Herbed Crackers
-Cashew "Cheese" Spread
-Sliced Red Peppers
-The aforementioned Almond Play-Doh Ball
-Potato Candy
-Parslied Rice with Tomatoes
-Marinated Cucumber Salad

I think that was everything; all gluten-free and dairy-free!
The potato candy was made with icing sugar, so you'll want to check labels if you plan on making some.

Recipes to follow!

Thursday, August 26, 2010

How to Get 90% of your daily Iron, 40% of your Calcium, and 40g of Protein

Superstore's "no name" brand has a "six bean blend" which is a canned combination of various beans.
1 cup provides 15g of protein, 25% of the daily amount of iron, and 20% of the daily amount of calcium.

I also found a brown basmati rice there in a big brown foil bag from India; I'll look for it again next time I'm there so I can tell you the brand name. It is pesticide-free, gmo-free, and certified suitable for vegetarians, and its nutritional value is higher than many of the other rices. 3/4cup cooked provides 20% daily iron, 5g of protein, 2% of daily calcium.

So unless my math is off, doing up two servings of the rice and beans (sometimes adding tomato sauce and/or parsley and/or peas) and eating them throughout the morning provides 90% of the daily iron requirement, 40% of calcium, and 40g of protein.