Coconut Ice cream-Sugar Free

So delicious is now making an ice cream with no sugar added.  It is a dairy- free, sugar- free treat.    I added strawberries to make it event more

delicious.

Popsicles

Summer heats bring summer treats!

I bought Popsicle makers to keep at work and home.  I fill them with sugar free izze drinks or odwala smoothie drinks and freeze them up for a cool treat. 

Spring Smoothies

With the weather finally getting warm, a nice smoothie is delicious in the morning.  The cold of the drink helps wake me up and it is fast and easy.  Costco has frozen fruit with resealable bags so it is easy to take a half cup of fruit, throw in a banana and some unsweetened coconut milk and mix it in the blender.  If I want it extra slushy, like at night when I pretend it is ice cream, I will add some ice.  

I still drink a lot of green tea throughout my day, but it is a nice change to wake up to a cold drink to get my day started-even if it is starting at 11:30a.m.  An added bonus is that my son likes smoothies and is getting a good portion of fruit.

My mother makes green smoothie drinks with whatever green vegetables she has in the house and I haven't yet, and may never, acquire a taste for that.  I am sticking to fruit smoothies for now.

Hot Sausage Curry with Mai Fun noodles

Hot Italian sausage from Costco boiled in hot water for twenty minutes and then baked in the oven to brown. While the sausage is cooking, mix yellow curry paste with two Tablespoons oil and a can of coconut milk. Add vegetables and Mai fun noodles and simmer until soft to taste. Cut sausage and cover with noodles, vegetables and sauce.

Rice Noodles

Rice noodles make great casseroles
Flat Noodles make great pasta dishes with spaghetti sauce and alfredo sauce
Mai fun noodles make good ramen soup and stir fry dishes

Tuna Casserole
Cook rice/gf noodles per instructions and drain
1 can progresso cream of mushroom soup or GF cream of chicken
1 can tuna or canned chicken
Garlic salt/salt/pepper
Stir together and serve or bake it in a casserole dish with cheese on top and crumble Lays brand potato chips on top

Baked Spaghetti/Alfredo
Cook rice/gf noodles per instructions and drain
Add a jar of sauce (Costco has GF, sugar free marinara)
Add hamburger or italian sausage or chicken
Bake in casserole dish 350 for 20-30 minutes with cheese on top or stirred in

Ramen soup
Mai Fun noodles work best
Boil mai fun noodles in broth.  Add salt or flavor as needed.  You can use home made stock or use the better than bouillion chicken broth paste or canned/boxed broth
I like to add frozen stir fry vegetables as well

Stir fry
Cook meat of choice in a big frying pan, drain grease
Add broth (chicken or beef or just water with garlic salt and spices)
Add vegetables (I use a frozen bag of stir fry blend)
Add mai fun noodles or other rice noodles
Cover on low heat and simmer until the liquid is reduced

Curry Noodles
Same as stir fry above using coconut milk and curry paste (check label for GF)
Cook meat of choice and drain.  Add oil of choice and curry paste and then coconut milk (canned or boxed)
Add vegetables and simmer
You can serve over white rice or add the mai fun noodles and reduce liquid


You can use rice noodles or GF noodles for any macaroni salad recipe and it sets up well in the fridge.  Just take your family recipe and replace the noodles with GF noodles or rice noodles.  The rice noodles soak up the flavor over night, so I think it always tastes better the next day with rice noodles after they sit overnight.

Almond Flour Muffins

Almond Flour Muffins (not my own, can't remember where I found it on the internet)
Yields 6-8 depending on how full you fill the tins

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
Mix dry ingredients:
  1 cup almond flour
  1/4 tsp baking soda

Mix wet ingredients:
  2 large eggs
  1 tbsp agave nectar (or honey or sugar to taste)
  1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar

Add whatever you want to the wet mix to make variations according to your taste.
   My favorite: Walnuts, any kind of nuts chopped or whole. Bananas (I use two or three mashed up and mixed in to the wet), frozen fruit like blueberries, fresh apples with cinnamon, home made chocolate chips or savory with bacon or ham with garlic salt and a little cheese mixed in or on top.

Spoon into muffin tins with papers (greasing the tins doesn't seem to work too well).

Bake 350 degree for 15 minutes.
Cool for 1/2 hour

I have used a small bread pan to bake the basic muffin mix as a bread.  Bake for 35-40.

They freeze well and make a good, easy snack for work days.

Graham Crackers made with almond flour and honey

We found a good recipe for graham crackers. We made regular ones and some with cinnamon. I bet adding cocoa would be great also for some chocolatey goodness.