Pesto Pasta
This is one of our absolute favourite meals! Its a great recipe for teens to make for the family!
This recipe is so delicious and has so much flavour!
~ Gluten & Dairy Free ~
4 servings
Pesto Ingredients:
​2 cups of fresh basil
1/2 cup of pine nuts, sunflower seeds, or walnuts (omit if you are on a nut-free diet)
1/2 cups olive oil
2 TBSP of fresh lemon juice
2 TBSP nutritional yeast
1 ripe avocado (optional)
Dash of salt and pepper
Gluten-free fusilli noodles
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1) Put pesto ingredients into a blender (Basil, nuts or seeds, oil, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, avocado, salt and pepper) and blend until pesto is smooth.
2) Boil gluten-free pasta for 7 minutes, rinse under cool water.
3) Stir pesto into noodles. Serve warm.
Makes 4 servings
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These soft and delicious cookies just melt in your mouth.
~ Gluten & Dairy Free ~
Makes 24 cookies
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Ingredients:
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup vegan butter sticks at room temperature
3/4 cup coconut palm sugar
1 egg
3 tbsp unsweetened coconut milk
1 tsp gluten-free vanilla
1 1/2 cups gluten-free flour (Bob Mill's 1:1 flour, brown or white rice flour)
1/4 tsp of xanthan gum
3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup dairy-free chocolate chips
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1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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2) In a medium-sized bowl, add peanut butter, vegan butter, coconut palm sugar, mix with a hand mixer.
Then add in egg, milk and vanilla.
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3) Add in flour, xanthan gum and baking powder, mix then stir in chocolate chips.
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4) Form into 1 tbsp balls, flatten with a fork. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Bake for about 9 minutes.
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Enjoy!! So yummy!!
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This easy summer dinner idea is great on a patio with company!
~ Gluten & Dairy Free ~
Grilled Pork Chop
with Kale and House Salad
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4 portions, 4 pork chops
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BBQ Sauce:
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tsp brown sugar
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Grill pork chops on the first side for 6 minutes, flip and grill for another 6 minutes. Using a meat thermometer, grill pork chops until the pork chops reaches 160 degrees.
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Kale Salad:
1 bunch of kale washed and chopped
1 1/2 cups red cabbage grated or thinly sliced
3 medium carrots grated
3 tbsp veganaise or vegan mayo
Mix and serve!
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Lemon Tahini Salad:
1 head romaine lettuce, chopped
Top with cucumber, avocado or any nuts and seeds. I made Lemon Tahini Dressing for this salad.
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Enjoy!
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The aroma of cinnamon and apples cooking on a fall day!
Cinnamon Apple Sauce
This is a warm autumn treat enjoyed by all ages!
Nut, egg and soy-free!
~ Gluten & Dairy Free ~
Makes 6 portions or 3 cups
Ingredients:
10 apples, cored and chopped.
1 1/2 cups water
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
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1) In a saucepan, on medium to low heat, cover and cook apples, water, sugar and cinnamon until apples are tender. About 20 minutes.
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2) Mash apples with a potato masher.
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3) Serve warm or cold.
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Makes 3 cups
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Tips:
Cortland apples were my Gramma's favourite apples to use for homemade apple sauce.
Some of the best apples to use in apple sauce are Cortland, Crispin, Fuji and Golden Delicious. They are sweet apples just perfect for apple sauce. Gala apples work great too and they keep a bit firmer texture.
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McIntosh apples are also good in apple sauce as they are aromatic, juicy, sweet and tangy-tart. They are a little bit mushier when cooked.
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For this recipe I tried Jonamac apples. I had never had them before. This was by far my favourite apple sauce that I have ever made. It was a perfect texture and wonderful sweet taste.
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