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I have a whole lot of fall goodness in the works right now.
We had a 100 degree day this week, needless to say it almost took away my Fall Mojo.
But cooler days have returned and so has the itch to cozy up the house and make some Fall stuff.
But before I get ahead of myself, I have had so much fun looking at some of the fun fall DIY’s and noms we have made the past few years! [Read more…]
Oh yeah….
It’s about to get really cheesy up in here.
And…
Gluten free y’all!
I LOVE THIS RECIPE, there I did my all caps and freaked out a teeny bit about how super easy and kid friendly this skillet dinner is.
I love pasta, but pasta does not always love me back so much. So I use gluten free pasta, and make something sensitive tummies and hard-core-wheat-tummies can eat too.
This is a 30 minutes or less recipe and there were no traces of this cheesy goodness on my family’s plates when we finished.
That is always a good sign right?
Even before breaking up with gluten six years ago, I had tried numerous times to create a crispy and sweet version of one of my restaurant faves.
Each time it was ok, the sauce was pretty good but the chicken pieces were kind of……meh.
Not great and I would eat it of course but not be thrilled.
UNTIL NOW Y’ALL!
Since making this a few weeks ago the fam has requested it over and over.
So I have had to get creative and use BBQ dipping sauce and a few other things to make this crew of chicken fans happy. [Read more…]
I love noodles, cover them in a million different sauces or leave them buttered with some parsley and you can count me in.
And what’s better than combining a delicious peanut sauce with tender pieces of chicken?
Well you could make it gluten free.
And make it in less than 30 minutes.
Now we’re talking, and this dish is so darn good.
I love the flavors of combining the peanut butter with sesame oil. This has become a dish my family asks for often and when the ingredients are easy to pull together and dinner is on the table that fast….I am more than happy to oblige.
Plus, if I haven’t said it yet, I LOVE THIS DISH SO MUCH. And so does my gluten-intolerant tummy.
We are both happy and full, and even better, you can make a big batch and nom on this for lunch the next day.
Yep, everyone will think you were in the kitchen forever, and that you are a master of noodles and peanut sauce.
It’s ok, I won’t tell anyone how easy this is if you don’t.
Let’s COOK!
Peanut Noodles with Chicken
Ingredients
Cook and drain pasta according to directions.
In a bowl combine peanut butter, sesame oil, canola oil, orange juice, rice vinegar, soy sauce and chili oil. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Toss cooked chicken, pasta, and peanut sauce together, fill your bowls and top with sliced green onions and chopped peanuts if you like.
Serves 4-6 main dish servings
Voila! You are done and can enjoy a great meal with family and friends, and not spend all evening in the kitchen either.
Stay crafty-
xo, Tanya
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We use our slow cooker year round, in the summer a big pot of pork carnitas or baked beans keep the kitchen cool by avoiding turning the oven on.
And in the fall and winter…well…it’s a slow-cooker-palooza every week and I find myself using ours at least three times a week if not more.
I love to make big batches of beef chili, spaghetti sauce to freeze and homemade refried beans in my slow cooker. Beans seem to work their way into many dishes as they are a great source of protein, easy on the budget and really good for you.
I decided to do a little use-what-you-have cooking before we went on our monster Costco and Winco shopping trip recently. I like to do a quick re-organize of my pantry shelves and deep freezer so things don’t get “lost” in the back and never used, and so I stock up but avoid over-buying. Which is very easy to do at Costco.
I saw that I had some frozen chicken breasts, and canned white beans, along with a can of green chilies in hand I knew I had the makings for a belly warming pot of good for you white chicken chili. [Read more…]
We just came up with this little number this weekend and I had to share.
Not only is this a refreshing, crisp glass of apple pie with a kick, but this will keep those tootsies warm on cold nights too.
I love a quick seasonal drink that I can throw together for friends to enjoy, and this little apple concoction is just what we need for some relaxing late Fall entertaining. And by late Fall I mean some of my Christmas stuff is up and it’s beginning to look a lot like Santa’s Workshop up in here. [Read more…]
Rice seems like an easy enough thing to make.
For whatever reason, mastering how to cook rice has eluded me.
I love it, it’s gluten free (yay, makes grumpy tummies happy) and easy on the budget.
Enter my desire to make Spanish Rice.
I thought it was the recipe, so I tried every single recipe out there. And I have had zero success in achieving the fluffy, non-sticky rice at our favorite Mexican restaurants. [Read more…]
I don’t know about you, but when the watermelons begin to come into season I get giddy.
Especially when the first wave of semi-anemic looking melons have passed and the big, juicy watermelons we have waited for are ready to be brought home.
I live in the Pacific NW so many of our watermelons come from the Yakima Valley and Hermiston, OR.
We may not be growing any watermelons in our teeny garden this year, but I will share a few pictures of what we are growing.
Have you planted and grown fruits and vegetables with your kids? This is really our first year and they are loving it! They loved picking out the seeds, tilling up the soil, planting and even tending them (yes, the part that I thought would go to the wayside first) I think I am having more fun watching their excitement than if I were doing all the gardening myself!
I used to think I could not grow anything, and if someone gifted me a plant I thought to myself “I give this one three weeks.” [Read more…]
I have to admit in all honesty that the sound and idea of making “noodles” with anything other than good old fashioned pasta (even gluten free pasta!) I was unsure about at first.
After receiving a vegetable slicer for Christmas, I knew that this would be my next low-carb, gluten free project.
And they are yummy.
I am a convert and I am not sure I will miss pasta now that I can sneak even more veggies into my own diet (yes, almost 45 years old and I have to trick myself to eat more of them.)
This is any easy recipe so I am not even going to use that fancy little recipe thing on the blog today (I am trying all kinds of new things!)
Here is what I used to make my Sesame + Siracha Zoodle Salad (this serves 2) [Read more…]
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I bet you wondered if I was ever going to write again…it’s been a while and oh have I missed y’all!
I took a little break while adjusting to some new and exciting changes in life, but I still had time to make us some gluten free yumminess.
![](<a%20href="http://soch.us/Y51C-4lHvh" rel="nofollow">Mission Foods</a> ‘>Mission was coming out with two new type of flour tortillas, the first a new gluten free FLOUR, yes, you read that correctly flour tortilla and also Digestive Health Tortillas with probiotics for sensitive stomachs. I couldn’t wait to make one of my all time favorite homemade chicken dishes, that I have missed so much since gluten and I had to break up.<br />
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<p>These are easy y’all, hardly even a recipe but check out how they turned out, and yep, they tasted AMAZING!</p>
<p>I have tried probably every gluten free bread, gluten free flour, and pretty much gluten free everything on the market, and these are wonderful. I was curious to see if they would hold up when rolling them tightly with the shredded chicken in them. And when I used a wooden skewer to secure them along the bottom. And when I fried them. Yes to all, and they were heavenly. <a href="https://www.twelveoeightblog.com/2015/03/gluten-free-chicken-flautas-2.html#more-2825" class="more-link">[Read more…]</a></p>
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