Lori's Pineapple Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast

   OOOOO, still delicious after all these years.  Today the Over-60 Mermaids and I celebrated the holidays by hosting a holiday swim party and the theme was breakfast.  There were divine delights in fruits, casseroles, breads and coffee cakes.  I hauled out and dusted up this old stand-by and she showed well!  I even heard the phrase, "best in category."  It's a keeper.   

  

This can be adapted to any size serving. Use pineapple cream cheese, or make your own with crushed pineapple added to cream cheese. Spread between two slices of GF bread. (I used Bette Hagman {Praise Be Her Name} Basic Millet Recipe) (My non-gf friends love that bread straight.) Pour egg mixture over toast in a 9x13  pan and bake.

It is so delicious!

reposted from 2-2-9

Actual recipe coming tomorrow, when I'm home for 10 more minutes than today!!! Reposted from 2-2-9

1 8 oz container soft cream cheese (pineapple flavored or chop pineapple into cream cheese  to make your own)

16 oz. loaf g-f bread, sliced

4 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter, melted.

Spray a 9x13 pan, with cooking oil.  Spread cream cheese on bread and press two slices together in a sandwich.  Place filled sandwiches into the baking dish.

Beat all other ingredients together and pour over sandwiches in dish.  Let stand for 10 minutes or refrigerate overnight.
 
Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown and firm.

GF Gingerbread Waffles

Waffles are easy to modify.  Most spices can be added to g-f mixes to make them even more seasonally flavorful.  I recommend peppermint--either oil or ground-up candy canes.  Pumpkin pie spice or  add cranberries.  Be courageous!  

Found this recipe in Family Fun and couldn't resist modifying it for GF.

1 egg

2 Tbs. oil

2 Tablespoons molasses

1/4 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup milk

1 tsp ginger

1/4 cup flax meal (opt. but healthy)

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1 cup GF pancake mix. (I used my more frugal version, but Bob's, Pamela's, GF Pantry are all supposed to be good.)

I sprayed my griddle and baked on a normal setting. Makes 4 regular sized waffles.

Muy bueno, deliciouso, delicioux!

G-F WAFFLE Love Copycat Recipe

Food Traditions 
Delicious Danish Breakfasts   

We are at least 25% Danes and so we love that delicious food.  

Waffles for Christmas morning and although my regular recipe is delicious and easy, I thought that we needed something terrifically spectacular!   So it's Love.  

It's WAFFLE LOVE!  (See the facebook site for a delightful video of baking one.)

So here we go!  A g-f rip-off of my favorite food truck that once visited Tulsa. Article here:   I was so jealous of the guys gobbling one of their creations that I resolved there and then to make my own gluten-free!

The secret to the love is that it's a DANISH WAFFLE called a LIEGE Waffle.   I think that means more fat and sugar than any other you have ever eaten!  But the secret is the large-grained sugar that crystalizes and puffs the dough into a thick, delightful and decadent crust.

If you get to Provo, Utah, I recommend going to their shop and enjoying the real thing.  They do gluten-free waffles at the store.  Meanwhile, at home we make our g-f version.

ingredients

• 3/4 cup warm milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons yeast
• 2 large eggs, lightly whisked
• 1/2 cup melted butter, softened
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla
• 2 cups gluten-free flour (I used my healthier grain mix)
• 1 1/2 cup potato starch 
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup pearl grained sugar

instructions

1. add the 1 1/2 teaspoons of sugar to the milk and water and add the yeast, stirring to combine. allow the yeast mixture to proof, or get foamy and puffy.
2. in a large bowl, beat together the butter and the honey. add the eggs and vanilla. stir together and add the yeast mixture. Place in a standing mixer with the dough hook and add 2 cups of flour and the potato starch. mix until the dough is thoroughly incorporated, 
3. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rest for up to 4 hours on the counter, or up to 24 hours covered with plastic wrap in the fridge. the dough will need to sit on the counter and come back to room temperature before baking. Right before baking, fold in the pearl sugar. scoop into 8 to 10 balls and gently place on waxed paper to raise. 
4. When the dough ball has rested for 15 minutes, pick up the paper and plop the dough off onto a medium hot, greased waffle iron.  Close and cook until golden brown and serve with nutella, butter, jam, or whipped cream and fresh berries.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Grandma Helen's Sausage quiche

Last posted 2-09-09  So it is time to pull out the recipe and make it again--and take a new photo.    Yum.

1 lb mild sausage cooked (not links)
6 eggs (slightly beaten)
2 c. milk
1 tsp salt
1 tsp dry mustard
6 slices bread, cubed (no crust)
1 c. grated cheddar cheese

Mix all ingredients and put in a 9 x 13 pan. Let stand refrigerated overnight. Cook at 350 for 45min-1hr.

Once again standard recipe using Bette's Basic Millet bread. Not dry, just delicious.

Crispy Cinnamon Granola

Okay this is the best granola I've eaten for a long time. It came from a sister who got it from a friend who got it somewhere off the internet... who knows, but thanks whomever. 

 3/4 cup brown sugar

 1/3 cup water 

1/3 cup oil 

1/2 tsp salt 

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon 

1 tsp. vanilla 

 Boil these ingredients two minutes pour over dry ingredients and bake one hour at 300 degrees. 

 1/4 cup brown rice flour 

1/4 cup millet flour 

1 cup GF corn flake cereal 

1 1/2 cup GF rice crispy cereal 

1 cup sliced almonds 

1/2 cup pecans, chopped

 3/4 cup coconut 

1/4 cup sunflower seeds 

1/4 cup flax seed cracked

Sometimes I substitute pumpkins seeds (pepitos) or add hemp seeds and chia.  It's easy to make it everything I want to eat for breakfast.  

G-F Crepes

 Ah, delicious crepes for Sunday breakfast that are so simple.  Couldn't be better.  Use your favorite crepe recipe and just swap out the flour for a g-f alternative.

1 egg
1 cup flour
1 cup milk  (more or less to make a thin batter.)
dash of salt

Stir batter often in between pours in a hot skillet to keep the flour from settling (I used my 10 inch cast iron one that doesn't leave the top of the stove.)

Because crepes are egg-centric, this recipe has no need of added gums to hold them together.  I filled these with jam and served with whip cream and berries.

Wow.

Funny story:  When you are in Hong Kong and trying to use their induction stove tops, and there is not typically enough weight on the bottom of a crepe skillet to trigger the magnetic interaction and the stove will not turn on and the whole group of people are awaiting breakfast and you come up with the brilliant idea of a heavy pot of water under a skillet... anyway long story short--meaning get to the point?

Making Crepes in America really is easy.

Pumpkin waffles

Rats! I can't remember whose g-f site I was on that made pumpkin waffles? I'm sorry, but they looked so yummy and so I had to make some. It just seems the season, leaves falling, a chill in the air, pumpkins splashed on every street corner. Just seems like the environmental thing to do! Recycle some of your own, or use a handy, dandy can of pumpkin.

USE YOUR OWN PANCAKE MIX and add pumpkin, spice and oil.  Be daring.  It's delicious.

I made my standard waffles recipe, (I'll bet any great GF pancake mix would work) but at the end, added a quarter cup of pumpkin and a tsp. of pumpkin pie spice and it was delicious. Make certain you do add 2 tablespoons extra oil or they will stick terribly. (like my first batch).

Pancake Mix

1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tsp. xanthum gum (guar gum)
1 T. whole egg powder or egg replacer
1 T. buttermilk powder (opt.)
2 cups rice flour
1 cup sorghum flour
4 T. sugar
1/2 cup garfava bean, or buckwheat, or whatever flour (optional)

Mix and keep in a tightly sealed container. We use this same mix for waffles.

Summer Squash Quick Bread

We have too much summer squash. After like 10 summer squash dishes and then someone drops some off on your porch and your mother-in-law wants you to pick hers and your plant is just starting to produce, we're in for a serious amount of summer squash. We've sauteed it, frozen it, and hidden it in other dishes...

GOOD NEWS.
SUMMER SQUASH BREAD.

Or cake.






Pictured--I put in half the batter then added marshmallows, pecans and chocolate chips. Then poured the rest of the batter on top.




Easy peasy recipe (you can half it if you don't have as much squash as I did...):

2 huge summer squash,
cut up in a blender with
1 cup of vegetable oil
1/2 cup applesauce
and
3 eggs.

Puree it all, pour it in a BIG bowl and add

1 T baking powder
1/2 t salt
2 T milk powder
1 t baking soda
1/2 c sugar (or less if you want it for breakfast instead of dessert)
1 t guar gum
1 T cinnamon
mix it all with 1 cup flour and then wait ten minutes to see how the texture is turning out. THEN add up to 2 ish cups more GF flour blend (I used my 7 flour blend of rice, tapioca, sorghum, millet, potato, cornstarch, buckwheat, recipe here but I'm sure any blend will be fine)--add last and just look for when it makes a nice smooth cake-consistency batter.
Too wet and it will never cook through. Too dry and it will be chalky.


Mix. Preheat oven 350*, pour it into many multiple greased pans (this made a 9" round AND a big bread pan) and cook for 50 minutes or so. Follow your nose and tap it on top when you think it's done. If it bounces back, get it out and let it cool. Undercooked is nasty and I do not recommend it.

This is an easy bread and I'm guessing it would freeze nicely (if we ever didn't finish it/give it to neighbors, Sunday School classes, and friends).

Citrus Mirepoix

Family Christmas Food Tradition?
Here's another of ours.  

Mr Darcey and I are on our fourth pot of this magnificent food this season.  We can peel and section grapefruit like nobody's business.  I think of it as not only a wonderful food cleansing option for the holidays, but the acid is a nice exfoliate for the fingertips after peeling and sectioning ten of them.

Four large grapefruit, sectioned and defibered.

Four large oranges, sectioned and sliced up.

One can pineapple (or fresh if available) chunks and juice.

Combine these and serve chilled. It's delicious for breakfast. You could serve combined with sparkling water if so inclined.

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Reposted from 5-9-9

A case of handpicked Florida citrus was delivered to my doorstep yesterday. You know, the oranges that are skanky on the outside and ambrosia in the middle. The juice of handpicked oranges is a shotglass of pure sweetness!

It's the end of the season, yet I cannot squander such deliciousness. I dug out a Christmas recipe that will become a transition tradition for our family in May.

-------------------------------------UPDATED HEALTH OPTIONS---------------------------------------------

REALITY BITE:   Or if you have been cycling the fruit through the same juice for a couple weeks, natural fermentation may take place and you can have a little bubbly-ness in the juices naturally.
Fermented fruits are Good For You!

http://www.culturesforhealth.com/learn/natural-fermentation/introduction-culturing-fermenting-fruit/

Reposted from 5-26-09