1 C of Ghiradelli semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 C of Smart Balance Vegan butter
2 eggs
1 C packed light brown sugar
1/2 C sweet rice flour
1/4 C brown rice flour
1/2 t sea salt
1/4 t baking soda
2 t vanilla

Preheat oven to 350

Microwave the chocolate and butter till melted and mixed together.

In a mixing bowl beat the eggs on medium high till frothy. Add the brown sugar and beat until mixture is smooth.

Add the melted chocolate mixture slowly into the egg mixture, then beat for a good min. It will look smooth and glossy. Add vanilla and beat again.

In a bowl combine the dry ingredients, whisk together. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and beat for a min.

The batter will seem too runny, but it's perfect, trust me. Then add extra chocolate chips or nuts. Bake for 33-35 min.

These taste better if they have been sitting awhile. Especially the day after cooking them. Enjoy!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I know I'm doing a lot of pumpkin these days, but it is the fall. So here is another awesome recipe. I originally got it from Allrecipes.com. It's Pumpkin Cookies IV, but after looking it over I made a few changes.


1 t baking soda
1 t gluten~free baking powder
1 T ground Cinnamon
1 T pumpkin pie spice
1 C sweet white rice flour
3/4 C potato starch
1 t salt
1/2 C butter flavored shortening
1 C brown sugar
1/3 C sugar
1 t vanilla
1 C canned pumpkin
1/2 C chocolate chips


1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. sift dry ingredients together. In a separate bowl cream the shortening and the sugars. Then, add pumpkin and vanilla. Add the dry ingredients and chocolate chips. Beat till smooth.
3 place on prepared cookie sheet and flatten a bit with your fingers. Batter will be sticky.
4. Bake 9-12 min.







Even Mckenzie liked them. She took one and hid in her Thomas tent.

Look at that smile. Now that's a happy kid with a gluten free cookie, and she doesn't even need to have gluten free.

Pumpkin Bread

1 (15 oz) can pumpkin
4 eggs or egg substitute
1 cup canola oil
2/3 cup of water
3 cups of sugar
3 1/2 cups of gluten free flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cloves - optional
1/4 tsp ground ginger

Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Spray with cooking spray three 7 x3 inch loaf pans.

In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water, and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.

Bake for about 50 min in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

I gave this to a lady I visit teach and she couldn't tell the difference. It's really good, maybe because all fo the sugar!

White Chicken Chili

1 onion chopped
3 cloves of garlic crushed
1 (4 oz) can of chopped green chilies
4 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground dried oregano
1 tsp ground cayenne pepper
4 cups of water
4-5 chicken bullion chicken cubes
3 cups chopped cooked chicken breast - I just used a rotisserie chicken from Costco
3 (15 oz) cans of great northern beans
1/4 c corn starch

First I spray a pan with cooking spray and saute the onion and green chilies. Then, I add the corn starch and mix it up. It will be very clumpy, it's ok. Next, add all the ingredients to a crock pot and keep on low for about 5 hours. Sometimes I keep it on high for about an hour and then turn it to low till it's time to eat. Really good with blue corn ships.

Gluten Free Flour

1C Corn Starch
1C Tapioca Flour
1C White Rice
1 TBS Potato Flour

Always add 1 tsp of xanthan gum per cup used.

I double this and mix it up in a Tupperware and keep it in the refrigerator.

Here we go

So, a few months ago I was asked to cut things out of my diet because of symptoms I've been having that were getting worse and worse. It all started well back before I was married. I've always had bad eczema on my hands. Sometimes I would eat things and then just break out in hives. Then, things got worse after I had Mckenzie. I started to have this horrible cough. I mean it was horrible!!!! I was driving Ryan crazy at night. I even got stress fractures in a rib whil I was training for a half marathon from coughing so much when I ran. It was crazy!

So, now that we have decent insurance I thought I'd go to a dermatologist for the eczema. She said it was a caused by a food allergy. She also found out about my coughing and became more certain it was a food allergy. So, she gave me certain foods to eliminate every month. Next month is eggs! Ahhh.

My New Blog

I've started this blog because I was recently told that I needed to eliminate some things from my diet. Last month I took out dairy. This month I had to add gluten to it and wheat. Not as easy to do as the dairy. So, I thought I would jot down some thought of this journey along the way. This has been a complete life style change. I had to do this a bit when I was nursing Mckenzie, but I knew that after I was done I could dive into a supersized banana split. I'm afraid those days are over. I thought I would post some of my recipes that I've been making lately.

If anyone has any recipes that are dairy and gluten free please let me know:)