Community Guidelines Revised

[runpunkrun]

What a busy first few days we've had! The response has been better than I could have hoped, and I'm thrilled with all the recipes that have already been shared. You folks are doing awesome work.

Now, any time you're planning anything, whether it's a vacation or a war or a comm, you can only plan so much, and when you get there you realize you forgot your toothbrush. With that in mind, we've revised our Community Guidelines slightly to add some stuff we just hadn't considered or accidentally left out.

Here are the highlights:

• one recipe per post
• pictures go under cut tags; keep them under 500 px
• don't override the default settings to change the color or font of your posts

Questions? Ask 'em!

Bean+Veg+Meat+Cheese Choose Your Own Polenta Bowl Bar

[j00j]

Reposting from intro thread at jesse_the_k's suggestion.

Invented by me to feed a family with varying needs/wants, and to be prepped ahead so we can eat fast when we get home from work. Choose your own gluten free adventure, flexible for additional dietary restrictions or preferences. Toddler friendly (can select small amounts of components likely to be accepted)

Ingredients:
- Vegetables-- low effort: Microwave frozen veg. More effort: Roast a pan of veg in advance. This time I roasted precut butternut squash and microwaved some steam in bag spinach.
- Beans-- low effort: open a can of cannellini or chickpeas. More effort: Marinate can of beans in advance in olive oil/italian spices/sun dried tomato/lemon juice.
- Polenta log from the grocery store these are found in the produce section of US grocery stores with tofu and egg roll wrappers, typically.
- 1 jar tomato sauce
- 1 package turkey pepperoni (sub veggie sausage or your additional protein of choice, or omit)
- shredded mozzarella, parmesan, or dairy free cheez.

( how to choose your adventure )

Spiced molasses cookies

[rydra_wong]

Note: these are based on the NaughtyNutrition 10 Minute Vegan Ginger Molasses Cookies with only minor modifications (credit is due to alatefeline for some of the inspiration), but runpunkrun suggested I write them up.

And also they are truly great.

Ingredients:

1 cup almond flour OR 1/2 cup almond flour and 1/2 cup buckwheat flour.

(The all-almond flour version gives a crisp/chewy texture like a brandysnap; the almond/buckwheat version is cookie-like. Both are good, so it just depends on what you want.)

3 tbsp blackstrap molasses
3 tbsp coconut oil
2 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp five-spice powder
1 tsp cocoa/cacao powder (optional)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
orange extract -- I used 1/4 tsp of the Boyajian pure orange oil, which is super-strong, so you'll need to adjust this depending on what you're using

( Read more... )

Choux pastry

[nerakrose]

I just learned that apparently gluten free choux pastry is a very tricky thing, which is a surprise to me because I didn't know that. I've made it several times, with two different commercial flour blends, and it's always come out just fine. (Maybe the trick is that I didn't know it was tricky, so I just did it? Who was it that said 'don't tell me the odds' - Han Solo?)

ANYWAY.

This recipe makes about 30 small puffy things.

Ingredients
150g flour of your choice *
2 1/2dl water
100g butter
1/4tsp salt
4-5 eggs

( the rest of the recipe + photos )