Tamale Casserole

[harmonic_tabby]

This recipe is an adaptation of one I found on General Mills website.  I decided it was entirely too finicky, so I played around with it and ended up with this pot of yummy.  With a side salad, it will easily serve 5 or 6 people.  You can think of this as mexican polenta, if you like.   

Ingredients:

1/2 cup cornmeal
3/4 cup masa harina ground corn flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 oz. package taco seasoning
1 1/2 cup hot water
1 cup cold water
1 pound ground beef or bulk sausage
2 cans diced tomatoes (14 oz) in juice
1 can whole kernal corn (15 oz) drained
1 can pitted black olives (15 oz) drained and sliced
1 onion (white or yellow) chopped

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Leftovers reheat nicely and I enjoy serving those with a side of refried beans and few spoons of pico de gallo.  

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Recipe: pulla/cardamom rolls

[nerakrose]

I have been making a LOT of my favourite Scandinavian & Finnish comfort foods lately. One of those was a gluten-free version of pulla, which is a sweet roll spiced with cardamom popular in Finland, and I believe Sweden. Luckily (?) there are a lot of coeliacs and gluten-intolerant people in Finland, so there is no shortage of GF recipes for those online, but I still had to adapt to what is available to me here in the UK.

Original recipe @ valio.fi (makes 16 rolls)

My adapted recipe
makes 8 rolls

2 1/2 dl whole milk (I always use lactose free)
1 sachet dry yeast
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 dl sugar
approximately a teaspoon of cardamom*
4 1/2 dl doves farm plain white flour
1 tsp xanthan gum
75g soft room temperature butter

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