Monday, April 25, 2011

Biscuits and Gravy

An easy pleaser!

Ingredients:
1-2 lbs ground beef or pork sausage
4-5 TBSP flour
1 1/2 - 2 cups milk
salt
pepper
chili powder
*1/2 chopped onion (optional)
rolls or biscuits of your choice

Cook your ground meat and set aside (reserving drippings in the pan if using pork). If using onion, saute over medium heat and remove to cooked meat.
Using either the pork drippings or 3-4 TBSP butter, heat in pan and mix with flour. Heat until bubbly and add milk. Stir briefly and let simmer. As it starts to thicken stir more frequently. Season with salt and pepper. When it reaches your desired consistency add the meat and onion. Heat through.
Serve over sourdough biscuits, croissants, dinner rolls or chicken fried steak. Top with chili powder.

**Allergy-free substitutions:
Flour - all purpose gluten free flour
Butter - smart balance or bacon grease
Milk - So Delicious Unsweetened Coconut milk
Serve over Gluten Free Bisquik biscuits or chicken fried steak

You will need to use extra butter and flour with the same amount of milk to get a good thickness to the gravy. Make sure your flour is throughly mixed and bubbling with the butter. Because of the lack of fat in the dairy free milk the texture is not quite as smooth. I also use cayenne cause it's my favorite!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Zucchini Bread

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 TBSP cinnamon
1 egg
1 TBSP vanilla
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter - softened
1 cup zucchini

Preheat oven to 350.
Mix together the dry ingredients and set aside. In a separate bowl mix together the egg, butter, sugar, vanilla and zucchini. Stir in the dry ingredients and pour into a greased loaf pan.

Bake 30-40 minutes.

**Allergy-free substitutions:
Flour - all purpose gluten free flour
Butter - smart balance or coconut oil
Egg - EnerG egg replacer or 1 TBSP ground chia seeds mixed with 3 TBSP water
Can also replace the sugar with honey or Grade A maple syrup