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best choclate brownies ever

right sooo you cream together 1 ½ cups white sugar 2/3’s cup of butter and then it should looks some think like thissss

then you add in the whole of 4 eggssss. and mix that up together like this and add 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.

add in your 1 cup of gluten free flour and ½ a cup of cocoa powder and a teaspoon of baking powder.

and the mixture should go nice and choclateyyyyyssss.

then youtake 2 whole bars of choclate and chop them into chunksss

i went with 1 white choc one milk choclate as you can seeee but then i loves the sweet creamyness of white choc.

so you add that in your bowl and mixxxxx. so its all pretty much evenly distrubuted

looks lovely dont it. so now all you need to do is just stick it in a pan and bake it in the oven :D 180c for about 45 to 55 minutes.

rich choclattey gf brownies that are great warm with icecream or are a great treat just on there own

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Coconut Rice

This is an easy side that i make sometimes so that when we eat rice it doesnt always taste the same and we dont get bored of it.

Ingredients

Rice

Creamed coconut

Dryed Thyme

Salt

So you may have noticed ive not included measurements but changes depending on how many people im feeding.... i have a rice measuing cup it ive checked and it fits 100ml of liquid. And i use 1 cup measure per person.

Method

Measure out the amount you need in my case i was cooking for 2people so i did 2cups of rice and then washed wash the rice... acfew years ago there was a big thing where i discoved that some people dont wash rice. Always wash rice people look how cloudy the water is. That is due to excess starch on the rice which causes the rice to be sticky.

So wash the rice change the water and wash it again till the water runs clear.. normally i do it directly in the saucepan but i figured that it would show up better in a photo if i did it in a tupperware.

So then i drained off the water and put the rice in the saucepan.

I then put in 4cups of tap water in the saucepan. I know some people measure it diffrently but this is how i was always taught.

Cut a slice of cremed coconut from the block about 1cm thick per person.. more or less depending on how strong a coconut taste that you want.. i dod a few slices as my block has broke at a funny angle

Add it to the pot of rice and water with 1/2tsp salt and 1tsp of dryed time.

Bring the it to the boil and then turn it down low so that it simmers then in 20mins you will have perfectly cooked fluffy coconut rice. Just give it a little fluff.

#Rice #coconut #Vegitarian #glutenfree #Recpie #cooking

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Crumbless Fishcakesss

Ingredients

80g packet of Instant mash or 300g mashed potatoes

1 tin tuna (145g)

40g Spring onions

1 tbs Lemon juice

1tsp dryed Chives

1tsp dryed Parsley

1tsp Black pepper

1tsp garlic powder

Vegetable or sunflower oil

Vegetable

First off if your using instant mash like me make that up following the instuctions on the packet however you only need to use 300ml on water.

Add in your seasonings, lemon juice and spring onions and mix welll.

Drain your tin of tuna and add it into the mix.

Once it looks like this its time to heat up a frying pan(skillet) while its heating take a table spoons worth of the mixture and roll it into a ball in the palm of your and gently flatten slightly. place each disk on some grease proof papper so its ready when you need it.

Once tge oil is hot place each ball into the oil. Id advise you to cook only 3 or 4 at a time mine ended up too close together and were really hard to flip.

Cook them for 5-6minutes on wach side till they are golden

Remove and place on paper towels so that it absorbs some of tge oil. Then it is ready to serve.

Here i have paired it with a olive and feta salad.

#fish cakes #glutenfree #recpies #cooking #dinner recipes #lunchideas

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Greek styled quesadillas

This is a nice quick easy brunch breakfast which just happens to be vegitarian. Leave out the cheese and it will make it vegan, though im pretty sure that there are some pretty good vegan cheeses which would be very much usable. I personally dont like olives but my boyfriend does.. so on mine i left them out.

Serves 1

Ingredients

2 Glutenfree wraps

40g Baby Spinach

20g cheddar any kind you like is fine.. im using the small bit that was left in my fridge.

20g Feta

30g Chargrilled peppers. You can use fresh bell pepper instead

20g Red onion

6 Olives im using green but which ever tupe is your favorite is fine

So first up you want to rinse your spinach if your using unwashed spinach like me and wrap it in a clean teatowel or paper towels so that some of the water can be dryed off it. Then slice the rest of your vegetables.

You want to slice the onion in half and do thin long slices orr a rough dice.

the olives are fine just bring halfed and thin slices of the pepper.

Sooo now that all your veg is prepped.. grater the cheese or if your lazy like me cube your cheese.

Put a nonstick frying on a medium heat and once warm place your wrap directly on it and then sprinkle with cheese.

Then spread a layer of spinach on top.

Followed by a the peppers, onions, olives and feta.

It should look a little something like this.

Now take your second wrap and place it on top. And let it continue to watm through for 3-4 minutes.

This is the hardest part you need to flip it over without the filling falling out, so that the top wrap can toast for another 2-3minutes.

All tgats left is to slide it out onto a plate and to cut it into quaters and its ready to serve.

#glutenfree #cooking #spinach recipes #recpies #vegitarian #brunch #lunchideas #foodblogger #foodporn #lunch #gluten free

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Spinch onion and ricotta quiche

Its not often that i make pastry myself alot of the time i will just buy the ready rolled genius one but i can only ever find that as puff pastry and not short crust but when i need to this is how i tend to make it.

Serves 3-4

Ingredients

19cm 7.5" diameter 5cm /2.5" deep loose base flan tin

Or 6× 10cm /4" diameter flan tins.

Pastry

200g glutenfree plain flour

100g butter/margarine

4-5tbs water

And for the filling

1 egg

125ml milk

80g ricotta cheese

80g spinich

A Pinch of salt

1tsp black pepper

1tsp garlic powder

1/2 a red onion

Mix the flour and butter till it forms a crumb and then slowly add enough water until it comes together.

I like to turn it out on to some cling film to kneed film so that i know the butter and water are evenly distributed and the cling film helps it to not stick to my chopping board.

At this point i divided it into 6 as i was making individual quiches, so that i know i know how much dough i have to work with for each one.

You can then roll out the pasrty and place in your pan with the aid of your rolling pin.

However its possible to just press a thin layer in your tin which i find so much easier and beneficial to anyone who doesnt have a rolling pin. I am using a non stick tray though so I'm not sure if others may need line your pan with grease proof paper.

Trim the edges of the pastry and pop the tray in the freezer for 10minutes to firm.

While that chills out wilt the spinich and slice your onion and I diced some to incorporate it in to the mixture and and wanted rings to make the top look pretty.

Take the tray out the freezer and using a fork lightly prick the bottom of the pastry sooo any trapped air will easily be released and bake for 10 minutes so you don't end up with a soggy bottom.

While that bakes

mix the egg and milk together and season with salt and pepper then incorporate the diced onions and wilted spinach.

Take the pastry out the oven and you should notice that it has pulled away from the tray slightly that is perfectly normal.

Pour your prepared mixture into the pastry

Then artfully place rings of onion ontop to make it look pretty and bake for a further 20-25 minutes if doing small ones like me or 30-35 minutes if your making a large one.

Pop it out the oven and its ready to serve here ive plated it with some rocket.

#quiche #lunch #recipes #cooking #food #homemade #foodlover #foodporn #vegetarian #Spinach

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spinach and ricotta pasta

This was a quick and simple to make lunch for me and my boyfriend

Ingredients

159g Gluten free Pennè  pasta

80g baby Spinach

60g Ricotta cheese

100g Chargrilled pepper’s

Salt

Black pepper

Garlic granules

Paprika

Chives

Method

In a saucepan bring some salted water to a boil

Add your pasta and turn the temperature down to medium and cook for 8minutes.... or 2minutes less then the packet instructions.

While the pasta is cooking wash your spinach and slice your peppers.

In a bowl mix your ricotta cheese with salt, black pepper, chives and paprika.

Once your pasta is done turn down the heat and pour some of the pasta water into your seasoned ricotta to make a sauce and mix well... pour away the rest of the pasta water.

Add the spinach to the saucepan return it to the heat and stir...

Once the spinach has started to wilt add in your peppers and sauce.

Stir well till everything is evenly coated and serve.

#Gluten free #Vegitarian #Spinach #recpies #lunchtime #foodblogger #food #pastalover #lunchideas #glutenfree

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Usually for valentines me and the boyfriend would go on some kind of adventure, and then have dinner in a nice restaurant with covid about we knew nothing of that kind was gonna happen.

So for valentines day we decided that instead of joining the masses of people ordering fancy takeaway all at the same time we ordered a diy kit.

Sooo we ordered pattie and bun's Jamaican mule kit box for £31 including delivery and were able to choose a delivery date from what was available.

In the morning I was emailed a time slot which was updated and we were able to track the driver as he got closer.

I've visited the restaurant before and they we able to give the option of gluten free buns but with the diy kit it wasn't an option which I was surprised about but I was also surprised to see that there was also a few items not included in the box, tomatoes little gem and ketchup. So I had to go out and buy those but I did forget ketchup its not a sauce we tend to have in the house.

I also realised that there also enough toppings to make 4 burgers so brought some patties from my local supermarket since I was going to have extra buns anyway.

I was surprised about how much oil came from the burgers as I fried them.

Then cut my buns in half and put them under the grill the gluten free ones on the right the ones from the kit on the left.

I then followed the instructions in putting the burger together, which were easy to follow and I was right there was enough for 4 burgers.

My boyfriend had fun making the cocktails and they were tasty easy to make, and we had enough for 4 drinks each.

I served it with a side of fries and coslaw. The patties that came with the kit were soo much more tender and juicier then the supermarket brand i brought. Their smokey mayo is lovely.

#Diy box review #cooking #burgers #Pattie and bun #valentines

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As a fan of chicken wings and alot of the time we order them from our local takeaway.

But I also think its nice on occasion to make your own, you have more control of the spice level and can work out alot better value for money too.

Serves 2 who like winggggsss.

Ingredients

1kg chicken wings

4tsp honey

2tsp soy sauce

2tsp white vinegar

1tsp chilli flakes

2tsp ground ginger

2tsp black pepper

2tsp garlic powder

Method

Preheat your oven to 225°C

To make the wings easier to eat and get a decent coating of seasoning i like to take my meat scissors and cut through the joints segmenting each wing

Create a rub using the onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper and rub it into the meat.

Spread the wings out on to a tray in a single layer use two trays if needed. Like to foil my trays as less likely to need to wash up.

Put the wings into the preheated heated oven for 15minutes

While that's cooking mix the honey, soy sauce, white vinegar, chilli flakes, ground ginger, to make a sauce.

Baste the chicken in the sauce that we've made and return it to the oven for another 20minutes and serve.

I served it here with some fries.

#chicken wings #recipes #cooking #glutenfree #dinner #lunchideas #box lunch

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Banana fritters

I decided to make brunch for valentines but obviously this makes a great dessert and for any kind of day. Often I do make things on the fly and just know what the consistency of it should end up like before cooking and in this case I tasted it up until I added the eggs. My boyfriend is often amazed at how I can go in the kitchen and bake something without a recipe. This time though I took the scales out and made note of the quantities that I used.

Makes 12 fritters

Ingredients

2 bananas

1tsp mixed spice

1/2tsp cinnamon

1/2tsp nutmeg

1 tap vanilla

30g caster sugar

40g soft brown sugar

1tsp baking powder

2tbs milk

140g plain gluten free flour

Vegetable/sunflower oil

Method

First off you need ripe or over ripe bananas... if like me you brought your bananas 2days ago and they are still tinged with green throw them in the microwave for about 30seconds to help soften them up. The picture above was taken after I had microwaved mine so you don't even need to peel them for this. It just makes it soft enough so that your not going to have a hard time mashing them.

Soooo mash your bananas well and add in your spices, sugar and vanilla essence, And mix it well.

Sooo when that's well mixed in add in your flour... if unlike me your not feeling lazy sift it so that you'll end up with a lighter fritter.

As you can see i just dumped my flour in.

Once mixed in I found that it was a tad two thick which is where the milk comes in... you can add the milk in when you added the egg but this when I did it.

So because I was making these for me and my boyfriend and at this point he was still in bed... I'm an early riser and he doesn't usually get up till after 10am so I just left my batter to rest in the fridge until he was up. About 40minutes. Usually batters are left to rest to help the gluten to develop but there ain't no gluten here so technically I don't think its needed. But I'm just letting you know what I did.

Heat up some oil in a large frying pan till its quite hot.. then using a dessert spoon dollop spoon fulls of the batter into the oil. You can tell if the oil is hit enough if you can see bubbles form instantly around your fritters.

When you can see bubbles forming in the batter you can flip one of your accidental drips if its nice and golden like this its time to flip the rest.

Once its golden on both sides take them out and place on some kitchen towel to absorb excess grease.

Once all the batter is done its ready to serve

I drizzled mine in toffee sauce and his with honey and added sliced strawberry to both.

#banana fritters #recipes #glutenfree #breakfast #brunch #cooking recipes #jamaican food #cooking #bananaz #foodblogger #food

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sausage leek and potato stew

Honestly a lot of the time I like to make food that’s easy to make and as a Christmas present I received an instant pot sooo I’m still figuring out the best ways of using it but I think it’s great for one pot cooking as you can brown/sauté your food then pressure cook it for a few minutes and your done.

Anyway on with the recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

6 sausages

4 potatoes

300g leeks

1 onion

4cloves of garlic

Vegetable/sunflower oil

Black pepper

Mixed herbs

Parsley

Stock

You can see im using a wine flavoured beef stock pot and caramelised onion sausages but you can use what ever flavour sausages and stock you enjoy.

Method

Peel and dice the garlic and potatoes

Peel and slice the onion and leeks

Easy right... now if your using an instant pot turn it on in sauté mode and add some oil

If your not heat up a frying pan and add some oil.

Either way once hot you want to brown your sausages. Don't worry bout making sure its cooked though your after colour here.

Once browned you want to remove the sausages and then fry off your garlic and onion and leeks.

If like me your using an instant pot mix your stock as the packaging tells you too and pour it into your instant pot and stir with a wooden or silicone spoon spatula

For both methods you now want to add your sausages and your diced potatoes and season with black pepper and mixed herbs.

I then switched instant pot to pressure cook on low for 10mins and added the lid. Once it was done I opted for fast release the pressure gave it a taste and added more dryed mixed herbs. Some of the potatoes has broken down adding some thickness to the stock.

If your making this in a saucepan add your lid and set it on a low heat for bout 20minutes give it a stir and adjust seasoning to taste.

Serve and topped with parsley... and because my boyfriend enjoys spicyer food then I do i also added chilli flakes to his.

#stew #glutenfree #instant pot #sausage #leek #potato #recipe