Glutenfree Mac and cheese

Ingredients

300 grams Glutenfree macaroni

6 dl oats cream

1/2 vegetable stock cube

1 pinch of cayenne pepper

1/2 dl chopped parsley

2 tablespoons gluten free bread crumbs

5 dl grated cheddar cheese

Instructions

Turn on the oven at 210 degrees Celsius.

Cook the pasta 1 minutes shorter than according to the instructions.

Cook the oats cream and chunk in the grated stock cube and the cayenne pepper. When it nearly boils, chunk in 4dl cheddar and let it melt. Add the chopped parsley and the drained pasta.

Put the mixture in a gratin dish and spread the remaining cheddar and the bread crumbs over the pasta.

Bake for about 30 minutes.

Dark and sweet glutenfree bicarbonate bread

This bread I found in a book by someone called Eleonora von Essen. She has quite a few good stuff without gluten in her book. The book is though in Swedish, so you need to either be Swedish, have learnt Swedish or be highly motivated to do so. And if you are any of these things, the book is from my perspective highly recommendable.

Or you pick an alternative recipe over here.

Ingredients

4 dl oats flour
3 dl buckwheat flour
2 dl rice flour
1 dl potato flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1,5 tablespoon psyllium husk
4 teaspoons bicarbonate
2 teaspoons salt
1 liter natural yoghurt
1 dl liquid honey
1,5 dl sunflower seeds
2 dl pumpkin seeds
0,5 dl flax seeds
2 dl sultanas
2 dl cranberries cut into small pieces

Instructions

Warm up the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
Put the sultanas and the cranberries in hot water for 5 minutes or until soft.
Mix the dry ingredients and add the yoghurt and the honey.
Add the softened sultanas and cranberry pieces (without the water, of course).

You need two rectangular forms (plum cake like forms). Cover them with baking paper and put half the dough in each.

Bake around 45 minutes. Try to put the forms as symmetrically as possible at the bottom of the oven. It might be a good idea to switch their position after some 30 minutes just to make sure that the bake as evenly as possible.

Towards the end, you can try to lift out the bread from the form. If it feels humid, wait some more minutes before removing it from the oven.

When done, leave the breads cool down on a grill. When still warm, it might feel somewhat sticky but it gets better when it cools down.

Pesto sauce

This is a good recipe for pesto really. It tastes very near the original recipe but is somewhat easier to do. Making this recipy dairy free makes the taste very different from the original recipe unfortunately, but sometimes, you simply do not have a choice, do you?
The pesto can be eaten as a topping to whatever you want, but, of course, the most typical use for pesto is as a sauce for pasta. If you want a gluten free dish, use gluten free pasta. Personally, we use Semper Linguine.

Ingredients

30 grams pine nuts
80 grams basil leaves (I normally use frozen ones, but of course the fresh ones taste more)
2 cloves garlic
1 dl + 1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoons salted pasta water
1/2 teaspoon salt

If you cannot eat dairy, just leave out the parmesan. Otherwise add
75 grams grated parmesan
If you want to be little posh, you can substitute a little of the grated parmesan on pasta with some shaved parmesan as a decoration

Instructions
Just mix everything together. If someone in the family cannot eat dairy, wait to mix the parmesan until the end or leave the parmesan out altogether. Note though that the taste will not be great then.... :/

Quinoa pie crust (egg free and dairy free)

Ingredients
Crust
1 tablespoon chia seeds
3 tablespoons water
4dl cooked quinoa
2dl almond flour
1dl potato flour
50gr milk free margarine
If you can eat eggs and milk/lactose, see the regular recipe.

Instructions
Warm up the oven at 200degrees Celsius.
Put the chia seeds and the water in the mixer and let it be there for some 15 minutes.
Add remaining ingredients in a mixer and distribute it in a pie dish.
Bake the pie crust for 15 minutes.
Use your preferred filling and bake it again for about 40 mins or so depending on the filling.

Quinoa and zucchini dairy-free salmon

I created a recipe that I really loved, but being my baby allergic to dairy products (milk protein), I did a variation of it just for him. It is not as tasty as the original recipe, but I do dare to state that it does taste rather good anyway. If you are though not on an healthy streak, nor allergic to dairy and milk protein, nor scared of fats, it might be a better option to follow the original recipe.

Ingredients

800gr salmon filé
600gr zucchini
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 dl cooked quinoa
1,5 dl oats cream
2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

Grate the zucchini on a large grater. If it is old zucchini, try to press out as much water as possible. If it is small zucchinis, it is not necessary as they do not contain so much water. Fry it in the olive oil and grate garlic into it. Make sure the water from the zucchini is gone and they taste done.
In the meantime, put some olive oil in a form. Cut the salmon in 8 pieces and put it in the form.
Mix all remaining ingredients together with the zucchini and put the mixture on the salmon so it is completely covered by the mixture.
Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.

Quinoa and zucchini salmon

This dish is very very tasty. I found a (completely different) recipe that sounded somewhat weird to me, but it inspired me to do something good out of if instead. Here is my suggestion.
If you are scared of fats, are on a healthy streak or are allergic to dairy or milk protein, you can follow my dairy free alternative, which is also quite good (but not as tasty).

Ingredients

800gr salmon filé
600gr zucchini
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 dl cooked quinoa
2 dl creme fraiche
2 dl grated parmesan
2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

Grate the zucchini on a large grater. If it is old zucchini, try to press out as much water as possible. If it is small zucchinis, it is not necessary as they do not contain so much water. Fry it in the olive oil and grate garlic into it. Make sure the water from the zucchini is gone and they taste done.
In the meantime, put some olive oil in a form. Cut the salmon in 8 pieces and put it in the form.
Mix all remaining ingredients together with the zucchini and put the mixture on the salmon so it is completely covered by the mixture.
Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.

Broccoli pasta

One day you get up hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Or actually, you do not get up at all. You simply lie down hungry. Hungry. Hungry. You start reading Elle À la Carte, Swedish Edition. Nooot a good decision. End of the story, you are just forced to cook something out of it. Not necessarily the healthiest recipe, you might guess....

Broccoli pasta

 Anyway. Here is the result of my cooking activities: a broccoli pasta! Not really as it was described in the original recipe, but well... If you want the original one, go buy Elle À la Carte. It is a wonderful and inspiring newspaper anyway.
The pasta was rather good. Not a carbonara, but well....

Ingredients 

For 1 (hungry) person
1 clove of garlic
2 tablespoons of sunflower seeds
2 tablespoons of olive oil
3 anchovy filés
200gr broccoli
1/2 stock cube (I actually would use salt instead)
1/2 lemon (zest and juice)
Salt
1/2 tablespoon of olive oil (to top the pasta with)
3 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese
100gr pasta (I used spelt spaghetti, but probably any whole wheat spaghetti or linguini would be good)

Instructions

Boil the broccoli in pieces with some salt water until they are done. Spare the water from the broccoli.

Mush the anchovies and the garlic and let them melt in the oil at medium temperature in a frying pan. Then add the sunflower seeds until they become a little more golden.

Add the broccoli. Add the lemon zest and the lemon juice, some of the broccoli water and also the stock cube. Personally, if I cook this pasta again, I will use salt instead! The stock cube just gives that artificial tone to everything...

I reused the broccoli water to cook the pasta, just to spare some energy and time maintaining some of the broccoli taste and vitamins, if you get what I mean...
When the pasta was done, I just sealed it but kept the pasta water, threw the pasta in the pan and mixed it together with the dressing.
Added the parmesan and some of the water to help the creaminess of the pasta. At the end, added necessary salt and the half spoon olive oil.