Colt and grey with friends

Colt and grey is a small fab restaurant in Denver, I've been dying to try and worth every bite!!!! Beautiful, tasty and quality! Service a little slow but super accommodating! We ordered small plates, entrees, specialty drinks and dessert. I rolled home! Lol

 Fois gras, sweet breads and bone marrow = amaze! My duck breast was ridiculously delish, the lamb was sooo good and roast chicken served with the best risotto I've ever had!!! A sharp cocktail was a sour sweet treat, the pallet cleansers were perfect and now for dessert! An olive oil pistachio cake with blue cheese ice cream, had to try and was soooo good! But the toffee bread pudding I'll be dreaming of!!!! 

Naughty stroganoff

Thank you Ali Post for this fabulously bad recipe! And by bad, I mean, mad it tastes so good, because it can't be good for you! Lol

1 lb stew beef

1 onion, sliced

3 cloves of garlic

2 T Flour gf

Paprika to taste

2 Cups Beef Stock gf

1 can Beef Consomme gf

1 T Dijon mustard

8 oz mushrooms

1/4 Cup Sour Cream 

Chopped Parsley

Gf Egg noodles 

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Season your stew meat and heat olive oil on med high-high heat in a dutch oven, sear stew meat 1-2 min per side, removing to a plate once browned.  Using the same dutch oven heat more olive oil/butter over medium low and add your onions and some salt and pepper to taste, cook for about 5 minutes stirring occasionally. Add garlic, flour and paprika and stir for another minute or two. 

Add back in your meat and your stock/consomme. Add Tablespoon of Dijon. Bring to a simmer, put lid on it and put in the oven for about 2 hours.

When it's almost done sauté your mushrooms in olive oil or butter and salt and pepper. Add mushroom mixture and sour cream to stroganoff and stir to combine, adjust seasonings and toss in some chopped parsley for color if you like and serve over noodles.  

 Love!!!

Crock pot butter chicken

Thank you Pinterest! 

Go to: http://www.halfbakedharvest.com/easy-healthier-crockpot-butter-chicken/

This was TDF! Spicy and earthy! Love Indian food and it was so awesome to come home to it after a long day at work!!!! Must try!

Gluten free cookies in a mini muffin pan = mookies!

Mookies seem to be a nightly request now! Lol I bake them in the muffin pan to keep the cookie from flattening out and getting crunchy. Cooking them this way keeps them soft and chewy!

Follow directions on the gf Betty Crocker chocolate chip cookie box and fill a lines mini muffin pan with small handfuls of dough balled up, should fill the size of muffin. Bake on 325 for 13mins! 

Mmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm! Needn't say more!!!!

Scallops with lemon orzo

Omg I die for this recipe!!!! 

1/2 cup chopped onion sauté 3 minutes with lightly oiled pan, add 1 cup orzo, 1 cup gf low sodium chicken stock, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup dry white wine, 1 tsp dry thyme. Bring to a boil and cover reduce heat simmer for 20mins or until liquid is absorbed and orzo is cooked to your liking. Finish with fresh chopped chives and the juice of 1 lemon.

Sear scallops in a medium high heat pan with 2tbsp olive oil. Salt and pepper scallops, patted dry before searing. Cook on 3mins each side. Serve hot with orzo.

This is ridiculous good! I mean, melts your heart good! 

Korean beef bowl

Thanks to Pinterest for this go to easy meal!

Brown 1 lb ground beef

Add 3tsp garlic paste

1/2 tsp ginger paste

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup gf soy sauce

1 tbsp siracha or crushed red pepper

Serve over jasmine rice and top with green onions. 

Sweet spicy fast and filling, LOVE!

Pepperoncini roast sandwiches

Dad's over for dinner so we need a hearty dish! And it's another cold night so this calls for a comfort!

Break out the slow cooker and fill with a beef chuck roast and a bottle of banana peppers. Salt, pepper, garlic and beef stock and cook on low all day! Meat should fall apart with fork! Prep your favorite gf bun (bakerhouse is mine) with cheese of your choice and I make a spicy mayo spread from mayo, BBQ sauce and hot sauce all gf of course! Stick prepped buns under the broiler and top with a healthy portion of beef and peppers! 

The tangy vinegar base from peppers and spicy creamy mayo makes your mouth water!!!! Yum yum yum tum!

Cold snowy day calls for a chicken enchilada casserole.

Sometimes you just crave a spicy plate of cheesy goodness, so this blustery day was perfect for it!

Preheat oven for 350.

Prep your fave green chili (I love Mark Schlereth's stinkin good green chili) with half cup sour cream and add hot sauce for more heat if you'd like. 

Shred chicken, beef or pork or omit, with can of black beans, cream cheese and hot sauce. 

Spread a thin layer of chili on bottom of greased 9x13 baking dish then spoon a healthy portion of filling and a sprinkle of sharp cheddar into your favorite corn tortilla. Fold edges over and lay seam side down into dish. Repeat until your pan is filled. Spread the remainder of chili over the top and sprinkle with a bit more cheese. 

Bake for 20mins and broil for the last few. Top with green onions and serve.

Happy warm belly! :) 

Late night sweet tooth, calls for an impromptu gf chocolate chip pancake!

My wife has a mean late night sweet tooth! As I realized I was out of chocolate chip cookies (ugh!) I reached for my gf buiskwik mix, made a half recipe and added some mini chocolate chips. Poured it all in my frying pan for one big cake! Slathered smart balance butter and the most delish maple syrup my dad brought me from Montreal! There's nothing like breakfast for dinner!

Greek chicken quinoa

This is one of my favorite go to meals I make regularly that is super quick! 

I buy a red bird rotisserie chicken and slice the breast. 

Cook 1 cup of quinoa and toss with a 1/2 cup of feta olive mix from olive bar at grocery store, spinach, toasted pine nuts, and Drew's gf natural Greek dressing. 

The cubes of feta slightly melt and the salty olives infuse the beads of quinoa, this is one of my wife's favorite meal and it feels light but filling! Enjoy! 

Asian glazed trout with sautéed spinach and roasted acorn squash

Yum yum yum!

Played around with some favorite flavors today in a new way and this might have made it on a winter regular schedule! My wife loved!!!! Planned on salmon but there was a fresh deboned trout fillet that was beautiful and called my name, big pay off!!!

Preheat oven for 450

Half acorn squash and line cookie sheet with foil.

Spray with oil and lay face down, bake for 45 mins.

When squash is done, flip over and sprinkle salt, brown sugar, chopped nuts (whatever you like?) I used peanuts and I quartered a tablespoon of butter and put a piece in the center of the 4 halves.

Heat under broiler for 1 minute and let cool while you cook the rest.

Prepped trout with salt and pepper only and grilled for 3 minutes, skin on.

Fresh off grill I squeezed fresh lemon juice.

Glaze was made on stovetop with gluten free soy sauce, gf siracha, brown sugar, gf apple cider vinegar fresh grated ginger and a garlic...all to taste.

Spoon glaze over fish and reserve a bit in the pan to sauté with fresh spinach for 30 seconds.

Add spinach to center of acorn squash and split center with a knife to open the squash a bit so it's easier to handle on the plate. Sprinkle fish with fresh green onion and serve. 

Something about the tender fish with spicy glaze served with the sweet squash with a crunch from the peanuts put a homie comfort food spin on a light Asian flavor! Happy belly tonight! 

New year = new recipes

I spent a portion of my christmas vacation with dreams of what 2014 would be like so I found myself googling gluten free blogs for ideas on how to make my wife's life a little better! When 2 of her favorite things are bread and pasta, I've has my work cut out for me. I have wasted money on trying ready made gluten free products but have figured out my way for most things, but I'm such a foodie and I'm ready to take this up a notch! So today my journey begins! Thank you roostblog.com and cookieandcake.com for the inspiration today! cookieandkate.com roostblog.com