Hummus is good for you. It has protien, potasium, and adds dietary fiber. The chickpeas in hummus are also a good source of soluable fiber, which can lower your LDL undesirable cholesterol.  It’s a great staple in our GFCF Diet!

1. Use as a replacement for butter on your gfcf toast. When you add garlic and flavorings, this is really yummy.
2. Miss grilled cheese? Try a grilled hummus! Add some gfcf olives, roasted red peppers, and artichoke hearts and suddenly you are a gourmet chef. Who knew?
3. Use as a sandwich spread instead of Mayonnaise that isn’t acceptable on the gfcf diet.
4. Use it to make great garlic bread, instead of butter.
5. Use it as a flavoring instead of sour cream on top of baked potatoes or to garnish soups.
6. Use it as a coating for chicken breasts or fish fillets before rolling in rice bread crumbs.
7. Make hummus and cucumber sandwiches for a nice brunch. They are different and yummy.
8. Thin it and use for a sald dressing.
9. Dress a potato or gfcf pasta salad with it instead of gluten filled mayo.
10. If you are making a viniagrette so that it complies with the gfcf diet, use hummus in place of the mustard.
11. Make a yummy omelet filled with sauteed spinach, garlic, hummus, and gfcf olives.
12. Of course, it can be used as a dip for all of your favorite raw vegetables, gfcf chips and wheat free pretzels.
13. Hummus is good to use as a condiment for hamburgers!
14. Most tabouli salads can be made with Quinoa to make them square with the gfcf diet, adding a dollop of hummus adds protein and is delicious.

WARNING! This clam chowder may be hazardous to your health!!! You may find yourself eating so much that your stomach explodes. Honestly, after my first bite, I was sure that my wife had mixed up the pots and served me from the non-GFCF one. However, since she only made one pot of chowder - all of it GFCF - I was safe. And well fed. And happy. How often can you say that your GFCF meal does that?

When you need a special treat for a kid who can’t have candy or lots of sugar, a little creativity goes a long way!

For a recent birthday we decide to start the day off with Mr. Breakfast. The foundation is our GFCF French Toast Pancakes. Add the yolks from a couple of hard-boiled or fried eggs, a strawberry and a strip of bacon and you’re all set. Believe it or not, our daughter is allergic to both bacon and strawberries - for her we used eggs, a slice of cantaloupe for the mouth, and a triangle of cantaloupe for the nose. Be creative and you can work around just about any allergy you’re up against.

Tonight we tried a new recipe - Fresh Pasta Salad, and it turned out beautifully.

We altered the recipe by omitting  the tomato sauce- making it less allergenic for our son who has been reacting badly to tomatoes.  We also added  cooked chicken to the dish, making it more of a meal, and less of a side.  It was a great meal at that - I only wish we had made a bit more Italian dressing to go with it - we’ll probably double the recipe next time.

I’ve been a huge fan of Enjoy Life’s Snickerdoodle cookies for quite some time now.  These have to be the best GFCF cookies commercially made - hands down.  At my house,  box of them doesn’t last more than two days once it’s been opened.

With the firm belief that we can bake anything better homemade than a factory can mass produce, we set off on the daunting task to better this pinnacle of cookies.  I do believe that our Woggle-Bug test kitchen have managed to do it once again! Our Snickerdoodle recipe has amazed me (and somehow managed to shrink my pants waistline in the process!).  Unfortunately we haven’t been able to keep a batch around long enough to get a picture of them (sorry honey!), so you’ll have to make a batch for yourself to see (and taste) how good they are!