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Tips from Oscar
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Carry gluten free snacks with you, especially when traveling. Gluten free cereal bars are
a great, quick snack and can be a
life saver when you are hungry and unable to find gluten free foods.
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Bake cupcakes and freeze them unfrosted in individual baggies. Then, when
you have a birthday party to go to, just thaw one, frost it and take it with you. Check out my special frosting recipe below.
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Bake a gluten free pizza. Freeze individual slices. Next pizza party, pull out a few slices, thaw and warm them up.
- Freeze leftovers of gluten free dishes you like (for example mac and cheese).
When you are in a hurry, you can re-heat them and have a good home cooked meal.
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You can make PB&J sandwiches on gluten free bread.
Freeze the sandwiches individually.
Just pop a frozen sandwich in your lunch bag in the morning and by lunch it's ready to eat.
- Remember to always be polite and appreciative to those who take care of you.
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Oscar's Clay Candy
Supplies:
3 cups powered sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter, softened and cut into pieces
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Food coloring
Large bowl
Small bowls
Mixing spoons
Steps
Combine powered sugar, corn syrup, salt, margarine and vanilla in a large bowl. Mix ingredients until the dough is no longer sticky. If needed, add 1/4 to 1/3 cup of powered sugar until dough feels dry enough.
Divide dough into balls. Place each ball into a separate bowl and food coloring. Mix with a spoon. Once coloring begins to blend, use your hands to blend well.
Now you can make all kinds of sculptures out of your edible clay! Be sure to eat the sculptures soon after you make them so they do not turn into candy rock sculptures.
(Source: "Candy Clay." Zoom, July 13, 2006)
Oscar's "It's so Good!" Frosting
1 cup Crisco
1 cup powdered sugar
1TBS of vanilla extract
2TBS of milk
Mix well. Add add food coloring.
If you prefer chocolate frosting, substitute the food coloring for 3 Tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder.
Guten Free S'mores
Gluten free graham crackers
Hershey's bars
Kraft Marshmallows
If toasting over a camp fire or bbq:
Start with a graham cracker, top with 2 pieces of milk chocolate,
followed by two toasted to a golden brown marshmallows.
Top with a graham cracker making a sandwich. Squish together and eat.
If using an oven: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
On a piece of aluminum foil place a graham cracker,
top with 2 pieces of milk chocolate, followed by two marshmallows,
top with a graham cracker making a sandwich. Wrap the foil and place
in the oven for 5 minutes or until the chocolate and marshmallows
have melted. Eat.
If using a microwave: On a microwave safe plate place a graham cracker,
top with 2 pieces of milk chocolate, followed by two marshmallows, and top
with a graham cracker making a sandwich. Place in the microwave and cook for 15 to 20
seconds. The marshmallows will expand. Remove from the microwave squish together and eat.
Gluten-Free Play Dough
½ cup rice flour
½ cup cornstarch
½ cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 cup water
1 teaspoon cooking oil
Food coloring, if desired
Mix all ingredients. Cook and stir on low heat for 3 minutes. It should form a ball.
Cool completely before storing in a sealable plastic bag.
Edible SoyNut or Peanut Butter Play Dough
2 cups peanut butter or Soynut butter
1 cup honey
2-1/2 cups powdered milk (like Dari-free or baby formula)
1 cup powdered sugar
Mix with a strong mixer.
Brownie Pizza
1 package GF brownie mix
2 Tablespoons GF flour
1 cup miniature marshmallows
3/4 cup (or so) crushed candy canes
3/4 cup (or so) christmas M & M's (the chocolate mint kind; red & green)
1 cup white vanilla chips
1 cup chocolate chips
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Make your brownie mix per the package
instructions adding 2 extra Tablespoons of flour. Pour brownie mix onto
greased pizza pan and spread into a circle approx. 14" or so. (Not all
the way to the edges)
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Do not overbake. You will have to check it
periodically to make sure of the doneness depending on which mix you
use.
Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with mini marshmallows, M &
M's, and crushed candycane.
Cool for 20 minutes or so.
Melt white chips and chocolate chips (separately) in the microwave and
drizzle in ribbons over the whole pizza.
Let cool completely and slice like a pizza.
Variety Pack Popsicles
1 (6 oz) can frozen orange juice concentrate, softened
Or grape or cranberry juice
1 (6 oz) can water
1 pt Vanilla ice cream, softened,
-or 2 containers of
Plain yogurt
Popsicle sticks
Cups
Whirl in a blender. Pour into molds, insert sticks, and freeze.
Polynesian Popsicles
1 cup skim milk
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup honey or sugar
1 egg
white
1 1/4 cups apricot nectar or canned pineapple juice
popsicle sticks
and cups
Pour milk into blender and add gelatin. Let soften for one minute before
adding the rest of the ingredients to whip. Pour into molds, insert sticks,
and freeze.
Creamsicles
1 (6 oz) can peaches in light syrup or 2 fresh ripe peaches, sliced and
pitted
1 cup heavy cream
1 tsp sugar or honey (optional)
popsicle sticks
and cups
Whip cream in a blender for 30-45 seconds. Add peaches and honey. Whir
until smooth. Pour into molds, insert sticks, and freeze.
Chocolate Pops
1 (8 oz) container plain yogurt
2 tbsp cocoa or carob powder
2 tbsp brown
sugar or honey
popsicle sticks and cups
Liquify in a blender, pour into molds, insert popsicle sticks, and freeze.
Keep On-Hand Snow Cones
Freeze orange juice (or any other flavored juice) in ice cube trays. Pop
frozen juice cubes in a plastic bag to store. When ready to use, place three to six of these
cubes at a time in a blender. Turn blender on and off until cubes reach
snowy consistency. Pile into a cup to serve.
The whole batch blended at once will keep its carnival consistency stored
in a container in the freezer. Kids can serve themselves. Adding a little
water makes it a "slush". Even kids who don't care for orange juice like it
this way.
Watermelon Popsicles
1 cup seedless watermelon chunks
1 cup orange juice
1 cup water
Popsicle sticks and cups
Blend these ingredients into a blender, pour into molds, insert sticks, and
freeze.
Ice Cream in a Bag
Here is a fun idea for a hot summer day. And it's super easy!
1 tablespoon Sugar
1/2 cup Milk or half & half
1/4 teaspoon Vanilla
6 tablespoons Rock salt
1 pint-size Ziploc plastic bag
1 gallon-size Ziploc plastic bag
Ice cubes
Fill the large bag half full of ice, and add the rock salt. Seal the bag.
Put milk, vanilla, and sugar into the small bag, and seal it.
Place the small bag inside the large one and seal again carefully.
Shake until mixture is ice cream, about 5 minutes.
Wipe off top of small bag, then open carefully and enjoy!
Corn Tortilla Pizza
Corn Tortilla
Tomato paste
Pizza toppings (pepperoni, mushrooms, olives, bell peppers,ect.)
Cheese
Preheat oven to 350F. Sprinkle shredded cheese on a corn tortilla, put another tortilla on
top of it, spread out tomato paste on the second tortilla, put on your
pizza toppings, bake until the cheese is melted.
You can microwave these, but the "crust" doesn't get as crispy.
Almost Cheeseburger
½ lb. lean ground beef
1 teaspoon dried minced onion flakes
1 lb. gluten-free processed cheese, cut into cubes
¼ cup milk
1 Tablespoon gluten-free ketchup
2 Tablespoons gluten-free mustard
Have an adult help you brown the beef and onion flakes in a skillet
that has been sprayed with a gluten-free nonstick spray, breaking up
the meat with a fork as it cooks. Stir in the cheese, milk, ketchup
and mustard; stir until the cheese has melted.
Note: Use as a dip with crackers, as a "cheeseburger" with GF bread
"fingers" as dippers, or as a main meal by serving it over boiled,
gluten-free elbow macaroni.
Peanut Butter Balls
1 and 1/2 cups of creamy peanut butter
2 sticks butter
1 box plus one cup of powdered sugar
Topping:
7.5oz Hershey's bar
1/2 cake paraffin (it's by the canning supplies in the grocery store)
Cream PB, butter and sugar together in a large bowl, mixture will be very stiff.
Heat topping ingredients in a double boiler.
Roll the PB dough into balls. Dipinto chocolate mixture using tines
of a fork to keep too much chocolate from coating, place on wax paper to cool and firm.