Saturday, May 15, 2010

Quick and Easy Lunch today: Hot dogs (no buns) and chips

OK, today we are doing some running around, so needed something quick to cook. If you have one of these days, these hot dogs and chips are great. We get both of them from Costco.

-Coleman natural uncured beef hot dogs (you can get 3pkg of 8 for about 9.00 at Costco they have no sugar, no gluten, no MSG, and no nitrates)
-Multigrain Tortilla chips by Food Should Taste Good (made with flax, sunflower, sesame seeds, oat fiber, and brown rice) - also these are baked and not fried and taste better than a tortilla chips to me :o)
-mustard
-onion
-Pace salsa
-corn tortillas (optional)

Cook the hot dogs how you like them (grilled, boiled, microwaved), they all work. Serve the hot dogs with a side of mustard to dip in. I like to also sprinkle onion on top of my mustard. Eat with the tortilla chips and salsa. If you really need to put this in some type of bread to eat, you can always wrap it with mustard and onion in a corn tortilla. Enjoy!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Lasagna was for Dinner tonight - Here is the recipe for my gluten, dairy and sugar free lasagna


Ingredients:
1 lb hamburger meat
10-20 fresh spinach leaves
1/2 lb soft goat cheese
3-4 oz goat mozzarella or cheddar
10 oz package brown rice lasagna noodles (made by Tinkyada - I found this at Kroger)
10 oz Ragu Light (no sugar added) tomato and basil spaghetti sauce

Make sure to set out the soft goat cheese before you get started so that its soft enough to work with when you need to layer.

Brown the hamburger meat, drain the grease, wash with water and set aside. Boil the lasagna noodles for only half the time the package recommends (about 7-8 minutes) and set aside to cool. Chop up the spinach into tiny bits and add to the hamburger meat. Add the Ragu spaghetti sauce to the cooked hamburger meat and simmer until mixed well. Grate the goat mozzarella cheese, as this will be added to the top at the end.

Now you are ready to layer the lasagna in a 9x9 deep dish. Start by adding a few spoonfuls of meat sauce onto the bottom of the dish so that the noodles do not get hardened. Then you add a layer of noodles, soft goat cheese, meat sauce. Repeat for a 2nd layer and after adding the meat sauce; add the grated goat cheese at the top. Cover the dish with foil and bake for 1 hour at 400 degrees.

Don't worry if your family (kids especially) don't like spinach, it will add very good flavor and if chopped very fine, the won't even notice it. My 7 year old eats it up :o)