Category: Gluten Free


Feb
2017

Roasted Baby Potato Stacks

categories: Appetizers, Gluten Free, Healthy, Side Dishes, Vegan

By posting this recipe for Roasted Baby Potato Stacks I am entering a recipe contest sponsored by Potatoes USA and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest.  I was not compensated for my time.

Roasted Baby Potato Stacks are a great way to carbo-load as well as a beautiful and delicious dinner party appetizer. #AD | QueenofMyKitchen.com

If you’re an athlete looking for a different way to fuel your next big workout, then listen up! Roasted Baby Potato Stacks look like elegant appetizers, and they are, but they’re also a great source of energy for active individuals.  Protein shakes, bars, and gels are popular options for pre-workout meals and snacks, but potatoes are a much better choice.  They’re unprocessed, full of nutrient dense complex carbohydrates, and contain more potassium per serving than a banana, so for peak exercise performance potatoes can’t be beat.  Roasted Baby Potato Stacks are deliciously addictive so you won’t have any problem eating a whole bunch of them for maximum athletic endurance. (more…)


Feb
2017

Banana Cashew Blender Cake

categories: Desserts, Gluten Free, Snacks

The easiest cake you’ll ever make, incredibly moist cake with intense banana flavor.  And bonus – it’s gluten-free and contains no refined sugar!

Banana Cashew Blender Cake - The easiest cake you’ll ever make - incredibly moist cake with intense banana flavor. And bonus, it’s gluten-free and contains no refined sugar! | QueenofMyKitchen.com

Last month I posted a recipe for Healthy Banana Fudge Cakes and it was so well received that I decided to post another recipe using bananas. This cake is also made in a blender but it’s much more decadent. Banana Cashew Blender Cake is, hand-down, one of the moistest cakes you’ll ever taste. Made with cashew butter and overripe bananas, it has a soft, pleasantly spongy texture, and intense banana flavor. (more…)


Feb
2017

Cranberry Pepita Oatmeal Cups

categories: Breakfast, Gluten Free, Healthy, Snacks

A delicious, nutritious alternative to muffins with only 2 grams of sugar per serving! Gluten-free too.

Cranberry Pepita Oatmeal Cups - A delicious and nutritious alternative to muffins with only 2 grams of sugar per serving! Gluten-free too. | QueenofMyKitchen.com

Cranberry Pepita Oatmeal Cups are a perfect on-the-go breakfast. They’re portable, more nutritious than a typical muffin, and insanely delicious. When I first started seeing recipes for oatmeal cups appearing throughout the food blogosphere I thought “cup” was just another way of saying “muffin”, but once I tried oatmeal cups I realized that they are quite different from muffins and very deserving of their own name. (more…)


Jan
2017

Honeybell Baked Shrimp

categories: Gluten Free, Healthy, Seafood

An easy and elegant shrimp dish made with the crown jewel of oranges – the honeybell.

Honeybell Baked Shrimp - An easy and elegant shrimp dish made with the crown jewel of oranges! | QueenofMyKitchen.com

Lemons are used more frequently in cooking than oranges, the former being kind of like the favorite son or daughter, with the later playing the role of red-headed step child, neglected and often forgotten. Yet, oranges are sometimes a great substitute for lemons, as long as what you’re making doesn’t require the extra acidity that lemons provide. Honeybell Baked Shrimp is a case in point. This dish is a delightful take on classic shrimp scampi using honeybell oranges instead of lemons. If you’re not familiar with honeybell oranges, I’m willing to bet you’ll be won-over, like I was, once you try them. (more…)


Jan
2017

Turkey Cheddar Quinoa Stuffed Peppers

categories: Gluten Free, Healthy, Turkey

The Recipe Redux is a group of like-minded food bloggers whose mission is to inspire the food lover in every healthy eater and inspire the healthy eater in every food lover.  Each month members post recipes to their blogs following a theme set by the group moderators.  Click the Recipe Redux link at the bottom of this page to see links to all the posts for this month’s challenge.

Turkey Cheddar Quinoa Stuffed Peppers - Nutritious AND budget friendly. If you New Year’s resolution is to eat healthier and save more money, this dish is for you! | QueenofMyKitchen.com

The New Year is a natural time for diet resolutions, but it’s also a good time to rein in your spending. So, while you’re planning healthy-eating menus for 2017, take a fresh look at your grocery expenditures over the past year and, if you’re not already super thrifty, you’ll most likely see some ways to save money. The recipes created for this month’s Recipe Redux challenge (Budget-Friendly Eats) can help. Each Reduxer was tasked with developing a recipe for a nourishing meal that costs less than $3 per serving. Turkey Cheddar Quinoa Stuffed Peppers easily rose to the challenge. These delicious peppers are stuffed with wholesome, nutrient dense ingredients. They’re 215 calories each and cost a mere $1.61 per serving to make! (Note: cost per serving will vary depending on where ingredients are purchased. I live 30 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts and all ingredients were purchased at Market Basket – a regional grocery chain.) (more…)


Jan
2017

Valentine Prosciutto Egg Cups

categories: Breakfast, Gluten Free, Healthy, Holidays

Make a special Valentine’s Day breakfast for your loved ones!

Valentine Prosciutto Egg Cups – Surprise your loved ones with a special breakfast on Valentine’s Day! | QueenofMyKitchen.com

Valentine’s Day comes at a cruel time of year for some.  Anyone who has successfully stuck to their New Year’s resolution to lose weight or eat healthier is probably pretty proud of themselves by the time Valentine’s Day rolls around. Then, all of the sudden, chocolate is everywhere!  It takes a lot of willpower to resist so many decadent holiday treats, but if you’re determined not to given in to temptation, you can still celebrate in the most delicious way with Valentine Prosciutto Egg Cups. They’re not chocolate, but they’re unique, adorable, and super easy to make. (more…)


Jan
2017

Healthy Banana Fudge Cakes

categories: Desserts, Gluten Free, Healthy, Snacks

A healthy, low-calorie, chocolate dessert, with no added sugar and a fantastic way to use up overripe bananas.

Healthy Banana Fudge Cakes - A healthy, low-calorie, gluten-free chocolate dessert with no added sugar and fantastic way to use up overripe bananas! | QueenofMyKitchen.com

If you’re a banana lover, and consume them on a regular basis like my family and I do, you’ll occasionally end up with bananas that are simply too dark and overripe to peel and eat.  Here’s a great use for those old bananas – one that will have you actually wanting your bananas to turn all brown and black!  Healthy Banana Fudge Cakes are light, with a moose-like texture and rich chocolate flavor. And they clock in at a mere 107 calories per serving so there’s no guilt necessary! (more…)


Dec
2016

Lemon Rice

categories: Gluten Free, Side Dishes

The Recipe Redux is a group of like-minded food bloggers whose mission is to inspire the food lover in every healthy eater and inspire the healthy eater in every food lover.  Each month members post recipes to their blogs following a theme set by the group moderators.  Links to all Recipe Redux posts appear at the bottom of this page.

Lemon Rice – A fantastic way to jazz up plain white rice. Quick and easy. A great accompaniment to seafood and chicken. | QueenofMyKicthen.com

This month’s Recipe Redux challenge was Grab a Book & Cook. For anyone with even a modest cookbook collection this challenge would seem pretty straight forward, but, there was a catch. We couldn’t choose any recipe we wanted. As a farewell to the year 2016 we had to pick a recipe from a page using any combination of the numbers 2 – 0 – 1 – 6. I had so much fun looking through all my cookbooks using the various page combinations and when I stumbled upon Lemon Rice I knew I had a winner. This is an unbelievably easy and tasty way to jazz up plain white rice and it only adds a couple of minutes to the usual prep time. The recipe for Lemon Rice is on page 201 of How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. (more…)


Nov
2016

Healthy Pecan Pie Cups

categories: Desserts, Gluten Free, Healthy, Holidays, Vegan

Healthy Pecan Pie Cups are amazing, no-bake, mini desserts that are a great alternative to traditional pecan pie.

Healthy Pecan Pie Cups are amazing, no-bake, mini desserts that are a great alternative to traditional pecan pie. Gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, no refined sugar. | QueenofMyKitchen.com

Thanksgiving is a time to embrace family, friends, and of course food. There is simply no better meal on earth than a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, so if there was ever a time to indulge this is the day. Throw caution to the wind and delight in all the wonderful food this holiday has to offer. And that includes the pies, because let’s face it – Thanksgiving is all about the pies! Having said that, I think it’s entirely possible to fully indulge while still making some wise food/serving choices. (more…)


Nov
2016

Paleo Cranberry Walnut Bars

categories: Desserts, Gluten Free, Snacks

Delicious maple infused dessert bars with a soft texture and sweet, tart, cranberry flavor.

Paleo Cranberry Walnut Bars are delicious maple infused treats with a soft texture and sweet, tart, cranberry flavor. Gluten-free with no refined sugar. | QueenofMyKitchen.com

Paleo Cranberry Walnut Bars are a delicious treat that straddles the line between cake and cookie. The interior texture is soft and tender with a pleasant chew and just a tad of golden brown crispy-ness around the edges. These bars are a nice alternative to cookies, and because they are cut into bars after they’re baked, they require much less time to make than drop cookies. Made with delicious, nutritious, gluten-free ingredients, it’s bars like these that give “healthy baking” a good name! (more…)

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