1/2 lb. Gluten Free Spaghetti (your choice)

1/2 cup Kraft Tuscan House Italian Dressing & Marinade

1 onion, finely chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

3 cups chopped tomatoes

1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

1/3 cup fresh basisl, finely sliced

Cook pasta as directed on package.  Heat dressing in a large nonstick pan on medium-high heat.  Add onions and garlic; cook and stir 2 minutes.  Add tomatoes; cook 5 more minutes or until heated thoroughly, stirring occasionally.

Drain paste.  Add tomato mixture; mix lightly.  Sprinkle with cheese and basil.

I have to bitch for a while.  Recently Gary decided that he hasn’t been feeling quite himself and wanted to go see his doctor for a physical.  Now let me just start by saying this is the same doctor that he has been going to for over 20 years.  Gary is a pretty healthy person, except for the occasional farm accident, and seldom goes to the doctor.  Anyways, he calls makes an appointment and then today we get this letter in the mail.

“We can only give you a tentative time because you are not the doctor’s patient until the day of your appointment.  We will call in the morning to confirm that you are coming and enter you in the computer.  It is very important that we talk to you the morning of your appointment.  If we can’t reach you the doctor will assume you are not keeping your appointment.”

This burns my ass.  This doctor wants everyone to come and see him every 6 months so that you don’t get “Lost” in the computer.  WTF!!!  In this area it is very hard to find doctors that will take new patients.  Well no wonder they are too busy seeing patients that are perfectly healthy and charging the insurance companies and the welfare system for it.  Nobody gives two thoughts about this they just go.  What a “RIP OFF”.  I so want to call this doctor and tell him what I think. Does anyone else have to go through this?

Safety First

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Recently our friend Lynn posted about not being excited about being gluten free, I can completely relate to her.  I don’t get excited about new products or about trying new recipes.  I still love to read everyones blogs and keep up with all of your lives and I always hope that I will get inspired.  Poor Gary is starving lately.  I just do not enjoy the kitchen.  I have Celiac Disease, follow the diet as best as I can and that’s it.  It used to be I would research recipes and convert them and be excited.  The feeling is just not there anymore.    I will continue to post new gluten free recipes as I make them, but I think this site is going to be more about life now.  My everyday life.

I hope that everyone just keeps in touch and stays tunes.

These are from my walk with Miss Allie the other night.

Triumph Dining’s is giving away American Gluten-Free Dining Cards until the end of August to raise money for Celiac Disease awareness, called the $10k Challenge. There’s absolutely no purchase necessary. Your can simply visit http://www.triumphdining.com/freediningcard.aspx to participate and get a free dining card.

The purpose of this give-away is to raise money for Celiac Disease Awareness. If they get 15,000 people to sign up for free dining cards, Triumph Dining will make a $10,000 donation in support of a national celiac disease awareness campaign. When they hit their goal, they’ll ask the gluten free community to help them decide which non-profit(s) receives the donation.

They are trying to build awareness on two fronts: With 15,000 more dining cards on the street, they’ll be educating more restaurants about the gluten free diet faster. And, with $10,000 funding behind a national campaign, they can diagnose and educate more Celiacs.

The free dining card offer is available at http://www.triumphdining.com/freediningcard.aspx and they will be posting regular progress reports on their blog at http://blog.triumphdining.com.

Pass the word.

Looking for a quick and easy side dish.  Take some whole green beans, drizzle with Gluten Free Soy Sauce, wrap in foil and place on the grill for about 15 minutes.  Yumm.  This is so quick, easy and your beans will still have a little snap to them.

Today I took 3 big, beautiful heads of Broccoli out of my garden. It was just a few years ago you would never have gotten me to eat broccoli. Now I can’t get enough of it. And I don’t want it smothered in cheese, yuck. I was it fresh and steamed. It has such a wonderful fresh taste. I love it. This was the first time I have every attempted to grow it. There’s nothing to it and it will now be a staple in our garden. Now I have to decide what to do with it. I’m craving my broccoli salad that I make this time of the year.

I thought this would be the perfect time to see what everyone else is making with their broccoli. Here is a short list, I know that I am missing a lot of posts out that are out there. If you have one that you would like me to add to this list please let me know.

Elana’s- Pasta with Broccoli

Carrie’s- A Southern Girls Vegetable Curry

Seamaiden’s- Pesto Broccoli Potato Croquette’s

Rachel’s- Broccoli Salad a la Grecque

Kbabe- Pasta Primavera with Grilled Chicken Breast

Who would of thought that Allie getting car sick would turn out to be a wonderful discovery for me. When Allie was younger I could not take her anywhere in the car without her throwing up. After some research I discovered that Ginger is perfect for dogs. I would give her a couple of tablets before we traveled and there would be no messes. I though hey if it works on her why wouldn’t it work on me when my stomach is upset. It was the best discovery. My only drawback is that I can not take it before I go to sleep.

Some of the benefits of Ginger are:

• Helps digest fatty foods and breaks down proteins
• Reduces gas
• Relieves nausea (morning sickness and motion sickness)
• Helps neutralize the acids that cause nausea, cramps and even diarrhea
• Reduces inflammation (Is used to help treat arthritis & ulcerative colitis)

Recent studies have even suggested that is has a role in lowering LDL cholesterol because it helps reduce the amount of cholesterol the body absorbs.

Ginger is a warming herb. It helps stimulate circulation of the blood and helps relax muscles around the blood vessels and is said to help prevent blood clots from forming. The warming effects make it a natural decongestant as well as an antihistamine, making it the perfect remedy for colds.

Allie is growing by leaps and bounds. She is one today. I think I’ll get her a cupcake on Thursday and have a small party for her. I bought her some toys and left them in the bag but the little brat found them and was playing with them. We been working with her in the water but she just doesn’t seem brave enough to swim. Is there a trick to get your dogs to swim? This is the first dog we have ever had so I’m new to all of this. She’s just so gentle, maybe I have babied her too much. Gary tried to get her to kill a snake the other night and she wanted to just smell it instead. I’m sorry but I want my dog to kill snakes. Ughh. We don’t see them very often but sometimes in the fields after he mows them they come along. I scream and run the other way when I see them, I would love to have my pup go kill them for me. So I wouldn’t have to worry about them.

I have finally started cooking again. I’m sure that Gary is happy about that. I made these beautiful ribs on the 4th. Oh they were so good. It was the first time I had ever made them. They were so easy and came out perfect. I just seasoned them with salt and pepper, drizzled olive oil on them and baked them in the oven at 225 for 3 hours and then put them on the grill and basted them with gluten free bbq sauce. I used one from Kraft. They were messy, your ribs should be messy with bbq sauce. That’s one of the things that makes them so good.

I have a lot of new recipes that I want to try, I wish my garden would go a tad bit faster. Have several new zucchini recipes, but I haven’t been able to find any fresh yet. As soon as I do, there will be wonderful recipes posted.

“Allie Mae”

“My Giants”

“Farmer Camdyn”

1. Compassionate
2. Stubborn
3. Sarcastic
4. Loving
5. Shy
6. Flaky

I’m a little bit of everything depending on the day and the moment. I tag Carrie, Natalie, Ryley, Melanie, Sheltie Girl, and Sally.

1 Stick (1/2 Cup) of butter
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 (12 oz) gluten free chocolate chips
1 (12 oz) package Rice Chex (Make sure you get the Gluten Free box)
2 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Melt butter, peanut butter and chocolate chips in microwave for 3 minutes. Stir to blend. Pour over Rice Chex. Stir well to coat. Stir in powered sugar. Store in air tight container in the refrigerator.

Do you have it yet? Why not? Go get it. This is a must have book. When I first received this book, I thought to myself. Is this really going to be useful to me? Where I live we have no restaurants that are gluten free in any way. Well ok maybe Burger King but that doesn’t count.

But then I started looking through it and realized that this really is a must have. This is how I found out about Bugabook Creek. That in itself make this book a must have for me. Next month Gary and I are planning a trip to Louisville, Kentucky and this is definately going with us. The big question is going to be “Which one of these restaurants are we going to try?” I even discovered a gluten free bakery in Huntsville, Alabama that I wish I would have know about last summer when I was there.

Another thing that I like about this book is in the end of the book there are gluten free lists and restaurants for a good many of the restaurants listed. This way you don’t even have to go to far to research. It’s all there.

Not sure where to buy this? Well that’s easy they have a new website just go to their new website. This is a cool new site that is must have for your favorites. Not only can you buy there products, but they also have food reviews, restaurant information and much, much more. Check it out for yourself, you won’t be disappointed.

If you follow me on Twitter, you probably already know that I made some bread on Saturday night and had a few problems. I was craving pumpkin bread and remembered that on my recent trip Lori’s I picked up some Pumpkin Bread by Anna. I was hesitate to try it. I can be a very picky eater but I have to tell you, this was wonderful. This was a good as mom’s. It had a wonderful moist texture. Gary could not even tell it was gluten free. This is definitely going to be a staple in my kitchen.

Next time… I think I will put it in muffin pans and mix up some cream cheese or maple frosting. Yumm!!