Allergy Free Meatballs

I was making Everyday Meatballs for everyone else, and wanted to make something similar for Henry, so I modified my allergy free meatloaf recipe to with the seasonings from everyday meatballs to get a different taste.

Allergy Free Meatballs

1 LB hamburger
1 cup chicken broth
1 cup oatmeal
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp parsley flakes
1/2 tsp onion powder
dash red pepper flakes
1 garlic clove - minced

Place all ingredients in a large bowl and mix together with a fork.  Form into 1.5" meatballs and place in a 9x13" baking dish.  Bake at 350° for 40 minutes or until done.  Serve with spaghetti sauce.

Cheesy Hamburger Dip

I needed to bring a dish to pass at a campground this weekend, so I decided to make up this dip ahead of time and reheat it to serve with chips for the pot luck.  I haven't made it for a while, but it smelled and tasted as awesome as I remembered.

Cheesy Hamburger Dip

1 LB hamburger
1/2 cup onion - chopped
1 clove garlic - minced
dash garlic salt
1 can tomato soup
1/4 cup ketchup
3/4 tsp oregano
1 tsp sugar
8 oz cream cheese
1/3 cup parmesan cheese
tortilla chips

Brown hamburger with onion and garlic, add garlic salt and simmer 5 minutes. Add soup, ketchup, oregano, and sugar. Simmer 10 minutes. Add cheeses and cook until bubbly. Place in a mini crockpot to keep hot. Serve with tortilla chips.

Ham

This is something I rarely think to make, but my kids absolutely love ham.  It is super easy and delicious.  It is loosey goosey on the ingredient list - just make how much you want.

Ham

sliced precooked ham
brown sugar
1 can pineapple

Place sliced ham in a baking dish and sprinkle with brown sugar.  Cover with pineapple juice and pieces.  Bake at 350° for 30 minutes to 1 hour or until heated through.

Ham, Cheese, and Potato Bake

This is another new recipe from The Modern Dutch Oven Cookbook.  It was a nice breakfast dish, maybe slightly bland, make sure you add enough salt & pepper.  We served it with tortillas, but it suggested serving it on English muffins in the cookbook, and it is fine just plain too.

Ham, Cheese, and Potato Bake

4 cup hash browns - diced
8 oz ham - diced
1 cup cheddar - shredded
1 bell pepper - diced
1 onion - diced
6 eggs - beaten
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup milk
dash salt & pepper

Combine hash browns, ham, cheese, pepper, and onion in a Dutch oven.  In a medium bowl mix eggs, soup, and milk.  Season with salt & pepper and pour into the Dutch oven.  Cover and bake at 325° for 1.5-2 hours.

Red Sauce Chicken

This was called Aromatic Chicken Pot in the cookbook I got it from, but I am going to call it Red Sauce Chicken because that is a horrible name.  I got the cookbook from the library and I found a lot of recipes in it I want to try - it is called The Modern Dutch Oven Cookbook from Rockridge Press.  It is allergy free for Henry when paired with rice instead of pasta.  I made a few changes to the recipe - reducing the onion and switching to spaghetti sauce from tomato sauce, omitting a few items too.  You can also add diced bell pepper to the sauce.  It tasted great, and I didn't have to listen to the children whine about having to eat chicken - the girls just had pasta with sauce.

Red Sauce Chicken

1 1/2 jar spaghetti sauce
1 T onion - diced
3 cloves garlic - minced
2 tsp oregano
1 tsp chili powder
1 T red wine vinegar
dash salt & pepper
1 bag chicken breasts

In your dutch oven, mix spaghetti sauce, onion, garlic, oregano, chili powder, vinegar, salt, and pepper.  Trim chicken and add to pot, stirring until the chicken is coated with sauce.  Cover and bake at 350° for 1 1/2 hours.  Serve over pasta or rice.

Dirt Dessert

I got this recipe from my sister Lindsey at least two years ago, and am finally making it now for the girls' birthdays.  Neither of them particularly likes cake, so I went with something I am sure they will love.

Dirt Dessert


2 box chocolate pudding
4 cup milk
8 oz cream cheese – softened
1/2 stick butter – softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tub cool whip
1 package oreos - crushed
gummy worms (optional)

Whisk together pudding and milk – let sit 5 minutes.  Beat together cream cheese and butter about 3 minutes until it is fluffy.  Mix in powdered sugar.  Whisk cream cheese mixture into pudding.  Fold in the cool whip.   Layer oreo crumbs and pudding mixture in a pretty glass bowl.  Refrigerate at least 4 hours.  Top with gummy worms.

Breadmaker Gluten Free Bread

Jeremy was advised to go gluten free for a trial period to see if he might have celiac disease.  I have a GF bread recipe for Henry, but since Jer can have egg and milk, I thought I would try something different.  My sister in law Kerri gave me this recipe (along with some ingredients :) and I tried it right away.  I made it the first time as written, and I am really surprised how similar it is to Henry's allergy free bread.  I think that next time I will play around with the rice flour and switch out some for garbanzo bean flour, that made Henry's loaf much less spongy.

Breadmaker Gluten Free Bread

Dry ingredients:
2 cup rice flour
1/2 cup potato starch
1/2 cup tapioca flour
2 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
2/3 cup powdered milk
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp egg replacer (Ener-G - optional)
3 T sugar
1 1/2 T yeast

Wet ingredients:
1 2/3 cup lukewarm water
1/2 stick butter - melted
1 tsp vinegar
3 eggs - room temperature

Set out eggs so that they can get to room temperature.  In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.  In a separate bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients.  Stir the wet into the dry, then put into the bread maker and use the 3-4 hour standard loaf setting.

Brown Bread Variation: use brown rice flour for half or all of the rice flour.
Buttermilk Variation: use buttermilk powder instead of powdered milk, omit the vinegar.