Home fries

8 ounces red Yukon Gold potatoes
spray oil
1 small onion
1/4 tsp salt
fresh ground black pepper

Place the diced potatoes in a glass bowl and put the bowl in the microwave. Set for one minute on high. After the minute is up stir the potatoes and let rest.

Place a large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Spray lightly with oil and when the pan is hot add the diced onion. Cook, tossing frequently, until the onions begin to turn a light brown.

While the onions are cooking repeat the first step with the potatoes twice. Cook them for one minute on high, remove the bowl, stir and let rest in between each minute of cooking about 3 minutes.

When the onions have browned add the potatoes, salt and pepper to the pan. Spray lightly with oil one more time and toss the home fries until the potatoes are lightly browned.

Almond butter

2 cups of almonds
1 teaspoon of salt
vegetable oil
honey )

Throw the almonds into food processor. Pulse a few times until they have all become crumbly and dense.

Add the salt and keep it all whirring. The almonds should start to stick together here.

While the food processor is running, slowly drizzle in the vegetable oil, until the entire mixture binds together to form butter.

splash in a little honey with the oil.

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Breakfast Casserole

Ingredients

1-1/2 lbs sausage
6 slices GF bread, cubed with crust
2 cups shredded cheese
6 eggs, beaten
2 cups milk
3/4 tsp dry mustard

SAUCE:
1-1/2 cups milk
2 Tbsp cornstarch
2 Tbsp butter or margarine
1-1/2 tsp chicken base or bouillon
1/8 tsp onion powder
Dash of pepper
2 Tbsp mayonnaise
1 (4-oz) can sliced mushrooms, drained


Instructions

In skillet brown sausage; set aside.
In 13x9-inch baking pan or 3-quart casserole dish layer 1/2 of bread cubes, 1/2 of cheese, and 1/2 of sausage. Repeat layer.
Beat eggs; add milk, and dry mustard. Pour over layers in pan or casserole dish.

Make sauce: In saucepan whisk milk and cornstarch until blended. Add butter, chicken base, onion powder and pepper. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Add mayonnaise and stir until well blended. Add salt to taste. Stir in drained mushrooms.
Pour over layers in pan or casserole. Spread evenly over top of casserole. Place in refrigerator over night.

In the morning bake at 300 degrees for 1-1/2 hours or 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Banana Bread

Gluten Free Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup brown rice flour
1 cup white rice flour
1/4 cup each potato starch flour and tapioca flour
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 tablespoon gluten free baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon *egg replacer such as Ener-G (dry ingredients mixed)
1/2 cup butter (or canola oil)
2/3 cups honey or brown sugar -or- 1/2 cup fructose cream oil and sugar
1-1/2 cups thoroughly mashed overripe bananas


Directions:
*Ener-G Egg Replacer works well in most recipes. Can be purchased at natural foods stores or via the Ener-G website.

Mix bananas with oil/sugar.

Oil one standard or two small loaf pans, (or six mini-loafs).

Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients; stir until all is moist.

Immediately put the batter in the pans and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes to an hour depending on loaf size.

Cool on rack.

Breakfast Idea!!

My favorite breakfast.. I make it on the weekend, I fry up a huge batch of hashbrowns, onions, and peppers... put them in a 9x13 pan, then I mix eggs, spinache, cheese, and some type of meat.. and poor it all over, enough of the egg stuff to cover the hasbrowns and then I bake it 350 for 30-40 min (knife inserted in the middle is clean) and then I cut it up into tupperwear and keep it in my fridge.

Fruit Salad

I ate fruit salad everyday for two weeks. I had no idea what else to eat because it was all so over whelming. I bought strawberries, bananas, cantaloupe, grapes, kiwi and raisins.

Yes, I have changed it up a bit and NO, I don't always eat the same fruit. Be a bit daring and try new things. Like Mangos. yummy. I cleaned and cut all the fruit and threw it into a tupperware bowl for easy access. One thing I know is that I am lazy. If I had to cut the fruit each time I wanted to eat it, I would never eat it.


Take oranges for instance. Too much work. I don't bother. I'm not saying you should stay away from them, I am just trying to convey how lazy can be.
Sometimes I would add some cool whip to the fruit. Also, yummy. This is a great snack. You can eat it for breakfast too.


You should buy fruit every few days to keep it fresh and try to only cut what you will eat. It's funny that I actually started to crave fruit after the first two weeks. Not like me at all.