Biscuit Sandwiches

Once again, trying to replicate foods from lives past...  even if I can't eat them!

What I really want is a Burger King chicken sandwich. What I'm getting is not.

I'm making the boys crispy, thin sliced, fried chicken breasts.  I'm going to fry some pre steamed cauliflower for me.  The oil in the fryer has seen a couple of jobs so it is time for one last fry and get rid of it.

A biscuit chicken sandwich sounds really good!  I'm sure they will ❤ it.  Bub especially...not sure if he's ever had a crispy chicken sandwich in his entire life.  It's definitely time.

Here is the Can Do Biscuit recipe:

Can Do Biscuits

I will be using plain Soymilk though instead of vanilla.

Bub pounded the thin sliced chicken even thinner.   I par cooked the cauliflower, allowed it to cool and dried on a sheet pan.

Get yourself two freezer bags. In one put

1 cup GF baking mix
1/2 cup mashed potato flakes (Whole Foods brand is safe)
1/4 teaspoon salt

Place the pounded chicken in bag and shake and shimmy to coat completely. Len so cleverly said mashed potato flakes would work well here.  As usual... she is right!

In the other bag put

1/2 cup GF baking mix
1/2 cup mashed potato flakes
Dash of salt

Add the drained, dried cauliflower and shake to coat,

Heat your fryer to 375.  Fry chicken until golden using a spider to put and remove pieces in and out of fryer.

Do the same with the cauliflower.

All you need is chicken and biscuits are you've got a simple, delicious dinner.  I'm serving a pepper trio to the boys.  They can make sandwiches or put peppers on top of the chicken and eat that way too.

Cool Sweet Summer Pops

Len bought these popsicle makers at Whole Foods a few months ago.  The colorful box has lured me into using them today.  The sun is shining.  The yard is green.  The garden is growing. It is ice cream weather and I want ice cream dammit!

I made green tea vanilla cinnamon and cocoa mint pops.

Set up your popsicle molds or Dixie cups or whatever you come up with to make Popsicles.  My mold holds 1/2 cup each of ingredients.

Green Tea Vanilla Cinnamon

1 cup Silk Very Vanilla Soymilk
1 green tea bag (or loose tea infuser)
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
(I think adding other Chai spices would be great here.  I just can't have them.)

Heat Soymilk to hot.  Steep the tea in hot Soymilk for about a minute.  Remove tea bag.  With a small wire whisk, add the sugar and the cinnamon, and other spices if you want them, to the Soymilk.  Pour 1/2 cup into each two of the pop molds.

Cocoa Mint

1 cup Silk Very Vanilla Soymilk
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 tablespoons chocolate chips
4 drops oil of peppermint

Heat the Soymilk in small saucepan on top of stove.  Remove from heat.  Whisk in the sugar and cocoa powder.  Add the chocolate chips.  Don't  be set on completely melting them.  I think a little smooth chocolate bit will be nice throughout the pop.  Add the oil of peppermint.  Pour 1/2 cup in each of the remaining two pop molds.

Insert the sticks and freeze.  If you are using Dixie cups, you can par freeze them then insert sticks when firm enough to support them.

Fun in the sun!  Well, anyone who knows me knows it will be fun from a window of sun.  Indoor person...

Double Duty Soups

I like soup.  It is filling, not bad for you, and is lazy, like I am on Sundays.  Today, I'm making two soups that started in the same pot.

I do not eat meat and animal products out of necessity and not so much out of principal.  Do I think animals are treated humanely for our dietary wants and needs?  I do not.  Do I think the meats produced today are different than the meats raised 50 years ago?  Yes.  And they have not changed for the better.  The treatment of the animals, the quality sent to market, the blind eye of the USDA are all disheartening.

With that said, I do not judge those who eat meat and animal products.  I live with and love two people who eat and enjoy meat.  I am doing the best I can with the cards dealt to this household.  Between the allergies and intolerances, the digestive diseases, and the completely different needs each of us has, I just want to make good food anyway I can.

3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 bag frozen edamame
1 bag frozen carrots or 5-6 sliced fresh carrots
3 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons Bragg's Liquid Aminos
6-8 cups cold water

Combine the above in a large stock pot.  Bring to boil with lid off.  Reduce heat to low and cover. Simmer until chicken and veggies are tender (at least an hour, two is better).  Turn off the heat.

Remove the chicken breasts for recipe below:

Chicken Florentine Soup

2 tablespoons margarine
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 cooked chicken breasts, cubed
1 bag frozen, or fresh spinach
Garlic
Black pepper
Red pepper flakes
1/2 package of rice noodles/gluten free spaghetti, broken into little pieces (7ounces)

Heat margarine and olive oil in a large fry pan.  Add the cooked, cubed chicken and cook until you get a little color on them.  Add the spinach and ladle in about 12 large ladles full of the broth from the stock pot above.  My husband hates edamame so I will be extra careful not to let any get in the chicken florentine soup!  A rouge carrot, or many carrots, will be fine!

Add the spices then add the broken spaghetti pieces and cook until pasta is tender and spinach is heated through.

The remaining broth and veggies will be my dinner soup.  And I realize that my broth contains chicken.  I am OK with it.

I could add a starch here but I just don't need it.  Rice would be perfect though!  Or diced potatoes.

Double Deck-er Chocolate Cake Doughnuts

Just so you know... these still taste good, good texture, on the THIRD DAY. Pretty amazing for gluten free!

I had two favorite Dunkin Donut doughnuts as a kid.  Chocolate frosted, chocolate cake doughnut and honey glazed chocolate.  I did enjoy the occasional strawberry frosted raised doughnut but, in a family of mostly men, I usually got the pink doughnut when I had slept over at a friends house.

Here is my double chocolate glazed doughnut that, as you may know, I fry on my deck!

3-1/2 cups GF baking mix
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
Dash of salt

Combine above in medium bowl.

1/4 cup margarine, cut into pieces
2/3 cup Very Vanilla Soymilk
2 tablespoons semi sweet chocolate chips

Combine the above in small saucepan until completely melted on low heat, stirring constantly.

1 cup sugar
2 egg replacer eggs

Combine above in large bowl.

Alternately add the baking mix combo and Soymilk combo to the sugar and egg replacer, mixing completely after each addition.  Your dough should be soft but not sticky.  If it is sticky, slowly add more baking mix until your finger comes away clean when pressed into batter.

Cover and chill until firm (about 30 minutes or more if you'd like).

Fry in preheated 375 degree oil for about 3-4 minutes.  I let them go for about 2 minutes after floating.

Glaze

1/4 cup boiling water
1/2 cup sugar

Pour the sugar into the water and stir until dissolved.  Roll hot doughnuts in sugar mixture.  Cool, dip again in sugar mixture and enjoy.