Recipes and Foods For The Milk Free

Easy Recipe - You should add a little flavor to your chicken with this easy and delicious honey mustard chicken.  Good quick meal which can turn any piece of chicken into a mouth full of flavor! I got this recipe and picture from About.com.

Ingredients:

* 4 split chicken breast halves
* 1/2 c honey
* 1/3 c spicy brown mustard (dijon)
* 3 tsp curry powder
* 6 tbsp butter, melted
* 1/8 tsp pepper
* Dash ground cayenne pepper

Preparation:
In a bowl, combine the honey, mustard, curry powder, butter, and peppers; blend well. Wash chicken breasts and pat dry. Trim away any excess fat and remove skin, if desired. Arrange the chicken breasts, skin or meaty side up, in a lightly greased baking pan. Coat the chicken with the honey mixture. Cover with foil and refrigerate for an hour or two.

Bake the chicken, covered, in a 375° oven for 45 minutes. Remove foil and baste the chicken. Continue baking, uncovered, for 30 minutes longer, basting every 10 to 15 minutes.
Serves 4.

I know you are going to look at this and wonder, what the H is she thinking? I don’t want burnt food! Well, all I can say is it tastes much better than it looks! I thought the same thing when I pulled that cornish hen out of the oven until I tasted it! This is good with rice and veggies!

Dairy Free Recipe : Molasses Cornish Hen

1 cornish hen (could use chicken of course)

2 tbsp molasses (you could probably use regular syrup if you want but I’m not sure how it would change the recipe)

2 tbsp ketchup

1 tbsp honey

1 tbsp soy sauce

pinch of ginger powder

1 tsp of garlic powder

Directions:

Mix everything together and brush part of the mix onto the cornish hen. Cover with foil and cook for half the time recommended on the cornish hen package. Remove foil and cook the rest of the way occasionnally brushing with the molasses mixture. Enjoy!

Wow! I am so proud of myself! I have only missed one day of posting to this blog since January second! Can I get another exclamatory sentence! Yeah!

I am rather excited, as this is a part of the new work plan I have made and I am glad that, so far, I have been keeping up with my goals for the year. Another of my goals for the year is to live a healthier and happier year. I have begun a dairy free diet (the first time I’ve actually used the word diet!) that you can follow on my dairy free living blog at www.dairyfreeliving.today.com.

Many of the dairy free recipes on this blog are not what you would call the healthiest recipies in the world! I do hope to change this and add in even more dairy free recipies that will help you live a healthier life as well as a dairy free life!

These dairy free chocolate chip cookies are amazing. They really melt in your mouth. The hubby loves these and we make them quite often. These dairy free chocolate chip cookies make for a great dairy free OAMC recipe.  The dairy free chocolate chips are not difficult to find. Health food stores have  some and I have even found some at Walmart. They are the Ghiradelli (sp) brand, just read the ingredients! Try these dairy free chocolate chip cookies and let me know what you think!

Dairy Free Desserts : Dairy Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup dairy free margarine

2/3 tsp vanilla

1 egg

1 1/2 cups flour

2/3 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

2 cups dairy free chocolate chips

Directions:

Mix sugar, brown sugar,  dairy free margarine. Add vanilla and the egg and mix. Add flour, baking soda and salt. Mix again. Mix in dairy free chocolate chips. Spoon tablespoon size balls on a baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Watch closely! Our last gas stove cooked them in 10 minutes and our new electric stove cooks them in 8 minutes.

Dairy free OMAC recipe directions:  Spoon dough onto baking sheet and flash freeze for three hours. Once fully frozen then place in a freezer bag. You can then cook only as many as you would like!

How is day two of the 2009 New Year for you? I am looking forward to 2009 after the craziness 2008 brought into my life. Not that it was bad, just crazy between weddings and new houses! New Year’s Resolutions are not something I like to make as I tend to quit them within just a few days or don’t even start them at all, instead I prefer to make goals for the entire year. For some reason I feel like I have the whole year to complete a goal while a resolution feels like I must complete it within the first month of the New Year.

One of my smaller goals is for the month of January. I hope to post every day on this blog and my dairy free living blog for the rest of the month!  I have a ton of dairy free recipes ready to share with everyone, and pictures to go with them as well, so check back often to see what new dairy free recipes and dairy free products I have to share with you!

If you are looking for a specific dairy free product or dairy free recipe let me know and I’ll see if I can find what you are looking for or can come up with a dairy free recipe myself.

With the state our economy is in I am looking at every area of our finances to figure out where we can cut back. One of the ways I am doing this is by going even more frugal on our already frugal grocery bill. I am trying to be even more conscientious about using leftovers and freezing what I can to use for later. This is one of my favorite leftover dishes and its not bad frozen, you may have to add a little butter or barbeque sauce to the top when you heat it up if the meat seems like it has dried out after being frozen. This shouldn’t be a concern if you are eating it as a leftover the next day.

Frozen Dinners : Roast Beef Leftovers

This doesn’t really have ingredients. You just take your leftovers from a roast beef meal, like creamed corn or mashed potatoes or green beans and layer them all in a dish. If you are going to freeze it, layer the freezer dinner in a freezer and microwave safe dish. Generally, I layer mashed potatoes, then green beans or corn, then the roast beef on top. You could also do this the other way around and make a kind of Shepard’s pie.

First there was that post about dairy free Thanksgiving recipes then the over a week that I didn’t post. I haven’t been a good blogger lately. I will try to do better. I do have a few excuses if you would like to here them?

First, I’ve been sick. For a week. Through the entire Thanksgiving holiday. How sad is that? 

Second, I plum wrote myself ragged. I mean complete burn out. I have virtually quit writing for one arena that was causing me a great deal of stress so that I can focus on the areas in my life that I do enjoy working on, one of those being my dairy free blogs.

Please do not expect great things from me until the new year as the holidays are always crazy with me, but do expect them to be better! I am going to try to post as much as I can but come January 1st, I am hoping to post every day for a month.  I would really like to reach this goal!

Here is what you can look forward to for December:

Those Thanksgiving recipes I promised.

Thanksgiving leftover recipes.

Christmas recipes

New years recipes

I know the Thanksgiving recipes are a bit late but I’m hoping you can still use them for Christmas, since many people reuse several of the Thanksgiving dishes.

Happy Holidays! 

Beans are beans so I generally try to just buy the cheapest can as possible, especially since I can’t seem to keep any leftovers unless I freeze them. I  just figured out I could freeze leftover refried beans, previously I just threw them away because I didn’t like the look of them the next day. I’m not a picky eater when it comes to taste but texture and appearance can do me in at times!

We used this Kroger brand of vegetarian refried beans as a side dish for enchiladas one night. I almost always buy the vegetarian version of refried beans (the others use beef broth), not because we don’t eat meat but because I figure we get enough meat products and I am tried to eat beans so there is really no reason to eat beef as well. Especially, since they taste the same.

I also use refried beans to make bean burritos and I use them in tostadas. What do you use refried beans in?

There are many times when I use a dairy free breakfast recipe for  meal other than breakfast. I like breakfast for lunch and breakfast for dinner. Though sometimes the hubby and I have breakfast for lunch because we didn’t get up and cook in time for breakfast. I came up with this dish with leftovers from the night before. Cuz you gotta spice up the leftovers sometimes you know?

Dairy Free Breakfast Recipe : Mix a Stuff

1 potato chopped

1/2 medium onion chopped

2 mushrooms chopped

1/2  cup of cooked hominy

3 eggs

Directions:

Fry the potato in a small amount of oil. Add onion and mushroom towards the end. Push to outside edge and scramble eggs in the center. Throw in hominy and mix everything together. Heat until hominy is warm then serve!

Finding delicious dairy free desserts is not always that easy, especially when you are having a serious sugar attack.  This is one of my favorite desserts. I make it with pears and a slightly different version make with apples.  And it has to be pretty healthy don’t you think? I mean it is mostly fruit right? Fruit under all of that brown sugar and buttery goodness.

Dairy Free Desserts : Cinnamon Butter Pears

2 Pears

1 cup softened dairy free margarine

cinnamon

brown sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cut the pears in half. Lay a dollop of butter on top of each side. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and brown sugar. Cook for 45 minutes or until desired softness is reached.

The cooking time and temperature may vary based on your preferences.