Creamed Spinach and Fish Chowder Feingold Recipe

Two perfect recipes for the winter. Just the right thing to warm you up. These are reprinted from the Pure Facts newsletter from the Feingold Association of the United States (FAUS) .

Creamed Spinach
3-4 servings

1 10 oz frozen chopped spinach
2 Tablespoons butter (may use CF)
2 Tablespoons flour (may use GF)
1 cup milk (substitute)
salt and pepper to taste
2-3 sliced cooked bacon, crumbled

Boil the spinach until thawed; drain. Rinse the saucepan and add the butter. When it has melted, stir in flour till it is blended with butter. Slowly whisk in milk, stirring while the white sauce simmers. Season. Add drained spinach to sauce. Top with bacon bits.

Fish Chowder
3-4 servings

1-2 potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 onion, peeled and diced
2 Tablespoons butter (CF)
1/4 cup flour (GF)
2 cups milk (subsitute)
1/2 pound fish fillets, cut in cubes
1/2 teaspoon salt
dash pepper
1 Tablespoon soy sauce (GFCF)
1/2 cup frozen corn

Cook the potatoes in the water until tender; drain. In a large pot, lightly saute the onions in butter. Add flour, stirring with a whisk, until combined. Allow it to cook for a minute. Add the milk slowly, stirring constantly till smooth. Add th fish, salt, pepper, soy sauce, and frozen corn. Cover and simmer for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the potatoes. Heat through. You can also add a handful of frozen peas for some more veggies.




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Beef Stew Recipe

Beef Stew

1-1/2 pounds lean cubed beef
4 tablespoons GF flour mix
1 dash paprika
1 GF beef bouillon cube
2 teaspoons olive oil
4 carrot, 1 inch thick
2 potatoes, cubed
1 medium onion, chopped
15 ounces stewed tomatoes, canned with juices
15 ounces corn, canned with juices
15 ounces peas, canned with juices
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper

Dredge meat in flour, brown in hot oil. Add meat and all other ingredients into crock pot and cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 2-4 hours. Or cover and simmer on medium for 90 minutes.

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GFCF Party Popcorn

Party Popcorn

3 ounces popped popcorn, approximately 3 quarts
1 cup salted peanuts
4 ounces CF Margarine
16 ounces dark brown sugar, approximately 2 cups
1/4 cup dark corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F. Spray a sheet pan with nonstick spray and line with parchment paper. Spray the parchment paper with nonstick spray as well and set aside. Combine the popcorn and peanuts in a large mixing bowl. Set aside until ready to use.

Melt the margarine in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the brown sugar, corn syrup and vanilla and stir until combined. Heat the mixture until it reaches 250 degrees F, approximately 10 minutes.

Pour the syrup over the popcorn and stir to combine. You will need to work quickly because the syrup hardens rapidly. Spread the mixture onto the prepared sheet pan and bake in the oven for 1 hour. Cool completely. Break into pieces and serve immediately or store in an airtight container for 2 to 3 days.

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GFCF Bread Recipe

A friend of mine sent this recipe to me, and I thought that I would share it with you.

GFCF Bread
3 eggs room temp
3 table spoons oil
1 1/2 cup of water, room temp
1 cup rice flour
1/2 cup potato starch flour
1 cup garbanzo bean flour
1/4 cup tapioca flour
3 table spoons brown sugar, or white we just like the brown best
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
2 1/2 tablespoons rapid rise yeast
4 teaspoon xantha gum

Place wet ingredients in bread maker first, then dry, and yeast last. Set for short cycle, or rapid rise cycle. If you don't have a short cycle, use regular yeast for longer cycles or the bread will fall from too much heat time on the rapid rise yeast. Freeze sliced bread on a cookie sheet. When individual slices are frozen, put into a bag and store in the freezer, take out and thaw as needed.

Bread...makes a 2 lb loaf in a bread machine. I also use this to make hamburger buns and deli type bread. Just take it out once the dough has finished and before it bakes. It will be just about impossible to touch, so use a big spoon to dip out and put globs on a cookie sheet, size depending on if you need rolls or buns. Bake at 375 until hollow when thumped and golden brown.





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GFCF Crafts The Blob, Fingerpaint, and Bubbles

Playtime for kids is always fun. When it comes to non edible products, they can cause a reaction as well. Here are some crafts that you can make at home for the kids to play in, and you know that it will be safe for their sensitive bodies.


The Blob 
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1/2 cup salt
1 tablespoon oil
2 teaspoons GFCF cream of tartar

Acceptable flavoring for smell e.g. pure vanilla extract

Mix dry ingredients into a heavy pan. Add oil, water to above . Use pure vanilla extract for smell, or any other Feingold acceptable aroma. Cook, stirring constantly until mixture pulls away from sides of pan (almost immediately).

Fingerpaint GFCF/ADHD

1/2 cup tapioca starch

1/2 cup cold water

1 1/2 cups boiling water

1/2 cup Ivory flakes

1 tablespoon glycerin

Food coloring (Feingold Diet acceptable) organic

Dissolve tapioca starch in cold water. Add the boiling water and cook the mixture until it is clear, stirring constantly. Add the soap flakes, and stir well. Remove from stove immediately, and cool. Stir in glycerin and food coloring.

Bubble Stuff

2 2/3 cups Ivory flakes (not detergent)

1 teaspoon sugar

4 teaspoons glycerine (drugstore)

Pour the above ingredients into a quart jar with a lid and shake well. fill the jar all but half an inch with lukewarm water. Screw the lid on tightly and shake very hard. This mixture can be stored in the refrigerator but makes the best bubbles at room temperature or warmer. If you encounter any difficulty with the bubbles breaking before they are formed, add a bit more glycerin.

Reprinted from Caring and Cooking for the Allergic Child by Linda L. Thomas Sterling Publishing Company 1980.

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Baked Squash Casserole ADHD/GFCF

Baked Squash Casserole
1 medium squash or 1 frozen package
2 tablespoons sweet butter GFCF
2 tablespoons brown sugar
salt and pepper to taste
milk substitute
crushed cornflakes or meringue

Either steam or bake the squash, or use the frozen product. Salt and pepper to taste. Add a little milk until the right consistency. put in greased casserole dish with a topping of finely crushed cornflakes (check label for synthetics) or meringue. The cornflakes should be mixed with a little melted butter or shortening.

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Sweedish Cabbage Rolls GFCF and Feingold Diet

More recipes for you... this one can be used on the GFCF and Feingold Diets.

Sweedish Cabbage Rolls
1 medium head cabbage
1/4 cup rice
1 cup water
1 cup milk substitute
1/2 pound ground beef
1/2 pound ground pork
1 egg (replacer)
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons GFCF butter
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 cup milk substitute or GFCF cream
Flour (GFCG)
Salt and pepper to taste

Place cabbage in boiling salt water, after cutting out core of cabbage from underside. Cook until leaves separate with easily but are not to soft. Drain and bring the cup of water to boil add rice simmer until all water has evaporated. Add milk and cook until rice is tender. Stir occasionally. After cooking, mix with the next five ingredients. Fill each cabbage leaf with some of the mixture. Roll and fasten with a toothpick.
Heat butter in skillet. Brown cabbage rolls on all sides. Sprinkle with brown sugar, and put into a casserole dish. Add juices from skillet and a little water or stock. When serving, add cream and a little flour to the juices in the pan, add correct seasoning with salt and pepper. Simmer until thickened. Cook in oven at 350 degrees for one hour.

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ADHD Applesauce Cake (FD) Recipe

Using recipes for ADHD are accompanied by the Feingold Diet. Taking out the colors, flavorings, and other additives. However, that doesn't mean that it is GFCF as well. You maybe able to take these recipes and make them into GFCF if you are able to add the extra ingredients to make the food turn out right. Certain ingredtients are added to GFCF recipes in order to stabilize the foods itself e.g. xanthan gum, flours, and so on.

Applesauce Cake for ADHD
1/2 cup margarine (GFCF to avoid additives to margarine)
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup applesauce
2 1/2 cups rice flour (GFCF flour)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon soda

Cream together sugar and margarine, add applesauce. Sift remaining ingredients, and stir into batter. Mix well and pour into a greased 8-in. square pan or muffin tin. Bake at 325 degrees for 40 minutes for the cake, and at 325 degrees for 25 minutes for the cupcakes. cool in pan for 5 minutes.

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