Don't stress about lunch; enjoy a flavourful, better-for-you gluten free ready meal from My Healthy Kitchen and totally win at your midday meal!
When it comes to being gluten free, lunch times are a battlefield. Pretty much everything everybody typically eats for lunch is a no go when you can't have gluten. Bye-bye tasty sandwiches, sayonara pots of pasta, hasta luego wraps and burritos. Instead, when you're gluten free and it rolls noon, you're usually left with some sorry sad sandwich on tiny hole-filled bread or last night's leftovers.
But here to shine a light on your weary lunch is the champion of gluten free ready meals from My Healthy Kitchen. These folks know their gluten free grub and are providing three outstanding meals that will instantly catapult your lunch from bland to bangin' and make you the envy of the lunch room. Promise.
I chose to have these ready meals for lunch because it was such an easy solution to a difficult problem. But you could have them for dinner, if you prefer! They're so filling and full of so much good-for-you goodness that you won't complain!
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for My Healthy Kitchen.
I have been compensated for this post, however all opinions remain my
own and I was in no way influenced by the company. Should you choose to
purchase the product, I will not receive a commission or any monetary
compensation. You can review my disclosure policy in full here.
Celebrate Independence Day with 23 gluten-free 4th July treats: from slushies to slurp to patriotic cookies to munch! Here's how to do July 4th drinks and desserts without the gluten!
From this weekend and for the next few days, Americans all around the world will be gearing up to celebrate Independence Day! Here are 23 fantastic gluten free 4th July treats that will make the coeliac in your life happy! Every single drink and dessert featured here is 100 percent gluten free, perfect for celiacs. Who's ready to celebrate?
This 20 minute, one-pot Spanish rice dish is full of succulent chicken and chorizo and will be a new family favourite! It's also naturally gluten-free and dairy-free, too!
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Gluten-Free 20 Minute Chicken Chorizo Paella
This paella recipe will be a new family favourite; I guarantee! You won't believe how tasty and how it quickly it is prepared, either! If there are three things most kids love, it's chicken, rice and sausages. This classic Spanish dish features all three; plus, it's the kind of thing that, after you make it the first time, you'll be able to make it with your eyes closed!
There are a few secrets you should take into consideration before making this dish:
Use boneless and skinless chicken thighs--they are much more juicy than breasts and will cook faster
Use a good chorizo, one that you would happily eat on its own
Don't be shy with the saffron and the smoked paprika--they really make the dish what it is
Don't be afraid to swap out or add in ingredients that you'd like to eat
If you can't find paella rice, you can use risotto rice or simply white long grain rice
Do not stir the paella while cooking; a nice crunchy crust will form on the bottom and the edges that will be to die for. Your kids will probably turn up their noses and complain that it's burnt. Let them. There'll be more for you to savour; no sense wasting the goods on fussy eaters; it'll be our little secret
Ingredients:
For the paella 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon smoked paprika 1 onion, diced 1 red bell pepper, diced 1 lemon, halved 1 garlic clove, minced 2 bay leaves 130 grams chorizo, diced 150 grams frozen peas 300 grams white long grain rice* 400ml chicken stock 750 grams chicken thighs, boneless and skinless, cut a few strands saffron fresh parsley sea salt (optional) black pepper
*Note: You can use paella rice, but it'll take longer to cook.
Whenever we go to Spain, there are two things we live off of: delicious
paella and ice cold sangria. Paella in Spain is so tasty and
varied--you'll find some with nothing but seafood plucked straight from
the warm Mediterranean or you'll find some full of a variety of meat.
I'm not naieve enough to believe that my homemade, 20 minute quickie
even comes close to what the authentic dish tastes like, but it is a
close second and a nice treat when we're home and dreaming of Spain's
sunny weather!
Instructions:
Heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the onion and garlic until fragrant and the onion is translucent.
Add the rice and mix well to toast it. Add the bell pepper and allow to sizzle for about a minute.
Pour in the chicken stock, chicken thighs, chorizo, saffron, paprika and bay leaf and cover, leaving to simmer and allowing the liquid to absorb. This should take about 20 minutes. *Important tip: try not to stir the paella; you want a nice crunchy crust to form on the bottom to make it as authentic as possible.*
Once most of the liquid has absorbed, finish with a good squeeze of lemon juice and a sprinkle of fresh parsley. Season with pepper and sea salt if necessary.
Learn the 5 telltale signs of blogger burn out and how to spot them creeping into your blog!
It happens to veteran bloggers and it happens to newbie bloggers. It happens to food bloggers and fashion bloggers, lifestyle bloggers and tech bloggers. It happens to bloggers in the UK and bloggers in Asia. It happens to female bloggers and it happens to male bloggers. It happens to thirty-something bloggers and it happens to bloggers in their 60s. No matter what you blog about, no matter where you live, you could be effected by blogger burn out.
Blogger burn out is when a blogger simply stops blogging and it's happened to me on more than one occasion. I like to think of blogger burn out being a bit like a form of depression, and as such, the symptoms are similar. Today, I'd like to share 5 telltale signs of blogger burn out so you can spot them before they sneak up on you:
This classic gluten free shepherd's pie is bursting with seasonal vegetables, succulent steak mince and topped with luscious velvet twice-baked mashed potatoes!
Yield: 4 to 6 servings
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Gluten Free Cottage Pie with Twice Baked Mash
A cottage pie is similar to a shepherd's pie but the main difference is in the type of mince used. Where a shepherd's pie uses lamb mince, a cottage pie uses beef mince or ground beef. This dish is classic comfort food and can be enjoyed year round, but is especially great this time of year when the produce is at its sweetest and ripest. To make it even more indulgent, I topped it with a downright decadent double baked mashed potato, giving it the creamiest, most velvety finish imaginable!
When I'm cooking for the blog, keeping the food hot long enough for me to take photos can be a real challenge. So I avoid having to nuke cooked food in the microwave and rest my dishes on stone tiles--they're perfect conductors of heat, and keep the dishes nice and warm! Stone tiles, like the Retro Marengo collection I used in these photos, also make perfect trays for serving hot food from. My tiles come from Sabbini, where they have a huge collection of the some of the most gorgeous stone tiles, I've ever seen!
Keep cool and hydrated with 13 best refreshing watermelon drinks! Serve any of these at your barbecue, picnic or 4th of July party for an unforgettable thirst quencher!
It is officially the first day of summer! It's the time of year again, when the days are long and the nights are balmy! Before you slide into your flip flops and hit the beach or head to the park for a picnic, whip up one of 13 best refreshing watermelon drinks to keep you cool and hydrated when the days are hot! Make any of these drinks adults only by slipping in a shot or two of your favourite tipple, too!
This 20 minute, one-pot Moroccan stew is packed with veggies but the star is the gluten free MOR sausages spiced with harrisa paste and bursting with chickpeas, red peppers and delicious pork!
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Gluten Free One Pot Moroccan Sausage Stew
With it warming up here in Manchester, being in an un-air conditioned kitchen is pretty much as unbearable as it gets. Plus, running the oven all day just adds to the overall heat in the house and nobody needs that when it's well into the 80s. The weather really makes this dish perfect for this time of year; it's a shame that stews are generally reserved for colder months, when they are just as comforting and can be made lighter and perfect for summer.
This recipe is the epitome of cooking for the lazy. Virtually everything comes from a tin or a can and all you have to do is open, drain and pour. This is a hallelujah recipe because it's so easy, so yummy and effortless. You don't even have to mess around with adding lots of seasonings for flavour because the sausages have it under control. And those sausages?
They are 100 per cent gluten free pork sausages filled with Moroccan spices, cauliflower, chickpeas and red peppers from the amazing people (and my new bezzie marras) at MOR. Each serving of these sausages contains much less fat than standard sausages.The fine folks at MOR have also used veggies that are high in protein, fibre and vitamins B6, C and K--basically, these are healthy sausages, guys.
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for MOR Food.
I have been compensated for this post, however all opinions remain my
own and I was in no way influenced by the company. Should you choose to
purchase the products, I will not receive a commission or any monetary
compensation. You can review my disclosure policy in full here.
I'm Anyonita, an American living in Britain. I was diagnosed with Coeliac Disease as an adult. I am passionate about recreating traditional foods with a gluten-free makeover. Follow my easy, triple-tested recipes to make dishes you wouldn't believe were gluten-free!
This is a hallelujah recipe because it's so easy, so yummy and effortless. You don't even have to mess around with adding lots of seasonings for flavour because the sausages have it under control. And those sausages? 
