Turkey Meatballs with gravy

Today I made turkey meatballs with sauce/gravy. They can be served over noodles or mashed potatoes.


Mix together ground turkey, lea & perrins, egg, crushed brown rice krispies, diced green onions.

Add coconut oil to a pan and place meatballs in the pan.  I used a mini ice cream scoop to make the meatballs. Brown the meatballs and then remove from pan.

Add some more oil if needed to the pan and add diced onion.  cook for a couple of minutes.  Then add some chicken stock to deglaze the pan.

Add the meatballs back into the pan.

     

Add chicken broth to the pan to cover the meatballs. Bring to a boil and then low the temperature to low and cover.

Remove the meatballs.  Add the rest of the chicken stock to the pan and lea & perrins, salt and pepper. bring to a boil.  Then add some cornstarch that has been mixed with water.  Continue boiling until the sauce as thicken.  Add the meatballs back into the sauce and set aside until ready to serve.  Serve with noodles or potatoes.

TURKEY MEATBALLS WITH GRAVY

1 LB of ground turkey

2 green onions, diced

2T lea & perrins gf

1 egg

1/2 crushed brown rice krispies or gf bread crumbs

Mix all ingredients together. Form into meatballs.

In a large saucepan, melt coconut oil, add the meatballs and brown them on both sides.  Once browned remove from pan.  Add more oil if necessary and 1 diced onion.  Cook the onion for a couple of minutes then add some chicken stock to deglaze the pan.  Then add the meatballs back into the pan.  Add more chicken stock until the meatballs are covered.  Bring it to a boil then lower the temperature and cover.  Simmer for about an hour or until the meatballs are done.

Once the meatballs are cooked remove the meatballs.  Add the rest of the chicken stock to the pan turn up heat and bring to a boil.  Add a couple of tablespoons of lea & perrins and some salt and pepper to taste.  Once the mixture is boiling.  Add some cornstarch that has been mixed with water. Continue to boil until the sauce has thicken, then add the meatballs back into the sauce and keep warm.

The meatballs and sauce can be served over noodles or potatoes.

First Bunching (Green) Onions from the garden and peppers almost ready

The first cutie mini red pepper is almost ready to be picked.  Looks like the heat, and rain from last weekend has helped these peppers.

The one regular size red pepper in the other planter is almost ready as well and I am help to see a new one starting as well.

In addition,  I pulled two bunching/spring/green onions.  They will be going in the salad with tonights dinner.

First onions of the season :)

Two new muffin recipes attempted.

What to do on a Saturday on a long hot humid weekend?  Well I decided to create 2 new muffin recipes that were wheat free, dairy free and egg free. One muffin was double chocolate muffin and the other one oatmeal chocolate chip.

The intention was good and everything looked like it was proceeding well and I tasted the dough and it wasn't bad.

However, the final result was not good.  They took so long too cook that they were well done on the outside and who likes a well done muffin!!  I took them out of the oven and let them cool, I was still holding onto hope for them.  But when I bite into them they were very mushy inside not a good thing.

Although this may sound like a failure I like to look at it as a learning curve. The recipes didn't turn out exactly as I would have liked.  But am willing to try these recipes again and this time make some adjustments and make mini muffins perhaps that will yield better results.  

That is the thing with baking it may not always turn out the first time so try again.  

The ingredients for the chocolate muffins

The chocolate muffin batter ready for the pans.

Ingredients for oatmeal chocolate chip muffins

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffin batter ready for muffin pan

Both muffins ready for oven

Muffins out of the oven


Will let you know what happens the next time I attempt this recipe :)

Two peppers are finally starting to turn red

Two of the peppers are starting to turn red.  I do hope to get more peppers but am unsure if that will happen.  The plants continue to grow but are no longer flowering.  There were lots of flowers  starting but had a wind storm and afterwards they were blown off.

This is one of the mini peppers that is just starting to turn red.

This pepper I think will be a deep red sweet pepper.

Thats it for today.  Keeping my fingers crossed for more peppers :)

Photos of peppers growing

Just a quiet day so took some photos of the peppers in my containers.  The purple peppers sure are a weird shape. But they are growing and new peppers are starting who knows if they will be purple or red.

This second container of red peppers, a new pepper is starting.

new peppers starting.

Purple peppers are growing.  Interestingly the 2 came out purple and now the other one is turning purple.

The basil is growing strong.

Testing Chocolate Chip Muffin recipe from 150 Gluten Free Muffin Recipes

Today I tried a recipe from a new cookbook I have.  Its called 150 Gluten-Free Muffin Recipes by Camilla V. Saulsbury.

There are many great recipes that I cannot wait to try.  Lots of savoury ones which I will try once the peppers, onions and basil are harvested from my garden.

Today I tried the chocolate chip recipe.  Chocolate chip muffins are among my favourite muffins it is very difficult to find a good chocolate chip muffin.  It is even harder now to find a gluten free chocolate chip muffin.  I made a couple of substitutions in the recipe from the book I used half the amount of chocolate chips but used mini chocolate chips and i also added more cinnamon.  The results were the best that I have tried.  Will definitely try the recipe again.  They were a little overdone my fault as I was on the phone when the buzzer went off on the oven.  Also, they were a little gritty but the author did mention that this would happen if you didn't use superfine ground brown rice flour.  I used the brown rice flour by Bob's Red Mill.  I was not able to find superfine brown rice flour here.

The next recipe I will try will be blueberry muffins.  But there are so many to try, Strawberry Muffins,  Dulce de Leche Muffins,  Cheddar Dill Muffins, Ham and Cheddar Muffins,  Canadian Bacon Muffins with Cheese and Chives, Roasted Pepper Feta Muffins,  Rocky Road Muffins,  Ginger Lime Muffins and so many more.

I will let you know how the other muffins turn out.

Chocolate Chip Muffins ready for the oven

Chocolate Chip Muffins fresh from the oven

Chocolate Chip Muffins fresh from the oven

Chocolate Chip Muffins cooling

Delicious with a cup of tea

Hot mug of tea with Chocolate Chip Muffin :)

Ginger Pear Sweet Potato Soup

This is a very delicious recipe I have made it times and finally got it the way I like it.  People who have eaten it have LOVE it. I make this soup a lot throughout the year.


Melt coconut oil in a large pot.  While it is melting chop 1 large Spanish onion and add to the pot.

  

Sweat the onions for about 5 minutes then add the chopped ginger.

Stir the onion and ginger and continue cooking for about 10 minutes.

While the onions and ginger cook together, peel and chop 3 sweet potatoes.  And then add to the pot.

Add half a carton of stock and 3 cinnamon sticks, pepper and salt  Bring to a boil.

Once it comes to a boil add the 3 chopped pears and 1 can of lite coconut milk.

Reduce temperature to low cover the pot with a lid and simmer until sweet potatoes are tender.

When the sweet potatoes are tender remove the cinnamon sticks and then using an immersion blender puree the soup until smooth. If the soup is too thick add some more of the stock until you get the consistently you like.

Heat thoroughly and season with salt and pepper to taste.  Then serve up.

GINGER PEAR SWEET POTATO SOUP

1 T Coconut Oil

1 Large Spanish Onion, Chopped

3 Large Sweet Potatoes, peeled and chopped

2 inches of Ginger Root peeled and chopped

1 Carton of Unsalted Vegetable or Chicken Stock

3 Cinnamon Sticks

1 can of Lite Coconut Milk

Ground Black Pepper

Sea Salt

Instructions:

1.  Melt coconut oil in a large pot.

2. Once melted add the chopped onion.  Sweat the onion for 5 minutes then       add the chopped ginger to it.

3. Continue cooking the onion and ginger for another 5-10 minutes then add       the chopped sweet potatoes to the pot.  Add half the carton of stock to the     potato and the cinnamon sticks.

4. Bring to a boil then add the chopped pears and the can of coconut milk.           Stir and season with salt and pepper.  Low the temperature and simmer         until the sweet potatoes are tender.

5. When the sweet potatoes are tender remove the cinnamon sticks and puree     the soup with an immersion blender.  Adjust seasonings to taste and heat       thoroughly.  Then serve.