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Review of new products from Udi’s

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It’s no secret that I like to bake for my family. However, I am also a busy working mom, and who can do all that baking all the time? I am grateful that in the 13 years since we found out my daughter had celiac that the market has so many more great gluten free products available. One of the most widely available in our area (and one of our favs) is Udi’s Gluten Free. You can always find Udi’s Bagels in our freezer, and on busy weeks when I just can’t bake bread (more and more weeks than I like to admit) we can always pick up Udi’s Multi Grain Gluten Free Bread for lunches. For last minute birthday parties or sleepovers we have even used the moist and delicious Double Chocolate Muffins and Double Vanilla Muffins as a last minute cupcake (just toss on a bit of frosting and you are good to go). Thank you, Udi’s! You have saved my bacon more than once! When asked to review some new gluten free product from Udi’s I jumped at the chance.

 Udi's product assortment

I was sent a HUGE assortment of Udi’s products, many of which we have not seen or tried yet. Because my family wanted to simple tear into everything and chomp it down, I decided on a taste test (hey, a momma’s got to figure out a way to get a taste, too, right?).  Here is the result of our favorites from our big pile of tastiness in our completely unscientific, completely biased (because we already like their products) taste test. 🙂 Fancy!

Udi's tast test helper.

Udi's Harvest Crunch MuffinsThe first item we tried were the muffins. We knew the Double Vanilla were delish (we use them as a quick cupcake stand in, if you remember…) but we all were intrigued by the Harvest Crunch Muffins. This muffin boasted of cranberries, sweet potato, quinoa flour and pepitas. I gotta tell ya, this is one tasty muffins. Tender, with a really nice texture. It is perfect to use a simple muffin to go with tea. I REALLY liked the flavor balance of this one.

 

Udi's Chocolate Chip Granola Bars

My kids LOVED the Soft n’Chewy Granola Bars. Dude, they have chocolate chips. Enough said, right? Best part as a mom is that they are not as high in sugars as many soft gluten free granola bars I have seen, and are individually wrapped, making them easily portable in a backpack. Love that.

 

 

 

Udi's Blueberry Cashew Granola

We tossed the Blueberry Cashew Granola on coconut yogurt for a fun crunch. This granola includes a bit of millet and amaranth (yay!) My youngest, who has always been anti-blueberry but very pro-cashew, declared the granola “Totally tasty!” Thank you, Udi’s for converting her into a blueberry lover. 🙂 My older daughter brought some as an after track practice snack. It really satisfied her snack craving.

 

 

Udi's Omega Flax & Fiber Bread

Everyone loved the Udi’s Omega Flax & Fiber Bread. I like the extra fiber (so much gluten free product is remarkably fiber free) and lovely flax, my kids loved that the bread was soft for sandwiches right out of the package. My mom, who has diabetes loves that she could actually have two pieces of bread for a sandwich and make it a meal, when a lot of gluten free breads she is can only have one piece due to the carb count. Win-win! We all enjoyed the nutty flavor and whole grain taste. We will be getting this again!

 

We enjoyed everything we tried. The only sad bit for my girls were that the Brownie Bites and Snickerdoodles (which they REALLY wanted to try) contain dairy. As we are gluten and dairy free, those didn’t work for us. 🙁 However, my son and husband who can have dairy seemed to enjoy them… Often purchased cookies and brownies that are gluten free also contain dairy. It would be nice to have some that were both gluten and dairy free sometime. (Pretty please?)

All in all, we enjoyed everything. I am so pleased to see more alternative grains, such as quinoa and amaranth, increased fiber (while still maintaining great texture) in their new products. Udi’s has done it again! Thank you!

 

I participated in this program on behalf of Udi’s and The Motherhood. All opinions are my own.

Gluten & Dairy Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Refrigerator Pie {FREE Attune Foods Dessert E-Book!}

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Gluten Free Dairy Free chocolate peanut Butter refrigerator pie

 

If you have been following along my blog for awhile, you know I love the line of gluten free cereals from Attune Foods.  Non-GMO, whole grain, gluten free and delicious?  Yep, sign me up!  And while the cereals are wonderful in the standard  cereal bowl for my morning starter, but they are so versatile in cooking savory things, too.  I use Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice Cereal as a panko bread crumb replacement on Chicken Confetti Bites and Erewhon Cornflakes add the perfect crunch to Dairy Free Buffalo Chicken Bites.  When Attune came out with a line of cereals using some of my favorite gluten free super grains, I just had to try them.

Toss a handful of Buckwheat and Hemp Cereal on dairy free coconut yogurt, add a few blackberries, and you have an amazing breakfast.  My kids like adding dried fruit and almond milk to the Quinoa and Chia Cereal to start their day.  Though, honestly, I have to say I often just eat it straight from the box by the handful for a quick snack.  The whole grains keep me full and my tummy satisfied, and while the toasted crunch satisfies my tastebuds.  Yum!

I was thrilled to be asked to contribute a recipe using Attune’s Supergrain Cereals for their Supergrain Dessert E-Book from Attune Foods.  I use the delicious crunch of Quinoa and Chia Cereal to make the crust of this Gluten Free Dairy Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Refrigerator Pie.  If you don’t eat nuts, their are instructions in the recipe for replacing the peanut butter, and the recipe does not contain eggs.

Visit Attune Foods to download your FREE copy of the Supergrain Dessert e-book.

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In addition to my Gluten & Dairy Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Refrigerator Pie, you’ll have access to four other amazing dessert recipes by some very talented bloggers with beautiful photos of each recipe, too!  There is pumpkin, coconut, cranberries, apples, and ginger.  Yep, pretty much everything you’ll want on your holiday table, all without gluten and other allergens.  Download the FREE e-book and get baking!  Save me a slice, please.  🙂

Taco Cups made with Pillsbury’s Gluten Free Pie and Pastry Dough

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Gluten Free Dairy Free Taco Cups

After the fun of making the easiest (yet ever so tasty) Gluten & Dairy Free Pizza Twists thanks to Pillsbury’s Gluten Free Thin Crust Pizza Dough and sweet little Gluten & Dairy Free Apple Hand Pies from Pilsbury’s Gluten Free Pie and Pastry Dough, I wanted to try something else fun and kid friendly that could go in the lunch box or be had as a snack.  My kids were in the mood for tacos, so Gluten Free Dairy Free Taco Cups are what we came up with.

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Gluten Free Dairy Free Taco cup Petal styleGluten Free Dairy Free Taco Cups Petal Style 2

These tasty bites were so fun to make!  I used my regular taco meat seasoning, but use what your family likes.  We tried two different styles for the cups.  After kneading Gluten Free Pie and Pastry Dough, we rolled out half of the dough and cut it into 6 squares about 4 1/2 inches.  I tucked the dough into a muffin cups leaving the tips of the squares out to make a petal-style or star-style cup.

 

Gluten Free Dairy Free Taco Cup3Gluten Free Dairy Free Taco Cups4 The other half of the dough I rolled into a rope and cut into 8 sections.  After putting the one of the sections into each muffin tin, I pressed the dough evenly around the muffin tin.  Either way you make them, they turn out delicious!  We served the taco cups for lunch with Tex-Mex Salad.  I am making some for the school lunch boxes and think these would be a great game day snack.  What would you serve taco cups for?

 

What do you think of Pillsbury’s new gluten free products.?  Have you tried the Chocolate Chip Cookie (however, this contains milk for those cow milk allergic, like myself), Thin Crust Pizza Dough or the Pie and Pastry Dough?  Thank you so much for the three gluten free products, Pillsbury!  They are so fun to use!

Taco Cups made with Pillsbury’s Gluten Free Pie and Pastry Dough

Yields makes 12 to 18 depending on pastry style

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Ingredients

  • 2 pounds ground beef
  • 4 teaspoons instant minced onion
  • 1 to 2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons chili powder
  • 2 teaspoons ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon instant minced garlic
  • 1 teaspoon crushed, dried red pepper (optional)
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • one container of Pilsbury Gluten Free Pie Crust (2 pie crusts worth of dough)
  • Taco toppings of choice. We used guacamole, salsa and fresh cilantro.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

Cook ground beef, breaking it apart while cooking. Drain grease from meat when beef is browned. Add onion, salt, chili powder, cumin, garlic, red pepper, and oregano and stir well. Remove from heat.

For flower/star cups: Knead pie dough until no longer crumbly. Roll out on plastic wrap and cut into 12 squares approximately 4 1/2 inches. Tuck squares into every other muffin tin allowing points to stick out on tin. Press any dough flaps in muffin tin to create more room for filling and to make a neater appearance (see photo).

For plain taco cups: Knead pie dough until no longer crumbly. Roll dough into a snake or rope. Cut into 16 equal pieces. Place a piece of dough into a muffin tin, pressing into an even layer on bottom and sides of muffin tin.

Divide meat between pastry cups. Bake in preheated 425 degree F oven 15 to 18 minutes or until pie crust is golden brown and cooked through.

Remove taco cups from pie tin and top with your favorite taco fixings, like guacamole, salsa, olives or fresh cilantro.

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This article is sponsored by Pillsbury®.  All opinions are my own.  Thank you, Pillsbury®, for sponsoring today’s discussion!

WonderMill Challenge – Coconut Whoopie Pies

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For my last week of the WonderMill Challenge, I made Gluten Free Dairy Free Coconut Whoopie Pies.   Mmmm….  Stop by and say “Hi!”

 

I enjoyed playing with my nifty WonderMill and can’t wait to experiment more.  I have plans to pre sprout, then dry and then ground some gluten free grains and see how the resulting flour works and tastes.  I can’t wait!  My only sad discovery was not being able to grind almonds or coconuts in it, but considering I could grind everything else I threw at it from garbonzo beans and teff (not to mention all the other legume flours that you simply can’t buy), I feel it was worth it. And grinding corn that I dried last summer made the most amazing corn bread imaginable, with an intensely fresh corn flavor.  Simply amazing, and wonderful to be able to adjust the setting from pastry to regular to coarse ground.  Almonds and coconut can be ground in a good quality blender, but I have never seen garbonzos ground so well in anything else home ground.  Thank you, WonderMill!

Buffalo Chicken Bites with Dairy Free Blue “Cheese” Dip, Gluten Free & Dairy Free

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This?  Is awesome.  Yep.  You need to make Gluten Free Dairy Free Buffalo Chicken Bites for game day.  Or right now.  Or to serve as lunch or dinner with a big salad.  Or to sneak out of the fridge when no one is looking – not that I would know anything about that sort of thing.  Anyway…

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WonderMill Challenge – Gluten Free Dairy Free Anti-Wheat Thin Cracker

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For week three of  ”So, what’s a girl to do when she finally gets her hands on a WonderMill?” WonderMill Challenge, I baked up  these lovely Gluten Free Dairy Free Crackers we call the Anti-Wheat Thin.   Oh, yes, I did!  And these, my dears, are awesome.  You need to make them now.  They are easy-peasy (even when grinding your own grain), pull together fast (mix it up in FIVE minutes – even when grinding your own grain), and are delicious.  And did I mention easy?  Yeah – they are.  Head on over to GrainMillWagon.com and say “Hi!”

Then bake up a batch to nibble on during that big game this weekend everyone is talking about.

Lemon OR Almond Poppy Seed Muffins, Gluten & Dairy Free – WonderMill Challenge

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Like muffins?  So do I!  For week two of  “So, what’s a girl to do when she finally gets her hands on a WonderMill?” WonderMill Challenge, I baked up Gluten Free Dairy Free Lemon OR Almond Poppy Seed Muffins.  Because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t!  🙂   Head on over to GrainMillWagon.com and say “Hi!”