Gluten-Free Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients:

1. 2 cups of white rice flour
2. 1/2 cup of sweet rice flour
3. 250gm of butter (softened at room temperature)
4. 4 eggs
5. 1 teaspoon of vanilla
6. 1 cup of apple sauce (Click on LINK for recipe on how to make home-made apple sauce)
7. 1 teaspoon of baking soda
8. 1 teaspoon of baking powder
9. 1 cup of blueberries
10. 1 cup of milk (I used rice/quinoa milk)

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1. Cream the butter.

2. Add one egg at a time and continue stirring the batter.

3. Add the dry ingredients alternating with the applesauce and milk while continue stirring.

4. Lastly add the blueberries.

5. Preheat oven at 170C.

6. Line muffin baking trays with muffin paper casings and scoop the batter into them.

7. Bake for approximately 25 minutes.

8. Allow to cool slightly before eating. You can freeze the extras.

Bon appétit!

Gluten-Free Cookies

*Attention: I am still in the midst of improving this recipe! As of now, this is one of the food which I am having for snacks.

Ingredients:

1. 2 cups of white rice flour

2. 2 cups of brown rice flour

3. 1 cup of tapioca starch

4. 2/3 cup of potato starch

5. 1 1/2 teaspoons of xanthan gum

6. 1/2 teaspoon of sea-salt

7. Sunflower oil

8. 1 cup of rice milk (for recipe, click on LINK)

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1. Mix all the ingredients above until everything is well blended.

2. Line a baking tray with baking paper.

3. Preheat oven to 170C.

4. Take golf ball sizes of dough and flatten them with the palm of your hand.

5. Repeat step 4 until all dough is used up.

6. Bake for approximately 20 to 25 minutes.

7. Allow to cool.

Bon appétit!

Gluten-Free Banana Cake

Ingredients:

1. 50gm of glutinous rice flour
2. 150gm of white rice flour
3. 25gm of brown rice flour
4. 1 teaspoon of baking soda
5. 4 eggs (room temperature) - beaten
6. 5 medium sized bananas (mashed)
7. 1/4 cup sugar
8. 1/2 cup of rice milk (for recipe, click on LINK)
9. 1/3 cup of sunflower oil
10. 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
11. 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds

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1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flours, baking soda and sunflower seeds.

2. In another mixing bowl, whisk the eggs, bananas, sugar, milk, oil and vanilla until combined.

3. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until all are mixed well.

4. Preheat oven to 170C.

5. Line baking tray with baking paper.

6. Pour mixture into baking tray and bake for approximately 20 minutes.

7. Allow to cool.

Bon appétit!

Cooking For Joel: The Perfect Milk

Ingredients:

1. 3 tablespoons of brown rice
2. 1/2 tablespoon of quinoa
3. 1.4 litres of water
4. *Optional: Brown sugar

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1. Wash the rice and quinoa and soak it for an hour in the fridge.

2. Pour the water away and give it a rinse.

3. I used my Philips soya maker for the next step. If you do not own one, you can blend the mixture with the water and then strain the liquid out. You can also blend the mixture, boil it and then strain it. Or you can boil the rice with water until everything becomes mashy and then strain the liquid out.

4. The soya maker pulverized the rice and boiled it for approximately 25 minutes.

5. I did not sieve the milk out this time. We drank everything. It was as good.

Bon appétit!

Cooking For Joel: Brown Rice Milk

Since Joel is unable to take soy, cow's milk or even almond, that leaves him with very little choice where milk is concerned. He needs a drink before he sleeps. I dare not try oats as it is very frequently cross contaminated with wheat. So rice milk is the safest.

As this is my first time in making rice milk, I scoured the internet with the intensity of looking for a lost kin. There were many recipes and methods. I combined a few of them. So here's my own way of making Brown Rice Milk.

1. 1 cup of brown rice
2. 1 litre water
3. Brown sugar

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1. Preheat oven to 180C.

2. Pour 1 cup of rice onto baking tray and bake for 20 minutes. (This makes the milk to be more fragrant).

3. Once it is done, allow to cool.

4. Wash the rice and soak it overnight in the fridge.

5. Pour the water away and give it a rinse.

6. I used my Philips soya maker for the next step. If you do not own one, you can blend the mixture with the water and then strain the liquid out. You can also blend the mixture, boil it and then strain it. Or you can boil the rice with water until everything becomes mashy and then strain the liquid out.

7. The soya maker pulverized the rice and boiled it for approximately 25 minutes.

8. Once it was done, the milk was sieved.

9. I added some brown sugar to the drink.

Honestly, it tastes very bland. But we will get used to it. It also thickens when it cools down. If it gets too thick, you can add water to it. I kept the remainder in the fridge in an airtight container.

Bon appétit!