Dinner Tonight: Fat Boy Heaven's Gluten Free Mexican Mac and Cheese with Chorizo and Green Chiles

January 23, 2014 Drew Fleisher

A Classic Mac and Cheese recipe updated to be Gluten Free and kicked up with Mexican Chorizo and New Mexico Green Chiles.

I had some chorizo in the fridge and was trying to come up with a way to use it when I started thinking that it has been a long time since I had made Mac and Cheese. I picked up some gluten-free pasta made from quinoa flour and threw this together. It got rave reviews from the family, and I loved it as well.

Dinner Tonight: Gluten Free Burrito Bowls with Beer Braised Carnitas and Cilantro Lime Quinoa

January 15, 2014 Drew Fleisher

A Gluten-Free take on the Burrito Bowl that I like better than those served at the popular chains

I was trying to decide what to do for dinner tonight, and Wednesday are always hard with church, school activities and work schedules for everyone to eat together. I decided I needed to find something that would be easy for everyone to eat or re-heat as they got home this evening, and started thinking about the burrito bowls at one of my favorite Mexican restaurants. One of the things I decided right away was that I would do carnitas in the crock-pot so I wouldn't need to keep an eye on it all afternoon, and the next thought was "maybe quinoa would work instead of rice to make this more nutritious and gluten free".

Dinner Tonight: Italian Quinoa

January 13, 2014 Drew Fleisher

We love Italian food in our home, and a frequent quick meal our kids yell for is a quick dinner of pasta with a sausage sauce. I decided to try and take it to another place tonight by using quinoa to make it gluten-free and Paleo friendly. Roasting the tomatoes take a lot of extra time, but cooking the quinoa will take most of the 50 minutes or so you will need to roast off the tomatoes, and trust me, there is no way to substitute the depth of flavors you will get unless it is summer time and you can throw whole tomatoes on the grill to slow roast them there. The spinach will add some great contrasting flavor in addition to the contrasting color it brings, and you can add more than I did if you want more greens, but my kids were rebelling even with this.

Dinner Tonight: Salmon with Dill Sauce and Quinoa Sauté

August 31, 2013 Drew Fleisher

Carrie was looking at the web the other day and found a recipe from Jaime Oliver for salmon that looked good to her. He served it with bulgar wheat, but we prefer quinoa so made some adjustments.