Chickpea salad

 I do 1/2 of this recipe :

Ingredients 

1 extra large cucumber cut as small as chickpeas 

1/2 of cabbage (I used red) chopped small

2 cans chickpeas drained

1/3 cup fresh herbs like mint and cilantro 

Can add roasted nuts such as sunflower seeds

Chopped dill pickles also good and chopped purple onions 

Dressing

1/3 cup olive oil

1/4 cup white rice vinegar or red wine vinegar 

1 tablespoon tamari or soy sauce

2 cloves minced garlic

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

Juice of a lemon if desired 

Salt and pepper if desired 

Date nut bread Mom’s)

 

Date Nut Bread  (my mother’s) . Note for GF used King Arthur measure for measure gf flour. I did add 3/4 teaspoon of xanthan gum which might not have been needed, It cooked in 60 minutes in my regular oven,

  

1 egg

1  cup sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 Tablespoon melted Crisco or butter

1.5 cups shifted flour ( see above for gf)

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup diced dates pitted

    soak in 1 cup of boiling water for 20 minutes

1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Beat egg, add sugar, salt and melted Crisco or butter.  Mix well.

Sift flour and baking soda into egg mixture, mix untill clumpy and mixed well then add dates and liquid (the 1 cup of previously boiling water already in dates). Add the nuts and vanilla and mix well.

Pour into a buttered and floured bread pan and cook at 325 for 60 minutes in a convection oven or 75 minutes in normal oven.

Note- 60 minutes in my oven- if gets too brown can cover loosely with foil.

Let it cool 45 minutes.  It should freely dump out of the bread pan.( Note: I cooled 10 or 15 minutes on a rack and then removed it from pan after loosing edges. Then I let it cool before slicing.)

Slice and spread with butter and eat!

Spaghetti casserole

Ingredients 

1 pound ground beef or gardein plant based ground be’f

1 and 1/2 jar of spaghetti sauce ( used Lidl marinara)

8 ounces cream cheese , softened

1/4 cup sour cream

1 cup cottage cheese 

1 stick butter( I used only about 1/3 of a stick)

1 package of gf brown rice spaghetti noodles by Tinkyada or regular spaghetti noodles

Grated cheddar cheese

Directions 

Preheat oven 350F

Cook noodles

Meanwhile  brown ground beef if using, drain add to spaghetti sauce and heat through OR if using gardein then add the frozen crumbles to hot sauce heating through until warm.

Meanwhile blend softened cream cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese 

Take a 13 by 9 pan dotting butter on bottom of pan. Add 1/2 noodles topping with cream cheese mixture. Add rest of noodles dotting with butter and topping with meat sauce. Spread evenly. 

Bake for 30 minutes. Top with cheddar cheese( grated) and cook 15 more minutes or until slightly browning cheese. 

Take out of oven snd let cool a bit before serving.