Homemade Gluten Free Chex Mix

Due to circumstances beyond my control (a crazy family), I missed out on a lot of things in my childhood that others take for granted. Strangely enough, one of those things is Chex mix. I'd never had Chex mix until I was 30 and it was quite an enjoyable discovery. But living and cooking for a spouse with Celiac Disease put Chex Mix back into the forbidden recipe book, never to see the light of day.

Once Chex started offering gluten free varieties of its cereals, everything changed. I got the family heirloom Chex mix recipe from my Mother In Law (we call her Mama Bear) and have made it as an occasional snack/treat for special occasions. This is by no means health food, it's to be eaten sparingly and as a treat, not an everyday food. Here's how to make gluten free Chex mix.
Ingredients:
  • 2/3 Cup Organic Peanut Butter
  • 1/2 Cup Organic Butter
  • 1 Cup Brown Sugar
  • 1/2 Cup Honey
  • 1/8 Cup Water
  • 12 Cups Gluten Free Chex (any flavors)
  • 3/4 Cup Slivered Almonds
  • 1/2 Cup Chopped Pecans
  • 1 Cup Peanuts (optional)
  • 1 Cup Raisins (optional)
Directions:
  • Combine peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, honey and water in a large saucepan. Heat on low until gently bubbling.
  • Pour hot liquid over dry ingredients and mix well.
  • Spread on baking sheet and bake at 250 degrees for 15 minutes.
It's a very simple recipe for a special treat. And the great thing about Chex Mix is is versatility - you can add any number of your favorite ingredients; raisins, pretzels, bagel chips, shredded coconut, currants, or banana chips, just to name a few.

Maybe a batch of Chex mix is just the thing to accompany watching a football game on a chilly autumn afternoon, or to enjoy over a board game with the family during the holiday season. And maybe this recipe will encourage you to recall fondly when your Mom used to make it for you when you were a child, and dig out your own family recipe for Chex mix.

After your snack of gluten free Chex mix, try the recipe for Vegetarian and Gluten Free Sloppy Joe's or Neatloaf - A Gluten Free Vegetarian Fake Meatloaf for dinner.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

Neatloaf - Gluten-Free Vegetarian Fake Meatloaf Recipe

Image
When I lived in San Diego, one of my favorite places to eat in town was Jyoti-Bihanga, a tasty vegetarian/vegan restaurant run by the Sri Chinmoy folks. If you aren't familiar with them, I'll tell you this - they make a fantastic fake meatloaf, they call it Neatloaf. You can imagine how excited I was a few years back when a friend of mine e-mailed me the recipe, so now I can have delicious Neatloaf in the comfort of my own home. The recipe as it stands is vegetarian, you'll need to replace the eggs with an equivalent amount of egg substitute to make it vegan, and switch the ricotta cheese with soy cheese (th e Tofutti "cream cheese" works well) or silken tofu. We also use Mom's Place Onion Soup Mix as is sold as Gluten Free . This recipe makes enough for plenty of leftovers (though I usually double or triple the recipe), and reheating my lunch at work the next day has led many people to inquire about this dish.  I can proudly say that several people
Read more

Heavy Duty DIY Tomato Cages

Image
Like many gardeners, I used to struggle with how to support my tomatoes. My cherry tomatoes, Roma/paste, and heirloom/eating tomatoes got so large and heavy that they quickly wound up dragging on the ground and entangled in a huge mess. I used store-bought tomato cages, but quickly found that these small wire tomato cages are useless. The large "sturdy" ones are a little bit better but they still eventually collapse under the weight of all the delicious fruit by mid summer. My solution to this common gardening dilemma? Homemade tomato cages, using concrete reinforcing mesh (the stuff they use to lay on the ground to pour concrete over). At my local hardware store I bought a roll of 5' x 50' 10 gauge concrete re-mesh, some baling wire, and a medium-sized pair of bolt cutters to snip it with. Construction actually went faster than I anticipated and I got two completed in about 45 minutes. Subsequent ones went much faster. To assemble the cages,
Read more

Homemade Raspberry Currant Jam Recipe

Image
We spend a good amount of time during the summer on preparations to help us get through the winter months. Preserving, canning, and freezing the bounty of the garden not only helps utilize the sudden influx of berries that all appear at once or the dozens of tomatoes that ripen at the same time, but makes winter more tolerable down the road. When you’re in the midst of a long cold winter, like we get here in North Dakota, one thing that helps me cope is to have just the smallest taste of summer. For my money there’s nothing better than the flavor of summer raspberries and currants captured at their mid-summer peak.  It sure helps stave off those winter blues. Raspberry currant jam is simultaneously, sweet and tart and tangy, and both raspberries and currants are nutritionally dynamic foods that should be a part of a properly balanced diet. This simple jam recipe will ensure that you have the fresh picked flavor of summer berries at your fingertips all year long.
Read more