Gluten-Free Shrimp Spring Rolls!!!

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PictureHi, friends! 

I am so excited to share this recipe for Shrimp Spring Rolls and it just so happens to be Gluten-Free! 

These beautiful wraps are perfect for every season.  Changing out the seasonal vegetables is a double win and will certainly be a new family favorite! 

I also wanted to share with you all, that I entered into another cooking contest and decided this was the recipe to submit!

I have been making a version of these wraps, the glutinous way, for my husband for a few years but unfortunately was never able to share in the joy of eating any because the wraps I used always contained gluten…until now!!

 I would generally make the mixture and instead of wrapping mine in phyllo wraps, I would plate my adapted version over brown rice, which by the way is another way you could make this meal.  Since finding these wonderful rice wraps I can live again….okay maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but now I feel like I am not limiting yet another food choice in my life!

I hope you all love this recipe as much as my husband and I do!  I am also equally as excited to be in this contest and who knows?!?!? Fingers crossed!

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 pound of shrimp (pre-cooked)
  • 1/2 head of red (purple) cabbage
  • 3 stalks of celery
  • 3 carrots
  • 1 cup bean sprouts
  • 1 yellow Zucchini squash
  • 4 green onions
  • 1 teaspoon fresh ginger
  • 2-3 cloves of garlic
  • 3 tablespoons of sesame oil
  • 3-4 Tablespoons Oyster Sauce

 

Directions

  1. Place shrimp in a wok or pan on the stove and cook on medium heat in the sesame oil.  Remove shrimp from pan and set aside.
  2.  Either wipe out or use the oil from the cooked shrimp and add your chopped garlic, minced ginger, chopped celery, and green onions and cook until translucent (make sure to leave some of the green onions to use later).
  3. Add you shredded carrots, red cabbage, and yellow zucchini squash and continue to stir vegetables.
  4. Add your shrimp back into the pan and the oyster sauce and stir.  Add the bean sprouts and the rest of the green onions stir and then remove from heat.
  5. On a dry surface take one rice wrap at a time and dip into a separate bowl of water (make sure the entire wrap is covered in water) and set on a dry surface.
  6. Add your filling and try not to over-stuff it because it will be hard to roll it up.  Take the bottom of the wrap and fold it over the mixture make sure to hold it into place.  Fold the sides in and continue to roll until you have your individual rice wrap and all the sides are folded in holding the filling in place.

Cheers!

Healthy Shrimp Cauliflower ‘Fried Rice’

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PictureAs someone who has to restrict gluten, I am always elated when I find a recipe that I can alter to be gluten free!!!  Now in the case of ‘Shrimp Cauliflower Fried Rice’ rice is generally tolerated by those who have gluten sensitivities however, for me and I am only speaking on my own aftermath of eating regular old shrimp fried rice, that I often times feel very bloated and miserable for the rest of the day when I consume rice.  So when I came across swapping out rice for cauliflower I knew without any doubt or hesitation I was definitely going to make this recipe!

This recipe took literally less than 30 minutes to prepare and make and it honestly looks like regular shrimp fried rice which is always a good thing.  When you alter enough things in life to accommodate sensitives it is always refreshing and gratifying to make food that looks very close or exactly like the food you had to eliminate!

Ingredients:

  1. 1 Cauliflower Head
  2. 1 bag of mixed vegetables
  3. 1 bag of cooked shrimp
  4. 2 eggs
  5. 4-5 green onions
  6. 1 small white onion
  7. 2-4 Tablespoons sesame oil
  8. 2-4 teaspoons of Braggs Amino Acids All-purpose Soy sauce


Directions:

  1. Cut base of Cauliflower and remove the stems of the cauliflower. Cut the florets and place into your food processor or blender and pulse until you get a consistency of rice.
  2. Turn your stove on medium high heat add your sesame oil chopped white onion and cook until translucent.  Next, add your bag of mixed vegetables and bag of shrimp cook until tender.  I did have to drain a bit of the excess fluid.  Finally, add your 2 eggs and mix until the onion and mixed vegetables and shrimp are blended
  3. Add your rice cauliflower and blend until everything is mixed together.  I also added a little bit more sesame oil just for flavor
  4. When I served the Shrimp Cauliflower Fried Rice add your Amino Acid Soy sauce at your own risk a little bit goes a long way and if you add too much it is a bit salty

Enjoy!!

Spring has Sprung: It’s time to Organize, De-Cutter, and Purge your Home!

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Spring-time is when Spring-cleaning your home is in full force! For me, I must confess, I spring clean all year round. So really, I’m a clean freak who actually enjoys cleaning and purging unused items and just getting rid of plain old crap that’s simply collecting dust!As I mentioned in a previous post on decorative lanterns, I promised that I would be blogging on ideas and suggestion to organize and de-clutter your home. Well friends, the time has come because TODAY I am sharing with you tips on how to Organize, De-Clutter, and Purge your home of crap!

When you are spring cleaning and sorting through the piles of items from clothes to jewelry or just everyday items. Ask yourself the following questions:

  1. Have I actually used/worn this?
  2. When was the last time I used this?
  3. Seriously, will I ever use this?

It may seem silly but honestly it works. Everyday items aside from decorations should really have a place and if it does not have a place in your home then you must ask yourself ‘why, am I keeping this?’ Most of the time the reason people accrue ‘things’ is generally due to an emotional attachment.

Other times the ‘things’ are just things. Junk can pile up over night and before you know it the clutter becomes too overwhelming. It’s often much easier to just shut the door to that spare room or junk closet even though you had all the right intentions to organize and go through, than to face it and actually do it.

So my advice is to start small.

What does that look like? Well, instead of tackling your entire attic or basement start with a section of a room or office. Or start by going through one drawer of your dresser at a time. If it’s your closet you need the most help than partition it off and only attack that space and only move on when that portioned section is finished.

For example: I have a bookcase in my office but I only use this bookcase and honestly our two other bookcases for the same purpose, to display the decorative books I have bought or that were given to me. My role of thumb is to only display the books horizontally on one side of the shelf while leaving the other side of the shelf open for a decorative basket or candle. By doing this small display you are organizing the books from largest on the bottom to the smaller books on top in a pyramid concept but your are not overwhelming your office space with clutter. Now, the purpose of utilizing baskets on the shelf next to the books is for those little knick-knacks or items you just can not part with and that is OKAY, we all have those items. The baskets are perfect for this to 1.) place these items in a designated area together 2.) taking these small items off of shelves immediately de-clutters any room 3.) the baskets just ground as well as balance the look and feel of the bookcase in a room.