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Vegan, Gluten Free Spinach Chickpea Crepes by Gordon Ramsay

Spinach Chickpea crepes are a great vegan and gluten-free alternative to classic crepes and they’re so GOOD filled with heaps of shredded veggies and mushroom-pâté inspired by Tin and Thyme. You can serve this as an appetizer or with extra portion of salad or soup as a light lunch.

Crepes	To Serve
120 g Chickpea flour 60 g Potato starch 60 g Spinach leaves 1/2 tsp Garlic salt 270 ml Water	Mushroom pâté (recipe here by Tin and Thyme) Shredded black radish Shredded Carrot Shredded bell pepper

Place all the ingredients in a mixing bowl. Use an immersion blender to process everything until you have a smooth batter. Cover with plastic wrap. Set aside at room temperature for 30 mins to rest.
Heat a 22-cm non-stick skillet over medium flame. Brush the skillet with a bit of coconut oil. Pour about 1/3 cup of the batter into the hot skillet while quickly tilting the skillet in a circular motion to swirl batter to evenly cover the base.
Cook for 1- 2 minutes on medium heat, or until the crepe is dry on the surface and crisp around the edges. Flip the crepe and cook on the other side for a further 1 minute. Transfer to a plate. Cover loosely with foil to prevent the crepe drying out. Repeat with the remaining batter to make 8 crepes.
To serve, spread some mushroom pâté over the crepe, and top with shredded vegetables. Roll up firmly to enclose filling and enjoy!

Delicious Party Punch (Can be made Sugar Free!) by Gordon Ramsay

Learn how to make this DELICIOUS punch that my family enjoys on special occasions. Each time I serve it, I always get asked for the recipe!

With New Years Eve upon us, I thought this would be a great time to bring you an old fashioned, super simple punch recipe that is suitable for everyone. My kids, our families, and our friends always enjoy this delicious punch whenever we have a get together.

This is a I’ve been making since I was a teenager that is easily customizable. Today I’m going to show you how to make it using Splenda and Sprite Zero. This significantly cuts out the sugar and leaves the only remaining sugars to be the natural sugars in the pineapple juice. You can also use full sugar Sprite (or 7-Up, or the like) and real sugar if you like, or an artificial sweetener of your choice (I love Ideal brand sweetener when I can find it).

Now let’s talk about New Year’s Eve. I can tell you right now that I’ve got BIG plans with a capital B!

You see, my mother always said that whatever you were doing at midnight is what you’d be doing all year long. So every year, like clockwork when that ball dropped in Time’s Square, I knew exactly where my hard working mother could be found: Snoozing away, dead asleep in her bed.

My Mama has always been a smart lady. I’ve been out at midnight a handful of times in my life and have yet to find an experience that brought me more joy than avoiding the traffic and rawkus crowds and just snoozing away in the peace and warmth of my bed.

So guess where I’ll be when that clock strikes twelve? Yup. Dozing away. 🙂

OH! I forgot to tell you, the beauty of this punch is that you can change the flavor or color of it simply by changing one ingredient, and all that is required to make it is just pouring the ingredients into your punchbowl and stirring together.

Speaking of punch bowls, if you don’t have one now is the time to grab one in the stores! They are sometimes difficult to find throughout the year but pretty much every department and discount store stocks them around the holidays. You can generally get a pretty glass one with a ladle and eight glasses for under twenty dollars. Of course, if you’d like a more high end punchbowl, they’re certainly available. I’ve always wanted a pretty stainless steel one that looks like silver (without the maintenance) but I’m not ready to invest that much money in a single serving piece at this point in my life. A glass one suits me just fine 🙂

So you could head out today, buy the ingredients for this punch and a brand new punch bowl set for about $25.00.

You’ll need: Sprite Zero, Pineapple Juice, Splenda or sugar, and 2 packages of Kool Aid (or generic Kool Aid, like I’m using)

Nothing but the cheapest for my family! ~Grins~

You can also use 7-up or Ginger Ale if you like. I can’t drink ginger ale because it doesn’t like me 🙂

Pour your pineapple juice in a bowl. Add Kool Aid.

Add sugar (or Splenda)

Stir well.

Pour in Sprite. Gently stir again.

At this point, you can add an ice ring if you like. Instead of an ice ring, I just refrigerate all of my ingredients so the punch is good and cold. To make an ice ring, I’d make some kool aid ahead of time in whatever flavor you are using for the punch and put it in a jello mold or bundt pan. Freeze until firm and then dip just the bottom into warm water for five seconds before releasing it into your punch bowl.

Can serve over ice, with an ice ring in it, or just serve cold!

You can garnish with fresh fruit if you like or just serve it over ice or in punch cups, as I usually do. It is absolutely delicious and you just have to taste it soon!

Punch

Ingredients

46 ounce can Pineapple Juice
2 Liter Sprite or Sprite Zero*
2 Cups Splenda or Sugar
2 packages flavored drink mix (such as Kool Aid)

Instructions

In punchbowl, pour pineapple juice. Add drink mix and sugar/Splenda. Stir until dissolved. Pour in Sprite and serve.

*Can use 7-up, Ginger Ale, or other clear carbonated beverage of your choice.

Notes

I keep my sprite and juice in the fridge so that my punch is good and cold and I don’t need an ice ring.

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“What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.”

– Alexandra Stoddard

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Fuss Free Christmas Fudge – Southern Plate by Gordon Ramsay

This festive fudge is third up in my Fuss Free Fudge series! Check out the first two, Fuss Free Peppermint Fudge and Fuss Free Oreo Fudge, then get hopping on this latest installment!

The recipe is as simple as they come and yields a creamy fudge that tastes as if you stood over that pot with a thermometer – but all you need is a couple of bowls and a microwave! You’ve got to taste this fudge to believe it and the options are endless for flavor, color, etc. In fact, I have two more fudge recipes coming up before Christmas so stay tuned!

Fuss Free Christmas Fudge

Ingredients

16 ounce can store bought cream cheese icing
12 ounces vanilla morsels (like white chocolate chips)
Red and Green Gel* Food Coloring

Instructions

In microwave safe bowl, place vanilla chips. Microwave at one minute increments, stirring after each, until melted and smooth.
Open icing container and remove foil lid. Place in microwave for about one minute. Stir into melted morsels until well blended.
Quickly divide fudge into three parts. Die one part red and one part green. Spread each color, one at a time, into greased 8×8 pan, topping with subsequent color. Sprinkle with Christmas sprinkles, if desired. Allow to cool completely before cutting.

Notes

*Must be gel food coloring. This is available in craft departments near Wilton products and many grocery store baking aisles. Just make sure it says “gel” on the package.

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“Have you ever given someone a gift and, as soon as you hand it to them, they scrunch up their face and start complaining without even opening it? Some people actually greet the gift of a brand new day of life that way. Something to think about.”

~Christy Jordan

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