Googey Eggs

In my previous post I told you about the quinoa bread and the quinoa that my friend 'The Chef' as he will now be called, introduced me too. I have provided you with a recipe using the gorgeous quinoa grain and this time I thought I would stick with the breakfast theme, and give you an age old classic what I like to call Googey Eggs On Toast. They somehow reach new heights, a new level of class with this delicious bread.

You might be wondering why I would be providing you with such an easy recipe, but it is actually these basic recipes that are generally the hardest to master. Everyone has an old wife's tale about how to cook the eggs to make them perfect and more often then not they will turn out not so perfect.

So here is how I cook my

Googey Eggs:

Ingredients:
(for 1 person)
2 eggs at room temperature (or hold in hands to warm up eggs)
water

Method:
Place the eggs in the saucepan and cover with cold to lukewarm water (if the water is hot it will crack the eggs). Place the saucepan on a medium to high heat, once the water comes to a boil reduce heat slightly and time the eggs, from boiling time, 3 minutes will give you a perfect egg with a delicious runny centre but cooked white bits. If you prefer your eggs to not be so runny allow to cook for a minute longer.

Enjoy this simple but delicious breakfast!

You have 3 days left to enter the amazing competition to win one of 4 GF hampers filled with great GF food. Make sure you enter today. To get the most points write a comment about how this blog has helped you and why you would like to win one of the prizes, pretty simple way to earn so many points! You can follow us on Facebook, like the post, follow on Twitter or tweet about the giveway. Good luck to you all!

Breakfast Quinoa with Apple Juice & Cinnamon

My first introduction to Quinoa prounced (Kin-wa), was at the Gluten Free Expo in 2011 at the Gluten Grain Free stand www.glutengrainfree.com . I purchased a packet of the ancient grain and have already provided recipes for you, cooking the grain with stock, using in replace of rice. It has a slightly nutty texture.

I'm fortunate enough to have a friend who is a talented chef, one morning he came over for me to cook him breakfast! I was nervous, even though we had been friends for years, I was cooking for a chef! He came with Quinoa bread and Quinoa. He told me that Quinoa can be used as a breakfast cereal, to do this you cook it in apple juice and add a cinnamon stick. Although,the trick he told me, with quinoa is to soak it the night before, I had heard of this but had never actually done it, but this time I tried it and the difference was amazing!

This sounded delicious! A change to the usual rice porridge or gf muesli.  I won't give away too much more as I will tell you in the method but I will say the fresher the producer, the nicer the end result will be. I used a locally made apple juice that is preservative free and the taste was divine, definitely worth that extra effort to get fresh produce.

The quinoa cooking

Breakfast Quinoa with Apple Juice & Cinnamon

Ingredients:
1/2 cup quinoa
Apple juice (enough to cover quinoa with about a thumb nail over, this helps if you are using more or less quinoa)
1 cinnamon stick

Method:
Place the quionoa in a bowl cover with water and leave to soak overnight. In the morning drain and place in a small to medium pan cover with apple juice leaving about a thumb nail of juice over the quinoa and add the cinnamon stick. Bring to the boil and let simmer for approximately 10 minutes or until small little tails begin to form on the quinoa and the apple juice begins to reduce. When the apple juice has reduce significantly taste the quinoa, it shouldn't be crunchy (if it is, it needs a few more minutes). You don't want all the apple juice to reduce into the qunioa, you want to be able to serve some of the juice up with the quinoa. You can leave the cinnamon stick in the bowl for presentation and continued flavour and eat around it.

This is honestly the most nutritious and wholesome breakfast that I have tasted, I would have to say that it is my favourite. You can order quinoa online for the gluten grain free website I provided, most health food shops sell them and even the major shopping centres are selling them, you will find them in the health food aisle.

Don't forget me amazing 1st Birthday Competition filled with fantastic GF prizes still has another week to go, you can find how to enter in the post underneath this one. It's easy you can make a comment (that's worth the most points, like my Facebook page, like the post, follow me on twitter, RT the competition post). Will you win? Remember open only to Australian residents due to Australian law as the prizes are food.

1st Birthday Competition

I'm so ridiculously excited to announce that it has been 12 months since I started writing this blog! To celebrate I have this amazing competition which I'm over the moon about!!!! First I would like to  mention to the wonderful Emma from What's in Emma's Brain , she gave me that final push, that extra encouragement to start writing this blog and she's also a great friend who continues to answer my blogging questions.
I had no idea how much this blog would flourish, the people that it would reach, the pleasure that I would gain from it. For those of you who have been following me throughout the year I haven't had the best of health and I haven't been able to blog as much as I wanted to. But it's my blog and my readers that have pulled me through some hard times. To have an outlet, a purpose, to know that I'm helping others has been amazing.
My plans for the next 12 months are even bigger and better than the first and I hope that you stay along and bring your friends to travel this journey with me.

Drum roll please....... Here's the announcement of my Fantastic 1st Birthday Competition. I would like to give a big special thanks to the lovely people at:
 Mamee www.mamee.com.au
Basco www.basco.com.au
Candy Brokers www.candybrokers.com.au
Bounce www.bouncefoods.com
Gluten Grain Free www.glutengrainfree.com
Tasty Bites www.tastybites.com.au
(There may be some modifications to the prizes as I may still be receiving some more fantastic gluten free goods to add to the already amazing prizes)
Please visit the links I have provided as the gf food that these companies provide are wonderful, with each website giving you an opportunity to view the products they have on offer.

If you note the Tasty Bite prizes have a separate photo, there prizes arrived the day that I posted all the other pictures, this is why they have their own individual picture. I have eaten these meals many times with rice, they are a great quick meal, a quick healthy alternative, something great to always have in your cupboard. You can find these in the Indian/Asian section of most supermarkets or alternatively check out there amazing website, thanks again Tasty Bites for your sponsorship.

I have divided the prizes up into four amazing prizes as you can see below. Unfortunately this competition is only available to Australian residents due to the customs laws as the prizes are all food.

Here is the wonderful 1st Prize

Consists of 4 Basco Cake mixes, Basco preheat pasta mix, Basco soup, Bounce bars, Basco Pancake mix, x4 tubes of Mamee Rice Chips, x 4 snack size Mamee Rice Sticks, Basco Apricot & Apple Muesli , x 3 boxes of Tasty Bite meals.             
                                 2nd Prize

    Consists of x3 Basco Cake mixes,  Basco preheat pasta, Basco soup, Bounce Bars, Basco Pancake mix, x 4 Mamee Rice chips, x4 snack size rick sticks, The Lost Cereal, x 3 boxes of Tasty Bite meals

           3rd Prize
          

   Consists of x2 Basco cake mixes, Basco preheat pasta, Bounce bars, x 4 Mamee Rice Chips, x 2 snack size Mamee Rice sticks, Florida Natural Nuggets, x 3 boxes of Tasty Bite Meals
                 4th Prize

   Consist of x2 Basco cake mixes, Basco preheat pasta, x4 Mamee Rice chips, x2 Mamee snack size rice sticks, Bounce Bars, Florida Natural Nuggets, x 3 boxes of Tasty Bite meals.

There are several ways to enter this competition, the entry that will gain you the most points is to tell me how this blog has helped you and how one of these prizes will be of benefit to you. Some of the other ways you can enter are follow me on twitter @MMOAGFL, tweet daily about the competition, like my Facebook page, like the competition. The specific point details are listed in the competition list.

I would once again like to thank the sponsors of this competition, without them this competition would not have been possible. Their generosity has enabled me to provide four prizes for my lovely readers. If you have not tried the gluten free products that are displayed, I suggested visiting the website of the various goods and looking at the wide variety of products they have to offer. All the food is not only gf but healthy so be assured if you win, it's something you can stock up the lunchboxes with guilt free.

If you have any questions about this competition or in general please feel free to email, tweet me, or message me on Facebook on Mishaps and Mayhem of a Gluten Free Life.

Good luck everyone and the competition runs for two weeks, closing Monday 11th June 2012. Keep up with those entries I wish I could win, believe me it's taken some pretty strong will power having all that delicious gf food in the house and not touching it. But knowing it was for my readers was motivation enough.

Happy 1st Birthday to you all!!! Good luck all with the competition!

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