My Gluten-Free Journey, Day 1

Well, I have been battling with diverticulitis this past week (my first and hopefully LAST bout) and I was really too sick to eat. During this time I decided to try a gluten-free diet once I was able to eat again. Today was that day! I was SO hungry for REAL food that I drove my sick self to the store to shop for what I needed (just that short trip made me break out into a sweat).

I looked online for some gluten-free recipes and I saw a quinoa recipe that looked amazing! I gave it a try and it turned out wonderful! The recipe is in my post below, along with the roasted chicken I made to go along with the quinoa.

I hope I am able to stick with this longer than I did my stab at eating vegetarian! lol.

So that's my story...if any of my readers are gluten-free eaters, I'd love to get some of your recipes to try.

ROASTED CHICKEN (IN THE CROCK POT)

This dish is SO simple and yet, so good. It has such a nice, roasted flavor that you might find it hard to believe it came from the Crock Pot. I don't know where the recipe came from originally, or if it came out of my head lol.

Roasted Chicken in the Crock Pot

1 4 lb roasting chicken, whole
2 carrots, sliced thick
2 celery ribs, sliced thick
2 cups chicken broth
Salt
Garlic powder
Black pepper
Paprika

Cut up veggies and place in bottom of your Crock Pot. Add the chicken broth. Sprinkle salt, garlic powder, pepper and paprika over all sides of the chicken. Place the chicken breast side up in the Crock Pot and cook on high for one hour, and then low for 8 hours…or on high for 6 hours. This was VERY yummy!!!