BBQ Side Dishes

I love BBQ's. I love all the food options that people bring. However, 90% of them are no bueno for us G Free peeps. My friend invited the hubs and I over for a BBQ and said bring your favorite side dish. My friend is so sweet, he promised the ribs that he is cooking on his brand new awesome BBQ'er are G free. He's making the spice rub. That is awesome!!! Since he was so generous, I wanted to bring some delicious, but G free items to share. I even had a request for some G free cookies my friend's girlfriend liked. LOL, I am slowly converting them! Here's what we are bringing:

G Free Deviled Eggs:

This is my favorite, go-to deviled egg recipe:

6 hard boiled eggs, halved and yolk removed

2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons of Mayonaise (I used Real Food Mayonaise with Olive Oil. It's G free)

1 tablespoon of yellow mustard

2 teaspoons of distilled white vinegar

1/4 teaspoon of salt or to taste. I find this to be a lot of salt. But, I compensate by adding 2 heaping spoons of sweet relish.

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

paprika for garnish.

Scoop yolks into a bowl and mash. Combine all the ingredients above and stir virgoursly. Add back into egg halves. Sprinkle paprika on and enjoy.

G Free Macaroni Salad:

I LOVE maraconi salads. The problem...its packed with the G. I love the All Recipes App for iPhone and iPad. I find the recipes I want to make and then substitute for G free stuff. Here's the recipe I used for macaroni salad and man is it delicious!

Creamy Macaroni Salad:

1 tsp salt

1 tsp dry mustard powder

3/4 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp paprika

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/4 tsp ground white pepper

1/4 tsp ground black pepper

3 cups of g free elbow macaroni

1 1/2 cups of mayonaise (again, Real Food Mayo with Olive Oil)

1/2 cup of sour cream (I used organic sour cream)

1 5 oz can of evaporated milk

3 Tbs of finely chopped Green bell pepper (I used a whole organic green bell pepper)

3 Tbs of finely chopped Red bell pepper (again, the whole one)

1/2 cup of finely chopped Onion (I just used half an organic onion)

1/2 cup of finely chopped celery (I used 3 stalks of organic celerey)

Hormel Bacon Bits (optional)

1) mix all spices together in a small bowl. Set aside

2) cook macaroni elbow pasta

3) whisk together mayo, sour cream and evaporated milk in the bowl you will be using. Make sure it's blended well and smooth. Stir in spices until well mixed. Add in Macaroni, followed by the veggies. I then finished it off with bacon. Hornel bacon bits are G free and make everything better. Refridgerate and enjoy. 

So, those are the 2 items I made that are coming with me to the BBQ. The cookies I am bringing are the Mi-del cookies I had blogged about earlier. For the record, the Mi-del vanilla cookies are to die for!

Here's a pic of my favorite elbow macaroni.