It's Condiment Week! (and FREE Give-a-way!)

School's out! Break out the bbq's and swimming suits! Summer here we come. I'm not even going to school but summer break still gets me excited. (Probably because I was a school teacher for 7 years...) There's nothing like the sun and some fun to make everything feel better. 

I don't know about your family but we love a good bbq. And whenever I think of bbq's I think of condiments. And whenever I think of condiments I think of "shoot, does that have wheat in it?" So this week I'll be posting some of our favorite gluten-free condiments. Happy summer! 
  

Homemade Ketchup

(Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Sugar-Free)
Created by Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free

Ingredients:

• 1 (28 oz) can organic tomato puree
• 1 small onion, coarsely chopped
• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup organic brown rice syrup
• 1/2 tsp dry mustard
• 1/4 tsp ground allspice
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground mace
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 1/4 tsp ground red pepper (or less-to taste)
• sea salt and pepper to taste

Directions: 

1. Combine all the ingredients except the salt and pepper and place into a medium crockpot (3-4 1/2 quarts). Cover and turn on high for 2 hours stirring occasionally. 
2. Remove lid and puree in a blender until smooth. 
3. Return to crockpot and cook on high uncovered for 30 minutes to 1 hour more, stirring occasionally, until ketchup has reached a nice and thick consistency. Add salt and pepper to taste. 

Makes 4 cups. Store in clean pint mason jars in the fridge. Keeps for about 2 months. 

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FREE GIVE-A-WAY!

In celebration of our condiment week, I thought I would give-a-way one of our favorites! We LOVE LOVE LOVE this sea salt. I've talked about it a couple of times before and I use it in all my recipes that call for salt. We order this from a company called Premier Research Labs. Here's why we like it: 

• Unrefined
• Untreated
• Solar-dried
• Also Contains Natural Trace Elements
• No Anti-Clumping Agents or Added Chemicals
• Pure Vegan
• It's PINK! Aw pretty...

So here's all you have to do:
   
Simply leave a comment on anyone of my recipes between June 4, 2012 to June 8, 2012 (Monday-Friday) and you're entered to win! This giveaway is open to US Residents with a US address, age 18 or older. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. If you win you have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected. 
   
Good luck everyone! And remember, if you don't win, you can purchase your own Pink Salt through my husband's clinic. 

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