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For valentines day my younger sibs and I made a dinner for my parents. The dinner had to be without gluten because my dad can't have gluten.

Most of my desert recipes have gluten in them so it was hard to fined something everyone could eat.

So here is what I came up with for valentines day dinner:

Yogurt with honey and walnuts

6 servings

2 1/2 cups yogurt cheese

1/2 chopped walnuts

about 6 tablespoons honey

to make the yogurt cheese, put the 2 cups of yogurt in a coffee filter lined strainer and set over a bowl. You want to strainer to kind of hover over the bowl, instead of resting in it. Let his stand in the refrigerator for 2 hours or over night. Discard the liquid.

About ten minutes before serving time heat a skillet over medium heat. Add the walnuts and toast, shaking the pan often, until the nuts are fragrant. This should be about 6 to 7 minutes.

When the walnuts are toasted spoon the yogurt cheese into six bowls.

Top each serving with warmed honey and the toasted walnuts.

This is best eaten right away.

Hash brown Casserole

Serves 6 to 8

1/4 cup melted butter

1 cup sour cream

3 green onions

1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar

26 to 30 ounces frozen, shredded hash browns

Preheat the oven to 350F.

combine the melted butter and sour cream in a large bowl. Cut off the root ends of the onions and thinly slice the white and about 1 inch of the green parts. Add the slightly thawed hash browns and stir until they are coated with the mixture.

Press the mixture into an ungreased 9-inch-square pan or a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan.

bake for 1 hour.

I then baked about 2-inch round mounds of grated Parmesan cheese in the oven' already at 350F' for about 10 minutes. And then served them with a salad and Italian dressing.

Finally I used a gluten free brownie mix, and home made gluten free fudge frosting.

Easy fudge frosting

makes 2 cups

8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped

1 cup evaporated milk

3/4 cup sugar

Melt the chocolate over hot water.

Heat the milk in a small sauce pan. whisk the sugar into the heated milk and whisk until it is dissolved. Whisk the melted chocolate into the hot milk. Using an electric mixer, beat until cool.

I hope you all had a great valentines day.

Catch you on the flip side.