Gluten Free Tartar Sauce Recipe--Great with GF Fish Sticks!

My mother-in-law makes the most incredible tartar sauce. She doesn't exactly use measurements for the spaces--she mostly goes by taste, but I'll try to duplicate the recipe here for you. I use Kraft mayo for my GF recipe, but I'm sure there are plenty of other GF brands. For dill pickles, I use Vlassic, but again, there are lots of GF brands. Just read labels and be aware that pickles use vinegar. If the jar says "vinegar" it's probably distilled vinegar, which some celiacs can tolerate but some can't. The distilling process supposedly lowers the gluten in the vinegar, but it doesn't completely eliminate it. So if you're a very sensitive celiac, I recommend buying pickles at your local health food store--ones that are made with cider vinegar, not distilled. Okay, so here's the recipe:

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup Kraft GF  Mayonnaise
1/4 cup finely diced dill pickles
1 tbsp. pickle juice (from the jar)
1/4 cup very finely chopped onions
dash of garlic
dash of onion powder
salt and pepper to taste--more salt than pepper
1 tsp. dill
1 tsp. fresh-squeezed lemon juice

DIRECTIONS:
Mix all ingredients. Sample. If it needs a little more salt, a little more dill, an extra pickle or more onion, add whatever is needed to make it taste just right. (That's how my mother-in-law does it. Sorry I can't be more specific!)

Now, what can you do about the fish sticks? Yes, there are fantastic fish sticks out there, that are gluten-free. My highest recommendation is for Clear Springs gluten-free fish sticks, but they don't seem to have their information available online yet. My husband brought some home though, and they taste FANTASTIC. So if you can get your hands on these, they're better than Ians (which is another company that makes GF fish sticks).

One other possibility is to fry up your own. There's a fabulous GF product out there called "Choice Batter" which claims it's a low oil-absorbing recipe, and I believe them. Whenever my husband goes fishing and comes home with some fresh perch or trout, we use this breading to make home-fried fish, and YUM! It's good stuff! Click the link to see it online.