Gluten Free Cherry Pie using Dry cherry and Almond crust

I wanted to make at least one fruit pie for Pie day(3.14) But with Squeaker being a typical 11 month old, he would not let me have 5 minutes to my self all day, so it had to be a fruit that would not need a lot of work.Long ago my grandmother gave me a recipe of "funeral pie", it is made with raisins, and I thought with a little help I could do the same with dried cherries
SO here it is:

3 Cups Dried Sweetened Cherries
16 oz Apple sauce
one packet Knox gelatin powder
1 TB minute Tapioca
1/4 cup Tapioca flour
1/3 cup Sugar
Top crust:
1/4 cup Gluten free oats.
1 1/2 cup sliced almonds
1/4 cup butter
1 TB tapioca flour.
Bottom Crust:
Whole foods Gluten free Frozen crust

IN a large bowl mix Apple sauce with gelatin, tapioca, and tapioca flour.
Add Cherries. Pour into Bottom crust.
Melt butter, stir it into the Almonds and oats.
Spread over filling.
Bake at 325 for an hour.


 "bake a Cherry pie, faster then you blink your eye, but she has a young thing that can not leave his mother..."

Gluten free Banana Custard Pie Recipe

This recipe I invented all on my own.
See, I have a lot of banana. So I wanted to use it. And I wanted to honor Pie day (3.14)
So I was going to make my first Banana cream pie. Then I was shocked and appalled to find out that banana Cream pie, is really Vanilla cream pie, with banana slices in it. And that was not good enough!
So I searched the Internet for a banana pudding recipe. I found several, and then combined, crosreferances, experimented, modified and produced this recipe:

Gluten free Banana Custard Pie Recipe:
Pre-bake a Whole foods Gluten free pie crust as package directs:

8 oz of pureed banana (2 small baby food jars)
1/2 cup & 2 generous TB water
3 Tb cornstarch
14 oz Condensed milk (one can)
3 egg yolks
2 Tb butter
1 tsp Vanilla
4 oz of pureed banana ( 1 small jar)
3 egg whites
3/4 tsp cream of tarter
6 Tb Powdered sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla

Whisk Banana, water and cornstarch. Add milk and Yolks, mixing well.
In a large microwave safe glass dish, microwave at half power for 30 second intervals until thick.
The overall time varies depending on your microwave. Mine took at lease 6 ...
Once thick, add butter and vanilla, stirring to incorporate. Butter will melt quickly.
Pour into crust, and smooth evenly.
Spread 4 oz of banana evenly over the filling.
With the egg whites you reserved form earlier; add cream of tarter, and whip until stiff.
Add powered sugar and vanilla. Whip into Stiff peaks.
Dollop on top of the pie filling, being sure to reach the crust all the way around.
Bake at 325 until browned.

Gluten free Minni Sweet potato pie recipe

Gluten free Sweet potato pie recipe:
1 1/4 cup milk
16 oz sweet potato puree (4 little baby food jars)
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 Tb potato starch
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
Gluten free Ginger snap cookies

(In this case I used Pamela's Ginger Minni Snaps)

-To make the Mini Pies: Place muffin cups in muffin pan and Place a gingersnap on each cup.
-To make a regular pie: use the cookies to make a crumb crust.

IN a medium sauce pan combine all ingredients.
Over low heat, stir until thickens, and simmers.
The mini pies take about a 1/2 a cup of filling into each cup. A regular 9" pie would take the whole filling.
Let cool for a few min, then refrigerate, for at least 4 hours to set.
Serve with Whipped cream.

Happy Pie Day!

3.14 Pie get it March 14th...

I made
Cherry almond...
Banana custard
and Minni Sweet potato Pie

Look for the Recipes over the next couple of days

Granola, gluten free recipie

This Recipe is based off of Alton Brown's, modified to be versatile, and gluten free:

3 cups Gluten free, Bob's red mill oats
2 cups chopped nuts *
1/4 cup Maple syrup
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup oil ^
3/4 tsp salt
 dash seasonings**
1 cup dried fruit "

IN big bowl, combine oil, syrup, and salt.
Put everything but the fruit in.
Mix.
Spread on 2 cookie sheets
Cook at 250 for 1 hour, stirring every 10 minutes


Variations:
1. *Almonds ^Canola oil ** lemon peel  "Cherry's
2. *macadamia  ^ Coconut oil**orange zest "mango
3. *Almonds ^ Canola oil **Cinnamon "raisins
4. *Cashews ^vegetable oil **Lemon peel "blueberries
5. OR you can reduce the maple syrup a little at use the coffee syrup. As I did with this batch:
It's a little darker, and extra sticky, but the raspberry syrup added a little extra fruitiness I like

Quilt 3

When I was in high school, over 10 years ago (woh) I got fabric, and started to make a quilt.
I got distracted, and the quilt was forgotten.
Until this week.
I found the pieces and said to my self, "If I don't do it now, then it's never going to happen." Even if I just finish sewing the top, then I can give it to a thrift store...
Well, I had cut out the pieces so long ago, I did not know what to do; but one square was done, so I set to work making more squares with the other pieces.

Problem was, when all the pieces were used up, I had 11 squares.
11 squares can not be sewn together to make a blanket...
You can 2X2 (4) 2x3 (6) 2x4 (8) 3x3(9) 3x4 (12)
But 11?!?!? I'm one short, or 2 too many...What was I thinking?

So I guess I could do a 3X3 and use the extra two to make a pillow case...
OR
Find a fabric the "goes" and make a solid block to insert into the whole, maybe embroider something on it.....