flourless fudge cookie

Flour less fudge cookies
3 c  powdered sugar
1 c cocoa powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1/4 c mini chocolate chips
1/2 c pecans, finely chopped.
4* Egg whites
( *if you are leaving out the nuts and chips, you only need 3)
Whisk the sugar and coco, then add the eggs, and mix by hand until all the dry is wet, then mix in the chips and nuts. Don't over mix. The batter is stiff, not as stiff as dough, but stiffer then pancakes.
Preheat oven to 325.
Line baking sheet with parchment. Scoop out in teaspoon sized drops. I got 4 dozen little cookies.
Bake for about 10 minutes.

Sort of like a chocolate mering, but with a chewy center.

Very tasty, and with no fancy ingredients.

I'm taking these and the Peanut butter chewers to a cookie exchange.

Pop corn Balls- recipe 3 Jello Pudding

Pop corn Balls- recipe 3:
Jello Pudding
One bag microwave popcorn, (popped)
1/4 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
one package butterscotch pudding powder

In a microwave safe bow, mix, sugar, milk and pudding.
Microwave, stopping to stir, until boiling. Microwave a few more minutes.
Then pour over the popcorn.
Oil hands and form into balls.

Pop corn Balls- recipe 2 Jello & Syrup

Pop corn Balls- recipe 2:
Jello and Syrup

1 C. light karo syrup
1/2 C sugar
3oz. box jello
one bag of microwave popcorn, (popped)


On the stove top, in a large pot, bring karo syrup and sugar to boil, add jello stir until dissolved.
Pour over popcorn and mix. Oil hands and form popcorn into balls.

Pop corn Balls- recipe 1 Jello & marshmallows

Pop corn Balls- recipe 1:
Jello and Marshmallows

16 oz. of marshmallows
6 oz. pkg.  jello
One bag, microwave popcorn (popped)
2 Tb butter
  In microwave melt butter and marshmallow.
Once smooth, add Jello powder, stir till color is even.
In a LARGE bowl, pour the sauce over the popcorn.
Oil hands, and form into balls.

"ratio rally"

I just stumbled across this "group"
Apparently they do recipes, based on a ratio, and then have a challenge each month.
It appears to be based  on Michael Ruhlman's book "Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking"
I completely agree that baking should really be done by weight, but who has the time?
I got a very good food scale, about 8 years ago, but it's relegated to the top shelf with the waffle iron and other appliances that don't get much use.
Well these ladies inspire me.
I'll be getting that scale down for the Christmas cookie baking.
More to come on that!

Thanksgiving pies

Once again it's that time of year!


This year my sister made a pumpkin pie, gluten free, that had a brown sugar, spice and pecan crust on top.

It was lovely, and tasty

choclate waffles

At our most recent trip to the Out Back restaurant. There new menu item was Chocolate waffles.

Not GF

And I thought:

Hay, I can do that!

So I did.

Recipe:

1 cup Bisquick Gluten free mix

1/3 cup coco powder

1 cup chocolate milk

1/4 cup chocolate syrup

3 Tb oil

1 egg

Mix all together, and cook in our favorite waffle mold!

Makes about 8 4-inch waffles

Very sweet! not relay for breakfast :)

 Raspberry sorbet. Very yummy

MoreAdventures in bread baking !?!

I still need a loaf to take to relief society.
So whipped out a loaf of Gluten Free Pantry, sandwich bread mix:

Much better results!

is it the moon? Adventures in bread baking

I get to present a five minute demo at this month's relief society about gluten free bread making and baking.
So I turned to my best bread recipe: Betty Hagman's lemon buttermilk bread.
I have my mother's bread machine.
It looked good coming out:

But some thing had gone very very wrong!

I have NO idea how that happened!
The bread machine is small, so only half of the dough can go in at one time, so the other helf was in the oven.

Also less then happy with results.

Conte's Pasta Gluten free

Conte's Pasta, spinach and cheese

Yummy. Good balance of filling. Good flavor
Cooked well. Not mushy or sticky or hard.
An excellent quick dinner, just toss with some grilled chicken tenders.

Conte

Pumpkin pie Brownies

Our relief society activity involved some pumpkin related snacks at the end.
It looked good, but the recipe, care of Martha Stewart, is a lot of work and not Gluten free.
So I went home and adapted it:

Brownie layer:
1 box of Gluten free brownie mix (enough to make 8X8)*
-Box called for 2 eggs, 2 Tb water and 1/2 cup butter, I replaced half of the butter with caned pumpkin
Mix well and pour into 8x8 pan, lined with parchment paper.
pumpkin pie layer
1 cup canned pumpkin
2 tablespoons gluten free baking mix**
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
Mix well and dolop onto the brownie in an even layer

Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes, to an hour, until the pie is firm.
Let cool, then refrigerate to finish setting. Yum Yum

*I used King Arther brownie mix
** I used arrowhead mills all purpose baking mix

Candy experiments!

So our releafsociety this month invloed an "expert"candyexperiments.com
Very cool stuff.
Everyone sould check it out!

Gluten free stroganoff recipe

1 LB ground beef
1 box of  Pacific food cream of mushroom condensed soup
6 oz sour cream
 Garlic, salt and pepper to taste.

Step
1. Brown beef in LARGE pan.
2. Add Soup, and sour cream, and season to taste
3. Simmer on low for a few minutes.
3. Pour over noodles of choice.

muffins using Arrowhead mills Gluten free all purpose mix

Pay no attention to the Christmas paper, it's what was in the cupboard :)

Sweet Corn Muffins:

1/2 cup milk

1 egg

1 Tb vegetables oil

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1/4cup yellow corn meal

3/4 cup Arrowhead mills Gluten free All Purpose mix

Mix wet ingredients.

Add to dry.

Divide batter into 12 muffin cups, lined with paper is best as these and slightly fragile.

Bake at 350 for 18-20 minutes

Very yummy. Quick to make. I like this recipe's flavor better then any other corn bread I have had.

biscuts from Bob's red mill biscuit and baking mix

I used the recipe on the back of the bag.

They needed more kneading *hee hee* then the recipe implied. 

Excellent texture, and flavor. I was sceptical, as the dough had a distinct garbanzo bean smell. The finished product was good. My non Gluten free parents also liked them.

Peach Short cake

Recipe:4 ripe peaches, sliced
1/4 Cup sugar
1 cup Bisquick Gluten free Mix
2 Tb butter
1/4 C milk
2 eggs

Mix Bisquick sugar, cut in butter.
Stir in milk, and eggs.

Spray oil a 8X8 pan,
Place peaches in pan
Drop dough by spoonfuls onto peaches, covering fruit

Bake at 425 for 10 to 12 min.

I might add a little flour to the peaches to turn the peach juice thicker.

Onion Rings

I spotted these in the freezer at our local whole foods.

Ian's Onion Rings, Gluten free

There was not much in the bag, so a bit overpriced. It was a very sweet onion.

Over all; tasty but too expensive.

Grandma's Cupboard cookies

I have also heard these called Ranger cookies. They are a loaded up version of oatmeal cookies. In our family you load then with what ever you have in the cupboard. The last quarter cup of chocolate chips, butershotch chips, and what ever nuts and dried fruit are handy.
There is not much flour in them so I tried to substitute some Gluten free flours straight across.

Very disappointed.
I put the rest of the dough in a pan, to try to turned them into bar cookies.
no dice there either.
I need a better recipie...

French toast

Darth vader, Storm trooper and little Ewoks french toast
Just trying to make Hubby feel special

"allergen Alert" what is says to me

I have  Celiac Disease so my approach is different that say a person with a wheat allergy, or someone choosing a gluten free diet for other reasons.

So My philosophy is this:
"May contain wheat" I will PASS
"Certified Gluten free" Dig in!
"dedicated gluten free ..." Woo Hoo!
"Processed in a shared facility..." Proceed with caution
"Processed on shared equipment" Depends on the product

When it comes to equipment, and facility, this is what I think.
A facility can be several buildings large. The things with gluten could be no where near the gluten free products, and they could be in the same room. It's hard to tell.
Take Bob's red mill. They have a dedicated glutnen free department. Dedicated gluten free building. But Bob's Red Mill as a facility also produces things that are not gluten free. But I trust Bob's red mill to check the finished product. In this day and age I trust most of the big companies to CYA. So they are safe. Over a decade ago when I started eating gluten free I did not trust ANY one.
I remember all too well a young women saying to me " Gluten?...No I'm sure there is no sugar in it."
But Gluten awareness has come a long way since then.

Julie's ice cream sandwich cookies

On long summer road trips, when I was a child, back when you had to go inside to pay for your gass, sometimes dad would come back to the car with ice cream sandwiches. Gas station ice cream sandwiches can hardly be called "good food" but they were a treat none the less. Not one that I have missed in my nearly a dozen years gluten free.But when one of my best friends, also gluten free, told me these were worth a try, I picked them up.
Boy was she right!

Julie's  Gluten free ice cream sandwich cookies.
Yum Yum!
Made using the Glutenfreeda's gluten free chocolate cookies and organic vanilla ice cream.

You have to wait to let the ice cream soften just a bit, and they are everything that I remember ice cream sandwiches to be, but all grown up.
Very rich ice cream.
At 200 calories and 30% of your saturated fat, I spread the 4 sandwiches out over a two weeks.

Now, Julie's is not a gluten free company. There focus is Organic. They made the vanilla ice cream. But they also make non GF ice cream, in the same "facility"
SO if you are UBER sensitive, and they fact that the cookies and cream ice cream was made in the same "facility" as this vanilla, then you have to make they call for yourself.
A rep from Julie's says ""We make the claim of ‘Gluten-free’ with this product because we test for gluten and verify that it is not in the finished product. However, our experience has shown that some consumers are equally concerned about shared equipment, so our allergen warning statement is offered to alert those consumers of the fact that we also process gluten-containing products in our facility."
So if they are testing the finished product, that's good enough for me.
Yum!

Quiche, Magic "crustless" Gluten free

Even though you just mix in some flour, it bakes into a crust on the edges!
Much easer and simpler then a pastry crust.
This recipe is very versatile, I use up the leftovers in the fridge.

Basic Magic Quiche
4 eggs
.25 cup Rice flour
.25 cup Corn flour
.50 tsp baking powder
.25 tsp salt
1.3 Cup milk
.50 Cup cheese shredded*
6 oz cooked spinach ( I use the frozen block, thawed)
.25 Cup Vegetables*
.25 meat*
Dash seasonings*

Grease Muffin pan, (or 6 ramekins)
Preheat oven 400
In a large mixing bowl, whisk: eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, milk.
Stir in cheese, Vegetables, meat and seasonings
Bake 45 minutes.


* Favorite combo's:
Colby Jack, onion mushroom tomato, leftover taco meat, taco seasoning
Mozzarella & feta, Onion zukini, bacon, Italian blend
Cheddar & Swiss, onion, ham, dill

Meat balls Recipie

Yummy Meat Balls
.5 Lbs Lean ground beef
.5 lb Ground Turkey
1/2 cup Undi Bread, broken into crumbs
1 egg
1/4 cup beef broth
2 TB Ketchup

Mix everything together
Divide into 6 balls
Spray oil a muffin Pan
Drop the meat balls into the Muffin pan
Bake at 350 for 1 hour

Today, I am old

I am getting closer to 40 then I am to 20.How heavy is that.

But the way I figure it; I'm somebodies' mom.
So when Squeeker is in middle school it will not matter if his mom is in her 40s and his friends mom is only 35. I am a mom, and that, in and of its self, makes me a grown up. And grown ups are old.
So I have decided that I don't care.
Some of my friends have freaked out over the big 30, but not me.
Somewhere there is a letter that I wrote to myself when I was young, that I should open when I turn 30. I am sure I am not what I expected. But I think that is alright.

Perhaps 30 is going to be my best year yet...
As a wise woman once said "make it a great day"
And so I will.

Mi-Del Chocolate Caramel Bite-sized cookies

Noticed some new cookies at our local specialty store.
Mi-Del Chocolate Caramel Bite-sized cookies Cookies here
So I gave them a try. The cookies are very small. About the size of a thumb print.
They are very tasty.
They make me think of a Turtle. Chocolate, caramel, just missing the pecans.

So I wiped up some chocolate pudding and tossed a hand full of the cookies, and a hand full of Pecans.
Yummy!

Lloyds Barbeque company Gluten free

Lloyd's Barbeque company Tubs of seasoned shredded meat are Gluten free.
Right at the bottom of the ingredients listing in bold print.

It's not hard to find barbecue sauce that is gluten free, if you are looking, but you can't just grab ANY sauce off the shelf, you have to look.

So it is super convenient that the sauce and meat are ready to go. The Tub is microwavable. So this is a great lunch for hot summer days. You don't heat up the kitchen. Some fresh fruit, salad, and pulled port sandwiches. Yum

Udi's hamburger buns

For the lunch between the wedding ceremony and reception, my brother wanted those BIG Hogie sandwiches. And since 3+ members of the wedding party are Gluten free, we needed another option.
I was sent by my mother to pick up gluten free hogie rolls. As far as I can tell. no such thing exists.
However, Udi's  makes gluten free "hamburger buns"
And they are yummy.
Kind of small for the hamburger's I'm use to. But the bread quality is good. they hold up nicely to any kind of hand held addition.
PB and J
Roast beef

Chocolate cake Recipe and observations

In four of my Gluten free cookbooks I have a recipe for chocolate cake that uses no "flour"
All four of the versions are basically the same.
So here is a compilation recipe:
.5 Cup cocoa
.5 Cup boiling water
1 Cup cornstarch
1.5 Cup potato starch
4.5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 Cup sugar
2 eggs
.5 Cup oil
2.5 tsp gum (x or guar)
1 Cup vanilla soy milk
-All the recipes agree that you must mix well.
Mix coco with water. Then Mix everything else in.

So, I made some cupcakes with the recipe.
The batter rose nicly, but the end result was: Sadly disappointed.
The cupcakes are dry, dense, porous, and not tasty.

SO I made a batch from of my favorite brownie recipe* and pored that into the cupcake papers.

*May 2010

Lucy's Cookies

Not impressed.
It's a very crispy cookie.

They brand was on sale so we tried the chocolate chip, "oat" meal and Sugar.

With my eyes closed I could not tell the differences between the three flavors.

When I left the open packaged out over night they softened up a little, and that was an improvement in my opinion.

Likely not get them again.

GF Cereal

I have been eating several variates of cereal for years without then being certifies gluten free.
Over a decade ago, then I was first diagnosed, I called all the manufacturers and got actually ingredient lists that divulged the "modified food starch" and "natural flavoring" so I have loved my Chex,  and Cocoa Pebbles for years, with no problem.
Now that boxes say "Gluten Free" in big letters right on them!
Plus now the pre-made "treats" are GF too!
Woo Hoo!
Hope that does not drive the price up!

I Have also done my own research and was told by manufacturers that the following cereals do not contain Gluten, but can not grantee the contaminating factor. So my cereal cupboard contains:
Chex, Rice, corn Cinnamon, hunny nut
General Mills’ Dora the Explorer
Trix,
Corn pops,
Coco puffs
Malt-o-Meal Dino Bites
Cocoa Pebbles

I got a coupons in the mail for Rice crispies, which we avoid due to the dreaded molt flavoring, and they are going GF!! And made from BROWN rice.
GO figure.
I'm getting more Normal every day!

Strewberry trifle

I got a link to a recipe from my mother in law. Strawberry Trifle, made with pancakes?!?!
We GFers can do pancakes NO PROBLEM.



I had to alter the Original recipe.
The GF bisquick requires a little more liquid to make pancakes. And I altered the white layer's ingredents to make it easier and faster

Pancake:
2 Cups Gluten free Bisquick® mix
1.5 Cups milk
2 eggs
-Make pancakes with a generous table spoon

1 tub Betty Crocker Whipped cream cheese frosting {GF}
1 tub whipped topping
-Mix together until smooth

Layer pancakes on the bottom of a glass bowl.
Pour on half of the white mixture.
Then one cup sliced up strawberries and one cup blueberries
Then rest of pancakes, rest of white fluff and then more berries

strawberries jam: in the microwave

While Jam is not necessarily something that we worry about being GF, being able to make it in the microwave is exciting.
With this recipie I made Jam in a little colege apartment.
I crushed the berries in a galon sized plactic bag, microwaved them in a big glass bowl.

Fresh Washington strewberries are the most juicie by far, so two little baskets are plenty for this recipes.

So here you go:
strawberries jam: in the microwave
2 cups of crushed strawberries.
1.5 tbs lemon juice
1.25 cup sugar
.5 tsp butter

Put everything in a 2-quart glass measure.
Microwave uncovered, on high, 6 minutes
stir
Microwave uncovered, on high, 3 minutes,
stir
Microwave uncovered, on high, 3 minutes,
stir
Microwave uncovered, on high, 3 minutes,
stir
Microwave uncovered, on high, 3 minutes,
stir, and let cool a little before you pour into storage container and refrigerate

Makes about 2 cups.

Strewberry festival

We attended the Belevue strawberry festival this past weekend.

Hubby let me get a flat of berries, so I'm having my own little "festival" in the kitchen with all the strawberry recipes I know.

First up:
Strawberry lemonade:
Ingredients
3 strawberries
1 lemon
2 tb sugar
3/4 cup water

1. Slice up the berries and place in tall glass. Add sugar and crush with back of spoon.
2. Add lemon juice, and water.
3. Stir. Add ice and serve.

Father's day tie

Since a tie is a traditional father say gift, I thought it appropriate to give one to hubby, this his first father's day.
So I took the stamps they made from Squeeker's feet when he was born and I made a stencil out of them. Then I used the stencil, fabric paint and a sponge to make foot prints walking up the tie.

I liked it so much I did one for my dad.
And I did one for my father in law.
 (Since he as six grand kids, he got six foot prints, and two are pink because two of the grand kids are girls.)
So, Grandpa H's on the left, Hubby's in the middle and Grandpa M.on the right.

Grandpa M. had several people say nice things about the tie when he wore it to church father's day.

Pancake house, redmond. New Gluten free menue

family pancake house.com

Chicken strips and French fries

Very good.

Crispy outside, moist inside. Not to dry or greasy.

I was very pleased.





A month or so later I tried their GF pancakes. I can do better at home, for a quarter of the price. Stick wit the chicken!

Cookies: ready to go

Chocolate chip cookies Undi's VS WOW

WOW cookies are my "go to" cookies. I love them. Then this week at Whole foods I noticed a new product, Undi's has cookies.

So i picked up the tub of WOW and the Tub of the Undi's

I ate the wow cookie: it's as good as it always is.
Then I had the Undi: and it was wonderful!
Even better.
I though WOW was good, but the Undi is even better.

Rock and roll rob

I make this as a patch for the back of a motorcycle vest.
The vest was a gift for my uncle in law.

The wings are from Anita Goodesign: glamour-rocks

I had to use the included sizing program because I only have a 4inch hoop. So the wings are 4 inches tall. It was actually very hard to do.

I had to do one wing, then re-hoop it exactly right to be able to do the second wing, and have then look even. Then re-hoop it a third time to do the monogram.

That is why it was a patch instead of putting the wings directly on the vest. I made two drafts before this trying to get the wings even and I did not want to mess it up.

I think it turned out well.

French meadow bakery gluten free cake

Our local QFC has started caring these:

French meadow bakery gluten free cake

Hubby picked one up to celebrate our son being two  month's old.
The cake is very small, and it wads mostly frosting.
The consistency was a little dry but over all it was good. Don't know how quickly thy move in the store, so maybe I got a day old one and a fresh one would be better...
Probably not likely to get again, I preferred fresh from my own oven

Strip quilt. One. Baby girl

I have to admit, I'm not a big fan of quilting. Cutting apart flat fabric just to sew them back together to make flat fabric sounds like a waste of time. But so much of the embroiderer stuff is geared towards making quilt squares, SO I asked my sister to teach me.
My sister in law is due with a baby the same time as me. I wanted to make her a quilt for her little girl.

While sewing it I had cravings for Neapolitan ice cream.

I think it turned out rather well. We backed it with Brown flannel, and tied it. I ended up with a few extra squares. I offered to make her curtains or something with the other squares but she did not seamed interested in the idea. She actually did not seam all that interested in the quilt, but it's hard to tell. So perhaps I will come up with something else to do with extra quilt squares. I have about three full sized ones, and about 3 that are missing the outer layer, and two with just the first two layers....

No idea...

Cookie mix compar: Cocochip

Chocolate chip cookie mix

King Arthurr flour
VS
Betty crocker

Betty's mix came with the chips included. Arthur's mix you had to add them. This is good an bad
Arther's could be made in the electric mixer, creaming the butter and sugar, and then I could have added any combo of chips and nuts, (possibly white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts..next time)
Betty's had to be mixed by hand, but it did not require the acquisition of additional ingredients.
So for ease of identification, I used  minni chocolate ships in the King Arthur batch and the Betty's batch had regular sized.

I took them to a dinner party with a family familiar with GF products, and We decided that the King Arthur's had a less grainy texture, but the Betty crocker had a more buttery flavor.

Enjoy Life, Chewy on the go bars, in Cocoa loco flavor

I'm outraged.
Outraged.
Look at the picture on the box. Look at the large, rectangular bar pictured on the box.

NOW look at that was in the box:

The little individual wrapping even leads us to think your getting a bar. It's Bar shaped. But I was shocked and outraged to find only this little cube.


It did not taste half bad, but I was two outraged by it's size to have much of an opinion on it's taste. Plus it was just so SMALL it was hard to get a good idea of what you were tasting.

It's a single bite sized.

I did put that sucker on a scale and it did weight an ounce, as the package advertised, so it's not like I got a faulty box. It's just that they are so heavy that an ounce worth it not very much.

So these things are very high in calories for so little food.

Outraged.

It's about the size of a fig newton, and even Nabisco had the sense to put TWO newtons as a single serving. Enjoy lift things one of these is a serving, AND deserves it's own wrapper!

I will NEVER get these again.

I might never get any Enjoy Life product again, that is how up-set I am over this.

Key Jacket

My sister was over, and remarked that she had only gotten one item embroidered by me.

So I said, I would do one right then, she could pick it. I showed her every design I had and then we searched the Internet for more.

We ended up with this fancy key, on the jacket she was wearing.

The Key is designed by Urban Threads.

While I am happy to see that the industry has recognized the market of under 50 years old, there really not meeting it yet. Hopefully the situation will improve over time.

Enjoy Life Very Berry Crunch

If you have been looking for a gluten free version of "grape-nuts", then look no further.
Enjoy Life Very Berry Crunch
If you "ever eat a pine tree?"

It appears to be an east coast thing, so this west coast girl will spend her breakfast budget elsewhere.
I could totally get a flying apron pecan roll for the price, like fur sure...

baby bib monogram

I made more monogrammed bib and burbcloth set for my best friend's baby.
Hopefully I can make one for my baby, before he is too old.

gluten free bisquick- short cake

Using the recipe on the box, my sister made the "short cakes"

as you can see, short is the operative word.

Taste and texture were not too bad...

Ban on Homemade lunches?!?!

What is the world cumming to?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110411/us_yblog_thelookout/chicago-school-bans-homemade-lunches-the-latest-in-national-food-fight

I could see that some parents, might send the kid to school with a soda, and some chips, calling that a lunch, but I bet others actually pack their child a lunch, with better nutrition then the schools provide.
It's throwing the baby out with the bath water...I did notice that kids with alergies are still allowed to bring food.

The bun is out of the oven!

red robbin gf menue translated

So a lot of places have started having GF menus. Some it is a full menu, others have a page of alterations. Red Robbin does the latter. They give you a page or two of alterations you can make to particular items in an effort to make them GF. An example would be " fries; order no salt" but in some cases the items it suggests you alter make the particular menu selection a waste of time.

So since we frequent two of our local ones, I have taken the liberty of applying there GF alteration suggestions directly to the menu.

That way with a quick glance I can see what to order and what not to order.

And I thought I woulds share.



None



Burgers or chicken: Be sure to order no seasoning salt on the meat and the Fries

Only one Entree item: a Tex-Mex grilled chicken platter

And two kids options: again, order with no seasoning on the fries or the meat.



Namaste Gluten free spice cake and Gefen gluten free spice cake.

Namaste and Gefen.
In my opinion the Namaste is way better.
Most Mixes make ONE small square pan.
The Namaste makes two!
So there is plenty to share.

Namaste mix made a cake that was dark, moist, rich and flavorful. It baked nicely and cake out of the pan nicely. It cut well, using a bread knife.


The Gefen got a flaky top crust in the oven, but it was instructed to invert it so I did. It spread crumbs everywhere when I cut it. And when it was a day old, the bottom almost turned doughy again.

Gefen Cake Mix, Gluten Free, Coffee Crumb, 14-Ounce (Pack of 4)

New shirt

Yes; that is MY Belly.
No it is not digitally enhanced.
I'm HUGE.

I made this shirt. It was fairly quick to do. The machine lettering software that cam with the machine does not have the "<" or ">" option so I had to reload the fabric, sideways, and use capital letter "V" instead. it was VERY hard to line up the "V" just right. and as you might be able to see, one of the 4 is not the same.

I am told this is funny, and will be showing it off at a church dinner Friday where lots of geeks and nerds will be. I will update on who and what comments I get.

gluten free shortbread cookies. Schar vs Pamela

The Schar cookies remind me of the crisp light shortbread traditional at Christmas time, in the large round mettle tin.









 And about the same size of cookies.




The Pamela's shortbread, remind me more of the Scottish shortbread. Buttery and crumbly.

W.O.W refrigerated dough

I know I have reviewed these before, but I just had to again.
I cooked then on the same day as some non GF cookies, and hardly anyone could tell which was GF and what was not.
So YAH!
The WOW, as you can see, started out at the same size, and stayed about the same size.

Don't worry I did not put the lid in the oven.

More grandma PB chewies

A co-worker of mine had a birthday, and i heard that she liked peanut butter cookies the best. So I made a batch of grandma's cookies.

This time I put a Hershey's kiss in the middle before I baked them.

Everyone thought they were very good.

Moist, chewier, then regular peanut butte cookies.

But they do make very flat cookies.

Grandma always did it with a teaspoon of dough. I went with Table spoon.

These are about the size of the palm of your hand.

Lundberg Gluten free Penne Brown Rice Pasta

Lundberg Gluten free Penne Brown Rice Pasta



Mayby I over cooked them, but they cooked FAST
They were squishie and the watter they cooked in was clody.

I might give them another try.
But Only when on sale

Rudi's Gluten free Bakery; Original Sandwich bread

There was a new product line in the freezer: Rudi's Gluten free Bakery
I decided to try out the Original sandwich bread along with my regular loaf of Udi's

The Rudi's bread just did not stand up.
The slices were more fragile.
The bread was dry
Very porous
And the flavor was just not that good.

I turned a few sliced into Freanch toast, and the addition of the eggs helped inprove the structural integrity.
Over all, probibly not likly to get this loaf again.
But I might try thre Cinnimon Rasin...