Michael Season's Feel Good Snacking Baked Cheese Curls

4/30
Michael Season's Feel Good Snacking
Natural Gourmet
Baked Cheese Curls in Cheddar
Wheat Free   Gluten free

If you are not trusting of Other Cheese flavored corn puffs, then these are up your alley.
Printed right there on the Bag, it said G;uten free. Kosher too, if you wondered.
Only 7% of you daily fat per Cup, and about half of that saturated, but NO trans.
Calcuim, iron, fiber. Over all a "good snack"
Pricier, and frankly just not as tasty as the more "Dangerous Variates". More on that Tomorrow!

Home Made Burgoo in a Slow cooker

Crockpot Burgoo Recipe
1 chicken Brest
1 Lb Beef shank cross cut
1 Can Chicken broth
1 Can Beef Broth
-On low 3 hrs. Brake up meat, fish out bones
1 can diced tomato's
1 cup diced carrots
1 can black beans
1 can of corn
1 cup cubed pealed potatoes
1/2 cup onion
1 clove garlic
2 Tb dark Brown sugar
2 Tb Cider Vinegar
1/4 C mashed potato flakes
(Green peppers and Bacon not included this time)
- On low 3 hrs.

Yummy.

Jennies Gluten Free Bakery Pound Cake Minni's Marble

Today's review is from Jennies Gluten Free Bakery
It's there Pound Cake, Minni's in Marble flavor.
5 individually wrapped.

The first one I had did not have any Marble to it. It was all White cake. And rather dry.
They second one did have some darker cake in the center, but it was barley noticeable, and it lacked any change in flavor.
The overall flavor was alright. It did remind me of what Pound cake tasted like. But it lacked the structural integrity that I was hoping to find in something called pound cake. IE: it crumbled when sliced, and did not hold up when I tried to layer it with whiped cream and berries. (the dish for which I had purchased it.)
Would probibly have been sutable to toss into a lunch, as is, aslong as there was milk to go with it.
Not likly to get it again.

Applegate Gluten free Chicken Nuggets

Applegate Gluten free Chicken Nuggets
-1 The Chicken was a little dry.
+2 The coating was thin, and had a good flavor
-2 There was WAY less in the box then I thought there should have been for the price
-2 they were much smaller then I thought they should have been. (About the size of a nickle)
+1 The Nuggets were of uniforn size and shape
-5 overall flavor compaired to my own recipie.

Total score: -7

Nana's Cookie Bars- Nana Banana

The cookies came indvigually wraped. Nice for packing in lunches or tossing in your purce.
They had a nice Subtle Bananna flovor, not too overpowering.
The texture was good. A little dry.
You could tell that is was prodomently made of rice.
I could have done without the "puffed rice" in the cookies. I was not a fan of the sudden change in texture.

GF Ha ha: Flour

2012
Ruth Chris, Bellevue

Me: Could you find out if there is wheat in this dish? I'm concerned about Gluten.
Waiter leaves, and returns several moments later.
Waiter: It's gluten free. You can have flour right?
Me: Um, if it is Corn flour, or some kind of flour other then wheat flour"
Waiter: Oh, um, it did not say what kind of flour....

So NO, it is not Gluten free if "flour" is an ingredient

another Easy Gluten free Granola recipe

Most Granola recipes have wheat in them. Easy enough to switch out. But most also require Hunny. Not something I can keep without it getting all thick and gloopy. So my recipe uses maple syrup.

Granola recipe:
-3 cups Bob's red Mill Gluten free rolled oats
-1 cup maple syrup
-1 cup Olive oil
-1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp salt
Mix well. Spread on a baking sheet. Bake at 300, stir after 10 min, repeat 5 times.
then take out of oven, and mix in:
-1 cup coconut shredded
-1 cup nuts
- 1 cup dried fruit

Not putting the fruit in the oven keep it form over cooking or burning.
Ta Da!

Green eggs and Ham

March 2nd was Dr Seuss's Birthday.
I had put chicken in the crockpot, but when Hubby called to say he was on his way home, I checked the chicken and it was still raw. That's what I get for using frozen chicken.

So I whipped up some scrambled eggs, with green food coloring, and some Gluten free Grilled cheese toast.

Fun at our house

Hot tamales

Hand made, authentic Tamales

Naturally Gluten free.

One of my sister in laws spent a year and a half in Southern Florida on a mission for our church. She learned how to make Tamales from a women there. The recipe she has in in Spanish, and it makes a ton of tamales. So she had me over to make them with her.

You smear the corn/lard paste on the corn leave

then you put some meat on it

then you stick in a slice of potato and a bit of jalapeno

Then you roll the leaf up, tie it closed on each end

And steam it for a long time.

It was a lot of work. And they were very small.

I would have to eat like 4 at a time, with rice and beans, for it to feel like a meal.

The flavor was very yummy, but the corn outside was dry and greasy at the same time. I can see why they would but wheat flour in it to appeal to American taste.

She also gave me an electric tortilla maker. I will have to give it a try.

What!?!? my google+ ?

I was just reading about the new Blogger upgrade, and was all for it. Untill It wanted me to link to my Google+.
That made me hit the brakes.
I am not interested in the google version of facebook. I don't like Facebook. I do not use Facebook.

"If you are happy to blog under your real name, people can follow your stream on Google+. If you prefer to blog under a nickname or an established pseudonym, you can create a Google+ Page to represent your blog. Bloggers who wish to remain anonymous should continue to blog as usual."

I will Blog as usual.

I don't want to blog with my real name. I don't want my MIL to find it. :P

Alternative Baking Co Gluten free Cookie

Alternative Baking Co Gluten free Cookie: Pumpkin Delight

Very good.
Texture was excellent: Soft, slightly chewy, moist.
Not crumbly or undercooked.
Pumpkin flavor was nice, subtle. And Spices were not overpowering.

Craft: Pritty magnets

Jumbo bag marbles: $2.50 (19 ct)
Magnetic tape $1.00 (.5 X 30 ")
Clear, glass compatible glue: $8.00 ? I already had it in my craft supply
Magazine images small enough to fit behind marbles

I used almost all of the tape on the 19 marbles, because I put two three quarter inch pieces per marble, because I wanted it to be strong enough to hold up papers on the fridge. But you could probably get away with just one strip.
SO my cost per magnet was less then $0.20
And they sell sets of 6 magnets, that are exactly the same for $4 !
And I can customize mine. The set you see is for a friend's birthday.
I'm making myself a Dr Who Set...

GF Ha Ha: Glucose

2008, Fall
Road House Restaurant

Me: Do you have a gluten free menu?
Hostess: Um, no. But I'm sure there is no sugar on our meat.

Um. I said Gluten not Glucose...And ya, you use barbecue sauce, so their is sugar on your meat. Your wrong, twice.

Rux Pin

I am a child of the 80s.
I, like most kids I knew, wanted a "teddy Ruxpin" to read them stories.

Well, Hubby found instructions on how to adapt a plush toy to recognize certain objects, and play corresponding sound bites.
So, were making our own!
It's Going to be a Plush robot.
I designed it myself.
Two cubes, augmented with Buttons.
Here is the Beta, made from scrap fabric.

Here are some of the Ideas we have:
When you lay the Robot on the Winni the Pooh nap blanket, it will tell you a nap time story.
When you lay the Robot in the Crib, it will sing "daisy, Daisy"
When the Robot gets close to the plush tool set, it will say little phrases about fixing and building things.
When the Robot gets too close to the front Dore it will say "I can't do that Dave"
When the Robot gets into the Car it will say "Autobots, Roll out"

This is the 2.0 version. No arms and legs yet.

I had to remake the body as the Speaker and Battery pack for "Bop the Robot" was so big it did not fit in the 1.0 body. The 2.0 body also had separate internal pockets for the antenna, battery pack and speaker, to keep them for banking into each other, or getting stuffing into there parts.
I'm very tempted to remake the whole thing, since I have learned a lot in the process. Hubby said the same thing. Maybe we should just make Bop a wife...