To Oat or not to Oat

A decade ago when I was diagnosed Oats were OFF LIMITES.

But even back then there was debate.

Now I have Bob's red mill, Certified Gluten free oats.

And what I missed most was Granola.

My mother made it form scratch.

So I did too.

Recipe:

4 Cups Oats.

1 cup nuts

1 cup coconut

1/4 Cup Honey

1/4 cup maple syrup

1/4 cup apple juice concentrate

1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp salt.

Combine

Bake at 350 for 18 min, stirring every 6 min.

After it's cook I add dried fruit.

However my apartment's oven it not too reliable. Even set at 325.
The pan on the left was singed in 12 minutes. Second Pan I did in intervals of 2 minutes. It was done in 8.
I think opening the oven to stir makes the temp hike.
Any other theory?

Bread Machine

My mother got a Bread Machine YEARS ago. Like were talking early 90s. She used it a few times but it never was a big hit, and took up a lot of space, so it was relocated to the attic.

I freed it, and gave it a home.

My kitchen is smaller them my mothers. The machine takes up about 1/6th of my entire kitchen. For that kind of prime real estate I expected something miraculous. And the idea of poring in the ingredients before bed and waking up to warm Cinnamon bread sounded just miraculous enough.

Except this is what happened instead.Looks like it did not get mixed properly. The top half was still dry, the bottom half was a hot pudding of some kind.

NOT eatable.

Very sad. And a waste of a Bob's red mill mix.

So I explained to MR Loaf that if he did not want to find himself at the local thrift store, or back into the attic from whence he came, he needed to do better then that.

So I got out a gluten free Pantry sandwich bread mix, divided the mix in half {mister loaf is small} and stirred half of the wet ingredients into the mix BEFORE I put it into the machine.

The box rocked a bit when I turned it on, trying to mix the dough that was already mixed, but it soon settled down, and I went about my day.

A little less them three hours later:

WA LA.

It is only about 6 slices of bread, but when it's JUST me, that is reasonable.

And the other half of the mix is on standby for another day.

Mr Loaf might just stick around for a while.

I have a Bette H bread book that I have not touched...

Snap it up

My hubby's nephew was born in March, and he is coming to town this weekend. He had a cute Easter outfit last week, and who is seen in the same outfit two weeks in a row?

SO

TA DA

{the dress is for his niece, one can't get an outfit if the other does not.}

I free had embroidered that tie and then made the little suite to go with it. {the hart on the dress is embroidered also}

I think it is uber cute.

I have seen baby undershirts with appliqued ties on them, but that is still an undershirt.
This is made out of actual dress shirt fabric, and dress pants fabric.

Snap up the back and legs for easy access.

Took about 4 hours.

Arico's PB cookies

Arico's Peanut butter Gluten free, Dairy free cookies.{Organic}
Packaging claims :
"Great Moist & chewy cookies" Moist and Chewy; Yes
There was a strange after taste, possibly the chicory extract.
Over all it was decent, but a little pricey. {$5, about a dollar an once.}
It did have the added benefit of two cookies having 15% of your daily calcium, despite being non dairy. I know the GFCF friends of mine need that.

Product lists

I just found out about this site from General mills.
They have a big product list, including soup.
http://livingglutenfreely.com/
Ten years ago Campbells sent me a packet in the mail in response to my phone call {asking about chicken rice soup} that told me essentially no soup was safe.
Looks like they have a new PDF.
http://www.campbellsoupcompany.com/faq.aspx?section=glutenfree
Nice to know there are more options out there.

However, when I was at the Kraft home page, and preformed a search for "Gluten free" the results were "products (0)" "Kraft recipes (0)" They did have an "article" with the standard dribble, and six "member recipes" containing the word "gluten". But I could not find a product list.
Disappointed.

ice cream cones

Yummy.

The cones had the texture of their non gluten free counterparts. At least as far as I could remember. A little Styrofoam, but that is what I remember.

{Its been well over 10 years.}

They held the ice cream well, and stood up packing the ice cream in. They did not get soggy before they could be eaten.

I went thru half the box in about a week. The other half of the box did not get stale even after it sat in the cupboard for a while.

{I hid them from my self so as to not over do it, and I hid them too well.}

The box was well packed, so the cones were not crushed.

{when I got the ones in the orange box about half were crushed.}

Over all I think this is the best cones I have had.

Brand new bag

My hubby got his sister an oddly shaped birthday gift. As in could not put it in a box. And for some reason all the gift bags in this house are wedding themed.
So I made her a gift bag.
There is no pockets or liner. One short handle.
I made it in about an hour.
I stuffed a shoe box inside to make it stand for the photo.
I have enough fabric left over to make two more. Its too small to be a grocery bag or diaper bag, but maybe just a nice scripture or lunch bag. I thinking the lining should be yellow. And with a pocket or two?