Hubby adapts

Hubby is in the kitchen right now making fried chicken strips with RICE CHEX...he came into the room to give me a taste and I must say it is yummy! Not sure how he made it, just know he used crushed RICE CHEX...I will give more details later.

I made oatmeal bars with Bob's Redmill gluten free oatmeal today and they are amazing. I used rice flour instead of wheat flour and I did use the two eggs, so I guess I am making exceptions lately for eggs in baking, but you won't catch me eating them in any other form...not sure if I should be using them but I am, at least in baking.

Recently my nephew and his wife visited my sister's and the pic you see is of the visit. I am the one with the huge smile...as if...HUGS (wink wink)

Buckwheat can't be beat

I was reading somewhere about a place where they eat fish and vegetables and buckwheat and they live long healthier lives...but I forget about buckwheat much of the time and then when I use it again I get back into it.
So this morning I took a bowl and dumped some buckwheat flour in it and some rice flour and some sorghum flour, a little salt, some baking powder, some oil, some blackstrap molasses, and as much rice milk as it took to get the batter the consistency I like for pancakes...I sprayed the pan with PAM and had me some pancakes with real maple syrup. There were yummy. Then I put wax paper between the remaining pancakes and put them in the fridge for another morning. Ah...buckwheat. Breakfast of long livers...gee that is funny...long livers...and short kidneys?...ok...I know ... ENOUGH! LOL Have a good one.

GF CF Mac N Cheese

Inspired after going to www.aglutenfreeguide.com I set out to make some kind of mac n cheese I could tolerate. I have tried in the past, couldn't remember what I did so I started fresh...I first made a batch of cashew cheese (see blog entry below), and then boiled up some Tinkayada elbow noodles. I cooked up a cup of rice milk with 2 tsp. of rice flour, whisking away, and added that to the cashew cheese, as well as 1 tsp. of dry mustard and some pepper. I coated the noodles, mixing well, with the cashew cheese mix, in a 13 X9 pan and topped it off with crunched up Lay's potato chips. I baked it uncovered for 30 min. It is good. If you want to adapt this, you can add other spices, tunafish, more milk and rice flour...it is fun to fiddle and make it your own. I bagged up portions and froze them so I can pull them out and warm when I am in the mood for mac n cheese my way. I used to love mac n cheese but always felt like crap after eating it due to the gluten and casein...after adapting this comfort food recipe to suit my needs...now I don't.

Buckwheat Pancakes

I adapted a buckwheat pancake recipe from one by the editors of Easy Home Cooking Magazine that I stumbled onto at howstuffworks.com.

First of all you make up the pancake mix and this can be used when you are in the mood for a few cakes.

Mix together the following, and store in an airtight container:

2 cups buckwheat flour

1 cup rice flour

1 cup sweet sorghum flour

2 TB sugar

4 tsp. baking powder

2 tsp. baking soda

2-3 tsp. Xanthan Gum, if desired

1 tsp. salt

Pancake recipe

Mix:

1 cup of the pancake mix

1 cup rice milk

2 TB oil

1 egg (I skipped the egg)

Cook on greased hot griddle or fry pan a couple minutes and then flip and serve with syrup or whatever you feel like having with it.

These tend to brown easily so don't be alarmed if they are dark. I enjoyed mine, I hope you enjoy yours.

I can see the ground and it is green...robins are diving onto the green stuff all over the yard. I guess they are happy the snow melted too.

I wrote 6,000 words in my latest novel over the weekend. the words were flowin'...YES!