My friends and I went camping. I was in charge of the breakfasts and I thought should I make them gluten free or should I go the conventional way and adapt only my plate into gluten free.
So I took gf pancake mix, bread, cereal mix and cookies. That should cover a weekend. It was perfect. The first breakfast I made was stuffed french toast. I did take along regular french bread for them, but had my bread to adapt the recipe to. Everything tasted wonderful.
The next breakfast was totally gf. I had a breakfast scramble. I fried up some hashbrowns along with some onion. Fried up some bacon. Then I flattened out the hashbrowns in a big skillet, layered tomatoes, cilantro, bacon, scrambled eggs w/milk, and cheese. It was perfect. The girls loved it, and I was happy it worked out as well.
The next morning I heated up leftovers, and of course toasted some of my gf bread. The bread I found was really good at Whole Foods. It was called Canyon .... something. It was great and it looked and tasted just like the real stuff.
My gf cookies were Cowboy Cookies. The flour is of course gf oats, with peanut butter as the base. Then you add of course other things along with chocolate chips, M&Ms, coconut, and raisins. Everyone loved them.
The cereal mix was made with Rice Chex, coconut, and almonds with a corn syrup/sugar sauce.
My friend brought corn tortillas for the fajitas she made. My other friend made her meals simple enough that they really didn't have gluten in them. It was all very very good.
I am getting better at this. I am still trying to expand my recipe collection, but at least I can get through a camping experience without feeling left out.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
BIRTHDAY CAKE!!!!!!!
After my cooking class I decided to go to the recommended stores to buy some supplies for my kitchen of gluten free items. I don't know why people think if they offer organic items that gluten free items are just going to be there as well. There were some items that I did need, but when I went to check out I asked if they had any gluten free pastries. They didn't even have anything in their freezer like Whole Foods had, but he did say that one of the muffins ("one of the muffins" what a joke) was gluten free. Trying to be the great patron I said "well I'll give it a try." I got out to the car and the muffin was so hard I think a baseball would have been softer. I broke off a piece and put it in my mouth, it tasted like cardboard with bird seed on it. Do they not try these things out or do organic people think the harder, the sicker, the most tasteless item is, the best for you. What a f..... joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A friend of mine brought a gluten free birthday cake to me, she said it was the best she had ever tasted. I took a bite of it and wanted to chuck it. If this was the best I just don't want another piece of cake in my life.
After the last two disappointments, I ran home and told my husband that I was going to make a few things, take them into these places that sell this crap and say if you really want some good food, call me.
I had blogged earlier that I was going to go to my favorite bakery and order my traditional cake and eat the entire thing with flour in it. Well I called to order and I just happen to ask if they make gluten free cake and they DO! I am so excited. Tonight I pick it up and hopefully it's going to be goooooooooooooood.
Wait for the update, I just want one thing that I don't have to make that tastes good. PLEASE
A friend of mine brought a gluten free birthday cake to me, she said it was the best she had ever tasted. I took a bite of it and wanted to chuck it. If this was the best I just don't want another piece of cake in my life.
After the last two disappointments, I ran home and told my husband that I was going to make a few things, take them into these places that sell this crap and say if you really want some good food, call me.
I had blogged earlier that I was going to go to my favorite bakery and order my traditional cake and eat the entire thing with flour in it. Well I called to order and I just happen to ask if they make gluten free cake and they DO! I am so excited. Tonight I pick it up and hopefully it's going to be goooooooooooooood.
Wait for the update, I just want one thing that I don't have to make that tastes good. PLEASE
The Butt of the Joke
I just took a trip with my kids to Yosemite, now mind you this was going to be a fly in for one day and out the next. It turned into a "four day tour" on a deserted city in the middle of no where. Fresno isn't the ultimate city. It is a migrant farm city with a lot of run down areas. But we immediately found conveniently off of the freeway, their mega shopping area. It had every restaurant and shopping store under the sun.
We immediately headed for lunch and of course me trying to work with the menu at Marie Callendars I ordered a tuna melt without the bread. That became the theme for the rest of the days, "Mom's ordering a sandwich without bread, what's next pizza without the crust."
It's okay, one day these kids are going to look back when they get my age and think of all of the jokes they used on me and think I am now in that position. You will be ordering oatmeal without the oats, so there. Who will be laughing last.
We immediately headed for lunch and of course me trying to work with the menu at Marie Callendars I ordered a tuna melt without the bread. That became the theme for the rest of the days, "Mom's ordering a sandwich without bread, what's next pizza without the crust."
It's okay, one day these kids are going to look back when they get my age and think of all of the jokes they used on me and think I am now in that position. You will be ordering oatmeal without the oats, so there. Who will be laughing last.
Cooking with a Friend
I had gone to lunch with a friend when I told her that I had taken my first gluten free cooking class and I was about to take another. She wanted to go even though she wasn't gluten free. I thought that is a friend to go spend good money to go to a class you don't relate to was truly being a friend.
By the time you spend three hours with people that you start liking you wish it didn't end. Or you wish the same people would sign up for another class with you. But knowing my friend was with me it was really fun. We laughed and flung gluten free dough around the room together.
The class was again informative of the flours and how they would react in your hands and while cooking. We made the first macaroni and cheese that I actually could tolerate. The best dish was a tomato tart. It was really good.
It soon dawned on me with a slip of the tongue from my friend that even though these were good items to eat, it still didn't taste normal. After 50 some odd years of tasting the real flour bread and pie tarts, this was pretty bland. The realization of going through all of this effort and it still taste sub par was going to be my challenge for the rest of my life.
By the time you spend three hours with people that you start liking you wish it didn't end. Or you wish the same people would sign up for another class with you. But knowing my friend was with me it was really fun. We laughed and flung gluten free dough around the room together.
The class was again informative of the flours and how they would react in your hands and while cooking. We made the first macaroni and cheese that I actually could tolerate. The best dish was a tomato tart. It was really good.
It soon dawned on me with a slip of the tongue from my friend that even though these were good items to eat, it still didn't taste normal. After 50 some odd years of tasting the real flour bread and pie tarts, this was pretty bland. The realization of going through all of this effort and it still taste sub par was going to be my challenge for the rest of my life.
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