More* Words I Never Thought I Would Say…

“I baked pie”.  But I did.  Thanks to Lisa Lundy’s no fail crust recipe and Zack’s help in rolling out the dough,  I assembled and baked a pie. Gluten, dairy and egg free.

Even after almost four years of baking without these ingredients I am still dazzled and amazed when my baked goods turn out.  But pie?  I never imagined baking one period, let alone a version like this. But it actually looks and tastes like pie.

For the filling I mixed together sliced gala apples, cinnamon, lemon juice and sucanat.  Simple.

We made it for dessert for the dinner to celebrate my inlaws’ anniversary.  Everyone enjoyed it but the kicker came when my father-in-law, who is more of an eat to live rather than a live to eat fella, actually accepted my offer to take home the remnants. This meant the world to me.

In fact I am so jazzed that I am attaching a first ever photo with this post.

This is the pie – BD – before dinner.

Had to learn to do the attachment also – but hey, if I can make pie…

Can You Say e-x-p-r-o-p-r-i-a-t-i-o-n Boys and Girls?

This morning after breakfast our son was sitting at the kitchen table fiddling with the crepe paper flowers he made me for Mother’s Day last June.

“Remember I made you these flowers, Mummy?”

“Of course I remember.  For Mother’s Day.  Those are my favourite flowers, Zack”.

“I’m taking them back”.

“You can’t take them back.  You gave them to me”.

“I can take them back.  I’m the GOVERNMENT”.

Ask Not What Your Coffee Grinder Can Do For You – Just Use It!

Coupla weeks ago I ended up at the dentist with a red and swollen spot on my lower gum.  Yuck.  The dentist’s hypothesis was that I scratched my gum and the cut had become infected.  Before I could verbalize the question “how the heck had I scratched it?” I knew.

A week or so earlier my 12-year-old coffee grinder had suddenly bitten the dust. Undeterred, I used my new toy – the grinding attachment of my shiny new KitchenAid immersion blender – to grind buckwheat for some raw cookies.  Said attachment created, not flour, like my now defunct grinder, but jagged smaller pieces of buckwheat.

“Oh this will give the cookies a nice crunch,” I thought to myself.  Nice crunch indeed.  Even whilst eating those delicious little suckers I knew they were trouble. I’d bet dollars to gluten-free baked donuts that is how my gum became injured.

The moral of the story is that if you need to grind seeds, nuts or any other sort of grain into a flour-like powder, bypass the fancy grinder and go straight to an el cheapo coffee grinder.  My new one cost 15 bucks and completely pulverized and decimated both buckwheat groats and flax seeds this afternoon.

Enjoy!