Crumble Divine

An amazing dessert I tried from my favorite food blog. It is truly the almond meal and the contrast with sweets and sours that make this the amazing dessert it is. Yum!

(I substituted oats for buckwheat, blackberries and blueberries for apples)

Falafel Banana Bread

Do you remember those breadsticks I made out of Gluten-Free flour? And how they tasted like a cross between a falafel and a cookie? Well, on the package of the GF Flour it has a recipe for banana bread. I had a container of very brown frozen bananas (we freeze them for smoothies, these were quite old), some blueberries, some month old eggs, and this package of flour that wasn't going to make breadsticks. So I followed the directions and whipped together a quick batch of banana bread with the GF Flour and poured it into the baking pans and popped it in the tiny oven (I LOVE baking with the convection oven, it's just the right size for most things I bake). They came out at the end in golden perfection (slightly overgrown because they were supposed to go into four pans instead of two) and I promptly consumed the top off of one. Delicious. No hint of falafel there!

Gluten Free Cravings

There's something about being on a diet that makes one HUNGRY. I mean, I get home from school to what appears to be an empty kitchen. There's a pot of beans in the fridge, but I ate that for lunch yesterday and today. I will not also eat it for dinner. But what else is there? I've cleaned out the rice cakes. Matt finished off the lamb leftovers. Only the giant vat of granola promises substance. I excavated my freezer and found the turkey bacon and ate four slices of that. You wouldn't know it. I'm still hungry. After an hour of Middle Egyptian, epiphany strikes. Cornbread! A bread that should be possible to make without flour! I hunt down the internet for my prey and arrive at Cornbread Deluxe, a promising recipe (besides the fact I'm still scratching my head at xanthum gum). It's in the oven now, hopefully with better results than last night's baking attempts. I don't have time for all this baking, but I'm enjoying it!

The resulting cornbread....good, for the most part!

A Birthday Cake Flopped

The Cake. I decided to bake myself a birthday cake and my wonderful husband stopped by the store for last minute ingredients and I threw them together and dropped them into the oven. And well, 45 minutes later, I decided it was done. One recipe said flip the cake out onto a rack to cool. NOT a good idea. You see the indentations resulting, and only half the cake came out. So I tried to put the cake back into the pan. Also NOT a good idea. Now the cake resides halfway up the side of the pan, and refuses to appear cooked. I threw it back in another half hour. Still not cooked looking. I gave up and pulled it out and will put it in the fridge. We'll see what it's like in the morning!

(ps. Matt and I are gluten free for two weeks, seeing if it helps my stomach, allergies, life in general. So any good flourless chocolate cake recipes are welcome!)