Gluten Free PT

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

We’re still experimenting. We like the Pamela’s Brand Products. Their baking (bisquick) and pancake mix is good. Ditto for the brownie and chocolate chip cookie mixes. Everyone liked those. I took the cookies to a party and they all got eaten – no leftovers to take home.

The banana bread I made out of this mix was delicious. Or was it the chocolate shavings from a piece of real GF chocolate that I mixed up in the batter?

We didn’t like Arrowhead Mills baking mix (bisquick) product. Too grainy. And we didn’t like the Bob’s Red Mill chocolate cake mix. You could smell the fava bean flour.
My 2 year old liked the cupcakes after they were baked. My husband and 8 year old tried the batter and wouldn’t try the finished product. Neither would my 73 year old father.

You don’t know until you try.

I went to the GLUTEN FREE SOURCE today: a 100% gluten-free grocery store in Dillsburg, PA. They have a wonderful selection of GF products available, and everything in the store is safe! Check out their webpage under the links section.

Some say venison is good.  Not on the front of your car.  $4500 worth!  I am very grateful for a very sturdy car and the first deer that I saw and was able to slow down for.  If the second one had hit me and I was moving full speed, we may not have been as lucky.  Thank God for insurance.

(Ok – this one’s not related to celiac or food at all, but this was a biggie!  It’s been a rough week).

It’s official. Gluten-free is the way I shall be. In one regard, it’s relieving to know that there is an answer, at least for some of the issues. Somewhat daunting to think about the changes I need to make and the consequences if I don’t. But deep down inside I think I already knew. It’s been a really long week.

Here’s my second try.  Somewhere along the line my first post will reappear.

We’re making beef stew in the crock pot today.  Beef, veggies, and GF broth.  Hopefully it goes over as well as the chicken soup (but it has tomatoes in it….may not please the under 10 set – we’ll see!).

Had tests this week including CT with dye and endoscopy. Haven’t been really hungry. We made a crock pot of chicken vegetable soup: a little cubed chicken, diced potatoes, carrots, celery, corn, and onion; topped off with gluten free chicken broth. This was another winner…thus, a new category: crock pot meals.

If I keep organizing like this I will have my own web-cook-book in no time!

After several edible (and a few not as lucky) attempts, this weekend I found a set of directions for preparing polenta from scratch that was really good. Bob’s Red Mill brand polenta in the 24 ounce bag had directions for stovetop cooking.
It takes 30 minutes stovetop and another 10 or 15 minutes to set but comes out with a good consistency. I put salt, pepper, and a little leftover grated fresh cheese in it. You could season it with just about anything!

I just discovered that Bob’s Red Mill Website has recipe lists for all of their grains. Some of the choices for polenta were cornbread, creamy polenta, italian polenta, grilled tomato polenta, and polenta stuffed peppers. Will have to revisit this one.

http://www.bobsredmill.com/recipe/ingredient.php?pid=132

Kids didn’t like this one.  Oh well.  They’ll deal.  Maybe with tomato sauce next time.

Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is a woman. 

A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories.

Imagine a woman who believes she is good.

A woman who trusts and respects herself.  Who listens to her needs and desires and meets them with tenderness and grace.

Imagine a woman who has acknowledged the past’s influence on the present.  A woman who has walked through her past.  Who has healed into the present.

<>Imagine a woman who authors her own life.  A woman who exerts, initiates and moves on her own behalf.  Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and her wisest voice.

Imagine a woman in love with her own body.  A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.  Who celebrates her body and its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource.

Imagine a woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom.  Who refuses to use precious energy disguising the changes in her body and life.

Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.  A woman who sits in circles of women.  Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.

Author Unknown 

“I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

Maya Angelou