Ingredients: 2 cups sorghum flour 1/2 cups tapioca flour 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 cup water, rice milk kefir or rice milk 1 tablespoon lard or shortening (optional) Mix all ingredients, except lard/shortening. Cut in the shortening/lard with a pastry knife or a fork. Pat or roll into 3-4″ flat cakes. Fry at medium heat, with the oil of your choice until golden brown.
Ingredients: 2 cups Ozma Master Mix – an easy baking mix you can make yourself. Get the recipe here. 1/3 to 1/2 cup water Rice milk (or other acceptable milk) Measure MIX into bowl; add 1/3 cup water and stir. Add a little more water if needed to form a soft dough. Knead gently about 12 times in a bowl or on a surface sprinkled with MIX. Roll or pat into 1/2 inch thickness. Cut into circles using a floured biscuit cutter, or
Don’t want to make a huge batch of 1001 Cookie Mix to test it out? Try the small batch version below: Ingredients:1 cup GFCF flour 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 Tbsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 5 tablespoons coconut oil/shortening This mix is truly a miracle when your child comes home and announces they have been invited to a birthday party that evening. You can whip up a batch of cookies in no time at all.Ingredients: 5 cups sorghum flour 3
Red Fruit Salad While this is great shortly after tossing all ingredients together, it’s also wonderful a day or so after – as the fruit continues to macerate. 1 pound cherries, pitted* 1 pound strawberries, cored 1 1/4 teaspoon whole coriander seeds, or more to taste 2-3 tablespoons natural cane sugar (or brown sugar) bit of lemon zest, bit of fresh lemon juice Tear most of the cherries in half, and leave the remaining cherries whole. Place in a large
An elevator speech can be a really useful tool to have in your arsenal. I have several, depending on the situation, but I thought I would share just this one with you, dear readers, in the hopes it will give you some ammo when trying to get through the day. What is an elevator speech, you ask? It is a quick, couple of sentences speech that explains something complicated in a simple way in about the time an elevator ride
Gluten-free cooking does not have to be hard. In fact, I have learned that simplicity can be the soul of dinner. But don’t get me wrong, keeping it simple does not have to mean bland or uninspired. The beauty of keeping it simple can mean something delicious and even sort of elegant. Tonight for dinner, I had some very boring looking pork chops daring me to make them fabulous. I grabbed the olive oil, and started drizzling. A tiny voice
Sometimes I feel like if I have to read one more article about autism, I am going to just explode. One more huge meltdown and I am through- I’m going to throw in the towel, get in the car and just drive to some remote town, change my name to Gladys, and become the small town waitress in the diner with the mysterious past. I would never have to deal with anything more complicated than whether or not table 6
or how a spoonful of courtesy and common sense would do us all a boatload of good. Every once in a while I get on the blogs and start reading about other people’s journey through autism with their family. It is interesting, but usually baffling to me how much venom and energy is wasted on these forums discussing controversy and ideology. I can’t get on board with any of it- I can’t stand the holier than thou neurodiversity people who
One night I was sitting at my computer, utterly exhausted and crying. It had been a long day with autism at our house. She was finally asleep, and I was doing what a lot of us do, frantically searching the Internet for anything that would shed some light on what on earth we were supposed to do to help this child. Grasping at straws. After a few hours of turning up nothing, I typed Autism sucks into the search engine
Our local grocer is in the process of remodeling. Because of this, they have lost about 1/3 of their frozen foods section – eliminating less popular items like gluten free bread. So to get bread we either need to make a 1/2 hour drive or make it ourselves. While we have a lot of experience and success in GFCF baking, my bread always turns out horrid! Well, no more! I have finally figured out a quick, easy, and (relatively) cheap