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Thankfully STUFFED!
Last night’s supper was FAButastic! Baby potatoes, stuffing, carrots and turnips, brussel sprouts, stuffing, homemade cranberry jelly, stuffing, and ( of course) TURKEY and Gravy! To wrap it all up to bursting? Pumpkin pie and mincemeat pie! STUFFED! more
Out of my Gourd!
So when I mentioned to my sister in Calgary that I was working on Thanksgiving recipes she quickly offered up her Skinny on Pumpkin Pie. For anyone following Weight Watchers, this bad boy is only 1 point for 1/8th of the pie! heck… that is equal to an apple! GO PIE! more
Save on Foods offering Sweet HOPE!
Arrived in the mail this morning! Going to go this afternoon to check it out!
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I would have told you ” You are Crazy!”
I toss my boxes of sweet Oreos, bags of fluffy white bread and foil wrapped pouches of ‘made with juice’ Gushers on the conveyor belt. “It’s just food. It’s not going to kill you.” Five years later I catch a glimpse of the conveyor belt in front of me and sigh. Bulk section plastic bags twist-tied with numbers show off their contents of quinoa, brown rice flour, sunflower seeds and walnuts. more
Finally!… Strangely…
Is Strangely even a word? My instinct is to type it Strangle-y but that might be just because it’s summer and the kids are out!
CHEX! Yes. I have been hearing on the chatter that CHEX is and has been Gluten free for years and, like Duncan Hines, ONLY available in the states. You can IMAGINE my inner ( maybe outter) SQUEE when I walked into a store and, there it was! Gleaming like a Golden Saint from a Catholic Dias. I swear I heard the Heavenly Host!
I GRABBED up two boxes of each before I even looked at the prices… before I even thought to pull out my camera and slam it up on facebook! I did correct that though, on the fly!
What makes this a strange find? The Location! It wasn’t a health food store, a Safeway or Grocery ( by their true definition) . No, it was ( don’t think less of me) Walmart! in WILLIAM’S LAKE?!
Regardless, I bought it. Paid the approx $5 a piece for 4 boxes and brought home my stash of golden sugary GLUTEN FREE carb cubes. My children love me and I am suddenly eager for good old fashioned Nuts and Bolts. Ahhhhhh…. sodium licks!
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Carnie Fare
Stampede Days, Rodeo Weekends and with all of them comes THA MIDWAY! Twisty turny paths of screams and jostling children crammed full of adults with their heads turned up mesmerized by the riotous gyrations of metal caged buckets on steel frames. The excitement is high and the pack mentality surges though the yards. While all this excitement is what draws some people to the over crowded theatrical presentation, to others it is the FOOD.
Corndogs, salt water taffy, Stampede Burgers and deep fried Coke. In the wholistic perspective you can’t really call it food but Mid Way Fare is what draws those who are no longer interested in the rides. Deep fried, salted and sinfully sweet mouthfuls of eternally-bad-for-you AWESOMENESS.
Gluten Free Hell? Damn Close!
It and Christmas are when I get to pining over the gluten free losses. I LOVE Corndogs and French Fries over soaked in Gravy. The smells take me back … righhhtttt… back to the time I are one of the Midway double cheese burgers with fried onions right before stepping into the caged ZIPPER. * Covers Mouth Quickly* Yup. Should have listened to my mother!
Today my Teen is heading down to the Midway with cash in hand and excitement sparkles in his eyes. The first year in the pack without a parental unit in sight. Sighs. He does his best as a teen to stay gluten free yet not be a lepper in his crowd. I give him coodos for that. Today will be a challenge. I am dropping him off and Tha Baby and I will take a walk around. I plan on scoping out the eateries and seeing what Gluten Free options MIGHT exist there!
Watch tomorrow for the scoop… or Twitter today!
He got Learnded
That is our new term. It’s like Edjamacated but it’s Learnded.
Dman seems to struggle with the whole pancake recipe following thing.
Yes, he is 14. Yes he is literate. Still, there is something about the measurements that turn invisible behind the numbers. Primarily with baking powder and baking soda.
We have all made, at least once in our life, THOSE cookies. The ones that even the dog won’t eat where, instead of 2 tsps, we add in 2 cups of baking soda. When you do that with a pancake mix, though, it converts it from a nummy breakfast covered in syrup and butter into a volcano science experiment. The first time this occurred for Dman was out camping. The zip lock pouch of premixed recipe turned into three foaming pot fulls of billowing batter. Today he learned and trusted his instincts. The liquids never hit the volatile bowl of over stacked baking soda batter.
Breakfast eventually got served with sprinkles of chocolate chips melting under golden syrup and pads of real butter but the true success was the laughter that emerged from my teenager. It is so easy to slam ourselves at the first sign of failure but the goal is to turn it around into a learning experience and fodder for success.
Cooking is an Art.
That means sometimes things turn into something we didn’t envision but it’s all an art. Gluten Free “Art” is even more challenging as we blend flours and learn new techniques but the successes are all the more sweeter!
The big breakfast is coming soon and I am training up the next spatula manager! Passing on the Flipper! Have faith though, practice will make perfect! The rewards? Goldenly Delicious!
5th Annual WF Pancake Breakfast
Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5!
This is our 5th Year hosting our Wheat Free Pancake breakfast but Pancakes aren’t all you will find. Rain or shine we will be having some activities for the kids and more food than you can loosen your belt for.
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Saturday, July 23 · 10:30am – 1:30pm
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So RSVP and come have a meal that reminds you that
Gluten Free isn’t GLUTTEN free! WOOT!
Contact Dianne @ 250 316 6561 or check out the event on Facebook and hopefully see you there!
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