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lovely breadmaker

Flour Line up

Aggie game!

So here are the photos as promised. And the adapter that we got works great! So much easier then trying to use the tweezers to get it in and out of the computer!
And I made another loaf of bread that seems to be holding together much better then the last one! It's pretty tasty too and makes great toast! Really, that's all you need in bread right?

Crumbly Bread

I don't know if it's the fact that I'm hungry and don't know what sounds good, or if I'm just irritated at the people stomping around upstairs, but I'm dwelling a bit on the sucky parts of Celiacs.

So sucky part numbero uno: snack time. In my non gluten free days, no big deal. Grab some cheese and crackers, grab some toast, grab a quick PB&J. No crackers for me though and my bread is frozen so i'm being a bit lazy about toasting it - and it is crumbly...that needs to be fixed. And then the PB&J like i just said, crumbly bread! Don't get me wrong that bread is mighty tasty! But for whatever reason it does not want to stay together! I will try it again though, I WILL find a good gluten free bread to make a sandwich with! So my snack options with what I've got in the cupboard is rice cakes. While I love rice cakes, I think the taste and texture are great! But if any of you have ever had a rice cake you know it is not a high satiety food (doesn't get you full). Seriously I could eat like 6 rice cakes in one sitting! Luckily I just remembered my cheese sticks in the fridge! That will help! Thanks cheese. 

So sucky part numbero dos: lunch time. So today we decided to take the easy way out and get Jimmy Johns for dinner - they have a great unwich (no bread wrapped in lettuce). Then I am sitting here watching The Voice and thinking "well crap, what am I going to eat for lunch tomorrow?" It's not like I can just get something from the cafeteria at work because I'm never sure what they are having and I don't know what goes in it. And I can't just make a sandwich, back to my crumbly bread. So now I am making a piece of chicken for lunch tomorrow. 

Being Gluten Free just takes so much planning sometimes. While still in the transition getting used to things phase I am missing being able to just grab simple things sometimes. Most gluten free things are not simple. Thanks for letting me have a little vent session. I can do this. 

I know I can! One day at a time.   

Aggie Football and Gluten Free Bread

 I am trying to be a better blogger. As you can see I am not any good at it! Really I'm not doing it to get a ton of readers, obviously.  Mostly it's just a nice outlet. Putting my feelings and such in writing.
So I took pictures of my new gluten free flour line up and my lovely bread maker but they are on Brady's camera and his camera card doesn't fit into the slot on the computer so we have to buy an adapter. So there are pictures coming, I promise!
This weekend was great! A little exhausting but great! Friday we had a nice quiet evening complete with pizza! I had a pizza craving, which can be a little tricky with the gluten free life style. But, alas, Domino's has a gluten free crust! So we decided to try it out. Unfortunately, it only comes in a small so we had to buy two pizzas. I will tell you though, the crust is tasty!! Thin, but tasty! Good thing I don't mind thin crust pizza. It was delicious. Hit the spot!
So Saturday morning we went to Ogden to get Brady some new retro Air Jordan's we were first in line and Brady got the only pair in his size! Score! Christmas for Brady-done! (pictures of the beloved shoes to come)
Then it was Aggie football time!!  It was such a beautiful day for a football game! I am not a huge football fan but I am always up for a good Aggie game! Maybe if it was freezing I would stay home and watch it from the coziness of my couch but it was such a nice day! And even better the Aggies won!!! 38-7. GO AGGIES! There was an Aggie basketball game that night but we were both exhausted!!! So we stayed in and watched Avengers. (pictures of the game also to come)
So now for the gluten free successes from this weekend! First and I would think most important-a good loaf of Gluten Free bread! Which if you ask me is kind of hard to come by. But thanks to my go to gluten free blog (glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com) I found a great recipe - it's the one for multi-grain sandwich bread if you're wondering. But it was surprisingly light for gluten free bread and it has cornmeal in it which I think helps with the tastiness!
The second success- Pancakes! The other night breakfast for dinner sounded great! I figured "oh I can just use the all purpose gluten free flour for it" I was dead wrong! they were crepe-thin and didn't taste so great. So we just had bacon eggs and toast instead. So I was determined to find a good recipe, an what did I find? A recipe for Buckwheat pancakes! Super simple but pretty tasty! The batter looks like you have dirt in it-because the flour is dark. Tasted like whole wheat pancakes pretty much if you're interested in the recipe let me know.
The third success- Breadcrumbs! I forgot when i made my first loaf of bread that it keeps best in the freezer so it went dry pretty fast. So I dried the rest of it out and planned to make bread crumbs, then I wondered how I was going to do it without a food processor. But low and behold my blender came to the rescue! I plan on using those crumbs tonight!
My next endeavor-pumpkin cookies!
Until next time