1 cup water
1/3 c. butter
1 c potato starch flour
1 TBSP sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3 eggs
oil for frying
Cinnamon/Xylitol for coating donuts afterwards.
Heat water and butter until boiling. Remove from heat.
Stir the combined dry ingredients into the butter/water all at once.
Continue stirring until the mixture forms a ball and pulls away from sides of pan.
Then use an electric mixer or stick blender to beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well.
Fry in hot oil. We dropped half teaspoon amounts of the batter in, because they double in size. If you make them too big they will be gooey in the centers.
Drain on paper towels and coat with cinnamon sugar, or cinnamon xylitol.
We really liked these a lot, but we rarely eat anything so greasy and we all agreed that we couldn't eat these donuts very often.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Gluten Free Gingerbread
The kids tried several different gingerbread recipes, and this is the one that tasted the best, and made the best gingerbread house walls with the least crumbling.
3/4 c shortening (we used real butter from Mad Cow's cream)
1 c sugar
1 egg
1/2 c molasses
2 1/4 c sorghum flour mix
1/2 tsp xantham gum
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp salt
Cream shortening, sugar, egg, molasses. Combine the dry ingredients, then add to creamed mixture. Chill dough thoroughly. We then flattened it all over the cookie sheet to make our walls, but you could cut out shapes, or whatever.
3/4 c shortening (we used real butter from Mad Cow's cream)
1 c sugar
1 egg
1/2 c molasses
2 1/4 c sorghum flour mix
1/2 tsp xantham gum
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp salt
Cream shortening, sugar, egg, molasses. Combine the dry ingredients, then add to creamed mixture. Chill dough thoroughly. We then flattened it all over the cookie sheet to make our walls, but you could cut out shapes, or whatever.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
GI
Thursday we are going to the GI doctor in Austin. Three hours away.
I spent the day today printing up a summary of Mooky's last 17 months of misery. I also called the doctor in Kerrville whose nurse told me they couldn't fax Mooky's medical records to the GI because we hadn't signed a release! So, they faxed the release form to Kris at work, he signed it, and faxed it back. Then I called them to verify that they got it and asked them again to fax Mooky's medical records to the new doc. "Ok, no problem, please give us 2 weeks to get that done."
WHAT????????????????
I nicely explained that it needs to be done today or tomorrow and PLEASE do it. "Well, we're understaffed so I can't promise anything."
Talk about frustrating.
I feel such a heavy load of sadness right now for how difficult this is for Mooky. I guess typing it all up today really made it clear to me. I know that the Lord is in charge, and He has a wonderful plan for Mooky's life. And He can bring good from this. It's just hard for a parent to see their child suffer. It could be so much worse, and I hope it's not. I feel uneasy about what we may eventually find out through this new doctor... but there again, the Lord will get us through it.
I'm at a point where I am once again struggling with what to feed the boy... and struggling to keep his hunger at bay. He used to love to cook. Said he would be a professional chef one day. But, he hasn't done much cooking at all in the past year or so. Rare are the days when he feels good enough to spend that much time on his feet, and expend that much mental energy.
It's 7 PM right now and he is already in bed. That is very normal for him. If he feels nauseous in the night he will get up and sneak quietly into our room so as not to wake us up, and silently go in our bathroom and close the door. He will put a towel at the bottom of the door to cover up the crack of light that "might wake us up". Then, he will take a long shower until all the hot water is gone and hopefully his nausea will be gone too. Then, it's back to bed until 6 am or maybe 7 if he feels really bad.
The main thing to remember is that it could be worse!! And I am thankful it is not.
I spent the day today printing up a summary of Mooky's last 17 months of misery. I also called the doctor in Kerrville whose nurse told me they couldn't fax Mooky's medical records to the GI because we hadn't signed a release! So, they faxed the release form to Kris at work, he signed it, and faxed it back. Then I called them to verify that they got it and asked them again to fax Mooky's medical records to the new doc. "Ok, no problem, please give us 2 weeks to get that done."
WHAT????????????????
I nicely explained that it needs to be done today or tomorrow and PLEASE do it. "Well, we're understaffed so I can't promise anything."
Talk about frustrating.
I feel such a heavy load of sadness right now for how difficult this is for Mooky. I guess typing it all up today really made it clear to me. I know that the Lord is in charge, and He has a wonderful plan for Mooky's life. And He can bring good from this. It's just hard for a parent to see their child suffer. It could be so much worse, and I hope it's not. I feel uneasy about what we may eventually find out through this new doctor... but there again, the Lord will get us through it.
I'm at a point where I am once again struggling with what to feed the boy... and struggling to keep his hunger at bay. He used to love to cook. Said he would be a professional chef one day. But, he hasn't done much cooking at all in the past year or so. Rare are the days when he feels good enough to spend that much time on his feet, and expend that much mental energy.
It's 7 PM right now and he is already in bed. That is very normal for him. If he feels nauseous in the night he will get up and sneak quietly into our room so as not to wake us up, and silently go in our bathroom and close the door. He will put a towel at the bottom of the door to cover up the crack of light that "might wake us up". Then, he will take a long shower until all the hot water is gone and hopefully his nausea will be gone too. Then, it's back to bed until 6 am or maybe 7 if he feels really bad.
The main thing to remember is that it could be worse!! And I am thankful it is not.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Mooky
The week of November 18 was a really hard week for Mooky. I am positive he did not have any sugar, gluten, soy, high fructose corn syrup, or msg. And yet, he was very fatigued with a lot of stomach pain, nausea and D.
He had a totally GF Thanksgiving meal on Thursday and Saturday, and then ate some ice cream with wheat in it. WHY do they put wheat in ice cream anyway? (Not that it matters.) It was his own fault because I gave him the responsibility for reading the label and he ate it anyway. He's FIFTEEN for crying out loud! Plenty old enough to handle that responsibility. And we are making an effort to not be the Food Police. He is having to take more responsibility and take the consequences as well. So, Sunday and Monday he was extra extra extra miserable, and still isn't feeling much better today. He admitted that it wasn't worth it, and wished he hadn't done it, so I suppose that is progress. "I suppose", because I am not convinced that he won't do it again if the opportunity presents itself.
BTW, both kids are perfectly capable of spotting gluten and soy in food labels. They can pronounce most of the difficult words you find on the labels (and know what each one is) and when we go grocery shopping they read labels on everything we buy. Outloud. We get some mighty strange looks at times! :o)
He had a totally GF Thanksgiving meal on Thursday and Saturday, and then ate some ice cream with wheat in it. WHY do they put wheat in ice cream anyway? (Not that it matters.) It was his own fault because I gave him the responsibility for reading the label and he ate it anyway. He's FIFTEEN for crying out loud! Plenty old enough to handle that responsibility. And we are making an effort to not be the Food Police. He is having to take more responsibility and take the consequences as well. So, Sunday and Monday he was extra extra extra miserable, and still isn't feeling much better today. He admitted that it wasn't worth it, and wished he hadn't done it, so I suppose that is progress. "I suppose", because I am not convinced that he won't do it again if the opportunity presents itself.
BTW, both kids are perfectly capable of spotting gluten and soy in food labels. They can pronounce most of the difficult words you find on the labels (and know what each one is) and when we go grocery shopping they read labels on everything we buy. Outloud. We get some mighty strange looks at times! :o)
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Results of the Pie Experiment
Erinn: 10 stars for great taste!
Mooky: 10 stars, and a 2 hour stomach ache,
and the dreaded you-know-what. :o(
The pie was delicious, and thanks again to legendaryabundance for the recipe! Even though Mooky got a bad stomach ache from it, he loved it, and as far as pies go it is a wonderful alternative to one with sugar in it. Today Erinn and I made a pumpkin pie sweetened with a little honey and a little sucanat. It's still in the oven, but it tasted great uncooked. :o)
Mooky has a really bad reaction when he eats sweet potatoes so I searched all over Kerrville for some kind of squash that I could use in place of sweet potatoes. All I could find was butternut squash. I cooked it with butter and sucanat and he didn't even realize it wasn't sweet potatoes until Erinn told him. So, that was a hit!
We had a great gluten free Thanksgiving dinner. Mooky said the dressing was "a miracle". LOL
Too bad we can't have turkey sandwiches for supper... oh well! Things could be a lot worse.
Mooky: 10 stars, and a 2 hour stomach ache,
and the dreaded you-know-what. :o(
The pie was delicious, and thanks again to legendaryabundance for the recipe! Even though Mooky got a bad stomach ache from it, he loved it, and as far as pies go it is a wonderful alternative to one with sugar in it. Today Erinn and I made a pumpkin pie sweetened with a little honey and a little sucanat. It's still in the oven, but it tasted great uncooked. :o)
Mooky has a really bad reaction when he eats sweet potatoes so I searched all over Kerrville for some kind of squash that I could use in place of sweet potatoes. All I could find was butternut squash. I cooked it with butter and sucanat and he didn't even realize it wasn't sweet potatoes until Erinn told him. So, that was a hit!
We had a great gluten free Thanksgiving dinner. Mooky said the dressing was "a miracle". LOL
Too bad we can't have turkey sandwiches for supper... oh well! Things could be a lot worse.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Apple Pie!
Thanks to legendaryabundance for this recipe!!! We made it today and it was a big hit. The kids were very happy with the sweetness of it.
No Sugar Apple Pie SUBMITTED BY: Carolyn Contains no artificial sweeteners!"
INGREDIENTS
2 (9 inch) pie shell
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 (12 fluid ounce) can unsweetened apple juice concentrate, thawed
6 cups sliced green apples
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a small bowl whisk together cornstarch, cinnamon, and 1/3 cup of the apple juice concentrate. Set aside.
In a large saucepan simmer apples with remaining apple juice concentrate until apples are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in cornstarch mixture and continue to simmer until thickened. Remove from heat.
Spoon apple mixture into pastry-lined pie plate. Cover with top crust. Seal and flute edges. Cut steam vents in top.
Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until crust is golden brown.
Erinn cut a beautiful star in the GF pie crust, recipe below. We are going to make this again for Thanksgiving!
The BEST EVER GF pie crust!
1 cup Sorghum flour mix*
1 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 tsp salt
1 TBSP granulated sugar
Combine all ingredients and pat into two pie pans. Bake at 350* for 20 minutes or so.
*Sorghum flour mix:
7 parts sorghum flour
2 parts potato starch
1 part tapioca flour
No Sugar Apple Pie SUBMITTED BY: Carolyn Contains no artificial sweeteners!"
INGREDIENTS
2 (9 inch) pie shell
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 (12 fluid ounce) can unsweetened apple juice concentrate, thawed
6 cups sliced green apples
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a small bowl whisk together cornstarch, cinnamon, and 1/3 cup of the apple juice concentrate. Set aside.
In a large saucepan simmer apples with remaining apple juice concentrate until apples are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in cornstarch mixture and continue to simmer until thickened. Remove from heat.
Spoon apple mixture into pastry-lined pie plate. Cover with top crust. Seal and flute edges. Cut steam vents in top.
Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until crust is golden brown.
Erinn cut a beautiful star in the GF pie crust, recipe below. We are going to make this again for Thanksgiving!
The BEST EVER GF pie crust!
1 cup Sorghum flour mix*
1 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 tsp salt
1 TBSP granulated sugar
Combine all ingredients and pat into two pie pans. Bake at 350* for 20 minutes or so.
*Sorghum flour mix:
7 parts sorghum flour
2 parts potato starch
1 part tapioca flour
Sugar Free Pie Recipes
All my searches for sugar free pie recipes turn up nothing but recipes that use artificial sweeteners. Grrrr.
I am looking for a recipe that uses either fruit juice concentrate and/or honey.
Apple pie in particular! Anybody got any ideas?
I am looking for a recipe that uses either fruit juice concentrate and/or honey.
Apple pie in particular! Anybody got any ideas?
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