Gluten Free Update

Well so far so okay!

I haven't missed my bread or pastas yet but it has only been 3 days

I found this banana bread recipe.

I did tweak it a bit but thats what I do to recipes.

1 and 1/4 cups gluten free flour (I used El Peto all purpose flour mix)
1 TSP baking soda
1 cup of sugar
2 eggs
6 TBSP canola oil
3 ripe bananas
2 TSP cinnamon
1/2 TSP salt

Mix bananas, eggs, oil, and sugar in a bowl and smush (yes that is a cooking term LOL ) together. Add the flour and baking soda. Mix until smooth. Pour into greased and floured loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 40 to 60 minutes.

 

It was delicious especially toasted with some butter.

 

It was pizza night last night.

I used this pizza crust.

 

 

Not impressed.

But I like a really thin crust and this one is very doughy.

I am going to make one from scratch next weekend.

Toppings were delicious.

 

 

Needed some bright on my nails today.

 

 

Cherry

YUM!

 

My amarylliseseses are very confused and have started blooming.

I am not complaining  !

 

 

Lucky wishes you all a happy Sunday!

 

HB just arrived home with a bottle of red wine (to have with our stew) and a couple of *bucks coffees.

Have a great day!

 

 

Jumpin on the GF Bandwagon

After much consideration and research I have decided to go gluten free.

My joints have been giving me some aches and I feel terribly fatigued during the day.

These could be symptoms of gluten intolerence.

Or I just may need to lose weight and get more sleep!

Who knows? But I am going to give it a try.

 

I made a trip to the grocery store this morning and gathered up a few supplies.

PHEW!!!

Being GF is expensive.

 

A couple of  6 inch frozen pizza shells -- 5.99

Zaza needs her zas.

I have found a recipe for GF banana bread which I will give a go this weekend.

If it turns out I may try my hand at making my own baking mix.

 

From my research it should take about 60 days for me to see any big difference.

If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear.

Thanks all.

 

Spring Yet?

A trip to the grocery store on Monday made me feel it was!

 

Altho my trip home and made me feel --- um NO!

  
And HB's face shovelling and snow blowing definately made me think spring is quite a way away.

The ladies have the right idea.

 

 

Addy will just keep her bum warm on the register.

 

Lucky makes sure she is close enough to the kitchen she won't have to run too far for her supper.

 

Today is Wednesday and it is supposed to be 10C (50F) and rainy here.

Of course this is a fluke and we are back to the minuses later this week.

Have a great hump day!!

Heading to Michael's and Chapter's for me :-)

Sunday in CP

Had a visit from the newlyweds Sunday.

We went for a wee walk down to the river.

Did some birdwatching.

I always love passing this house with the bottles glistening in the window.

The river is always open because of the movement of the Falls.

Sidenote:: Carleton Place was originally called Morphy's Falls

 

A little shed by the river.

What could it be used for?

 

 

A Cheater Post

Since I lost all my pictures I will send you to Deb.

http://justcats-deb.blogspot.ca/2013/01/robbie-burns-dinner.html

She got some great shots of the night!!

She has a terrific blog too!!

We Love Ye Wee Robbie

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What a fantastic Robbie Burns supper we had.

I'm afraid you will have to take my word for it as I accidently deleted ALL the pics from my camera!!

Whisky whisky and whisky!

Celebrated with friends

Deb and Gary and

Joyce and John.

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Our Menu

 

 

 

I made place cards with everyone's name in Gaelic.

Some were easy

Sisuan

 

Others not so much

Gebnait

 

We had poetry readings

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Ended the evening with a couple of drams

 

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*Internet image

 

 

Have a great weekend!

 

No Haggis Was Injured

Tis Robbie Burns Day!

Having a few friends for dinner.

Will post tomorrow with pics and menu!!

Raise a dram or two!!

 

 

Christmas and Camrose

So Christmas has come and gone.

Is it really almost the end of January?

It was a crazy Christmas.

Not sure I liked it too much.

One of my girls is 2000 miles away in Alberta with my g kids and

my newly married girl wanted to spend the morning with her hubby (GO figure?)

HB and I had a lovely morning having breakfast in bed, opening our gifts, playing with the cats, skyping with the g kids, and watching some Christmas movies.

 

 

Then it was time to get ready to go to Siobhan and Will's for dinner.

 

 

Don't get me wrong. It was an enjoyable day just different.

We stayed overnight and came home the next afternoon.

HB is the organizer/coordinator of our local Christmas bird count so off he went bright and early on the 27th.

 

 

I stayed home this year and did the backyard count along with de Christmasing the house and organising for going away.

Yup we left on the 30th for two weeks in Alberta.

This time we flew.

Check these links if you want to read about our driving adventure last year.

http://readymadecosmos.blogspot.ca/2012/01/alberta-bound.html

http://readymadecosmos.blogspot.ca/2012/01/first-day.html

http://readymadecosmos.blogspot.ca/2012/01/day-two-done.html

http://readymadecosmos.blogspot.ca/2012/01/final-days.html

 

Now you know why we flew this time!

 

Arrived in Camrose around lunch time.

My heart melted as we came in the door and we got two huge smiles from Miles and Riley.

 

 

Have I mentioned that I love these two?

 I LOVE THESE TWO!

These are the little vests that I knitted for them.

 

 

We had another Christmas, did lots of reading, building, racing cars, colouring, cuddling.

 

 

 

 

WHAT!!!! Its time to go home???

:-(

So here we are back home. Deep Deep in a freeze.

You know. That hairs in your nose freeze kinda freeze.

 

Hope you all are keeping cosy.

Hello 2013

I am finally getting a chance to start blogging again.

What an intense couple of months this has been.

I won't bombard you all with everything at once.

I plan on doing it on the installment plan.

First and foremost -- daughter Siobhan's wedding!

Just a few shots of the day.

It was sunny and a wee bit nippy but everyone looked mahvelous and a fun time was had by all!!

 

 

Fist shake at Blooger Uploads

Just when I decided to get you all caught up on my snippets blogger decides to stop uploading pics.

And really ---- what is a post without some pics??

Stay tuned!