What's cooking at your house?

[Carebear]

Hi 4Kids,

I just read your post about gluten-free things for your sister-in-law.

Because you won't be preparing gluten free all the time, it may be simplest to buy cake mix and frozen gluten free pizza crust.  If you have a Save-on-Foods or Safeway in your town, they have a full list of all the gluten free products they carrying in their stores.  If these are not options then contact Kinnikinnick in Edmonton.  They ship all over North America.

It's so nice you are making some safe foods for her.  My in-laws are very inconsiderate and have never even attempted to learn about Celiac...never might Sjogren's.

[Bucky]

What's cooking at my house tonight?  NOTHING!!    We're having my husbands side of the family Christmas tonight at his nieces house. So, we're all going out to eat beforehand.  Yay . . . I don't have to cook it, serve it, or clean up after (or pay for dinner either) - certain family members always pick the tab up for the group as part of their Christmas gift to us all.

Now the dilemma . . . what to have, what to have??   

For dessert later - a Dairy Queen ice cream cake to celebrate our sons birthday tomorrow and a nieces birthday on Monday.

Bucky

[Carebear]

I'm like you Bucky...going out for dinner tonight to celebrate my birthday with the family.  No DQ for me though.  I'm still watching my consummation these days, and feeling really good.  Enjoy your ice cream cake! 

[Meld256]

Carebear,

Happy, happy Birthday!!  I hope you have a great time celebrating!

Hope you have a good time, too, Bucky!  Happy Birthday to your son!! And to your neice!  A night of no cooking or cleanup is always a good thing.

[Narablueeyes]

We did Malibu fish tacos again.  SO FILLING!!

[Sylvia49]

"What's cooking...?"  Due to me being in bed with a flare - my husband!  It's called "ordering out," lol.

Sylvia49

[Bucky]

Happy Birthday, Carebear!      (You should have added it to the December Birthday thread.)

Hope you enjoyed your dinner out.

Bucky

[susanep]

My precious husband does most of the cooking, but for Christmas I will be baking a ham to take down to my parents where we will all be for dinner. My husband's birthday is also on Christmas Day.

I will be baking him a pineapple upside down cake this year. All previous years I would order him one to pick up. I always go out of my way to make the second half of Christmas Day just his birthday.

My son also has a birthday on Dec 21 so this is a busy month for me. My daughter in law's birthday is Jan 2 .

We go one day to my son's to celebrate his birthday, then my husband's on Christmas Day later in the Day, then my daughter in laws on her day.

I am glad mine is in the summer. lol....

susanep 

[Narablueeyes]

I made my very first batch of snicker doodles.  Thought I had hit a wall cuz I didn't have any cream of tartar so I punted and used baking powder instead.  I'm so proud of myself!  They're actually edible!!   

[irish]

CArebear, Here is a very good recipe for Gluten free banana bread. I have made it several times and I almost think it is better than the regular banana bread.

Also, I mix my GF flour myself and don't always follow the same mixture. This time I had a couple of pounds of sweet rice flour, 1/2 pound of brown rice flour, 1/2 pound tapioca flour and 1/2 pound of potato starch flour. I was out of the regular rice flour so I had to substitute--although sweet rice flour is really very good in just about anything. It makes a good cream sauce or gravy also.

GF Banana Bread---1 loaf----I double for 2 loaves and it works fine.

1 1/2 coup white sugar
1 stick butter/margarine just softened not melted
2 eggs
Mix well and beat some with a whisk to get the lumps out as well as you can.

1 1/2 tsp soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
Add this to the bove mixture and stir well

3 bananas--ripened if possible---mash well. I have used them when just very soft and worked well.

2 cups GF flour
1/3 cup sour milk--I add vinegar to make sour. About 1 tsp to the 1/3 cup

I add the flour 1 cup and half the milk and then the rest of the flour and milk and beat well each time. At the very end I add the bananas and stir to beat the band.

Bake in greased and floured 5 x 7 pan at 350 degrees for one hour. It may take longer as you have to make sure that it is really done on the top. Have to get it very brown to be down. I let it cool for about 15 minutes, bang the pans hard to make sure it is loose and invert it on al. foil. I then loosely cover with al. foil and it gets nice and moist as it cools. Enjoy.  Easy recipe. Irish

[Carebear]

Thanks for the recipe, Irish.  I love banana bread and always look for uses for the overripe ones.   

[Meld256]

Mnnnn...Nara.  Snickerdoodles!  You should be proud; bet they are yummy. 

I got one little batch of gingerbread cookies baked.  Need to make some molasses cookies to take to my dear old Daddy this weekend.  He loves them and doesn't get much of that sort of thing at the retirement home.

He cracks me up. I was with him when he opened presents 2 years ago.  Mind you; he's now 95 and has dementia.  He got some books sent from my sister in Florida, and very nice clothes sent from my brother in Virginia. 

He barely looked at all that, and tore into a box of chocolates and cookies I'd brought him, like a 2-yr-old! 

[Narablueeyes]

We're trying pirogie pizza.  Tomorrow, I'll be attempting Creme de menthe brownies.  Couldn't find any Andes so I'm trying Ghiradelli's dark chocolate mint squares. 

Thanks Meld.  I am and dang it if they aren't all gone!!

[smallfry]

This is not for dinner but I made a Chocolate Sherry Cherry cake yesterday and it was the best.
We are having spare Ribs tonight.

Cheryl

[Joe S.]

OOOOHHHHH!