Alliterative food adventures
I'm doing a gluten-free diet for a month (just as an experiment, to see if it makes any difference to the chronic blahs) and this has been no problem in the week I've been at it so far, but yesterday it snowed. If this seems a meaningless juxtaposition, I beg to differ. When it snows enough here that everything shuts down and no one goes to work (and hey, it turned out to be 5 inches of very fine powdery stuff, but it could have been more!) we have Snow Tea with the neighbors. Which means baked goods.
So I needed to make something I'd be able to eat. J. had already produced some gluten-free biscotti, made with almond flour, but I didn't have time to hike out and find the five other kinds of non-wheat flour that most gluten-free recipes request (plus xantham gum, omg), so I made the 1-2-3-4 flourless peanut butter cookie recipe (1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup sugar (though I used 2/3 cup), 1 egg, 1 tsp baking soda, mix and plop and bake at 375F for 10 minutes), and then I went online and found Black Bean Brownies. Which, it turns out, are awesome, if you add a little more cocoa powder (heaping 1/3 cup) and coffee (several teaspoons of very strong brewed). They are pretty fudgy, and from the comments it sounds like you can add a teaspoon of baking powder if you prefer a cake-like texture.
Plus one of the neighbors brought gluten-free cupcakes, and I relaxed the diet so I could join in the Beer Part of Tea, and it was all great fun. And now it is apparently 2F outside (I have not ventured out to see how this feels) and a good day to cuddle with cats and get things done.
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So I needed to make something I'd be able to eat. J. had already produced some gluten-free biscotti, made with almond flour, but I didn't have time to hike out and find the five other kinds of non-wheat flour that most gluten-free recipes request (plus xantham gum, omg), so I made the 1-2-3-4 flourless peanut butter cookie recipe (1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup sugar (though I used 2/3 cup), 1 egg, 1 tsp baking soda, mix and plop and bake at 375F for 10 minutes), and then I went online and found Black Bean Brownies. Which, it turns out, are awesome, if you add a little more cocoa powder (heaping 1/3 cup) and coffee (several teaspoons of very strong brewed). They are pretty fudgy, and from the comments it sounds like you can add a teaspoon of baking powder if you prefer a cake-like texture.
Plus one of the neighbors brought gluten-free cupcakes, and I relaxed the diet so I could join in the Beer Part of Tea, and it was all great fun. And now it is apparently 2F outside (I have not ventured out to see how this feels) and a good day to cuddle with cats and get things done.
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comments there. Comment here or there.