Grandma’s Crazy Cake

My Grandma used to make this Crazy Cake every Saturday in the winter for the neighborhood card playing evening. We could always count on this cake to be Delicious! Super moist and Super YUM. We would always be seen begging for more than one piece.
I am listing the recipe in it’s original form, because all [...]

Carol Fenster’s Sorghum Flour Blend

I enjoy using Sorghum Four in many of my recipes and am always looking for new things to use it in. Recently, I found this little tidbit on Gluten free Gobsmacked. I just “puffy heart” Kate’s website. She has some awesome recipes and some deelish pics as well. I just know her soon-to-be, new little [...]

fruit crumble, crisp

Another yummy Recipe you can make using Pamela’s Baking and Pancake Mix or whatever other flour makes you happy.

Filling:
3 c. peaches or apples or cherries or  “you get the idea” (Today I used home canned peaches, drained) If using rhubarb you might wish to use more like 5 cups.
3 T. tapioca starch, arrowroot starch or [...]

Banana Muffins

Since is the Pamela’s Baking and Pancake Mix Giveaway Week, I thought maybe I should post a few of my favorite Pamela Mix recipes.
Today we made Banana Muffins (with or without nuts, your choice)

1 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter or margarine
4 slightly beaten eggs
5 mashed bananas (a frugal side note: I freeze my bananas as soon [...]

Gluten free coffee cake / crumb cake

Oh my!

As a kid, I remember waking up some mornings to the smell of grandma’s coffee cake. MMMMmmm good stuff!
I still love coffee cake for breakfast, tea time or just for snacking  a bit – LOL!
Finally, a gluten free alternative to Grandma’s Coffee Cake.
Coffee Cake
1 1/2 cups sorghum flour
1/2 cup white rice flour
1/2 cup potato [...]

Turkey Soup – in the crockpot

Thanksgiving has not even been cooked and eaten, but I am already recieving plenty of emails regarding the leftover bird….
Well, I LOVE leftover turkey, so I have a few recipes I will be sharing here over the next few days. I hope you find one that will tickle your taste buds.
Turkey Soup- in [...]

Yogurt from Non-fat Dry Milk (Powdered Milk)

A beloved friend of mine wondered if we could make yogurt from Powdered Milk… the answer is simply YES!!!
I thought it would be fun to post a few different ways to make it if you don’t happen to have one of these amazingly inexpensive do-dads.
The first try was to make it in the crockpot, yep, [...]

GF Graham Crackers

I am sure you all have been wondering when I was ever going to explain those funky looking brown things on the flickr pics over there ——–>
Well, finally …… here it is!!
They are GRAHAM CRACKERS!!
(Awesome for S’mores and they make great crumbs too)
3/4 cup melted butter or smart balance, or the like
1/4 cup honey
1 cup [...]

Too many cucumbers = pickles

I am absolutely NOT a pickle fan…
but my family is (go-figure). Well, basically for me it is the dill that drives me away. APPARENTLY, I ate a few too many dill pickles as a 4 year old and well, now I can’t even stand the smell of dill. *blush*
Anyhow, I decided to make pickles out [...]

Coconut Macaroons – Gluten free – dairy free

After absolutely loving Jennie’s Coconut Macaroons for quite some time, I thought I could try to make them at home… I mean really, how hard can it be to follow and tweek a recipe? LOL
Coconut Macaroons
3 egg whites
1tsp vanilla
1 tsp Almond Extract
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups powdered sugar
2 1/2 grated coconut (flakes can be grated in [...]