G.F. Apple Muffins

1/2 cup sorghum flour
3/4 cup buckwheat flour
1/4 cup tapioca flour
1/2 cup flax meal
1/4 cup maple sugar
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp xanthan gum
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 cup applesauce
1/4 cup vanilla rice or soy milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup honey or brown rice syrup + a few drops liquid stevia)
4 TBS apple juice or water (or more as needed)
1 TBS Ener-G egg replacer + 3 TBS warm water (to sub for two eggs)
1 cup chopped apples
1/2 cup raisins

Mix all dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Mix all wet ingredients in a separate bowl and add to dry mix. Add apples and raisins. Use baking cups in your muffin pan. Bake muffins 350F for 25 min or until a knife comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack so the bottoms don't get soggy. Store in plastic bags after completely cooled or freeze.

G.F. Berry Muffins

1 1/4 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1/2 cup flax meal
1/4 cup maple sugar
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp xanthan gum
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup vanilla rice or soy milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup water
1 TBS Ener-G egg replacer + 3 TBS warm water (to sub for two eggs)
1 cup berries (your choice)

Mix all dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Mix all wet ingredients, except 1/2 cup water, in a separate bowl and add to dry mix. Add the water until mix right consistency. Add berries. Use baking cups in your muffin pan. Bake muffins 350F for 25 min or until a knife comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack so the bottoms don't get soggy. Store in plastic bags after completely cooled or freeze.

Gluten Free Cinnamon Rolls

Dough:
2 TBS butter (ghee)
1/4 cup sugar (1/8 maple sugar + 1/8 Lakanto)
2/3 cup warm milk (soy, rice)
1 TBS yeast
1 egg
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup potato starch
1/8 cup sorghum flour
1/8 cup amaranth, quinoa, or teff flour
1 cup tapioca flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 12 tsp xanthan gum
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract

To Sprinkle on Board covered in plastic wrap:
1-2 TBS sugar (Lakanto)

Filling:
1/3 cup maple sugar (to make gooier, use more sugar or add a little liquid maple syrup drizzle).
1 1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cup chopped nuts

Glaze:
3/4 cup maple sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
milk to thicken (soy or rice)

Preheat oven to 375 F. Warm milk and combine with yeast in a small bowl. Cover with plastic wrap. Combine butter, sugar and mix well. Add the milk/yeast mixture to it. Add remaining dough ingredients. Mix well and remove all lumps. Dough will be very soft. Take a piece of plastic wrap and lay it to cover 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 square inches. Sprinkle sugar on the plastic wrap. Lay ball of dough in center of plastic square and cover with another piece of plastic wrap. Pat or roll the dough into a square shape. Remove top plastic and sprinkle the filling ingredients evenly over the dough. Roll the dough from one edge to the other into a log. Cut into even pieces about 1 1/2 inches wide. Place in a greased pie plate. Bake approx. 20 min., until tops are browned. Combine glaze ingredients and drizzle over hot rolls.

*You may bake these and then freeze them. Warm them in a microwave for a few seconds or in a 350F oven for about 10min. or until warmed through.
** You may make them the night before and keep uncooked and covered in fridge. Bake in morning for hot fresh rolls.

Coming to an End

Well, our time alone is coming to an end. Todd should be home tonight (late). He did find a little gold and is bringing some fish. He has movies and pictures of his trip and the wildlife he saw. The kids are excited to see him. I am too.

Home Alone

Well, Todd took off for his Alaska vacation yesterday. The kids and I will be home alone for the next 10 days. It is going fine so far. We have plans to go to the West Coast Game Park midweek. I am really looking forward to that. There are all sorts of loose animals roaming about that you can pet. Hopefully the kids will get to pet a lot of animals. Then we are going to the zoo at the end of the week. So, it will be a week of trips to see animals.

My Kids Love Coffee

Okay, not really. We just got back from a trip with Granny, their great grandmother. She drank coffee each morning and the kids decided that that was neat. So now when they drink their apple juice, they call it coffee. Gabriel got stung by a wasp today and told me that he needed to drink coffee to feel better.

It's a Jungle Out There

Our grass in the lawn has grown up over night, so it seems. It is about to my waist. The kids think it is great and pretend it is a jungle. Andrew is actually shorter than the tallest stalks and Gabriel can just see over them. So today they had great fun making trails and watching out for snakes and spiders. I am pretty sure I saw a tiger. :)