Breakfast.... YUM!

Ok, I am now ok with the no wheat thing I think. :) The husband set this adventure into motion. He is a very considerate person, so has been trying to slowly make all the bulk stuff we bought that has wheat disappear from the house so I am not tempted and there won't be any in the house. Yesterday it was some of the case of frozen Eggo's :o) However..... LOL he left the Mrs Butterworth's on the counter, which has since left me with a craving for waffles or pancakes. So this morning I was on a mission. I went to the website where I get my gluten free flour mix from (Bob's Red Mill) and searched the recipes for Waffles. Specifically I wanted Buttermilk batter. Found the simplest one using the mix I use, and wrote it down. While the recipe called for milk, I used 1/2 milk and buttermilk, but found I needed a bit more milk to thin the batter out a tad. I thought about making waffles, but when I went to get the old waffle maker to clean up that was hubby's grandparent's, I decided I wasn't into dismantling it and cleaning it, I didn't want to wait. So, we went with the pancakes. Woo Hoo! Success! and we both had some and they tasted very good! Craving solved. YUM! I do think though next time, I might use about 1/8 cup less of the flour mix replacing it with tapioca flour, I like the fluffier texture the tapioca flour gives things. And overall either use a bit less flour or more milk to make it a bit thinner for pancakes. But they did taste yummy.

As I bake more with gluten/wheat free flours, I find I am preferring the taste of those baked goods, like the cookies, and breads. I just need to find some non wheat, non corn type egg noodles, I found a recipe to make them simply, but...... LOL without the pasta attachments for my mixer I think the recipe would be very labor intensive, and I just don't have enough counter space.

Well today's projects are to make bread (I am almost out of bread), Buttermilk scones (our favorites), and probably cookies, Hubby wants something with butterscotch chips in them. Hmmmm will have to search my cookie recipes and adapt one. I will work today on adapting my old flour recipes for these. But I have more confidence now that I know that it isn't bread dough, it's bread batter. :o) and the others are straight across substitutions pretty much.

Wish me luck! Will try to post later when I know how they've all turned out. I know the bread I'll have to do in the mixer and let it rise, no bread machine, mine doesn't have specific enough settings, and the quick cycle is too long on the rise cycle, so I end up with a very dense loaf because it fell. So, today is baking day!