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Ready for your close up Mr. Poundcake?


2010
04.27

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I just finished the photo shoot of the “minis” for my site www.poundcakelady.com.  I will be posting them in the next day or two on the site and they will be available for order.  Initially, all the flavors that I will be vending are all Gluten-free and Casein-free(dairy-free).  They are also corn-free, soy-free and some are available nut-free.

I’m posting just a few of the photos tonight, just to see how they look out there on the web. In order to be green and save the environment… okay in order to sleep sometime tonight to wake up early and blog again tomorrow, the photos were taken in the cake’s natural habitat.  The glazing rack while hot out of the oven.  Enjoy!

Almond Crunch

Need an excuse to eat cake for breakfast? The Brekkie fulfills that requirement as it is both pound cake and coffee cake.

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I entered a contest


2010
04.27

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I entered a contest on http://theartistshouse.blogspot.com/

This was my entry:

The other day I was cleaning out a box in my attic. My mom had sent it to me about a year ago when she was cleaning out her attic. Most of the stuff I really didn’t want or need. But rumbling around in the bottom of the box was a few “buttons” from the days when wearing buttons on your jean jacket was cool. Most of them were pretty dorky, but this one…

I pinned it on my shirt and wore it around the rest of the day. It says-”Please save me from turning into my mother!”

We all become a little bit of our mothers, both the good and bad. We can’t help it. We don’t always mean to do it. We’re just born that way. And I wouldn’t trade it for anything, even though the sentiment is good for a chuckle here and there.

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Road less travelled (now that there are major highways)


2010
04.26

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After an amazing beach and swimming pool-filled weekend at a place that looked 1960’s swank but dated fantastic (price was right), that turned out to be the best and nicest Port A beach place that we have stayed, we decided to take the scenic road home.  We were on Highway 37, but at the point we got off the road so my daughters could purchase a pickle and a Bop magazine, we decided to take Highway 281 back into SA.  Things were going great.  Stopped at the Dairy Queen for a dipped ice cream in a cup all-around.  My daughters were being hilarious in the back seat.  They made up this game called “Cherry” which is about this little girl with a crazy grandma.  One of them is Cherry and the other is the crazy grandma.  The grandma says all these crazy random things and the little girl has to deal with her.  It’s really funny.

At one point they were singing this song to the tune of” Baa, Baa Black Sheep”.  It went something like “Baa, Baa Black Sheep/Baa, Baa, White Sheep/Baa, Baa, Tan Sheep/Baa, Baa, Blue Sheep”.  Suddenly by the side of the road we saw a mama white sheep with two tiny baby black sheep.

Well, if you ever want me to turn around the car while I am driving, show me some goats or sheep.  We quickly did a u-turn and went to see the sheep.  My daughters got out of the car and quietly and nervously tried to talk to the sheep.  The sheep ran off and my daughters we about to get back in the car disappointed.  Just then, the man who owned the sheep came out and told us that if we wanted to see the sheep and all the goats,  that he would call them in for dinner.  He was so nice and let the girls chase the goats and sheep around the pen so they could catch the babies and hold them.  They had such a blast!  We stayed around talking to the man for a few minutes in what was actually a giant pick and pull style junkyard.  There was so much awesome stuff around it was hard to take it all in.  It was such a perfect end to such a great trip.

This morning when I had to blast them out of bed like fishing with dynamite, I sang the song for them.  I didn’t play the electric keyboard in their room like I usually do in the morning when I sing to them, I sang it acapella.  I think it got them up on the right side of the bed.

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Free GF Cookie Cookbook


2010
04.23

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My very nicely sharing friend Brenda just passed this great info along to me.  Want a free GF cook book?  Well Jules Gluten-Free is offering her downloadable CookiE-book for FREE (usually retails for $9.95).  I just got mine-can’t wait to check it out.

Thanks Jules for the cook book.  Thanks Brenda for sharing!

Here is the link to get the book:

http://www.julesglutenfree.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BOOK-CK&Click=15573

In the coupon section, put: cookie1

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The truth comes out


2010
04.23

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I don’t want you to fear. I don’t want you to fear cooking and baking GF food. I don’t want you to fear eating in restaurants, having dinner at your friends and family’s homes. I want you to embrace your life, and even if the cards are a little tough to play, play them the best you can.

But I’m finding today that I have a little fear myself. Let me tell you why. Some of my recipes are GF, some are GF/CF, all I can leave the nuts out and some are even egg-free. Most have a soy work-around. That being said, I had this idea this week to go along with publishing my GF recipe for Petite Vanilla Scones, I would also post a recipe for the scones as a GF/CF item.

So I made GF/CF scones. And they’re delicious. They’re not quite as delicious as the GF ones, but I would put them against any GF/CF item on the market today and they would still be more delicious. But I started to worry. Well, if they’re not as good as the GF ones, should I even publish the recipe? There has been much hand wringing going on at my house.

So here’s my decision-I’m going to post it. And I hope you will make it. And I hope you will tell me how you liked them or didn’t. Try them out on some friends whether they are GF or not. What was their reaction?

I’m not perfect. I don’t want to be. This is about learning, sharing and moving forward in making awesome GF food for our new GF nation.

Happy baking!

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Join me


2010
04.23

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Visit Gluten-Free Faces

It’s always good to check everything and all things out. There’s info and connections on this site for all of us GF’ers out there. I am just joining in now-looking forward to seeing all the new things I can learn.

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Gluten-freers call to action


2010
04.20

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Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting recipes for making awesome GF bread in your bread machine, whoopie pies, Ethiopian food, tasty muffins, decadent brownies and more.  What do you  miss?  What do you want to make at home?  Are you sick of paying $8-10 for four cupcakes that aren’t that great?  Tell me about it.

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Tuesday’s Two Cents


2010
04.20

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Since it’s Tuesday, just thought I would take the time to put in my two cents about a product here and there.  Xanthan Gum.  I use it, I use it a lot and I’ve found that one brand does make a difference over others.  I use Bob’s Red Mill Xanthan Gum.  I’ve tried other brands and found that they work ok in yeast breads, but really don’t work well in pastries, cakes and other delicate baked goods.

And yeast.  There so many out there from fresh to quick.  There is only ONE yeast to use in gluten-free breads  if you can get it and that is the Hodgson Mill Fast-Rise Yeast.  It is formulated for heavy whole grain breads so it really gives a list to GF breads.  I love it!

Hodgson Mill Fast-Rise Yeast, the GF bread champion

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Watch out Starbucks!


2010
04.20

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Ah Starbucks. So many things to say. Do I love paying $5.00 for coffee? Do I love the fact that they can never get a green tea latte balanced correctly? Obviously not.

But, that doesn’t stop the occasional cravings I get for a Grande Mocha, soy, no whip. My problem is really that I can’t have a cinnamon streusel coffee cake with my coffee to complete the indulgence. Now Starbucks has been trying to feature some things gluten-free. They have this snack and that. They tried featuring the Valencia Orange Cake last spring.  It was carried in stores and then scrapped so quickly, I didn’t even get to try one.

But what I really want are their petite vanilla scones.  My yearning for these scones started when Andrew Sullivan from the Atlantic began talking about them over two years ago. Now, I’m not into politics, but my husband has been reading Andrew for years, corresponded with Andrew when he was in Iraq and even gets published on Andrew’s blog every once in a while.  My dear husband showed me Andrew’s entry on the scones and, well, I was hooked.  Politics alone, no thanks.  Politics and scones, one helps the other slide down like a spoon full sugar.

Fast forward a few years.  Recently Andrew Sullivan posted an entry about how to actually make these petite vanilla scones.  I clicked the list and suddenly there was Ree Drummond of The Pioneer Woman with a site with photographs that are so beautiful that you almost have to look away, but can’t quite.  She posts her recipe for scones with a pictoral how-to.  It’s great.  So since imitation is the best for of flattery, the recipe that I have been cooking up is based on hers. My version is almost ready for print and I’m trying to work out a casein-free version as well.  But until it’s ready, here’s some pictures to look at and think about dipping in your coffee.

Up close and personal with a GF petite vanilla scone

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Where to buy some farmer’s booty here in San Antonio


2010
04.18

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I swiped this info off my friend Cowgirl Granola’s site(She also has a great blog).  I figured she wouldn’t mind as she is also a vendor at all these markets!

Friday, 2 pm – 6 pm

Helotes Farmers Market

Located at 13222 Bandera Road in the parking lot of the Helotes Hill United Methodist Church, this farmers market features locally grown produce, Circle H Orchards pecans, local honey, homemade jams and jellies, plants, roasted nuts, and, of course, Cowgirl Granola.

Saturday, 8:30 am - Noon

Leon Springs Farmers Market

Just off of I-10, the Leon Springs Farmers Market is held every Saturday at 24133 Boerne Stage Road, in the parking lot of the Leon Springs Baptist Church. Here you will find several produce farmers, grass-fed beef, natural chickens, happy organic farm eggs, locally harvested pecans, local honey, organic and gluten-free brownies, natural dog food, bread, salsas, jellies, pickles, Bob’s Candied Jalapeno’s, plants, herbs, flowers, as well as other miscellaneous vendors and, of course, Cowgirl Granola.

Saturday, 8am-1pm

Olmos Basin Park Farmers Market

Olmos Basin Park: Jackson-Keller Road, between McCullough & San Pedro.  You’ll find lots of veggies, fresh peaches seasonally, jellies, nuts, watermelons, awesome herbs.

Saturday, 2 – 6 pm

Boerne Farmers Market

This market is happy to have found a new home at 801 S. Main Street in Veterans Park. You’ll find grass-fed beef, Circle H Orchards pecans, local honey, organic and gluten-free Green Brownies, breads, salsas, jellies, pickles, plants, herbs, flowers and Cowgirl Granola.

Sunday, 2010, 10 am – 3 pm

Legacy Outdoor Market

Located at the corner of 1604 and 281 in the Legacy Shopping Center, this outdoor Sunday market features a wide variety of arts and crafts, as well as select food vendors, including many local produce farmers, as well as plants, succulents and herbs and Cowgirl Granola.

Here is the link to all farmer’s markets here in texas.

Now, if you are someone coming from the East or West Coast, you need to understand the San Antonio-style farmer’s market.  These are honest, grassroots efforts to bring fresh, organic, and awesome products to us here in SA.  They are not the big events that you will find in Seattle, Martha’s Vineyard, Charleston etc.  A big Thank-you needs to go out to the farmers and other vendors that make these markets every week.  They are not getting rich off their efforts, but they are sure making our lives richer for their efforts!  Thanks y’all!

Back in the day at Grey Forest's Farmers Market

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