My husband came back from Brasil with the recipes for several blender cakes.  We are having the carrot one tonight for my daughter’s 12th birthday.  I’m pretty sure I’m making a whole new one to blog about tomorrow because I don’t think this one is going to last!

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I had this horrible thing happen to me recently.  I got curious about a chemical component of food, a component of wheat specifically.  The next thing I knew I was calling people and giving them dissertations on the poisons we are all eating and not knowing about etc.  I started reading even more labels than usual.  I threw out half of what was lurking in my pantry.  I stated cooking differently and eating differently.  My daughters are horrified that “Mom has gone hippie on us” and they have demanded the inception of what they are referring to as “poison-night” in our house.  The rules for Poison Night are simple: they will agree to tolerate my tofu and natural PB &  organic J, if they can eat food out of a box once a month.  I’ll agree to it.  I think it won’t be long till they find that food gross too, but I’ll let them figure that out themselves!

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I joined several hundred people up in Austin this morning for the Got Guts road and and gluten-free food fair.  I was one of the vendors at the food fair with my business Poundcake Lady.  I brought over 600 samples of my pound cakes and brownies and came home with absolutely none left!  It was great to see so many people come to the race and the food fair!  Everyone was kind and very gracious for all the the vendors hard gluten-free food work!  Photographer Anne Barfield, also owner of the fabulous gluten-free bed and breakfast in San Antonio called Chicken Paradise, took this fun photo of me and Francie Kelley who is the Austin Chair of Alamo Celiac, GIG.  Thanks to all who stopped by for some samples!  Hope to see you again soon:)

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I always seem to find so much GF stuff when I’m on the road.  I think that it is just because when I am home, I make it myself.  But when I travel, I’m always scrambling to find something.  My two prize finds this extensive road trip were found in the actual Gluten-free section of the Weis Market up in State College, PA.

I found:

#1:  The elusive GF Bisquick.  I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m expecting it to be fairly good.  The one thing I am not expecting from it is that I don’t think it’s going to taste anything like the actual Bisquick.

#2:  Nature Valley Roasted Nut Crunch Bars.  Almond is good, peanut is ok.  They saved me on the airplane.

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Austin, Texas, September 12, 2010, 8am

Join us for our 4th Annual “Got Guts?” 5K Run, Walk and the BIGGEST gluten free food fair in Texas. Registration is now open!

A 5K Run, Walk and Gluten-Free Food Fair
to promote Celiac Awareness

I’ll be there with my Poundcake Lady biz handing out tons of GF/CF sweet treats for all.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP OR JUST CHECK IT OUT:)

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We’ll be at the New Braunfels Farmers Market again tomorrow.  This time we’re bringing two different kinds of brownies.  Choc. Walnut is GF/CF and Big Fat Cream Cheese are just that and only GF/nut-free.  We can’t wait-we think you’ll love them!

I always am looking for new quick and easy ideas on what to do with my farmers market treasures.  I found this article on Sunset Magazine’s website.  I loved not only the photos, but the quick blurbs with the recipes in them.  Easy, simple, quick.  Check the article out and I’m sure you will enjoy it as much as I did!

http://www.sunset.com/food-wine/fast-fresh/farmers-market-produce-recipes-00400000052841/page17.html

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When is General Mills gonna get off their lazy butts and announce Kix as gluten-free or not.  I mean they are awesome as cereal, awesome for babies and awesome in cookies-what the heck?

In the next day or so I will be posting the recipe for some delicious Kix cookies, but actually made with Gorilla Munch(not a tasty).  Buy a box and get your bowls and ovens ready.  You won’t be disappointed.

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This was on Andrew Sullivan’s blog from The Atlantic this week-pretty interesting:

Picky Eaters

13 Jul 2010 08:55 am

by Patrick Appel

The WSJ profiles adults with limited palates. Jackson Kuhl nods:

We all have likes and dislikes; I don’t care how much of a delicacy they are in Cambodia — I ain’t eating a tarantula. Still, experience with my son taught me that, as the article suggests, picky eating is a neurosis. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that in both cases, the appetites of my guy and the pediatrician’s son expanded at the same age when kids demonstrate greater self-awareness and personal responsibility. Becoming more confident, they realize they have some control of their environment and new foods are no longer as strange or anxiety-inducing. The stakes aren’t as high as they once believed. They recognize a meal is a finite experience and that if there’s some broccoli on the plate, they can just eat and be done with it because dinner will soon be over.

I’m not as judgmental as some people around here about vegetarians (I lean paleo in my diet, which is just another kind of self-selection), but I do think some of the extreme types, like vegans, are adult picky eaters who wrap their neuroses in an ideological flag.

There is some truth in that. Vegetarians are often people who never much liked meat in the first place. There are certainly formerly meat-loving vegetarians, but moral arguments are more compelling the less you like what you are giving up. Veganism doesn’t work the same way; none of us inherently dislike all animal products.

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Look for a new cookie recipe this week, maybe a cake…who know:)

Stay cool and enjoy the summer sun (with sunscreen on of course)

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