Saturday, July 9, 2011

Cooking Crazy!

I interrupt Life Changed Forever to bring you my crazy cooking spree! I went nuts last week/weekend and cooked about a million things for Carson. I also wanted to include some pix of things I cooked previously.

First of all, in April I started baking Carson's low protein bread in the bread machine so graciously donated to us by Marty's cousin Shaun and his wife, Stacey. Thank you SO much guys, you have NO idea what a lifesaver this is!!! We owe you BIG. So far, I have tried 3 different recipes from my 2 low pro cookbooks, Low Protein Cookery for PKU and Apples to Zuccini. My favorite so far is Trish's Best White Bread from the latter book. It has an awesome natural color thanks to the secret ingredient molasses. It also has a nice flavor. The one I tried before it was Light Homestyle Bread, which includes applesauce. Great flavor and texture in that one! This picture is of the very first one I made.
The crust sank a little because it needed more water. Now I bake a loaf almost every week. I am finding new ideas and recipes all the time to use with the leftover, stale bread so I don't have to waste those expensive ingredients! I made Toasted Cinnamon Honey Sticks, then last weekend I made some Chex Mix with Rice Chex, gluten free pretzel sticks, and dried lo pro bread cubes. It was awesome!