THINGS I MADE OR ATE THIS WEEKEND

I've eaten so much salad recently

- that I'm turning into a bunny rabbit

Monday is back AGAIN!!! and i haven't caught up with myself yet. So just a quick caught up and a HI ALL :) and then I'm off to make birthday party invites for my daughter's 6th birthday party happening next weekend - the day before valentines day. So I really need to get my butt into gear. Buying stuff for the theme and organising the decor and deciding what to bake etc... I love it and I hate it all at the same time. I love doing it but I hate that I need to get so organised so soon or I will be in a flat frenzy by the time her party comes. Ok so th planning begins. Invites are number one on my list!

But back to what i ate and did this weekend:

Friday was nice with a rented DVD and a delicious chicken salad with pineapple and avocado and feta and delicious chicken and all the salad green goodies that go into a salad

Saturday had a lovely steak and salad supper with Being Brazen and her boyfriend and some of his family for Brazen's boyfriends birthday - It was delicious... Thanks Brazen and  Brazen's Boyfriend

Sunday was a lovely veg and salad and chicken lunch at my mom and dads house - thanks to woolworths and mom :) and sunday night I made more chicken salad - so I'm turning into a rabbit definately :)

Hope you are well and have had a good weekend. Did you do or make anything good? :) Let me know.

Happy Monday :)
Betty Bake

Thursday and Being Brazen Blogger Interview :)

Being Brazen

 I had the priviledge of being able to ask some questions to Being Brazen, who has a really cool blog with the same name :)
So even though my blog is called betty bake and is predominatley about food and a bit about my life, I thought it would be good to share the things that interest me, the various stuff i like and the people whose :) blogs i read - cause they make me happy or inspired.
Being brazen is one of those blogs i read almost daily. I look forward to reading her posts and the various things that go round in her head and end up on her blog - just too cute and witty and sometimes even inspiring :) someone who makes you smile is ALWAYS worth a read and my time. So here are the questions I asked her - I hope you enjoy reading them as much as i did.

Being Brazen said "If I was a food I'd be a .....big block of cheese "

BEING BRAZEN INTERVIEW

The city I live in ...is a beautiful place

I  Love ....so much about my life

My favorite food is ..... pizza, mexican, lamb chops, fillet steak with mushroom sauce, mash potatoes, avocado, bacon, fish, cheese and salmon sushi.

My Staple food is .... cheese - without cheese I would have some serious withdrawals

My friends think I'm ....a unique snowflake

I totally rock at .... movie quizzes, being overly observant, rambling (its a gift) and  procrastinating

My style is....rather confused - but leaning toward a more classic style

My blog is about ...this and that

If I was a food I'd be a .....big block of cheese - beacuse i believe that you are what you eat ;)

My healthiest thing I eat is ....my morning vitamin tablets

My main obsession is...blogging and writing.

My parents discovered I was crazy ....when i was very little and I freaked out when I thought the leaves blowing around on the ground had turned into evil green ninjas.

I realised I was different when....my mom said I was just like the sloth from the movie " Ice Age"

If i could take 3 things with me to a desert island ....A fully stocked Yacht, My Boyfriend and a camera

My favourite read is.... Alice Hoffman and Sarah Addison Allen books.

My mood is best ....when i stop thinking so much and just relax

My blog address is.....http://www.beingbrazen.com

My readers are....beyond awesome
 

My wish for 2010 .....is just to be deleriously happy

  










Being Brazen 

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See isn't she witty and cute? I enjoyed that :)

Have a fabulous day. And let me know if you cooked something good :)

Betty Bake 

THINGS I MADE OR ATE THIS WEEKEND

sipped juice and read a good book in the sun

so it's monday again and the weekend is set to fade into the distance as another week starts. I had a lovely relaxing weekend for the most part:

1) enjoyed seeing my brother and his wife, eating nachos and playing poker (which I won!!)

2) having decaffe organic coffee at woolworths cafe at the V&A Waterfront while looking at the view of the boats

3)ate delicious steak and chips and watched a movie- i posted it for friday's Weekend food and it came out great 

4) did some reading in the sun with a good book and lots of fresh summer fruit - yum

so it was a great weekend
what did you eat this weekend and where?

Betty Bake

WEEKEND FOOD - Steak in a mushroom and creamy cheese sauce

  steak in a cheese and mushroom cream sauce with chips... mmmm

Everyone needs good food for the weekend. I thought this steak with a very easy cheesy mushroom sauce would be great for a weekend relax with a movie or some good company. Just add some chips and you're got plenty of food to keep you going :) and make your tongue tasty happy too :)

 

STEAK IN MUSHROOM ,CHEESE AND CREAM SAUCE

Before you start cooking set your oven to 200 degrees celcius (HOT) and let is heat up properly for 15 - 20 minutes. Make sure you have a frying pan that has metal handles so it can go in the oven. Take your favorite cut of steak, salt and then sear (seal) in a very hot pan on top of the stove with a nice generous blob of butter. Let is sizzle and brown and then turn to seal all the sides. Add some thinly sliced onion rings cut in half, some sliced mushrooms and let that cook for about 2 min or so. Then add some cream (about 4 - 6 tablespoons) and then some nicely grated cheese of choice - must be a good melting kind of cheese, cheddar or any nice one you like. place the entire pan in the oven and close the door.

Leave for 5-10 min (this will depend on the thickness of your steak) Check with a knife by inserting it into the middle of the steak to see of blood runs out. I always make a little cut and peer in to the middle of my steak to see how pink it is. Cook until how you would like it - rare, medium rare, medium, well done :)

Serve with chips and( according to some friends) a good glass of red wine

HAPPY WEEKEND

Betty Bake

Interesting Breakfast -Soaked Oats with honey and Almonds

soaked oats with honey and almonds

Soaked rolled oats ummmm so it's a kind of strange thing to write about - abd this is how it started....
It came about after reading articles about soaking foods on the internet a few times (natural and very healthy, green people like to write about it) then I yet again read about it in an article in one of the health magazines -"soaking things to make them softer and easier for your body to digest". So it wasn't the first time I was reading about it and I'm sure it won't be the last time as more and more people are turning into "green bunnies" AKA health freaks - (just so you know i am one of them to - well kind of).Now this doesn't sound all that great but I was pleasantly surprised at the one that i tried out and discovered it was actually really cool!
It's so super easy and all that is required is some oats and some planning ahead of time :) Little extra things can make it even nicer like vanilla or berries etc.
RECIPE: All I did was take a soup/porridge bowl and half filled it with some nice organic rolled oats, then filled it up with filtered tap water until the oats were covered and had about 1cm(half an inch) of water on top. Added some blue berries and  then covered my bowl and placed it in the fridge over night. The next morning I took it out the fridge dished half for my husband into a bowl and added some chopped almonds and some honey and then we ate this nice cold bowl of oats in sweet silence while looking out at the view :)
i know cold oats sounds yukky - but it's not like cold porridge - it's not sticky and is soft as anything - very nice with blue berries and can be substituted for so many things. The next morning I had no more blue berries so I added ground vanilla and honey with a dash of cinnamon and some chopped up almonds.
*soak the almomds over night too in it's own container covered with water :) came out lovely. then chop and add to the oats.
It is summer here and this is great when the weather is warm out - I think in winter I'll stick to cooked and warm things - but today this is just ...perfect.

THINGS I MADE OR ATE THIS WEEKEND

fruit salad

Weekends always go by so quickly... and mine rushed by in a whirl wind. I can remember something about a house warming/braai on saturday night and the rest is much of a blur... oh yes lunch at my parents on sunday - ok so it's slowly coming back to me now :) so here are a few of the things i can sort of remember as everything flew by so fast!


1) My daughter and i made fruit salad (delicious) with cream and yoghurt - I had the cream and she had the yoghurt.

2) braai at my brother and sister in laws house - so nice braaied beef sausage and lovely salads, potatoe salad, garden salad, cous cous :) mmmm

3) roast organic chicken with salad at my parents - very nice chicken i might add! Woolworths organic cooked chickens - but not all of their chickens are free range/organic so check with the person that helps you at woolies :)

so how was your weekend? Did you eat anything good? I am posting this so late on a monday night as i haven't stopped all day - the BLUR continues....... :)

NEW YEAR, NEW HOUSE & PANCAKES - well same house but it's new because it's clean for once......

 

NEW YEAR, NEW HOUSE & PANCAKES -  WELL SAME HOUSE BUT IT'S A NEW BECAUSE IT'S CLEAN FOR ONCE......

I've been going through my house and throwing  out extra stuff and giving things away i no longer need. Being the New year and all i really want a clutter free home. So one of my projects is to go through my Food & Home Magazines I've collected through the years, rip out out the recipes i like (some of you are gasping right now, I do love them but i need the space) and put them into a folder. The rest of the mags are going out with the recycling *pat on the back*
And while on my recipe rampage i came across a crepe recipe that seemed rather tempting to try. Plus I've been having the urge for some nice yummy pancakes and my husband adores them, so it was easy for me to want to make a nice batch for us to eat.
But would it work??? You see recipe's always get converted into wheat-free in our house as my daughter is wheat intolerant and my hubby and i feel it's healthy to have whole wheat or wheat-free for ourselves. But the recipe's i've tried in the past to convert from normal wheat pancakes to wheat-free have been disastrous!!! trust me - BAD!!! not edible and just plain sad. So i decided to give this recipe a whirl and the results were quite good :)

pancake with cinnamon and sugar with a squeeze of lemon

OLD FOOD & HOME CREPE/PANCAKE RECIPE


250ml cake flour ( i used Nature's choice Gluten -Free Cake Flour)
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
150ml milk
150ml water
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 and half teaspoons oil
1 egg
iced water for thinning
oil for frying


Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the bowl. Combine the milk, water, lemon juice and oil in a jug. Add the egg and whisk to combine. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the egg mixture.Beat well until smooth (i used a hand whisk and beat the mixture until there were no more lumps). Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours - but can be used after 30 minutes of refrigeration at the very minimum.
Before using, thin down the mixture wuth ice water to the consistency of pouring cream.
Heat a frying pan. pour in about a teaspoon of oil. When hot add enough mixture to just coat the bottom of the pan then tilt and swirl the pan until the pan is evenly coated.cook until the are starting to dry and the surface is all bubbky and slightly firm then loosen with an egg lifter and flip. cook the other side and then serve with cinnamon and sugar and some lemon squeezed over or make into a savoury chicken and mushroom pancake or fill with anything edible your heart desires


Betty

LUNCH BOXES AND EARLY MORNINGS

Seagulls on the beach  - end of the holidays

At the moment i am making lists and making sure the things on those lists get done. As tomorrow is the first day of school and i need to make sure my daughter has everything she needs to start the year off. I'm also thinking about school lunches and what cute healthy things i can put into her lunch box - (no sweets allowed) so i'm thinking little bunches of grapes and cheese cubes with biltong and a rice cake or two. Mmmmm I'm sure i'll come up with more combinations in the next few days - as i start to get myself out of holiday mode and into back to school mode- up early again for me.

Betty Bake

ps for those of you who have requested my pancake recipe it will follow in a day or 2 :)

THINGS I MADE OR ATE THIS WEEKEND

Being Monday and  because i don't do posts on the weekend i thought i would fill you in on the delicious and not so delicious things i ate this weekend.

1) I had delicious but rather sweet wheat-free chocolate cake at the woolworths cafe in cavendish on saturday with Being brazen and the Boyfriend and ofcourse my lovely husband.
2) I made a nice chicken and mushroom savoury pancake last night for dinner - the husband and little one seem to enjoy it too.
4) The husband and i ate camembert and biscuits (corn thins for me, wheat-free and all)
3) The rest was really uneventful - so nothing to write home about there.....

How was your food the last few days? Anything delicious? Did you make something nummy? or did it all burn?

Betty

WEEKEND FOOD - Cheese & Fruit

The one thing i love about summer is all the fresh fruit that is available - strawberries, cherries and pineapples or any of your favorite fruit - fresh, juicy,  numminess all sliced up on a plate or in a bowl. Pair it off with a good cheese and some biscuits. My husband recons a good wine - but i'm not a fan of anything that doesn't taste like juice.But i've heard that wine compliments cheese and biscuits really well. so add your favorite and you have a great recipe of relaxing food for a friday evening sunset or saturday afternoon lunch/ supper and you set. Good book in the sun or some good company :) what a blissful Cape Town summer weekend. Cause that is what we capetonians do :) 

wishing you a sunny weekend
Betty

NACHOS CON POLLO - nachos with chicken :) mmmm

NACHOS in the oven

My sister in law Sara introduced me to this wonderful dish of nachos with chicken and mushrooms and it is just so delicious that my husband has been asking me to make it over and over again! It is really THAT good.
I never used to be a nachos fan but now I love it very much and have since put my own spin on it adding different spices and making my own tomatoe and onion spicy sauce :) And it tastes so much better than it looks in the photos.

INGREDIENTS
4 or 5 medium/large tomatoes
2 medium to large oinions
1 red pepper
half a green pepper
1 or 2 chillies
salt and pepper (black and cayenne)
2 - 4 tablespoons sugar
1 packet of Nachos corn chips
1 and a half cups grated cheddar cheese
3 or 4 fresh pepperdews (if available)
4 chicken breasts cubed or sliced into strips
4 table spoons of sweet chilli sauce or chutney
1 punnet of button mushrooms sliced
10cm length of cucumber diced onto cubes
6 table spoons sour cream
half and avocado
2 teaspoons brown vinegar

SPICY TOMATOE SAUCE
Dice the onion and fry in a little oil till light brown with some salt. Blanch the tomatoes in boiling water, then peel off the skins and dice and add to the onions. let simmer for 3 min then add diced red and green peppers  and finely chopped chillies - add as little or as much to taste - mild to burny. Add finely chopped and deseeded pepper dews if available. Simmer and add sugar and salt and pepper to taste. Let the mixture simmer until nice and thick.

CHICKEN
In a separate pan fry the chicken breasts in a little oil and sweet chilli sauce or chutney (which ever you prefer) and set aside in a once cooked through.

MUSHROOMS
In a separate pan or pot fry the mushrooms in a little oil and set aside.

AVOCADO
remove the avocado from the skin and mash till soft and mix in the vinegar and a little salt

ASSEMBLY
turn on the grill of the oven to Hot/ 220 degrees celcius. On a large oven proof dish/plate lay out a  medium to thick layer of nachos chips. Spoon the spicey tomatoe sauce over the chips taking care not to put to much on, roughly a no thicker than your little finger thick of sauce all over. Now layer as follows: spread the chicken then the mushrooms then the cucumber and then the grated cheese all in nice even layers.place under the grill and brown until bubbling and melted all over.

take out the oven and spoon sour creamin the middle topped with the avo and serve while hot.
eat while warm as it will go soggy.

enjoy  - very delicious

Betty

ICED TEA or A.K.A. JUICE TEA

Cherry & Apple rooibos Ice Tea

My daughter loves to drink a fruit ice tea made from rooibos (afrikaans for Red Bush) tea and whatever flavour fruit juice we mix with it to make a delicious cool drink/ ice tea. In the hot summer weather we are having this is a great healthy drink for the kids and family :) and for the adults in the party mood for new years eve this can easily made into an "adult" drink for a party.

INGREDIENTS
3 or 4 teabags (rooibos or tea of choice)
1 litre of fruit juice of your choice
some berries or lemon to garnish
alcohol (if making the adult version)

INSTRUCTIONS
take a 2 litre jug or pot that can handle boiling water. Boil roughly 750ml of water and add to the jug with the tea bags and leave to seep/draw and cool down. When the tea is luke warm add the full litre of fruit juice.
Place in the fridge and once ice cold then add some sliced lemon or berries.
serve in glasses with ice.

if making an alcoholic version add a nice tasting alcohol that blends nicely with fruit juice - southern comfort or peach schnapps, or any fruit flavoured liquer  roughly 100ml or to taste.

merry christmas and ALL that Jazz!..........

I tried my hardest to put a post up on christmas day but no matter how hard i tried blogger would not let me post it!!! so to all of you out there that read this blog - MERRY CHRISTMAS :) hope you had lekker (south african word for great) food- i definately did :) mmm i wish i had some now.
We had family functions to attend on christmas eve and family to go to on christmas day, so lots of eating was what we did and boy was it goooooood! My mom made such delicious food this year!

anyway hope you all had a good one.
New year is around the corner :)

Peace out!! he he he

Betty Bake

LAMB SHANKS ON A BED OF MASH WITH A GARDEN SIDE SALAD

So when making plans for my husbands birthday weekend one of the things he requested was a 3 course meal with 2 of our friends - And i was happy to oblige :)
So the meal he requested was:
Starters - Roasted butternut soup with cream and pumpkin seeds
Main course - Lamb shank on a bed of mash potatoes with a side of garden salad
Dessert - Decadent Chocolate Mousse with a Vanilla Marscapone and cream topping

He didn't quite ask for the vanilla marscapone and cream topping - that i added myself but he did ask for the chocolate mousse :) and the soup and lamb shanks with mash and salad. My man has such good taste :)

So I proceeded to cook my day away Friday to complete all the food for Friday night. This sounds so much more dramatic than it really is. It wasn't that hectic and I did manage to pop down to the market in the afternoon and come home and bath, wash my hair, and blow dry it. So you see it didn't take me to long to cook otherwise i wouldn't have had time to do all those other things :) Our lovely guests were  fellow blogger Janine from Being Brazen and her boyfriend - take a look at her blog here.

Recipe post for the Lamb Shank.
Recipe for the butternut soup is from awhile back and can be found here

LAMB SHANKS ON A BED OF MASH WITH A GARDEN SIDE SALAD

yes i really did make this myself :)

INGREDIENTS

4 lamb shanks (i used free range lamb)

2 onions finely diced

2 tins of peeled italian organic tomatoes or 8 large fresh tomatoes cubed

1 glass good quality red wine

1 cup beef or roast onion stock

3 medium sprigs of fresh rosemary

half an organic lemon cut in 3 chunks

salt and pepper

sugar

METHOD

1) Season shanks with lots of salt and black pepper to taste then fry shanks in batches in a HOT frying pan with some olive or sunflower oil. Brown on all sides and then set aside in an oven dish that all 4 shanks will fit in together. 

2) in the same pan that you browned the shanks cook the finely diced onion until soft and light brown -use more oil if needed then place on top of the shanks.

3) then add to the dish of shanks and onion the tomato, wine and stock with the rosemary and lemon nestled in between - lightly sprinkle with a tiny bit of sugar and cover and place in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for roughly 2 hours - check randomly and turn.

4) uncover for the last half an hour and spoon the tomato sauce over the shanks and let the sauce thicken while cooking. If you are preparing the shanks in advance then take them out at this stage before the sauce thickens to much and leave covered in the fridge until half an hour to 45 minuted before serving place in a pre-warmed oven of 180 degrees Celsius and serve on a bed of mash potatoes and a side salad or veg of your choice

Bon apetit 

The Life and times of the Crazy Betty

so i'm busy working at the moment on my computer - editing wedding photos of the beautiful Claire :)
hence no cooking posts or recipe posts. But it is the husbands birthday this weekend and he has requested a 3 course meal. So i shall try to put those up after the weekend :)

Happy times

count down to Christmas

CHRISTMAS BAUBLES

So i added this cool new little count down thingy to my blog yesterday :) look to the right .... there we go - it's big and green and has lots of numbers :) i check it every now and then when my daughter says "mom how many sleeps is it till Christmas?"  and i can confidently say how many it is. It also reminds me how many days i have until all the presents need to be wrapped!! and that i must start thinking about putting up a tree! and that i must bake a christmas cake!!!! [breath i tell myself, breath] but then i also realise it is also how many days until i can look forward to having my husband home and how many days till i can relax and spend time quality with my family, eat lovely food and do fun relaxing stuff with them and then i realise my breathing isn't so hard any more and i have a faint smile on my face. I really do love Christmas

tuesday and sick - yuk yuk

So i have been running around and have lots to do until Dec 12 - but today i can't get what i need to get done as i'm sick [cough, cough]. If blogs were audible things then i'd have no voice as my is slowly disappearing into nothingness :( so sad... but it does give me a moment to write on my blog - so happy YAY! i'm not supposed to be in today but out getting stuff and sorting stuff - it will need to be added to tomorrows list [mental note add todays things to tomorrows things and the next days things] anyway enough about me and my wimping.

I can use this time to gather my thoughts eg: Xmas is around the corner with December less than a week away. WOW! and i'm Thinking how i can achieve or make a wheat-free xmas cake. I can see it in my head now, gooey, stickey, moist and fruity... well lets hope it comes out as good :) raisins, cherries, sultanas..... cherries. I LOVE CHERRIES. sorry just got stuck there a moment. [drool]  some rice flour and butter, sugar and spices and we should be sorted. So adding that to my recipe index to try - probably a week before christmas.

what is the rest of the world upto? you are probably all working.... good luck with that :)


so anyways - i should go recover. But what to make for dinner with this little energy? - i think baked potatoes, I saw them as an idea on a bloggers page yesterday. Just wash them and grind salt over them and place in the oven at 200 degrees celcius for an hour or soo mmmm don't forget to turn half way. easy as pie - no even easier. please excuse the silly puns i think it maybe my medication [winks]

[cough cough] my throat hurts


Betty Bake

It's Friday - time for Weekend food :) BURGERS mmmmm

So I am finally finished with my major deadlines and my daughters show is over :) YAY! [jumping up and down]. She was a beautiful flower in a ballet piece in a dance show. She loved every minute of being on stage and every night it finished she wanted to be back on stage to dance some more (it ran for 3 nights). Which sounds so lovely and glamorous but running around doing hair (scraped back with gel) and making sure her costume is clean and being on time back stage. took it's toll on bed times and supper routines and with my deadlines i am so happy it is over. Thats not saying i didn't enjoy watching her perform - she was beautiful :)
So I now feel like i'm on holiday, the sun is shining and i still have lots of odds and ends to tie up but it's friday and i just can't shake this amazing feeling of summer and braai and fun :) I think i will make some super delicious lamb burgers tonight with chips - I made them a while back but had no chance to post the recipe... so here it is.
Hope you have a super fun weekend.

Betty Bake

LAMB OR BEEF BURGER AND CHIPS

500g Beef or Lamb ground mince
1 medium onion (peeled)
1 clove of garlic (peeled) OPTIONAL
1 - 2 Tablespoons chutney
1 teaspoon worcester sauce
1 free range egg
salt
pepper
fresh basil leaves (2 or 3) or parsley
a sprinkle of sugar


In a medium bowl add the mince then grate in the onion on the fine side of the grater. Then finely chop or crush the garlic and add - i didn't bother this time - i only use when i really feel like garlic. Then add ample salt and some black pepper. Mix and add the egg, chutney and worcester sauce. Then add the basil or parsley leaves roughly chopped. Mix all together with your hands and shape into 8 to 10 burger patties. Fry a little piece and test for saltiness - add more if needed and a sprinkle of sugar. Then Fry up your Patties.
Serve your hamburger patties on a nice fresh wholewheat roll and top with a homemade tomato and  onion relish.
*this mixture can also be rolled into small balls and fried for cocktail snacks - serve with a nice sweet and tangy dipping sauce*




RELISH
4/5 tomatoes peeled (place in boiling water then peel). Finely chop 1 to 2 onions then fry in some sunflower oil until lightly golden and add the peeled and chopped tomatoes. Add salt, pepper, basil and oregano and some sugar. Keep adding sugar until the sourness of the tomatoes has been balanced out. lightly simmer for roughly 20 min. And serve on your burgers.
*Goes nicely on boerewors rolls too.*

a personal post

So I am stuck infront if the computer until my eyes turn square. I have a gazillion photos to still edit and my right shoulder is sore from clicking with the mouse plus i have run out of milk so I can't make tea. What is a girl to do? I am not allowed to do anything until all these photos are done besides take my daughter to and from school and ballet rehearsals and go to the loo. I am so craving a creamy grilled chicken of some sort and some nicely cooked home veggies or home made food. But i am not allowed to spent time on such things as i will then miss my 2 deadlines!!!! oh darn ..... i guess it back to the rice cakes for me.

I really should get back to work

 

life at the moment

Things i dream of making and then sitting down with a cup of tea

Life is really busy right now and i haven't had a moment to even think let alone bake or cook much - except for the quick pasta or scrambled egg. So please be understanding of the lack of recipes being posted up right now. Running from rehearsal to rehearsal with my daughter while also working on 2 deadlines also doesn't help the time in the kitchen right now.... alas I dream of the rush being over and sitting down to a good cup of tea and nicely baked new invention [sigh]. Well atleast I have something to look forward to - peace and quiet from mid december :) yay! roll on December 14th.
At the moment i think of concoting things like a wheat-free sticky fruit christmas cake and perhaps a date and chocolate wheat-free brownie. I hope to work on these come December 15th. Also will need to look into coming up with a new kind of trifle for Chritmas with either no cake in it or a wheat free cake version. I'm sure the official sampler (the husband) is going to be happy to try all these out.

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