Gluten and Casein Free Diet

My boring blog! My son is starting on the gfcf diet. I want to log all the foods and see if his behavior changes. Anyone who catches me feeding him stuff he shouldn't have or who has advice, feel free to comment.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Banana Bread Update

It came out great!

I had added the honey to keep it moist and it was super moist. So the honey is optional.

If you don't like the flavor of honey, leave it out. If you like honey, I enjoyed the flavor immensely.

GFCF Banana Bread

My Mom's banana bread recipe is the only one that I absolutely love. I have tried converting it today. It is currently in the oven. The batter tasted good, so hopefully it comes out okay.

Converted Banana Bread

1 cup margarine
1 cup sugar
2 TBS honey
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
2 ripe bananas (the browner the better)
1 tsp baking soda
3 TBS rice or almond milk
1 3/4 cups Hagman flour blend (I'll post that below)
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp xantham gum
2 tsp egg replacer (This may be optional. I put it in to be safe.)

Cream together butter and sugar. Add the egg, honey and vanilla.

In seperate bowl, mash bananas. Add baking soda and almond milk.

In 3rd bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, xantham gum and egg replacer.

Mix all three bowls together. Bake in greased, floured bread pan at 300 until done, probably at least an hour of baking.

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Hagman's Flour Blend

3 cups white rice flour
1 cup potato starch flour (Remember potato flour and potato starch flour are not the same)
1/2 cup tapica flour

Mix all together

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Fly Boy


SJ likes things that spin. He loves fans, helicoptors and chairs with wheels.

For chair spinning, first he flips the chair, then he spins the wheels as fast as he can. Various objects are placed on the spinning mechanism to see what they will do. Will they stay? Will they fly off? Will they make lovely, loud, clunking noises that hurt Mom's ears?

He is like a little scientist with his chairs and his cause and effect; very focused. I wish I could get in his mind and understand what he was thinking. Of course, don't we say that about all men? LOL