On the 3rd Day of Kitchen

On the 3rd day of kitchen I sorted out my tea cupboard.  Yes I have an entire cupboard devoted to storing tea.  We like tea.

Before

After

So I was sick and then my husband got some time off work and we have been working on our downstairs bathroom.  That's right our family of 4 now has a second toilet and drum roll... a tub!  I have been waiting for a tub for 9 years!  Our upstairs bathroom is small so we decided to just have a large shower in it and we'd put a tub into the eventual downstairs bathroom.  So now I have one!  Pass me the Epsom salts, I'm taking a bath and I may never come out!

Kid Approved Homemade Gluten Free Pizza Crust

   We love pizza!  Around here we eat pizza at least once a week and I have been searching for a great tasting, crispy, solid (you can pick it up), easy to make and as healthy as possible pizza crust recipe for a long time now.  In the past year I have tried so many recipes from the web and none of them have received my full families seal of approval.  There is always one of us is usually disappointed with the result.  Until now.  I am going to double this recipe next time so I can freeze some crusts for a quick meal.

   People will tell you that baking is a science.  People will tell you that you have to follow recipes exactly of the food won't turn out.  But I'll let you in on a little secret, it's not true.  I have been tweaking recipes to conform to my diet as it has evolved over the years.  Playing with recipes is how great foods are created, so don't be afraid to play with your food!

Kid Approved Homemade Gluten Free Pizza Crust

Makes 4 - 10 inch round crusts.

In a large bowl whisk together to blend

1 cup brown rice flour
1/4 cup each ground flax seed, arrowroot flour, sweet rice flour and white rice flour
1 1/2 teaspoons yeast
1/2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar

In a small bowl mix together and let sit for 5 minutes

1 1/2 teaspoons powdered gelatin
2 tablespoons of hot (potato) water (see below)

Add gelatin water to flour mixture.  Add the egg, olive oil and enough water to make the pizza dough into a pancake like consistency. 

1 egg
2 Tablespoons first cold pressed olive oil
1 cup + warm water or potato water (the leftover water used when boiling potatoes)

Cover with a towel and let the dough rise in a warm place for 1 hour.  Preheat your oven to 400 F with cast iron pans inside.  After dough has risen to about double the flour will have absorbed a lot of the water.  Add more water until the dough is once again like a pancake batter.

When the oven is hot, take the pans out and grease with olive oil or bacon grease so the crusts won't stick.  Pour batter onto hot pans into desired size and bake 6-7 minutes until firm, cool on a wire rack while you are getting your toppings ready, or for a more crispy crust flip and bake another 6-7 minutes on the other side.

Heat the oven to 425 F and top you pizza with your favorite toppings and bake for about 10 minutes until your pizza is cooked to your liking.

Adam's pizza before 2nd baking.

The finished product.

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Read Those Labels

While surfing the Internet this morning I came across an advertisement for a few PC products.  These products are on the Blue Menu label which are supposed to be the Healthier Choice, containing 2g fat, 18g carbs, 13g sugar, 3g protein per 1/2 cup serving.  However reading the ingredients list it is easy to see that this product is anything but a healthy choice.

INGREDIENTS

Milk, modified milk ingredients, sugar, glucose solids, natural flavour, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, guar gum, polysorbate 80, carrageenan, encapsulated fish oil [refined fish oil (anchovy, sardine), fish gelatin, sodium ascorbate, canola oil, natural flavour, tocopherols (from soy), sunflower oil, citric acid], active bacterial cultures [l. Bulgaricus, l. Lactis, s. Thermophilus, b. Lactis hn019™ (lyo 500 dcu)]. May contain peanuts and tree nuts. Frozen yogurt base made with 100% canadian milk.


I've highlighted in red all the ingredients I would never eat, purple I normally avoid and orange I would avoid because I'm not sure what they are!  The sugar isn't great either but at least I know what it is.

I would never eat this product, ever and what I really don't understand is how this product can call itself the Healthier Choice.  Is it just because it is low in fat?  There is so much more to it than that.  

Oh and one of the comments in the customer reviews says this product is "Diabetic Friendly" because it is low in sugar.  A tablespoon of sugar in 1/2 cup serving is not low in sugar, and it's certainly not diabetic friendly.  I know if I were to eat this my blood sugar would spike and crash for sure because of the high amount of sugar.

The moral of the story is don't trust the labelling on a package.  Read the ingredients and judge for yourself whether the product is something you want to nourish your body with.

Rant over :)

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Grand River Rocks!

What an awesome day!  We went to Grand River Rocks indoor climbing gym yesterday and we had a blast.  We were there for 5 hours, so it's a good thing we brought snacks.  Everyone has achy hands today and I'm missing a good chunk of skin from my finger.  Apparently you're not supposed to hold on so tight sometimes.

Summer So Far

A little of what we've been up to so far this summer.