natural yeast : strawberry

My cousin just recently made her own bread with her natural made strawberry yeast. Her bread was textured like sourdough but without the sour taste.

Ingredients

strawberry

water

1 teaspoon of sugar

Directions

01 Get a clean jar.

02 Put all the ingredients in the jar.

03 Watch it ferment. It will usually take about a week. But hers took 4 days to ferment because the weather was hot.

04 She found a youtube video with step by step directions to take care of the fermentation process.

donna's strawberry yeast

bacon mac and uncheese

I adopted this uncheese sauce from Karina of Gluten Free Goddess:
http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/2008/02/best-vegan-baked-mac-cheese.html

Both my kids love bacon!

Star Ingredients

4 to 5 slices of bacon cut to strips

1 bag of brown rice elbows (Tinkyada)

Roux Ingredients

4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil

2 cups of rice milk

2 tablespoons of white rice flour

2 tablespoons of tapioca flour

Dry Ingredients

2 tablespoons of nutritional yeast (Frontier)

1/2 tablespoon of dry mustard

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon of onion powder

Wet Ingredients

2 teaspoons of rice vinegar

Directions

01 Saute the bacon strips in some evoo until brown and crisp then set those bacon aside.

02 Boil pasta. I love Tinkyada brown rice elbows.

03 Making the roux is easy. Heat up evoo in a sauce pan and mix in the white rice flour and tapioca flour. Then pour in 2 cups of rice milk and mix into a sticky paste.

04 Mix in the dry ingredients and wet ingredients to the roux. Then add in the bacon and mix.

05 Lastly add the cooked brown rice mac into the uncheese sauce and mix well.

i can't believe it's not cheese!

Enjoy this yummy =)

Notes: I added tapioca to make the sauce a bit sticky with just the rice flour it wasn't creating the texture I was hoping for. 

EVOO cookies

These cookies are adapted from Allyson from manifest:vegan

The original recipe is lemon olive oil cookies:
http://www.manifestvegan.com/2011/06/lemon-olive-oil-cookies/

Since my Clem can't have lemon in anything I took lemon juice out and sub with rice milk and I also sub almond meal with flax seed meal and chia seed since she can't have almond neither.

evoo cookie dough

Dry ingredients

1 cup of sorghum flour

1 cup of brown rice flour

1/2 cup of potato starch

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1 teaspoon of xantham gum

1 teaspoon of baking soda

Egg sub

1/8 cup of flax seed meal

1/8 cup of chia seed

1/2 cup of warm water

Wet ingredients

1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil

1/2 cup of rice milk

4 tablespoons of agava

Directions

01 Preheat oven at 200 C.

02 Egg substitute mixed flax seed meal, chia seed and warm water and set those aside for 15 minutes so they can form into a gel with a sticky texture.

03 Mix all the dry ingredients into a bowl. Mix them well.

04 Mix all the wet ingredients into a bowl. Mix them well.

05 Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix them well. Then add in the egg substitute. Mix and mix and mix.

06 Roll cookie dough into rounds and press down each piece with a spoon and place them 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.

07 Bake for 12 - 15 minutes.

crispy outside and chewy inside