Generally when you buy a sack of flour or sugar, there is a recipe for cookies or pies or something tasty on the back. I've had success with label recipes twice- the Toll House cookie recipe (yes, even turned GF!) and the Libby's pumpkin pie recipe. Nick picked up a little bag of Trader's Joe's brand GF All-Purpose Flour last week for somewhere around $2. So after my class- the one that brain fries me from 8am to 2pm- I decided I needed some kitchen therapy. Unsure of what to do, I turned to the recipe on the back of the flour package. The recipe is for muffins sweetened with agave syrup and apple sauce. I am not going to lie, I thought it would be awful.
The recipe needed two of the little single-servings of applesauce, and I had one regular and one blueberry. I used both of those and added frozen blueberries. The muffins turned out really well- sweet enough, moist, fluffy. I enjoyed them. My husband enjoyed them. I brought a few to my chiropractor, who also liked them. Let's just say, I will most definitely be making these again!
On another note, I am always bothered by parents who allow their kids to be ridiculously picky about food. "They only eat chicken fingers and pineapple." "She just won't eat it!" Really? Because when my father was a child, they ate war rations. They didn't starve, but they ate things that do not sound appealing to me- chicken livers, bitter greens. Anyway, here is a blogger who sums it up quite well.
http://spoonfedblog.net/2011/02/23/want-kids-to-eat-better-stop-calling-them-picky-eaters/
Off to conquer the world...
(or just my midterm)
