Here is my go to GF all purpose flour mix:
5 1/4 cups (25 oz) fine white rice flour
1 cup (7 oz) potato flour
1 cup (3 1/2 oz) tapioca flour (also called tapioca starch)
I use a food scale and weight out my flours rather than measure out in a cup.
I found this recipe in Phil Vickery's Gluten-Free Baking, he calls it Basic Flour Mix A. In that book Vickery limits the uses of this mix to cakes and cookies (I think) but I honestly love it for most of my applications rather than spending tons of money buying a pre-made all purpose mix. There were some other good recipes in this book so search ISBN: 9781554078110 for your own copy. I borrowed it from my local library and like I said I love this flour mix.
If the recipe calls for an all purpose mix with xantham gum, you can add 1/4 tsp of xantham gum per cup of this flour mix.
I borrowed this book from the library and Phil Vickery has no clue who I am so I have not been compensated for the post at all. I love this flour mix and why spend tons of money on an expensive mix when this one works so well?
I spent $6 on two bags of white rice flour (24 oz each), $4 for one 24 oz potato flour, and $4 for one 24 oz tapioca flour. The potato flour and tapioca flour will both stretch into another batch and you'll only need one bag of rice flour the next time so I think this is pretty thrifty since you get about 7 cups of mix per batch.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Friday, July 11, 2014
GymGirl loses a tooth
So yesterday we had a major milestone for GymGirl; she lost her first tooth. This should have been a happy occasion but instead it ended in tears. You see GymGirl swallowed her tooth! She was eating her frozen gluten-free donut (she prefers them that way) and did not notice the tooth had come loose.
I'm not sure how to feel about the whole thing. One it is funny. She swallowed the tooth! However, this marks the start of kid-hood. She's four and a half! The time has flown. I thought I had more time! She even has a second one that is loose!
I'm not sure how to feel about the whole thing. One it is funny. She swallowed the tooth! However, this marks the start of kid-hood. She's four and a half! The time has flown. I thought I had more time! She even has a second one that is loose!
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Strike a pose(r)
So the discussion of what it means to be a poser has been swirling around me as of late. I think it mostly has to do with the idea of being authentic. If you are living your most authentic life then you don't have a time/need to pose as something you are not. However, if you have never had a "Come to Jesus" talk with yourself then how in the hell do you ever stop posing your life away?
As part of my doctoral journey, I've had to come face to face with some painful truths about myself. I've had to face fears and grow. (I don't like the work change, I prefer to grow like a seed.) I am noticing that many people in my cohort seem to resist growth or at least in calling a spade a spade. I don't tend to use a filter and I speak pretty bluntly. I think many people find me short and cutting but I just don't see the need to bs people.
Anyways, so back to posing. How do you know you are a poser? I mean if you live your life as a hipster what defines you as a hipster instead of a hipster poser? I'm using hipster since according to DH, I am a hipster. This goes to the whole idea of identity. I don't identify as a hipster. I really do prefer pop music with an edge of alternative music. I prefer to homeschool/unschool my child. I shop at goodwill because I'm poor not trendy. I drink my coffee at an independent coffeehouse because my husband owns one. I'm gluten-free because my DD and DH are both allergic to wheat. I don't live a hipster lifestyle in my opinion but if I look up "Hipster-subculture" you might as well put my picture there. So am I poser without even realizing it? Is it possible to be viewed as a poser without even noticing since you are just being your authentic self?
Why the need for labels? Is it an American thing? Do other cultures require labels? In Mexico you are poor or rich. I don't know that outside of social status there are many other labels.
Why pose? Why hide under the clothes of another person? How do you expand your mind without the wearing the clothes of posing at some point? Is posing bad?
I think as some point we all pose. I think of myself in school. I posed as the all-american girl trying hard not to be Mexican, like I could ever out run it. Once I had my "Come to Jesus" talk with myself about my identity I started embracing my Mexican-ness and I can breath better. I don't understand posing as a life-style choice (well as an all-life encompassing life-style choice). Don't it weight you down to carry so many lies? Don't you get tried of running from yourself? Does digging deep into your pain really scare you to the point you would rather die as any person but yourself?
As part of my doctoral journey, I've had to come face to face with some painful truths about myself. I've had to face fears and grow. (I don't like the work change, I prefer to grow like a seed.) I am noticing that many people in my cohort seem to resist growth or at least in calling a spade a spade. I don't tend to use a filter and I speak pretty bluntly. I think many people find me short and cutting but I just don't see the need to bs people.
Anyways, so back to posing. How do you know you are a poser? I mean if you live your life as a hipster what defines you as a hipster instead of a hipster poser? I'm using hipster since according to DH, I am a hipster. This goes to the whole idea of identity. I don't identify as a hipster. I really do prefer pop music with an edge of alternative music. I prefer to homeschool/unschool my child. I shop at goodwill because I'm poor not trendy. I drink my coffee at an independent coffeehouse because my husband owns one. I'm gluten-free because my DD and DH are both allergic to wheat. I don't live a hipster lifestyle in my opinion but if I look up "Hipster-subculture" you might as well put my picture there. So am I poser without even realizing it? Is it possible to be viewed as a poser without even noticing since you are just being your authentic self?
Why the need for labels? Is it an American thing? Do other cultures require labels? In Mexico you are poor or rich. I don't know that outside of social status there are many other labels.
Why pose? Why hide under the clothes of another person? How do you expand your mind without the wearing the clothes of posing at some point? Is posing bad?
I think as some point we all pose. I think of myself in school. I posed as the all-american girl trying hard not to be Mexican, like I could ever out run it. Once I had my "Come to Jesus" talk with myself about my identity I started embracing my Mexican-ness and I can breath better. I don't understand posing as a life-style choice (well as an all-life encompassing life-style choice). Don't it weight you down to carry so many lies? Don't you get tried of running from yourself? Does digging deep into your pain really scare you to the point you would rather die as any person but yourself?
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