Adventures in Gluten Free Baking

Happy New Year -
Well I tried a new dessert to take to a New Years Eve party at our friends home. I LOVE tiramisu, and our wonderful local Homeland carries Gluten Free Ladyfingers. So of course it was time for me to enjoy this amazing dessert again. I have enclosed a picture of the cookbook I got the recipe from. I absolutely love this particular cookbook. It has so many amazing GF recipes in it and they are easy! I enjoy cooking, but my favorite type of cooking is - EASY! We had a great time with friends and the dessert received great reviews from all who tried it. I actually found a coffee flavored marscapone cheese, so I bought that to enhance the coffee flavor even more.

It was wonderful to ring in 2012. Although 2011 had some great moments, I look back over my journal and read many entries detailing sadness and hard days. It was a year of truly looking over the person I was and making decisions if this is the person I wanted to continue to be. NO WAY was of course the answer, but took little action to make the changes needed. Well 2012 will be the year action is taken. Step One - SIMPLIFY! I was way to materialistic and that was consuming me. If it is not a true need - then do I really want to spend money on an item that will most likely end up in a yard sale, goodwill donation bucket, or trash? Jim and I are simplifying our house too and yes it is killing me to get rid of items that are loaded with memories, but I am realizing I don't need "stuff" to keep the memories. Step Two - MOVE! I love Edmond, Oklahoma. We have lived here longer than any other place in our married life, but it is time to get out of the race. Our new home is out in the middle of nowhere. At Christmas, my favorite part of the day was going outside at night and seeing the beautiful stars shining down on me. I will love this view everynight after we move! The closest grocery store - 15 to 20 minutes away and there are only two choices. I have no idea where the closest mall would even be, maybe an hour away. I want to raise chickens and help with the horses and cattle. I am already asking Jim to build me a greenhouse for year round growing. Of course with this move comes fear, which I am trying to not let take over me. I have no job lined up, nor does Jim. What if our current house does not sell etc. But my heart has been in the wrong place for to long, so I will purge it of the waste and trust God will give me just what I need - no more, no less.

I pray you all had a wonderful New Year's Eve and have glorious plans for 2012. Thank you for reading my adventures in GF baking. I did mention in my last post it may become a blog about moving, so sorry for my side bars off the main baking topic. Until my next baking adventure - Happy Baking!