The day before, I had spent between 6-8 hours preppjng the kitchen and making meals for the entire week. I also wanted to make my Mother's Day meal. I usually make my favorite cake for Mother's Day- a dark chocoalte cake with white chocolate icing. Well, that dessert is out, but I do love Triple Berry Pie, and I found a pie crust recipe that was GFCF. So on Saturday night I sat down with great nerves and attempted to make GFCF pie crust.
I made the dough first. It was awful. It smelled awful, looked awful, tasted awful. I didn't even attempt to use the pie crust dough. I just threw it out. BTW- I am out on Bob's Mill pie crust mix. Awful!
Then my crockpot decided to quit. Up and burn out. So there went lunch for Sunday.
I quickly began to panic. I love Mother's Day. I had planned GFCF meals, but they did not work out. Where would we eat on Mother's Day that was GFCF?
Then, to make it worse...
Mother's Day started off with the realization that within just a few hours I had failed to provide a GFCF environment for our family. And it was just day 2 of our diet! For starters, oatmeal is not GF. Neither is communion bread. I did not think of this. And neither are the snacks provided in class, but luckily Kylie's teacher is a close friend and knew that Kylie was on the GFCF diet and did not give her any snacks during class. Since then I have bought her some very tasty, pricey GFCF snacks that have her name all over the boxes and are in her church classroom for her treat during class.
And, thank you Betty Crocker, for Gluten Free dark chocolate cake mix. It calls for butter, which has casein, but you know what doesn't have casein? Applesauce. Years ago, Keith's grandmother, Mona Crawford, taught me to substitute applesauce for butter when I am baking. I wasn't sure it would work with a GF recipe mix, but we tried it and it worked just fine.
So two strikes, but not three. I guess we are still in the game.
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