Gluten Free and Egg Free Flat Bread

Gluten Free Flat Bread Dough 
6 c. Gluten Free All Purpose Flour
2/3 c. Powdered Milk
2 t. Sea Salt
5 t. Yeast
6 T. Olive Oil
2 t. Apple Cider vinegar
3 c. Warm Water

Mix wet ingredients in a mixer with the yeast.  Let set 15 minutes.  Add the dry ingredients.  Mix until the dough pulls away from the sides of the mixer.  Use more Gluten Free All Purpose Flour until the dough is at a consistency similar to regular bread dough. I never roll mine out with a rolling pin.  I use my hands to flatten the dough.  Spray your hands with non-stick spray and take golf ball size dough and flatten with your hands.   Put on a pre-greased cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.

 I have also fried these and made Navajo tacos.  They were delicious. Or if you want to make individual pizzas cook them for 10 min, pull them out and add toppings.  Continue to cook them for 15 minutes.  You could also freeze the pizza crust and toppings to make your own frozen pizzas.  This dough is amazing.  I love that I can use it for so many different meals.

All Purpose Gluten Free Flour

When we were first diagnosed with celiacs I was dying because I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to have a chocolate chip cookie ever again.  Well that all changed when I came across this gluten free all purpose flour.  I have yet to find a recipe that I couldn't replace regular white wheat flour with this gluten free flour.

Gluten Free All Purpose Flour

7 c. White Rice Flour
5 c. Tapiocaflour
1/4 c. Xanthum Flour
1 oz unflavored Gelatin
1/4 c. egg replacement
1/2 c. sugar

Mix well and place in an airtight container.  You can freeze this or let it sit out on your counter.  I like to double my recipe so I don't have to mix the flours every week.  When I double the recipe it usually last me about a month.

Gluten Free Lemon Squares

These are my absolute favorite gluten free recipe I have made. I am not usually a big fan of lemon but man these hit the spot during the summer for me.  I loved them when they were loaded with gluten but I love them even more now.  Rose loves them too. they might not be the best thing for her Blood Glucose but every once in a while it is nice to have a treat.


 Lemon Squares
Gluten Free Style

2 cups All Purpose Gluten Free Flour Replacement
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 cup melted butter

Combine and pat in lightly grease 9x13" glass baking pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until just golden brown around the edges of the pan. While this is cooking start working on the custard.

2 cups Sugar
6 T. Lemon juice (You can squeeze your own or use concentrate)
1/4 c. All Purpose Gluten Free Flour Replacement
4 eggs

Beat together well in a bowl. Pour over the right after the 15 minutes is up.  Put the pan back in the oven for another 25 min.  Take out when the edges of the pan are slightly brown around the edges.  Sprinkle with powdered sugar.  Let cool and then cut into squares.

***If you don't want this recipe to be gluten free just replace the all purpose gluten free flour with regular white flour.  It is a cup for cup replacement**** I have also used half the GF all purpose flour with almond flour to add more protein to the recipe.  wither way these lemon squares are so good.***

Let me know what you think of this recipe. My family loves them and they are so easy to make. I dare you to just eat one.

June 2014

Why does life go by so fast?  I can't believe June is already half way over. It has seriously flown by.  We have been so busy, which has been good, but it certainly doesn't leave me much time to write on my blog.  Here are some of my favorite pictures from June so far this month.  The first one is of James sneaking chocolate out of my diaper bag. He has such a sweet tooth it is so funny.  He hears, sees, or smells anything sweet and he is all over you.

The next picture is of Rose and her first dog Champ.  My husband and I got Champ a couple months after we got married from my Brother.  He has been such an amazing and we love him.  When we had to move into an apartment we gave him to my husbands family.  They have loved having him around.  In February he was diagnosed with a type of face cancer.  This last month we have decided that it is time to let him go.  He is becoming more and more uncomfortable and having a hard time eating because of his tumor on his face.  We will miss Champ so much.  

 I have been making a ton of new recipes this month with the gluten free all purpose flour.  Every Friday night we have gotten to go back to making our own pizzas which the kids love. They are so good too.  I will have to post that recipe soon.

 These are tow of my best friends kiddos.  My kids love them and love hanging out with them.  Which is good because we are over at their house all of the time.  We have been working on a garden together and taking swim lessons together.  We love them.

 This is the small garden.  The bigger garden we have been working on is three times as big.  We might be crazy having that big of a garden, but we have been loving it so far.

 These are the goats at my friends house too. They have been so much fun for the kids to play with.  Rose loves them and loves going into the pasture to feed them grass.

Computer is on the Fritz

I have loved being off of facebook but I haven' been able to keep up on the blog because my computer is on the fritz.  We are all doing great.  Rose had another endo appointment and got a 7.3 A1C.  Perfect score.  I was so excited.  Rose has been doing swim lessons and is loving it.  We have also all been working in our garden and enjoying the wonderful weather. I celebrated my 26th birthday.  I am getting so old.  We had family in town and got some family pictures taken.  I love them and I was so excited for them.  It has been a long time since a family photo.  Thank you Carrie you did a wonderful job.  Well hopefully I can get my computer fixed, but until, little short updates will have to do.

Memorial Day 2014

I have loved everything about not being on Facebook this last week.  I have been so much more productive and I feel so much less stress.  It has been wonderful.  I have also gotten along with my children so much better these last couple days because my life revolves around them and nothing more.  It has been wonderful.
On memorial day this week we took our friends four wheeling out at my husband's parents house.  To say it was fun is an understatement.  We loved every minute of it.  We have been so blessed with wonderful friends lately.  After four wheeling we headed back to their place for a BBQ.  It was so good.

We are all so blessed to live in a country were we are free.  I am grateful for the men and women who have died to make this country a place where my family is free.  Thank you for your service and determination.

Rose Passed Out

I have not wanted to write this down, because I have been hiding it but I finally think I am ready to let go of this experience.  Even now thinking about it starts a panic attack and I can't believe I actually lived through it.  I should probably give you some background on my personality and why I am so afraid of what happened. When Rose was diagnosed last August with Type One Diabetes, they told us to watch out for lows because Rose can pass out  and die if her Blood Glucose goes too low for a long period of time.  Everything else with diabetes was hard but I could handle that.  The low blood glucose and her passing out scared me too death.  I have never been good with dramatic incidents.

 If you ask any of my family members how I react during a crisis it would be that she starts having a panic attack and freaking out.  I can remember very specific incidents in my life where I don't know how to react except to start yelling and having a panic attack.  One of those experiences is when I was in a car accident with my brother.  We weren't hurt but we had a collision with a car that pushed us into a 8ft chain link fence.  I was screaming and having an all out panic attack where I couldn't even breath.  My brother was so fed up with me that he had to tell me to "shut up" so he could help the other car.  The other memory that comes to mind is when I was in labor with Rose.  I labored with her for 12 hours and finally my doctor came in and told me that it was time for a c-section.  I was so scared and panicked, I burst into tears and couldn't control my breathing at all.  My husband, my mom, and my dad all had to calm me down.  I do not deal well with crisis moments. When the doctors warned me that my daughter had a higher possibility of passing out it scared me.  I never wanted to experience it.  Well this last week I did and surprisingly I didn't start screaming, I actually knew what to do.

Now that you know more about how I react in a crisis you can understand why I was so afraid of Rose passing out.  With every fiber of my being I did not want us to go through that trial.  I begged and begged not to have to experience something like that. Now being on the other side I know that my natural instinct and adrenaline kicks in and I can get Rose's Blood Glucose back up.

Last Friday, Rose was complaining of her ear hurting.  She kept tugging on it.  I kept telling her that we needed to wait for Daddy to get home before we could do anything.  We waited and with in one hour of the ear starting to hurt she started crying in pain from it.  I left James with my husband at home and took Rose to the after hours doctor.  We had to wait for 30 minutes to get in and by then Rose was a complete disaster.  She was crying and begging me to take away the pain in her ear.  I couldn't do anything except try to distract her with my phone.  Finally we got to see the doctor and sure enough she had a double inner ear infection.  He prescribed her an antibiotic, ear numbing drops, and codine to help ease the pain.  We then were in a hurry to get to the pharmacy to pick up her prescription to ease her pain and discomfort.  We dropped the prescription off and I told Rose she could have ice cream to help distract her.  She kept crying and screaming in agony as we picked up the ice cream.  Then we headed back to pharmacy to wait.  The pharmacist told us it would be ten minutes, well fifteen minutes later they still weren't done.  I was so frustrated that I had this screaming four year old and the pharmacist couldn't hurry any faster.

Rose all of a sudden started to calm down and her eyes kept rolling back into her head.  I kept telling her to wake up and tried to talk to her to keep her awake. She wasn't at all coherant so my gut told me something was wrong. I started to look for her Blood glucose meter to check her blood. Of course she had forgotten to grab her bag in our hurry out the door.  Which meant I had no candy, glucagon pen, or glucose tabs to get her blood sugar up.  I frantically moved the cart down several isles, trying to find anything with sugar to get her blood glucose up.  I finally found some glucose tabs and started breaking them up and putting them on her tongue. In between her eyes rolling back into her head I was able to talk to her enough for her to start chewing the tablets.  After about three tablets I knew she should start feeling a little better. After about five minutes she started to come to.  My adrenaline was pumping so hard that I didn't even notice the pharmacist telling us that Rose's prescription was filled. Rose was still pretty tired from everything but she wasn't on the verge of passing out anymore.  We got our prescriptions and headed home.

When we got home my husband kept asking me what happened and what I did.  Honestly to this day I still don't remember much of what happened.  I know that I was being led around the store and told what to do, because I don't act well in a crisis.  The good news is that we are fine.  Rose didn't remember anything and she had no idea how freaked out I was.  Which is such a blessing.  I don't want her to take on any of my fears about diabetes.  She has enough to worry about then how her mother is terrified of this stupid disease.

On the other side of this incident I am grateful for several things.  First I am grateful that James wasn't with us.  Rose had all of my attention and I didn't miss a single sign of her low blood glucose.  Second I am grateful I was in a pharmacy when it happened.  They had everything I needed there, even if we had forgotten out diabetic back pack at home.  And third I am grateful for my mother's intuition that I knew something was wrong with out even testing her blood glucose. I hope I never have to experience it again, but I made it through it and I am stronger because of it.