Home cooking endevours

Well There are a few things to catch you up on.

#1 Wild Strawberries!!!!!

There's a whole bunch of them at the end of my drive, sweet and pure and natural! So I went out a few times and picked as many as I could find. I then pureed them and they are in the freezer awaiting any strawberry recipes that you have to suggest. (By the by, please suggest something I could do with this. The only thing I have is adding them to frosting to put on a cookie)

My second endeavour is Noodles. My dad is allergic to wheat (Aka gluten) so I get the opportunity to home-make all kinds of things for him.

For this recipe I used Rice flour. I thought it would be soft and fluffy, and better for noodles. Wrong...

This recipe called for Xantham gum (Actually guar gum... whatever that is.... ;D ) Well I didn't have any, so I added an egg. (this recipe was in an "Allergy free" Cookbook so it didn't call for an egg) Anyhoo. We were terrified of them not staying together. So we let them dry as long as possible and tested two or three. They stuck! I was ecstatic!

So the next night I Carefully put together a spaghetti sauce, (Poured a jar of it over mushrooms and browned hamburger) and put some water on to boil. When dad got home, I poured the whole lot into the boiling water, and went upstairs with them to wait for them to cook.

When I cam down, low and behold! They were still together....

Stuck together in a giant wad... The bits and pieces that had come apart, had fused all the noodles together into one big globby mess...

Bless my father, he ate a plate of it with a smile on his weary face... (I never expected him too) And we served it the next night as normal with a pan of rice.

Needless to say, next time... I'm using spelt...