Home Grown Meals

So we try to eat what we grow, so you're gonna hear a lot of the same ingredients as we try to get creative trying to use up what we grow!

Pad Thai with Home Grown (HG) Carrots, Cilantro and Garlic. Finally bought more rice noodles, so this looks more appetizing than the last batch! hehe

Turkey Meatloaf that has HG Cilantro, Garlic and Carrots, with homemade Gluten free Breadcrumbs and a HG Garden Salad

Gluten, Dairy, Egg and refined sugar FREE Chocolate, Banana, Loquat loaf, whew! What a mouthfull to say! We ate some before I got around to taking the pic

Homegrown Meals & Baked Goodies

HG Garlic, HG Green Onion and HG Chinese Chives all went into the Mabo Tofu dish! Talk about pungent!

HG Persimmon Jam and HG Sweet Potatoes went into this "no sugar" Gluten, Egg, Dairy and Nut free Chocolate muffin. I did add some stevia powder to help it sweeten up a bit, but the natural sweetness of the Persimmon and Yams were pretty good on their own. Sorry, the pic is a bit blurry...

Next day, more Gluten, Egg, Dairy and Nut free baking! Had to use up the Persimmon Jam I defrosted, so this half of the jam made Persimmon Muffins. They are spiced with Cinnamon, Ginger, Cloves and Nutmeg. Tastes like a Pumpkin Spice muffin. Yum!

Gluten, Egg and Dairy free Pizza; the only Homegrown ingredients in this pizza were the dried Oregano and fresh Garlic.

Baking Bread Gluten Free

I bake a batch of bread almost every week, if not every other week

Baking Day

Here we're making Banana muffins.

2 loaves of Gluten-free bread

Original Recipe Bread

I think I finally got the hang of baking this gluten free bread. Some of the ingredients are rather unusual: Amaranth, Sorghum, Potato Starch, Oat Flour, Corn Starch, Sucanat, Salt, Olive Oil and Yeast. Most Gluten Free bread avoids Oat Flour because most oats are grown near wheat fields. We can tolerate small amounts of wheat (we're not Celiac) so we opted to use it in place of Tapioca, which makes it a heavier dough.