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Lollipop making

Friday was a dreary drippy gray day desperately in need of some cheer. Now, I could have scrubbed and scoured my blues away but why do something actually productive? No, I decided that taking care of a colicky baby and 4 other kids all day was just getting too easy and that productivity is for [...]

Lake Eola

Sunday we went out to the Lake Eola farmers market expecting the highs to reach into the 60s and the sun to break through the blanket of clouds. It was 48 and angst-y

The kids enjoyed the playground (though this sign thoroughly perplexed us in a DUH kind of way

and strolling the market- well everyone [...]

(Gluten free) chocolate sparkle cookies

(Modified to be gluten free from a martha recipe)

Ingredients

Makes about 100

* 1 1/4 cup rice flour
* 1/2 cup potato starch
* 1/4 cup tapioca starch
* 3/4 cup Dutch cocoa powder (I used special dark with delightful results)
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Gluten Free ( and Vegan) Bread

I use to bake bread on a regular basis. Lovely braided loaves, fat free form rounds, and long flattened ovals of nan regularly paraded from my hands, to oven, to mouth. Going gluten free brought a screeching halt to all of that.

Over the last 3 years I have dabbled in gluten free bread baking [...]

Peppermint NOM, I mean peppermint bark

On a piece of parchment paper, spread some semi sweet or dark chocolate chips. In a double boiler or metal bowl set over a pot of boiling water, melt white chocolate (I used Bakers, Ghiradielli would work too- Nestle will not). In a gallon sized ziplock back, smash candy canes and when the chocolate is [...]