Kitchen Chaos

When I was in high school one of the women where my dad worked brought some of this and he liked it so much that he got the recipe. I think this was one of the first times I had tried sweet potatoes without marshmallows (gag) and loved this. I used to make this with all purpose flour and regular milk and was one of the competitors in a sweet potato cook-off my family did here . Since we have gone gluten-free it is not something we can eat anymore so we remade the recipe. It tastes just as good as the original but is gluten-free and dairy-free. We have reduced the amount of sugar in the topping and increased the sweet potatoes to make it less sweet. Plus we made it gluten-free and dairy free and something we could all eat.

I had decided that a pot roast sounded wonderful. Yum. I love a good pot roast. For some reason my sisters don't but I love them. My normal method is to drop the meal in the slowcooker with some onions, potatoes, carrots and a packet of onion soup mix. Except I didn't have any onion soup mix, and I forgot to check at the store for any, and I don't even know if it is gluten-free/dairy-free. So I instead thought about what makes onion soup the deliciousness that it is and the answer is onions caramelized into oblivion. Note that this is more of a method than an actual recipe mainly because it kindof depends on what you like.

Both of my kids love participating in the 4-H County Food and Nutrition contest. Daisy has to go into another room with three adult judges and then gets judged and ranked. Her first year she won first place for applesauce bread, last year I don't remember how she placed with her baked apple. This year she won first place again! She made Butternut Squash and Chicken Pasta which is so perfect in the fall.