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A few random things

Well , I reorganized things so that I think it is going to be easier to find, maybe.

Everything that is not gluten-free or dairy-free is labeled as such in the title.  I am going to try to rework them to make them gluten-free and dairy free and then I will repost them with the changes to make them gluten-free and dairy-free. (Some I don't know if they could be reworked or if it would be worth all the effort.)

I am going to get rid of the categories gluten-free and dairy free because I am going to try to only post such things anyway. Not to mention, those two categories will get very overloaded.

I also fixed all the recipe posts so that you don't have to scroll through the whole long recipe to get to the next post. If you want to see the whole thing, just click "more." I did this because I was getting annoyed looking through my own blog for recipes and having to scroll through so much.


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Last night I cooked the my first recipe from The Gluten-Free Gourmet: Living Well without Wheat. I did the Lentil stew and it was lovely.

Yumm! Definitely something we will do again.

Junior was a bit concerned though because the recipe called for bacon and he thinks that bacon should be done crispy. Obviously bacon in soup isn't going to be crunchy so how can it be bacon?


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I need to start planning Christmas dinner, some of it is going to be easy but some is going to be a challenge - like the dressing and the rolls. I have done gluten-free gibblet gravy before so that isn't a big deal but we haven't yet found a basic dinner roll recipe that we like.

And then there is the dessert stuff. Yet another challenge. sigh. I guess I had better start planning.
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