Pie Party!

My daughter is obsessed with getting one of those unitasker pie machines. I'm trying to prove we just don't need it!

Chocolate Pudding

1/4 cup tapioca starch
1/4 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2-2/3 cups Silk Very Vanilla Soymilk
2 tablespoons margarine

Mix starch, sugar, salt and chocolate in medium saucepan. Add Soymilk and heat over medium heat while whisking. Keep whisking until chocolate is melted and starts to thicken. Remove from heat and stir in margarine. Cool to room temperature then cover and refrigerate.

Forgiving Pie Crust

2-3/4 cup GF baking mix
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup oil
2/3 cup Silk Very Vanilla Soymilk

Mix ingredients until blended well. Don't worry if it is crumbly. Cover and chill for 30 minutes. Press dough into muffin cups. About 2 tablespoons of dough. Press in bottom and up the sides of muffin cups. Poke with fork and bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees. Remove from pan onto wire rack. Fill with pudding (or whatever you like).

Presto! Pie without the machine!

Wrap It Up... I'll Eat It!

Since we are also corn free at our house, we use these like tortilla's or like egg roll wrappers.  It just depends on what spices I use to season my edamame...cumin and cinnamon for a Mexican flair or Bragg's and sugar for an Asian flavor.   I have even just eaten them with peanut butter.  They are greasy.  They are spongy and a little sticky too.  They are a good vehicle for flavor.

1 cup GF baking mix
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup hot water & 4 tablespoons tapioca starch combined
1 cup Silk Plain Soy Milk
1 tablespoon melted margarine

Whisk together baking mix, salt.  Add tapioca mixture and mix well.  Slowly add soy milk and combine.  Stir in melted margarine.  It is a thin batter but not watery.  Refrigerate for 30 minutes. The batter thickens up a little when the melted margarine chills.  Re-whisk and then pour SLOWLY with a ladle onto hot pancake griddle set at 375. They will sizzle and dance and spit a bit and then start to take shape.  If your surface is not level (like in my old house) they may not be round but it all tastes the same!  Flip with non-stick turner when top surface is dry.  Cook on 2nd side until edges lift slightly off the griddle. After removing from griddle cool in single layer.  You can stack them after they are cool.

First crop!

My son and my husband (double Dereks) first crop of home grown Yukon Golds! They will go nicely with our roasted chicken and carrots to night.

Ugh! Tomorrow is Monday Muffins

So this is a cure what ails 'ya chocolatey comfort muffin!

2 cups GF baking mix
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate chips
1-1/3 cups Silk Very Vanilla Soymilk
1/3 cups oil

Combine dry ingredients including chocolate chips a large bowl. Make a well on center of bowl. Add Soymilk and oil and stir from bottom of bowl working in Soymilk and oil from bottom until combined. Do not over stir. Just moisten dry ingredients.

Spoon into greased muffin pans or mini muffin pans. Bake at 400 for 12 minutes. Cool slightly in pan and remove.