Farewell Focaccia

What better comfort than CARBS?! I feel like thumping my chest like Tom Hanks in Castaway when he made fire. I made Focaccia!

3-1/2 cups GF baking mix
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 package yeast
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3-4 additional tablespoons of olive oil for top before baking.

Preheat oven to 400 and line baking sheet with parchment.

Mix 1 cup GF baking mix, sugar, salt & yeast in mixer. Stir to combine. Heat milk and oil until 120. Add warm liquid to dry ingredients and mix for 2 minutes. Stir in additional GF baking mix until dough pulls away from sides of bowl. Let rest 5 minutes with towel over bowl.

Place dough on baking sheet lined with parchment. Press into 12" circle. Cover and allow to rise in warm place until doubled in size (30 minutes).

Dimple the top with fingers or with a wooden spoon poke holes in top of dough. Drizzle with 3-5 tablespoon of olive oil and bake 17-25 minutes or until golden.

Remove onto cooling rack immediately and cool completely.

Eat through your tears and enjoy! And give a good knock on your chest too!

The Farewell Dinner

Leonard (Jennie) is working all day but will be home for our LAST DINNER together before we move her in tomorrow at school.

I making Gettin' Sauced Carrot Sauce with GF pasta, some sort of bread, edamame, and I already made the Angelic Cake.

Loading up the cars tonite so we just get up and get going tomorrow!

I'm OK.  I'm OK.  Really.

NY Times Food Article

The sister I never had was in the NY Times this week!  Follow this link to read about traditions and how food is a big part of them.  Nena is on page 2 of this article.

 http://nyti.ms/OX68Cp

It sometimes feels strange to me that I cannot keep my parents traditions alive with my own children since I cannot cook most of the foods my family enjoyed while growing up.  I guess our traditions are try something new on holidays and make them together.  Laugh if they fail and savor them when they work.

This Cookie Is Huge

Soft and full of chocolatey goodness! Just what I needed after a day like today.

1 cup margarine, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1 egg replacer egg
1-3/4 cup GF baking mix
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips

Beat margarine, sugar and maple syrup for 2 minutes, until fluffy.  Add the egg replacer and mix well.
Add GF flour mix, salt and baking soda.  Stir in chocolate chips.

Refrigerate for an hour.  Preheat the oven to 350.

Spoon onto baking sheet lined with parchment by rounded tablespoon.  They will spread a bit so maybe only 6 cookies to a pan.  Bake for 10-12 minutes until slightly under-done.

Cool for 5 minutes on baking sheet.

Chewy, chocolately, and goooooooooood!