Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Hearts and Crafts
Happy Love Day!
(Start of Love Week, Day 1: Hubby & Craft Love)
(Start of Love Week, Day 1: Hubby & Craft Love)
This love hedgehog was a happy little handmade felt project gifty
for my lovable hubby on V-Day.
The template can be found here.
xoxox
Labels:
Crafts,
Day 1,
felt,
hedgehog,
Indie Spotting,
Love Week,
Valentine's Day
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Martha Stewart's Banana Bread (Gluten-Free)
This comforting and more-ish banana bread stays moist for days; something of a feat for many gluten-free breads. The original, gluten-filled recipe can be found at marthastewart.com.
This was the first recipe where I didn't substitue cup-for-cup with gluten-free flour. Instead, I went and found a site which lists what the weight of a cup of rice flour is versus a cup of normal cake flour (btw, it's quite a bit heavier), and so modified the recipe accordingly. This handy trick allowed rice flour to stand alone as the flour of choice without dragging the recipe down to a heavy end-product. You live and you learn, right.
OR = Original Recipe
Ingredients:
- 113g/1 stick butter (room temp)
- 75g sugar (OR: 1 cup)
- 2 large eggs
- 195g rice flour (OR: 1 and a half cups of cake flour)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup mashed bananas (very ripe)
- 125ml/half cup buttermilk (OR: 125ml sour cream)
- 1 tsp cinnamon (OR: 1 tsp vanilla)
- 125ml/half cup chopped pecans (or walnuts)
- Pre-heat oven to 175 degrees Celsius (OR: 350 fahrenheit).
- Butter a loaf pan.
- Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and beat.
- Add flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and mix till just combined.
- Stir through bananas, buttermilk and nuts.
- Pour into the prepared loaf tin.
- Bake for around 1 hour 10 minutes, but start checking from 40 minutes.
- Remove from the oven when a cake skewer comes out clean, rest in the pan for 10 minutes and then turn out to cool.
Substitutions for eggs and nuts:
My thanks to Rahel from TX on her wonderful feedback and tips! Here they are:
- 2 heaping tablespoons of condensed milk in place of the eggs; and- reducing sugar to 3/4 cup if using the condensed milk; and
- leave out the nuts!
Labels:
banana bread,
buttermilk,
cinnamon,
gluten-free,
Martha Stewart,
pecans
Monday, February 07, 2011
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Saturday, February 05, 2011
Friday, February 04, 2011
Snapshot-of-life #13
I patted her shoulder and told her that it's ok, she's moving on.
"Just like you," she answered without missing a beat.
And just like that,
the last two years of this chapter of my life drew to a close
and it was time to go.
When one door closes, right...
"Just like you," she answered without missing a beat.
And just like that,
the last two years of this chapter of my life drew to a close
and it was time to go.
When one door closes, right...
Thursday, February 03, 2011
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