My first GF Thanksgiving

I did it. I cooked the entire Thanksgiving dinner and it was almost all GF. I did buy some mashed potatoes from Country Crock that may have had gluten. I didn't look because I didn't plan on eating any. I also bought a pumpkin pie for my daughter and her boyfriend.



The menu consisted of:



Honeysuckle turkey breast cooked overnight in the crock pot. I got this recipe from Gluten-free Easily. You can find the recipe here.



Corn on the Cob



Brussels Sprouts



Candied Sweet Potatoes (like my mother used to make)



Waldorf Salad



Canned gravy (I don't eat gravy)



Mashed potatoes (I took the easy way out and bought them already cooked)



Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream



It was a very good meal. I remembered why I like to cook. Good healthy food and I'm sure it's all GF.



I hope all of you enjoyed your holiday.



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Fire Roasted Crisps - Not GF

The very week I was diagnosed with "possible Celiac" I received a shipment of goodies from Dr Kracker to review on my blog. For a couple of weeks I didn’t do anything with them (but want to cheat on my gluten-free status and eat them up in a hurry). I didn’t eat them. The memory of the pain was too fresh. I finally came up with a solution. I gave them to my daughter and her boyfriend and they are going to review them for me. My favorite flavor, of the ones I tried before the diagnosis, was Fire Roasted Crisps. There was a touch of jalapeno in them that really boosted the flavor and all of Dr Kracker’s products are thick and crunchy. I would have happily made this flavor my main cracker. They were so good with a nice sharp Cheddar and maybe crispy slices of a fall apple.

Here's a list of the ingredients if anyone is interested:

organic whole wheat flour, filtered water, organic wheat flour, cheddar cheese (pastuerized milk, hannilase enzyme, salt, cultures), sun dried tomato, sweet potato, red jalapenos pepper, black sesame seed, organic flaxseeds, organic quinoa, organic sunflower seeds, yeast, sea salt, fresh basil, olive oil, garlic

Contains: wheat, milk

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Blogroll

Today I did a lot of hunting for and commenting on Gluten-Free blogs. I'm kinda changing my focus since the diagnosis of Celiac. I used to love looking at recipes but some of the fun has gone out of doing so because so many I shouldn't eat. Although I could still make them for others I wanted to find things that I could eat. So, I'm finding new sources. I'm looking for recipes that are GF. So today I went looking and I found quite a few really good blogs. If you're interested take a look at my blogroll. There have been several additions. I haven't deleted any cuz I don't plan on giving up on my favorite "reads". Again, I'm adding not taking away. That seems to be a theme with me.

For lunch I had a piece of salmon, some steamed veggies, and a banana. I'm already hungry so it's a good thing I have some yogurt in the fridge.

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Some yogurts have gluten

*****RETRACTION*****

I just checked Stonyfield website and it says

that all their yogurts are gluten-free except for

Yo-Baby plus cereal. I'm going to write to the

publisher of the book I read which said that

Oikos was not gluten-free. Am glad that I

can go back to enjoying Oikos again. Thanks for the

heads up from Heather at Celiac Family.

I'm sad. I can't eat Oikos anymore because it has gluten. What is gluten doing in yogurt? Regular Stonyfield is ok thank goodness. I love their new pumpkin pie flavor. It's really pumpkiny and not all full of spices (I like spices in pumpkin but this way is good too.) I find myself eating a lot of yogurt these days. At least one container every day. I think the little active cultures help with my tummy troubles and besides - it tastes good. I'd probably eat Fage everyday but it's too expensive. It's over $2 for an individual sized container. I do love it with honey though. Believe it or not I'd never eaten honey before I discovered Fage. YUM!

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H1N1

I finally got my H1N1 shot. The hospital was only offering them to direct patient care staff right now, but since I patient sit on the weekends and evenings I convinced them to give me one. I'm sitting tonight so I'd better get going.

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Monday morning

This morning I slept in and woke up to snow. It's pretty falling but I hate scraping off car windows. It's not that cold so I don't imagine any of it will stick.

Breakfast this morning was a heated Udi's Lemon Streusel muffin and a Fage's yogurt with Honey. Very satisfying.

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Boots

I picked up my Whooga Ugg Boots from the Post Office yesterday. I was worried that they would be too small but they fit perfectly. Don't you love that new shoe smell? The packing slip caught my eye because it was hand written in Chinese. The WUB Co. is in Australia but I guess their boots are made in China because the package shipped from there. They had to go through customs and everything. I walked around the house in them for about an hour. I'm looking forward to colder weather when I'll be able to enjoy walking in the crisp air wearing them. My daughter is going to take a picture of me wearing them and when she does I'll post it.

See ya'll on Monday.

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