Chocolate Biscuit Strawberry Dessert (GF!)

This recipe is from glutenfreemommy and is under the fruit dessert label. It is simple and delicious! I used Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free All Purpose Baking Flour rather than the suggested mix.

Sarah's Secret Garden

Spring Pictures

Homemade Granola

Combine:
4 cups rolled oats (gluten free if needed)
1 cup almonds, slivered
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
1 cup sunflower seeds, unsalted
3/4 Tablespoon cinnamon

Warm:
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup sunflower oil
1 teaspoon vanilla

pour warmed ingredients over oat mixture and toss
spread on jelly roll pan
bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until lightly browned, stirring after 10 minutes
when cooled add 1/2 cup dried fruit

store in air tight container

2010 Reading

Piccadilly Jim
by P.G. Wodehouse

(This book had me laughing the entire way through!)

"Mr. Pett did not read old books himself, but he liked to be among them, and it is proof of his pessimism that he had not tried the library first. To his depressed mind it had seemed hardly possible that there could be nobody there."


Whose Body?
by Dorothy L. Sayers

(great mystery!)

"Her Grace tells me that a respectable Battersea architect has discovered a dead man in his bath."
"Indeed, my lord? That's very gratifying."


The Story of The Treasure Seekers
by E. Nesbit

"I am afraid the last chapter was rather dull. It is always dull in books when people talk and talk, and don't do anything, but I was obliged to put it in, or else you wouldn't have understood all the rest."

Quote

"If Samuel Adams thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation."
~Tristan Gylberd

Dutchmen's Britches

"Dear Lord,

I know you hear my prayer and will answer it if you can.I have a pair of britches here please fill them with a man!"

I find that poem quite humorous and decided it pairs nicely with pictures of our Dutchmen's Britches. Besides, April is "the young love of the year" and it seems a fitting time for a godly gentleman to come to my front door and ask me to marry him. Along with him would be his gallant friend for my dear friend Anna to marry. Wouldn't that be nice?

Hometown Heroes

Today my brother Jacob was
honored for having been deployed more than thirty days since 9/11.

"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."
~General Robert E. Lee

Easter

“All living things--humans, animals, plants--decay and die, but Christ overcame death. No one else in history, not even the most famous and influential of men, has ever done that. Jesus Christ's bodily resurrection from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity.” Henry Morris

April

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
~William Shakespeare

Chicken Recipe

Spring Rotisserie Chicken Salad recipe from Whole Foods

I made these sandwiches using my pizza crust recipe for bread and rice milk to replace the buttermilk. I used a whole avocado to thicken the sauce. My mom had her chicken and sauce on a salad. I think we will have this again soon.

Please Watch

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99 Balloons

Health Care: Marsha Blackburn speaks

Almond Cherry Cookies

These cookies are raw and made using a food processor. My neighbor Miranda rolled all the cookies in the ground almonds for me. She likes these cookies.

1/2 cup raw almonds
1/4 cup raw walnuts
dash sea salt
1/4 teaspoon almond extract (I used vanilla)
1/4 cup raisins or dried cherries
1/4 cup ground almonds (coffee grinder works well)

In food processor combine almonds, walnuts and salt and process until coarsely chopped. Add dates and almond extract and process until everything begins to stick together. Do not over process. Add raisins and pulse briefly.

Form into balls and roll in ground almonds. Keep in refrigerator for one month or freeze.

This recipe is from Raw Food Made easy for 1 or 2 People by Jennifer Cornbleet

GF, CF Pizza

When making pizza I mix dried herbs into the dough. This time I used basil, thyme, marjoram, oregano and tarragon. I bake the crust for 15 minutes then remove from the oven and spread a nice layer of olive oil on the crust, add the toppings, sprinkle on more herbs and pour olive oil on top. Then return pizza to the oven for 10-12 minutes. We used cooked bacon along with sauteed chicken, onions, carrots, black olives and artichoke hearts for our toppings.
The pizza crust recipe is under the bread label.

My mom, Matt, Ellie and I really like this pizza!

For a gluten and casein pizza idea visit my friend Theresa's blog, Aunt Theresa's Adventures.