Every last little gift is now purchased and wrapped waiting for Christmas. On to Tuesday, baking! I have the supplies all organized on my butcher block table and will be pulling out the old antique mixing bowls shortly. Mac, his friend Lexi and maybe my niece Sarah (if she'd answer the telephone!) are my elves. We are trying lots of new stuff this year so it'll be a fabulous success or we'll have lots of globby piles of failure for the trash can. As always, the challenge is de-glutenizing Christmas for Jay. We've become pretty good at making everything gluten-free but new recipes are always approached with crossed fingers. Since his diagnosis with Celiac five years ago, we've moved from making a few specific items for him to changing the entire menu to gluten-free. So say a prayer for us and I'll share our progress! On the menu...
Cocoa crackle cookies, lemon bars, magic cookie bars, walnut balls, buckeyes for the cookie table. Mexican wedding cake for our traditional Mexican Christmas Eve dessert. For Christmas day at my mom's; corn casserole, cherry orange jello with a cream cheese layer and apple celery bleu cheese slaw. The only familiar face on the list is the Mexican wedding cake! Oh, and we bought butterscotch chips and then realized they contain gluten so we'll whip up one batch of butterscotch chip cookies with good old fashioned wheat flour.
Off I go to set up the kitchen before my elves arrive!
4 comments:
Sounds like a fabulous frenzy of feisty friends!
I bought those butterscotch chips too and then realized they had gluten in them...they remain in the freezer.
Our Scarf better be one of your Elves...I need to see her already!
Have a fun filled day of baking, made Kalach yesterday, need to make Kiflik's for my girls since they prefer them...Kelly is baking away too...it's snowing!
Sounds liek we are on a similar schedule...I've managed to be off this week too and all my girls are here...that's a rarity for sure. We spend yesterday finishing(please God) our shopping and today...ta da...is baking day! and old movies and a fire in the fireplace..yes its cold in GA and we need a fire. :) Let me tell you, I love this stuff! we haven't gone the gluten free way yet..hubby is gluten intolerant..but on a very strict diet for other stuff so no sweets for him at all..therefore we will be making all our old favs. Enjoy1 this doesn't happen very often and gets harder as the kids get older.
Merry Christmas, Sara!
I'm just not baking - gluten or no gluten...
Gluten-free is the way to go though --I tried a strict gluten-free diet several months ago. I lasted two weeks. At the end of the two weeks, I can honestly say that I've never felt better. Then I started eating gluten again - couldn't resist a slice of pizza --and it was downhill from there! Now I'm back to eating gluten and not feeling as well. ugh.
Oh...as for baking...I guess we will be doing one small batch of cookies so that Olivia has something for Santa. And we need to bake our Happy Birthday Jesus cake.
And...I'm with Trish...where's that scarf?! I know it's trapped in the garage....
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