Two places at once

Well, here I thought I was doing better by investing in and making a full website, guess that was WRONG…

So, I will be posting mostly recipes and thoughts here while keeping the site- http://myrealisticlife.com , we will see how it goes.

Bottom line, Foodgawker and a few other sites will not post pics or even respond if you have a site, they only seem to like bloggers, we will see if this proves out over next month or so.

Besides, I DO have a crazy life-lol

 

Gluten Free Chocolate Brownies

Brownie Batter, can you say YUM….

Love hot fresh brownies or cold brownies or actually brownies any way you want to serve them..

Cool Whip is also good.

Here follows the recipe. Keep in mind these pictures are of the batch with that had just a little two much flour.

***************Note to self and for you–

When you use Teff Flour esp ground Teff Flour use less flour overall. It just soaks up lots of the liquid. Teff if you have not tried it is a wonderful flour for baking especially if there is chocolate involved.

I always just use some Teff, it cannot be used as a full replacement flour.

Here is a picture of the little babycakes pan I use sometimes, Gluten Free does not keep fresh a long time and

I don’t need that many more pounds on my hips and ass hence the Pan.  These little Babycakes freeze wonderfully,

I use this pan for lots of different baked goods, even baby Meatloafs.. You too can find this pan at your local Target.

These are an original “On the Go Goodies” recipe. These do not need frosting, however they can be dressed up with

a whole half nut or a piped rosebud and leaf or just leave them naked.

1 Cup Butter
2 Cups Sugar
1 t. Vanilla
4 Eggs
3.4 Cup Cocoa
¼ Cup Oil

1 Cup Gluten Free Flour- use mine or yours

1/3 cup Teff Flour

1 Cup Nuts- Optional

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.

1. In Medium saucepan melt Butter, Cocoa and Oil

2. Remove from heat and stir in Sugar

3. Blend in Eggs one at a time or if in a hurry all at once

4. Stir in Vanilla

5. Blend in  Flour and Nuts

6. Spread in a greased 9 x 13 cake pan.

Bake for 30 minutes.

If you are using my Babycakes style pan check at 15 minutes and for gosh sakes don’t go over 20 minutes

Keep in mind these are really supposed to be more fudgey than this, Just use the Flour amount listed above

UNLESS you are not using Teff Flour, if you are just using regular flour then use the 1 1/2  cups Flour.

 

Short post today

I guess I overdid it the other day on the tractor, not feeling the best today.

A little at over a year ago, I had major surgery and they found my colon an my bladder were fused together. 

So now when I hurt, I think they have grown back together. And very likely to happen because once you have it adhesiens they tend to grow back. 

On a positive note, I have been asked to participate in a photo art show late this year.  I am sure I will ask opinions on which pictures to use.

 

This is the bomb

We just got back from Wally world and I have a new headphone microphones system.  Therefore, I and dictating my blog to you.  This is so much damn easier than my trying to type.  It even spells better than I did I just have to learn to speak better.  The only problem is I must enunciate -Hey it picked that up.

 

Let’s try a recipe-

Oven fried chicken

Now I use skinless, boneless chicken breasts but you can use whatever piece you want.

In small bowl mix 1 cup buttermilk with of three shakes of Tabasco sauce.

Wash chicken pieces pat dry and place in this to marinate no more than 30 minutes.

In a plastic bag crush 2 cups corn flakes I also added 1/4 cup Gluten-Free flour (rice flour only) 1 teaspoon Paparika.

Dip chicken pieces in buttermilk then roll in  the cornflake flour mixture then place on cookie sheet which has been a lined with aluminum foil.  Salt and pepper to taste.  Bake in 350° oven for 45 minutes, or till done.

 

Farm Day

Today I slept till 11:00 did not feel well and knew we were going to the farm to work.

Boy did we work, ok, well LB did most everything, we also took the Grandson and he helped a lot. I taught him to ride the ATV and he had a blast- did not mind going to shed to get tools at all. 

I got to learn how to drive the Kubota- took to it like a duck to water, there is just nothing like running a big machine to feel way more powerful than woman on the ground.  LB will be happy next week, he will be able to have a big ole fire. He loves his fires.

So a good day was had – I slept, we worked and got lots of small trees, brush cleared for the guy to build the pond for the artisian overflow. That is slowing down to just one hose now but I am sure when it rains again it will get heavy again. We joke that when we get this pond built, the well will quit overflowing.

Hope not, if it does we will just pump water in the pond and wait for rain.

Night all, hope you have had a good one too.

 

You can’t fix stupid…. OR Stupid is forever….

Take your pick.. I that is my thought for day, it has been ok day- dealing with some of those pesky feelings and locked up thoughts. I have been told that taking them out and dealing with them a little at a time is kinda like picking awayat a scab.  I do have to say I think that it may be helping, at least I seem to be getting some coping skills or learning different ways of looking at choices I have made and changing my current thought process.   I made the best choices I could at the time. Looking back will not change anything.  I can either live in past decisions or chose to live in the moment. 

 

I am choosing to live in the moment, don’t get me wrong I am trying to deal with guilt etc from those choices I made. But this is now…

 

I also learned today that they have a description of all my worrying about something happening to LB.  It is called Anticipatory Grief.  I am making the decision that living thru it once may kill me and I honestly don’t know how I will but there is absolutely no reason to live thru it twice. So I am going to stop doing that.  We have the technical points taken care of and I know I will have to sell house within a year etc. so that is all set and the money issue has been dealt with already too. Therefore I am not going to stress about it anymore or at least when I start to I am going to tell myself that I can only live thru it once and to stop it.

Btw – the Stupid thing is not me or LB  but a thought for another day.

 

Today

Well, it’s been HOT -over 100 out – so I just keep my little butt (OK, maybe not so little) but I keep it inside. So I have been researching Joomla or WordPress and diff hosting sites- Makes my head spin.

I know I have not been posting all those “feelings” I should be- its just hard to talk it all out which so far no one is reading or caring so it should be easier I guess.=lol

Dinner is in the oven and the oldest Gran or in my case Step Grandchild is coming over so I can help her do a budget.  Seems like odly enough she is one of the only ones who talks to me about personal stuff and man does it get personal sometimes. 

She has come to be like one of my own- only listens when she wants to.

Which I think we are all that way, no matter what age we are. Whether we have any common sense or not we always think we know what to do or who to ask and usually who we ask is a peer who probably does not know much more about it than we do.

If any of this dinner comes out real good I will post the recipes.  It is GF (Gluten Free) oven baked chicken and roasted potatoes and cherry crisp.  Cherry thing is for hubby cause I don’t do many fruits.  Give ME chocolate.

 

Buzzzz on a flower

Buzzzz on a flower, originally uploaded by cbannon.

Ok, well this is a bee on a flower- duh BUT it is also my first foray into hooking up my photos to a blog- I figured it out- YAY it always takes me a while but sooner or later I get there. I won’t pop the 650.00 for a macro lens BUT I did buy the Kenko extension tubes and am very happy with them. I prob still need to get a better tripod, mine is a little wobbly.

I tend to take these bug and flower pictures, they don’t mind setting for me, they are there whenever I go over to the pond, however they are like kids in that if I talk they tend to fly away.

 

My Gluten Free Flour Mix

There are more GF mixes than you can shake a stick at and it is a very personal kinda thing cause when you can’t have the normal stuff you really want to get it as close as you can.  This is my mix that I use cup for cup for regular flour, I have had GREAT luck with it for all types of foods.

2 cups sorghum flour,  3 cups brown rice flour,  3 cups white rice flour,  2 cups tapioca flour, 2 cups potato starch,  1/2 cup ground flax seed,   /2 cup potato flour,  1/4 cup xanthan gum

Mix all together in LARGE and I do mean LARGE container and then store in fridge.

I use a small coffee grinder and I whiz instant potato flakes to make the potato flour, I also whiz -read grind the flax seed  ( I don’t care for the coarse stuff )

 

Man

It is quite absurd to say that a man is good or bad- he is good and bad.

Elbert Hubbard