Jen's Mental Scribblings

And another batch of cookies in the trash.

I'm running short of the GF AP flour I use. So for Chocolate crinkles I decided to try using an AP flour my mom bought me. It uses four different flours to make the 1 to 1 mix and the base is garfava flour. (A combination of Garbanzo and Fava Bean flours) which upon previous attempts at using proved to be bitter and just plain Blecky. It is recommended that you use this flour with strong tasting things to cover the bitterness. Molasses cookies, pumpkin bread, etc, etc. I figured that any recipe that has 4 ounces of unsweetened chocolate would be enough to cover up that taste.

I was wrong.

Blech!

Although Joe is still eating them. I'm not surprised mind you...but as he said "Its chocolate rolled in sugar...I'm eatin' it." and "I've eaten my own cooking. Its gotta be a lot worse than this for me not to eat it."

I didn't even finish my first bite of the second cookie, I spit it out. And 20 minutes later the bitter, yucky aftertaste is still with me. Blech! Just nasty. This is starting to make me a bit discouraged in attempting to bake using my own recipes. I'm beginning to wonder if its worth the trouble. However, I just don't want the kids to see all the baking I do come from boxes and mixes. I love to bake. I'm just finding it annoying to try and bake gluten-free.

EDIT The kids apparently think these cookies are worth pulling out of the trash. Ew.

Its that time of year, so what the hell. I'll post my want list here

for allanh



These were stitched by Nancy in the Legacy Guild. I thought they were really pretty. However, then I started to look a little closer. If you tilt your head to the left, you'll see that the trees are actually names and their mirror image to make a tree.

From left to right: David, Nancy, Samantha, Douglas, Victor, Shawn

Is that cool or what?

Okay, even cooler. I just showed the pic to my mom and she said she'd buy the charts for me as my christmas present. Woo Hoo! Now I don't have to break the rules of my 10-25-50 Challenge!