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Gluten Free Almond Cookies

Posted on November 17, 2018 by prissymuskoka

This is a family recipe that my husband has warm memories of with Christmas.

With a bit of tweaking these taste just as great gluten free!!

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter

1cup brown sugar

1 egg (beaten)

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract

1 + 3/4 cup Gluten Free flour mixture

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup ground blanched almonds

1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum

Cream butter to soften. Add brown sugar and cream thoroughly. Add egg, vanilla, and almond extract. Mix well.

In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and xantham gum. Blend into creamed mixture.

Stir in ground almonds.

Chill.

Roll out between floured parchment paper. *this dough can become sticky very quickly. When that happens, just put back in fridge to chill again.*

Cut with cookie cutters.

Bake at 350.

Watch closely. 10-14 minutes with edges browned. Let sit on cookie tray for 5 min before moving to cooling tray.

And then we turn them into amazing Christmas cookies!!

Hope you enjoy this recipe as much as my family!!

End of Summer Gluten Free Bean Salad

Posted on September 5, 2017 by prissymuskoka

Hard to believe the end of summer is here. Back to school, work and Fall.

As I grapple with behaving and eating healthy, I decided to make a bean salad to take for my lunches this week.

At a recent Farmer’s Market in Muskoka, I bought a dried bean salad mix from Spill The Beans ( www.spillthebeans.ca ) This seems easy and my bean mix selection is already done for me.

I have modified the Spill The Bean recipe slightly as I didn’t have all the ingredients she recommended to add to her “Hearty Fearty” bean salad.

1) Soak the dried beans and then cook as per the Spill The Bean packaging

2) I diced up a red onion, 1/2 cup of mini carrots and a cup of peas from fresh pods

3) I whipped up the recommended salad dressing: 2/3 vinegar, 2 table spoons honey, 1/2 cup of oil. I added 1/2 table spoon of freeze dried cilantro.

4) after the beans cooled, I mixed in my other ingredients, then poured in salad dressing over the top!

Voila my lunch is made for the week!

Enjoy! It’s yummy!

And check out Spill The Beans! Highly recommend!

www.spillthebeans.ca

Summer Memories Relived at Santa’s Village

Posted on August 4, 2017 by prissymuskoka

It’s kind of funny how in some aspects of raising children, we get to relive or atleast get flash backs of our childhood from our children.

Except for me, Santa’s Village was a once a summer experience but nowadays most local families have season passes here and the Village becomes more a familiar frequented meeting place. And you get to know the staff…like for example some gate greeters don’t even need to see our season pass card to let us in – they know we have it as we are regular visitors, as they greet us frequently.