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Rhubarb and meringue pie.. YUM, heaven on a plate.

Dinner today was apple wrapped pork loin. Served with gravy, potatoes , pepper and the meat was succulent and flavourful, normally I do this dish in autumn but we had apples at home for a change. Dessert wasnt on the menu until my neighbour came with fresh picked rhubarb and I turned into rhubarb meringue pie.

I cant even make cookies with bicarb when there is a thunderstorm coming, it doesn't work. Here are the flatbreads.

radekt, it depends where you live if it works or not. When I started it was sunshine and warm , then it dropped and got cold and started raining, but my loaf was in the oven by then.. Humidity does effect the flour, but that depends on if goes from a blistering heat to a cold rain, then it can be a bit odd. Also since it temperature drop, it can be too cold for the bread to rise unless you have a very warm home. So yes it does effect and in the old days even more so then today in our modern warm home. Thunderstorms is a no go for baking here, the bread will not rise normally and well there could a power outage so no bread then.

Home made falafel with home made Lebanese flat bread. Yes I made this my self, ground the beans in my meat grinder ( it is cleaned and disinfected and safe to use) and we had it for lunch, now I have 3 kilos more of falafel dough to freeze in.

A big porridge loaf and 8 Lebanese flat breads is what I have manage to make today and then I fell a sleep. I did too much today and it just shy of 4 in the afternoon. I was supposed to make gluten free hamburger bread for my friend , but the weather is horrible so no grilling today and he also said since I was so tired , it wasnt needed.

Anna: that where we have the problem with food, over here and in UK potato flour is just starch , hence I wrote what it was. But do you want potato starch recipes?

Anna I forgot. If buckwheat is out so is rhubarb so much I know. Can you get hold of potato meal/ flour? It basically potato starch and very common to use here in gluten free cookies and breads,

Old fashion cornbread and old fashion corn cookies are by design glutenfree.

You flour could have been old or not absorbent enough, it happens. If you want a firmer white chocolate cream, melt the chocolate with the cream, dont boil the cream and leave to cool completely and then whip fluffy.

Well it is too late any way. Oh and my chilli is dead too, my daughter has been manhandling it to the point of no roots so it died, but we have two tomato plants and I found a place where I can buy chilli, peppers and strawberry plant for a good price and not bog standard types ( grow fast= no flavour).

I never boiled mustard, I check 5 cookbooks and no boiling, and yes I done mustard with rolling a cannon ball in a bowl until the mustard seeds are crushed and we added smoky whisky and malt vinegar .

The camera makes it look hotter then it is, it doesnt go up to a white hot but more of a warm yellow and it doesnt burn the food, it takes about 15 minutes to get the thin slices of meat that brown and it been check by one electrician, who used to work with nuclear power plants and also surprisingly to sum, since I am a woman , I know how to rewire it and check it if need be and so does my husband, he has a higher degree in electrics then I do. Tonight's dinner will be hotdogs grilled on the same machine with mash.

It is Phillips stand rotisserie from the 1970.ties or 80:ties, it was found at a Charity shop and it wasn't used either, still in its plastic wrapping. I never seen one before . The glowing part in the middle is a metal coil and get super hot and the spits turn on their axle. I am not sure how safe it really is but it makes the meat so tender and lovely. It makes a mean Tandoori.

I was pondering to grow tomatillos on my balcony but I was told I needed two plants and I have no space for that since they can become rather large,

This is from Monday, I made layered jell-O for my daughter's nursery group and had fun with the left overs, injected some milk jell-o into the orange and well my husband say it looks like a fetus and I say intestines. Why the jell-O treats for the nursery? They always have a party for the birthday kid, which happens to be my daughter this time and the birthday kid gets a balloon with their name on as gift , best thing ever. And you cant have a party with out treats so Jell-O. Jell-O is a very uncommon thing here in Sweden but the kids loved it.

This what we had today, rotisserie pork and with that roasties, broccoli and red sauce ( daughters name on her favourite sauce and no it isnt ketchup, it is ajvar, chilli sauce, yoghurt and tomato purée.

If you want to make a cake sweet, super sweet it is easy. Take one of these normal sugar recipe of white cake, follow that and get a perfect cake. Now to make it sweet enough for you, soak the sponge in simple syrup and then a layer of dulce de leche between the cakes, Also when you make the butter cream to smoother the cake, add 1 tablespoon dulce de leche and use sweetened condensed milk instead of milk, this will make the cake sweet. Or make a pavlova instead for the birthday, because birthday cake can be anything you lke. I find cakes of today too sweet by the way.

Anna, I was just talking to a friend from Ottawa, who is now on a gluten free diet. She recommend this recipe http://www.landolakes.com/recipe/3074/sandwich-bread-gluten-free-recipe

When it comes to the hops it depends on with type of hops. If I would compare with the beers we can get from Europe and USA, which isnt much but still and I am no expert, USA hoppy beers have more of a flowery , perfume undertone then the European. So I would with no problem grab a British, Dutch or German hoppy beer and make a good stew but not USA hoppy beer. I have made a lovely lemon and lemon jasmine rice pudding with American happy beer, the flower and perfume suited it well and the brand well it was yeti on it and that is all I remember. But as I said I am no expert and this based on the beers I can get here in Sweden from the USA.

I found the recipe for the cake I used for the chocolate mousse. Yes Nigellas Guinness cake but with kelp beer it becomes something even better and closer to heaven. http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/chocolate-guinness-cake-3086

A birthday cake for me isnt just a plain cake, it has frosting and it is the frosting that makes the cake sweet. I have made lots of cakes with out machines and it just a little bit harder works. Here is a simple and yummy cake, you can make it round too, but i cant remember how big it became. Basic chocolate cake. 225 gram butter 200 ml milk 5 eggs 450 ml sugar 1 ½ tablespoon vanilla 125 ml unsweetened cocoa powder 3 teaspoon baking powder 600 ml flour. Turn the oven on to 175 C. Grease a 30x40 cm square tin and dust with a little flour or cover it with baking paper. Melt the butter. Whisk the eggs and sugar with a whisk or a fork until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla. Sift in the flour and baking powder. Whisk the butter with cocoa powder and then add to the batter and then the milk. Stir until smooth, you can use a spoon for this. Pour into the tin and bake for 20 min in the middle of the oven. Cool on a rack and when cold smear with a lot of frosting and add chocolate candies and sprinkles. The original frosting is with coffee, I can try to find it for you but I prefer this

I love beer as much as you do but hops isnt not the only thing that flavours beers, you can use heather, juniper, kelp, bog myrtle ( Myrica gale) among other things and then I dont mean add hops and fruit, no hops free beer does exist. Then you have the kriek, which is a beer made with cherries and again no hops. The best chocolate mousse I have ever made was with kelp ale and the chocolate cake underneath beat any guiness cake I ever had. No hops, just flavoured with kelp. For my husband as the first dinner as engaged I made him a lovely deep rich heather ale stew, again a beer/ ale with no hops. European Elk ( alces Alces) in bog myrtle beer is something out of this world, but bog myrtle beer is hard to come by and the only one I know who made it, he is no longer making beer . I love finding beers that doesnt use hops as the flavour.

When my daughter was born some of my American friends made a PDF of fun and interesting "kids" foods. This is a recipe from the PDF called Ultimate American oatmeal, I dont know why the name nor where my friend got it from but my daughter liked it. She likes her oatmeal in the morning, dry, cooked and with different toppings. So this was a treat, oatmeal with pancake syrup ( used ljus syrup), chocolate button ( I had a few left from her birthday) and peanut butter ( also a left over) . After she had this she looked her dad and said , tomorrow cloud berries no chocolate. I have a sane kid.

Pork and apple goes well together and so does roasted parsnip and making it into burger just makes it easier to eat.