Sunday, June 15, 2014

Chocolate Chip Scones (no dairy, eggs, nuts)

My kids love this recipe for Chocolate Chip Scones and last weekend my son wanted me to make them for breakfast. For some reason I could not find my recipe even though I searched in all the usual places. Total panic mode! We really love this recipe!

I spent the next couple days trying to figure out where I may have misplaced it. Finally, I remembered that I had gotten it from a book in our local library, but then the problem was that I couldn't remember which one. After looking through about 20 Christmas books I finally found it! This recipe is adapted from a Gooseberry Patch, Christmas Book 13.

Chocolate Chip Scones (no dairy, eggs, nuts)

2 ½ C   all purpose flour (GF flour mix)
2 ½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp.   baking soda
¾ C      non-dairy margarine (sliced)
1 C       non-dairy chocolate chips (substitute chopped cranberries)
¾ C      buttermilk (3/4 C rice milk + 3 tsp. vinegar)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Make buttermilk by combining ¾ rice milk and 3 tsp vinegar and set aside. Mix flour, baking powder and baking soda in a large mixing bowl. Cut non-dairy margarine into flour mix until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in non-dairy chocolate chips and sugar. Slowly add the buttermilk until it is just blended.

I usually just spoon the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet but you can use a scone pan or roll the dough into two 8 inch circles and cut each portion into 8 wedges. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Drizzle glaze over the top and let stand until it hardens.



Glaze:
2/3 C  powdered sugar
1 T     warm water
¼ tsp. vanilla extract


Combine all the ingredients and mix well. Add additional water if needed.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Life's Challenging Moments

I know my posts have been few and far between this past month. After Spring Break, which was wonderful, we hit one bump after another.

- Abbey (our dog) had a very large growth removed from her mouth and two other smaller growths removed from around her head. Thankfully, they were all benign.

- Our teen spent two full weeks in bed with a fever, severe headache and a sinus infection. She missed school for two weeks and had to make up all her school work for what she missed.

- Then, I got the same flu but my symptoms were not as bad so I was only out of commission for one and a half weeks.

- Our teen hurt her leg the first day back to track practice. We thought it might be a stress fracture but it turned out to be tendinitis in her knee.

- Then, I got the stomach flu. Well, what I thought was the flu, was really my Appendix which was removed. I spent even more time recovering, again. 

Sigh.

So now you know why we have been neglecting our blog but I promise we will be posting more in the future. We will be concentrating on some delicious recipes for you to try! To help us get out of our negative "funk" and because we finally had good weather, I've been working in our garden. Here are some of the beautiful colors and shapes emerging this spring to our backyard.