I broke my own rule last night: I blogged about someone without telling them about it. I feel two-faced and dirty. But then again, guilt is my middle-name, so I guess I should just move along swiftly.
I could also whine on about how money is getting tighter than ever, but I will try to remain sane and positive and rather tell you about our cool end to the day with the kids.
Evenings here are hectic, but I wanted to bake some wheat-free cookies for school snacks, so I thought it would be nice for the kids to help. We bathed them and fed them and then did the cookies just before bedtime. I chose an easy recipe out of my MIL’s Kook en Geniet from 1973 and I just replaced the flour with rice flour. It doesn’t taste the same, but worth the effort. Anyone here have suggestions on how you replace wheat in baking?
(Mignon missed the final product as she slept really badly last night and asked to go to bed earlier tonight. Hey, who am I to stand in her way if she wants to sleep?)
Here they are busy with the cookie shapes. It was lovely, no fighting, no crying, they had a great time. And afterwards the Labby came in to lick all the debris off the floor. Win-win!
What an awesome activity. Pop onto my friend Inspiration’s blog (Lavender & Lime). Perhaps she can help you with the flour question.
Hooray for the sweeper….
ps Love the table
Also noticed the table 🙂
Not gonna work in MY house……bath BEFORE baking?
What a lovely family activity!
looks like fun 🙂
Me too 🙂
And you did this on a ‘school’ night? Oh my, you are one brave woman! Looks like great fun though 🙂
Cute man 🙂
Fun for all,even dad
He is SO good..
They were very good!
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Hubby was also worried about this, but as they only had to ‘roll out’ the dough and do the actual cookies it was cool 🙂
Thanks!
Thanks! I love Oregon pine (sp??), have some lovely pieces courtesy of my Mom.
Will do!
sweetness! love that dad also helped with the cookies 🙂
What a great thing to do with them! It is such fun teaching the children new ways to do things. xx The ladies on the Food24 site are great with advice. xx
I emailed you a recipe for GF cookies. Have got a whole GF recipe book if you want to borrow it!
Great, thanks, might just to that!
Good point!
He is amazing 🙂
http://www.spatula.co.za/wheat-free-and-gluten-free-south-africa/
Hope this helps!
Will go check it out, thanks so much!!