I have been spending a lot of time making sweatshirts with clouds on them. More to come!
This was the first one:
Thunder!
I may have gotten a little too complex on this one:
Blue:
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Clouds
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thanksgiving and Christmas Decorations
The time has come for the thanksgiving decorations to come down and the christmas decorations to go up! Here are some pictures of both of them:
One of my hand turkeys:
Frank did this one I like it a lot:
A vegetarian turkey:
Jess's Turkey with a pilgrim hat:
A hand shaped slice of turkey:
One day I brought some construction paper in:
A snow turkey:
After Halloween we turned Frankenstein into a pilgrim:
Now he is Franken-claus:
The hand reindeer idea turned out more like a dinosaur:
Everyone gets a santa hat:
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Gluten Free, Soy Free, Corn Free, Vegan Apple Pie
I'm going to thanksgiving with my friend who recently found out that a gluten allergy had triggered a number of other allergies and so she is basically allergic to everything. Soo, I decided to try to make a pie that she could eat. The crust recipe was loosely based on this one but I had to add a few restrictions. The biggest hurdle was actually the butter/shortening substitute since most "vegetable oil" and vegan butter substitutes are just soybean oil (even Vegan, Soy Free Earth Balance contains "Natural Flavors (derived from corn).
Pie Crust Recipe:
2 cups rice flour
1 cup potato starch
1 cup plantain flour
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 apple cider vinegar
1 mashed banana
1/2 cup pure creamed coconut
1/2 cup olive oil
ice water as needed
Before starting with the dry ingredients I needed to turn the olive oil and coconut oil into something resembling butter. I chopped up the coconut into small pieces and blended it with the olive oil until it became a milkshake like liquid. Then I put it in the freezer for about half an hour and . . . butter substitute! I combined all of the dry ingredients (flours, sugar, salt, cinnamon) and mixed them in a bowl, then added the banana (egg substitute) and vinegar, then I added small chunks of the coconut/olive oil mixture and cut the dough with knives until the coconut/oil was in pea sized pieces. Next I added the water a little bit at a time until it was a nice consistency (just like a normal pie!).
Rolling out the dough was kind of a mess since it didn't hold together very well but I was able to get it into the pie tin without it falling apart too much by rolling it out on plastic wrap and then putting it between that and a cutting board and flipping it into the tin. I made a lattice for the top crust which turned out delightfully sloppy.
For the filling I filled the crust with sliced apples and poured a mixture of olive oil, sugar and a little bit of water over it. I probably should have added a little bit of potato starch which I was going to do but then forgot.
I baked the pie at 425 for 10 minutes and then turned it down to 350 for 50 more minutes, about halfway through the baking when I checked it I realized that there was a lot of liquid sitting inside (probably not forgetting to add some kind of starch to the filling would have helped this) so I carefully poured out some of the liquid.
I haven't tried it yet but it looks great and the pieces of the crust I broke off tasted great!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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