A Real Alaskan Housewife

Last week I was on a major sweets craving. I needed a fix. What I really wanted was chocolate chip cookies. Not feeling like going to the store for GF flour, I hit the WWW looking for a cookie that didn't use any flour. I was hoping there would be one as I have made flourless peanut butter cookies before. I was really hoping, and wishin' and prayin.... anyways... I found this.  Flourless Chocolate Walnut Oatmeal Cookies  I just have to say...Oh. My. Goodness. This is like eating candy. Let's just say I gained about a million pounds. On average, I ate five cookies a day. I convinced myself they were healthy- peanut butter, oatmeal, dried cranberries and dark chocolate. All healthy stuff. In moderation. AHHHHHHH.... Those two silly words!!!!! I followed the recipe somewhat closely. For the first batch (stick with me here) I used  Adam's No-Stir Creamy Peanut Butter , two cups Quaker Oatmeal, one cup dried cranberries, handful each of Ghirardelli white, dark and ...

A friend sent us a box of organic California lemon cellos. Opening the box was heaven... the scent wafting from the lemons was like sunshine. The yellow color was a bright spot on a gray cold day. When we got home, I washed the lemons because they had a looooong cold flight. (You like taking a shower/bath after traveling, yes?) For the first couple days I simply enjoyed the sight and scent of sunshine in my kitchen.  We did photo shoots. Fresh from their bath.  Sunshine streaming thru the kitchen window.  Beautiful, lovely gorgeous lemons. (I didn'a realize my Trifle bowl was, well, dirty) I realized that I should do something with the wonderful lemons instead of letting them go bad. I shared several with friends, sliced some up for water and ate them like oranges. Oh yeah. Good stuff. One recipe I have never tried from scratch is lemon bars. I have enjoyed them at potlaches, BBQs and restaurants and have *loved* them...

World Thinking Day  is coming up and my troop picked Greece as their country. Snack today was our turn, sooooo.... to tackle two birds in the hand, DD#2 and I decided to make pita bread. Of course, we made it last night in preparation of our troop meeting today. On one of my Pinterest boards, I had pinned a  pita bread  from the Brown Eyed Baker. What a perfect opportunity to test the recipe. Aaaaand (drumroll please) here is the result: This made 16 small pitas. Yes, three are missing. We needed to taste test. Close up of the inside. My thoughts- Taste is fab. Texture, chewy & firm. Sadly, no pocket.  Smitten Kitchen  recommends spritzing the dough discs prior to baking. Gonna have to try that next time. The girls enjoyed the bread with hummus and decided we needed to use them for Thinking Day. Hmmmm...I'll have to freeze some to see how they taste. Pita Bread Pin (I didn'a take any pictures of the process. I must admit, I was not pla...