Sunday 15 March 2015

Rotation

Chipmunk's allergies are annoying. Well, seeing as they don't show up on IgE tests, technically I suppose they are classified as intolerances. Either way, they make foodie-life unnecessarily complicated.

Recent changes

  • rice maximum 2 times per week
  • corn should be used less than once a week (including starches)
  • buckwheat maximum 2 times per week
  • sweet potato every other day or less
  • no potato - not even starch - at all
  • no soy - at all
  • no legumes - at all
So, rather headache-inducing, seeing as our diet had rice, corn and buckwheat pretty much every day. We still have our other restrictions.

Let me say, aargh.

Meet Little Bunny, the little sister. She seems to not have allergies (that we know of yet). 
She's facepalming with sympathy. At least it's easy to feed her. 

Sunday 8 March 2015

Liege Waffles- ish.

If you have not yet tried liege waffles, you must. Liege waffles are made from a thick, yeasted dough, dotted with big pearl sugar. They are crunchy on the outside and chewy fluffy sticky sweet on the inside. This is my pale attempt at an imitation. 

The measurements are a bit wonky. Lack of sleep makes me sloppy.



Liege-ish almost-Waffles (lots of them!) 
1 cup cornflour
3/4 cup buckwheat
3/4 cup millet
1 cup tapioca starch
1 cup potato starch
100 g melted butter (approximately, it was half a cereal bowl, didn't weigh it)
300 g coconut milk
200 g water
20 g yeast (fresh)
1-2 cup sugar pearls
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp egg replacer
2 tsp psyllium husk powder 
Mix dry together (except sugar pearls).
Mix wet together. Add melted butter.
Mix everything together (except sugar pearls). Let rise for about an hour (or overnight in the fridge). Add sugar pearls, then scoop with an ice cream scoop into waffle iron and bake. 
Eat!