Looking for tips on how to make gluten free work on a budget? Here are a few tips, and a recipe for inexpensive, tasty, cornmeal pancakes.
I love waffles, and I really wanted a great gluten free waffle, so I bought a new waffle maker. One of those really deep Belgian Waffle kinds. But I let it sit for a couple of weeks in the cupboard, because I wasn’t really sure which flour blend to use to make waffles.
I’m pretty proud of these pancakes. They’re made with my homemade baking mix made from the super cheap Thai Rice Flour and potato starch that I get at the Asian grocery and they’re fantastic. Light and fluffy and great with chocolate chips.
Light, fluffy and moist, these are better Gluten Free Bisquick Pancakes
Breakfast can be a dilemma for a mom with a large family. Some days I just point everyone to the cereal cupboard, but most days, I want everyone to start the day with something healthy that will keep them going. (Especially on those busy days out when lunch is delayed… um… until dinner).
I am incredibly happy. I have finally found a grain free pancake recipe that I LOVE!! When I was a little kid my dad would make pancakes from scratch. Amazing fluffy, sweet pancakes. And we didn’t eat them with cheap old table syrup. We’d eat them with butter and lemon juice and a little bit of icing sugar.
On Monday I invented mung bean pancakes. I had ground mung beans to try out in my continuing grain free waffle experiment, but the flour was so soft and beautiful I decided to make pancakes instead. They weren’t quite what I was hoping for. Fantastic texture, but the taste just wasn’t pancakey enough. Too savory. So I turned to Google. Surely someone else has had the idea of making mung bean pancakes and did it better than I did. I was right. Someone else had beat me to it. A whole country of someone elses. The Koreans. The next day I found out that I’d been outdone by an entire…
In my quest to make a waffle that I can use a substitute for flavorless toast, I discovered a mock bran muffin waffle. If the thing you miss most being gluten free is starting your day with the, um, unique flavor and texture of a bran muffin, you might enjoy this easy flourless waffle made with flax meal. I don’t particularly enjoy bran or anything with a branny texture, but I managed to get one of these down with a generous amount of butter and homemade jam. I paired it with carrot juice because it just seemed right. Flourless Mock Bran Waffles 3 eggs 3/4 cup flax meal 1/4 cup…
I’ve been experimenting with flourless waffles trying to find an inexpensive, flavorless substitute for gluten free toast. I’ve tried peanut butter and almonds and cashews, but in Bangkok peanut butter and almonds and cashews are really expensive. Finally I realized that I could use peanuts the same way I’ve been trying to use nuts and peanut butter. And for some reason, peanuts here are really cheap. So I now have an abundance of peanutty waffles in the freezer ready to reheat in the waffle maker. These aren’t the flavorless toast success I was hoping for, you can really taste the peanut in these, but they’d be a good base for…
