Quick notes

[serene]

1) It was *lovely* watching baby_fly, though I have renamed him Sweet-face Boy. I did like smelling his little baby head, I'll admit, and I found him to be sweet and charming in the extreme.

2) It was also great spending time with loracs.

3) Then I got home and crashed, and couldn't wake up in the morning, and have spent most of the day in bed. Not feeling very good, and I'm kinda tired of having no energy and stuff. If I'm still this way next week, I should probably see my doctor.

4) From a comment I made yesterday afternoonish on someone else's LJ: "I'm making chapatis out of wheat I ground in my very own grain grinder! (First time using this fabulous thing stonebender bought for me; I've been too intimidated before, but hell, if I can bake bread...)" The chapatis came out well -- they were from a Madhur Jaffrey book, as was the chana dal with potatoes I wrapped in them. Yummmmmm!

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Those chapatis sound very fine! But isn't the daily grind very hard work?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Heh. Silly person.

[kineticphoenix.livejournal.com]

He has become such a little flirt, hasn't he? I'm glad you had such a good time watching him :)

[twostepsfwd.livejournal.com]

I plan to make gluten-free chapatis this week, actually. I love making chapatis, when I could eat gluten I liked them even better than naan.

BTW I saw you and one of your honeys (?) from afar at Bushrod Park yesterday ;-P

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Red hair, ponytail, beard? That was someotherguy. :-) We were on our way to the Berkeley Bowl to buy some yeast and veggies.

Let me know how the gluten-free chapatis go.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Just now, by the way, I ran across a spelt pie crust recipe on Usenet, and naturally thought of you (you do spelt, right?)

Anyway:

3 cups white spelt flour
1 tsp. sea salt (regular salt is fine)
1/4 cup oat milk or other non-dairy milk and 1/4 cup light oil, combined.

Makes enough for 2-9" pie crusts.
Use a food processor for this it makes it so much easier to mix.
Add the flour and salt to the food processor and process it for a few
minutes to combine. It will also fluff up the flour. Pour the oil/milk
mixture into a measuring cup, and mix it thoroughly, then through the
feeding tube of the food processor slowly pour in the oil/milk mixture
until the dough looks like large crumbles. Don't let it go into a ball, that
will be over mixing. Open the food processor and feel the dough, if it sticks
together nicely then its ready, if it's dry add a bit more oil/milk mixture
until it feels like it will stay together. It shouldn't be sticky. It
should feel slightly oily.
Turn the dough out onto a prepared surface and compress it into
a disc with your hands. Cut in two equal parts for the top and
bottom crust.
You can roll this out quite thin as it holds together pretty well.
I use a large plastic sheet especially made for rolling out pie dough.
this eliminates the need to add more flour to the dough. If you
don't have one of these use two pieces of wax paper.
Once the dough is rolled flat, I wrap this dough around the rolling
pin, then unroll it onto the pie tin. I also prick it on the sides
and bottom to ensure no air gets trapped underneath.
Repeat the rolling process with the top crust. Once the pie is made
brush it with the non-dairy milk and then cut little vent holes in
The top crust to let out steam.

Follow the directions for whatever pie you're making.

[twostepsfwd.livejournal.com]

Thanks - Spelt has gluten in it, unfortunately - people with celiac disease cannot eat that or kamut, the two grains popular with peopel who avoid wheat for reasons other than celiac disease. I believe the recipes I have use chickpea flour and/or brown rice flour. I'll get back to you about how it goes!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Good to know; thanks.