If you may remember, I posted a lengthy celebration blog about when I finally learned how to make the perfect cinnamon rolls. Please don't be disappointed that I don't include a recipe, it was more a journey about making good things when you substitute out the bad and put in the good.Lately my family has found out we need to eliminate gluten/casein/eggs/soy from our diet. I am sure a few of you just gasped as you realized I will be eating rice and beans for the rest of my life.
Partly because I am stubborn, and partly because I am hungry, tonight I attempted zucchini bread without wheat flour or eggs. I wish I could tell you it was amazing, but it turned out smelling wonderful and being a perfect replica of zucchini snot. Yep, snot. Apparently I have not mastered the knack of baking with xanthan gum yet.
So I was a little disappointed, and by a little, I mean my kids cried and my husband and I laughed our backsides off about the disaster. My kitchen is trashed and I have 2 perfect loaves of zucchini flavored snot. I wonder if this is how the "Every Flavor Beans" in Harry Potter were imagined by the author.
I have two options at this point (of course this is after the obvious, get rid of the snot loaves step). I can either declare we will never eat zucchini bread again, or get this right. I may have substituted a few too many things out of the recipe. I may have overdone it with the xanthan gum, and I may have, just maybe, had a few too many expectations of the result.
So now I will try again. I will attempt a different recipe with a few less substitutions. I will bake when the kids are not around to smell the possibilities, when I may have once again created snot. I will find success. I will learn how to make bread. I will add variety to my diet, and I will learn a new skill.
Because if I don't, you will see a lot of rice and beans at my house....sigh.
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