Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef: gluten-free rugelach. I’m in heaven. I was asked to make GF challah tonight and bring a dessert to a Rosh Hashana dinner. The former was easy–I’ve been modifying this GF challah recipe of late and it’s been spectacular–and better with a few modifications. Now I’m going to attach the rugelach. This wont be my first GF rugelach, but I can tell it’s going to be my best....

…when all you have is the fabric?! We inherited two items of furniture, one from each side of the family–a chair from the Husband’s grandmother and an indoor bench from mine. Both need recovering. There is not a chance we can afford to have it done for us, but I kept looking at the cushions and thinking… “I could do that…” You know, in my spare time. Here’s the chair, mit fabric. And here’s...

Erica, over here where she “blogs sporadically” mentioned making yogurt the other day. I believe my judicious reply was, “You did not!” Shortly after, I received an email from her with instructions: A gallon of milk in a crock pot at 0700 hrs, on low for 3-1/2 hrs. 1000 hrs, shut off crock pot. 1200 hrs, remove some of the (still!) warm milk and whisk it with a cup (I used more because I was paranoid) of active yogurt. I...

Today we arose before five and headed to the Tucson INTERNATIONAL Airport. Cracks me up. (International. Snort.) Boys were thrilled. Mom a little less so, but Dad sat with boys so mom could listen to audiobook and knit. How awesome is THAT!? After a longish (but pleasant and free-via-miles) set of flights we landed— —and were picked up by Auntie Suzie. We were able to see Cousin Thom off to a fête in Finland then back to...

First, yes. I did take my knitting with me, which was nice because we had a forty minute wait for the tour. Yesterday, as part of my summer staycation with the kids, we went to the Titan missile museum. After posting a pic on Facebook, I found out just how unnervingly close to home a bunch of these suckers were back in the early 80s, when we all knew how long we had until we were dead once the buttons started being pushed. However, only one of...

I’ve made a discovery. It’s dry in Arizona. Outrageous, I know, to claim something like that. But I was getting really sick of the gluten free bread’s refusal to rise much. Then I thought—maybe it’s just drying out, despite my best efforts to lube it up and humidify the oven and all that. So I made a REALLY sticky dough…um…batter. Just added maybe 1/3 C more water. And like magic, my goofy GF baguette...