Gluten free fried chicken

I was grocery shopping with lil' Woogie one day. He asked if we could have chicken legs for dinner. I don't have any idea where he got that idea; most of our chicken is boneless chicken breasts on the grill or baked. I'm not a huge fan of dark meat in general, but I thought I might expand our horizons, chicken-wise that is.

I based my recipe off of this one, with a few modifications. Instead of breadcrumbs, I used crushed Erewhon cereal mixed with the standard flour blend I use for breading chicken strips (garbanzo bean flour, sorghum & millet flour). I added the paprika, but went easy on the cayenne. I baked them in the oven on racks coated with cooking spray.




They turned out great. I think I may try other bone-in cuts of chicken next. Of course, Woogie didn't want anything to do with them. But that's too bad. We're going to have this for dinner again.

Birthday cakes/ Asshole blogger

September 24th Laura? Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally? That's your version of keeping up the blog?

Ok (here comes my defense mechanism)... we moved. Ellie was sick. We sold the condo. We sold it again. I've been drinking again. Lots of excuses.

I've made SO MUCH FOOD that I cannot remember. Most of it good, some of it not. Rats. That's my promise to myself, because I'm the only one that reads this. Well, me and the cookbook authors that happen to be googling themselves and stumble upon it.

We just had the kids' birthday party, so let's start there. The cakes were wonderful and everything was JUST GREAT! Let's remember what I made so I don't get myself all hopped up when next year rolls around.



Ellie's cake was from a recipe I found. Of course I know where I got it! The internet! That's about as specific as I can be. I did some digging around, however, and found what appears to be the original recipe. It's from the Pamela's website
I haven't had much success baking with Pamela's mix, although we do love it for pancakes. This recipe made me a believer. Wherever I got it from was called "Moist Banana Cake", although it is listed on Pamela's website as simply "Banana Cake". It is moist, and delicious. I doubled the recipe & made 2 in regular 9 inch round cake pans. I did use the parchment on the bottom, and they came out fine. I used a regular cream cheese frosting, but in the middle of the layers I put Jello brand banana pudding. Next time I will put even more. It was delish. The gluten eaters liked it.