Gluten Free Potato Gnocchi

This is a great way to make comforting gnocchi a whole lot healthier and homemade is always so much tastier than store bought. Just a few simple ingredients and a fun process to a delicious Italian meal.

Autumnal Pumpkin Pizza (gf)

This might sound a bit odd at first - who puts pumpkin on pizza? - but its actually pretty great. The savoury crust, the spicy pumpkin sauce, and the tang of gorgonzola cheese truly separate this pizza from its sweeter cousin the pumpkin pie. Omit the turkey and this pizza is still a great vegetarian option to savour the flavours of the autumn harvest.

Savoury Gluten-Free Pizza Crust

This savoury alternative to my Basic Gluten-Free Pizza Crust brings more flavour to pizzas that need a little more panache than a basic crust.

Basic Gluten-Free Pizza Crust

This is a basic recipe for gluten-free pizza crust that you can add to in order to create various types of gluten-free pizza crusts, such as my Savoury Gluten-Free Pizza Crust. It's akin to a thin crust, but a bit thicker, but definitely not a risen crust.

Why you have to start with a different basic pizza crust than in regular gluten-present baking is explained in my post: Binding Gluten-Free Bread & Pizza Dough. Be sure to observe the directions below as this is created in a much different manner than regular pizza dough.

Binding Gluten-Free Bread & Pizza Dough

Simply swapping regular flour for gluten free flour in a pizza, or any bread recipe, simply will not work. Period. End of story. This is because it is the gluten itself that binds the flour and makes it sticky and stretchy the way these doughs need to be to form them. In order for gluten-free bread and pizza doughs to work that gluten needs to be substituted with something that will give the dough a similar binding effect, otherwise you'll just end up with a crumbly mess.

Fall Harvest!

Over the past two months I've had the fall harvest come in from my community garden plot. It was my first harvest at this new garden and a bit less than I had hoped for, but I learned a lot about my soil, plot,  and what I need to do for next year - raised beds are an absolute must! Our community garden is located where a grain bin once was, right next to where the train used to run. Therefore, I go only a few inches down and hit the old foundation (not all areas of the garden are so shallow). I also have a steep angle that caused all the water to run to the bottom of my plot so that the herbs at the bottom end did well but the plants at the top never received sufficient moisture. I'll have to level it off when I build the raised beds next spring too.

I haven't disappeared!

So, the job ended up being a little too much for me; forty hours after zero hours for two years (illness related) was a bit too much of a leap back into working. I found I had no balance in life, which is part of the whole SpherMod lifestyle I'm trying to develop here to keep myself mentally and physically healthy. I was literally doing nothing but working! I would get home from work, let the dog out, scrounge for something to eat (usually not healthy), and fall asleep within an hour of getting home. On my days off I'd catch up on much needed rest and try, unsuccessfully, to get caught up on choirs. Dishes piled up, my bathroom went nearly three months without cleaning (gross!), and I rarely made it to the grocery store. (Not to mention the job had the worst ergonomics ever - two months and I developed carpal tunnel!)