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I somehow made delicious dessert – gotta write it down quick before I forget. I also need reassurance/proof that I can bake good wheat free stuff.

First off – pics or it didn’t happen time:

Here goes. This was the original recipe:

But I only loosely followed it for ideas about the basic premiss. I had loads of rhubarb (cheapo reduced style – say 3 thick stalks, 4 thin stalks) I cut them small. I also cut a container of strawberries in the same fashion. I added a pile of sugar to it , a little bit of corn starch, some salt, and vanilla flavor. I mixed that up and put it in some greased baking dishes.

Then I put lots of cornmeal and some porridge oats (3:1 ratio) also salt, and more sugar (I am addicted) I cut up the tiny bit of goat butter I had, but it wasn’t much, so I also added 2 eggs. I put that on top and finished with some sprinkled brown sugar on top.

I baked it on gas mark 4 for SO LONG. I wanted to eat it, it smelled good, but I wanted the top to get brown. It did (an hour maybe – with some rotation going on 1 or 2 times) and damn was it good!

In the picture you see on top it is deceiving because I needed to save space in the fridge so I layered one pan’s contents on top of the other; in reality the layers were pretty thin – which I think helped to get it all jellied together yet crunchy. The moral is basically rhubarb and strawberry are so damn good together.

So – I really don’t bake ever – but I was craving cookies. I am allergic to wheat and looked up GF recipes. I found a good and simple one (which I can’t seem to find now) and set to. I realized I didn’t have any measuring cups or spoons. Estimation in baking does not lead to delicious baked goods.

Next time I had the right equipment and they were a bit better. 3rd time I had a vegan friend over and substituted 2 bananas for the egg – this was okay – but I found out later the proper ratio is 1:1.

And 4th time is the charm!

Check out this good recipe for Gluten Free and Vegan cookies.

Preheat your oven to 350

Take 1 cup smooth peanut better and 1 cup sugar and mix well.

Take 1 ripe banana and 1 teaspoon baking soda and mix well.

mix all that stuff up.

Put the cookie mix on a greased baking sheet a teaspoon at a time, rolled up in a ball. Once you have a baking sheet filled use a fork to smush them down a little and put a tiny piece of dark chocolate on top in the center. I would say about the size of a pinky nail.

Bake in oven about 10 min – till golden brown.

They need to sit outside the oven about 2 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

These are damn good.

Somehow I have made 4 batches of cookies without taking even one picture. Oops. You will have to trust me that they probably look just how you would expect them too. I will put in some other picture instead.