Pre-Valentine's Day Breakfast

 My husband  bought a loaf of french bread  so I sliced half of it and prepared some bread  pizzas for breakfast.  I added bacon, romaine lettuce, avocado, and cheese.  The kids were still sick so  they only ate   a little bit.  I feel bad when my  children  are sick because they always lose their appetites.  I made a mistake of baking the romaine lettuce as it lost its crunchiness.

I made my son a banana milkshake with yogurt and chia seeds but he only   consumed half of this.  He's been talking about making a banana milkshake so I thought it would   help his apetite but  it didn't.

I never added yogurt in my milkshake but I kind of liked it, it added a nice twist to it.

Cream-Filled Brownies

The other day, I baked the box of double chocolate brownie mix that Glutino sent me this month.  I have tried many different things to prepare this gluten free brownie and so far I like them all.  

Ingredients:

• 1 pack Glutino gluten free pantry double chocolate brownie mix
• 2 eggs  
• 5 tbsp melted butter
• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
• 3 tbsp cream cheese
• 1 small pack of yogurt
• 1 tbsp  pistachio cream
• 1 tsp chia seeds

As I was preparing  the batter, I noticed the heart shape at the lid of the pistachio crram and it made me smile.

 Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray 15x10 inch pan with vegetable oil. I use this pan  so the brownie will be thin.
• In a large bowl, beat eggs for 3-2 minutes.  Gradually add dry mix.  Beat to moisten.
• Add butter and stir until combined.
• Fold the nuts and chia seeds and lightly mix.
• Pour in prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes.  

• Prepare the cream by mixing the  yogurt and cream cheese.
• Cut the brownie in half and  put the cream on top of the other half of the brownie.
• When you finish  putting the cream, put the other half of the bronie on top of the  creamed brownie.

It was a really nice twist.  My husband said "This brownie is the bomb!"

I wrapped the slices individually with a foil and chill it inthe refrigerator.  It lasted two days and that's me telling them "Save some for tomorrow" lol.  I must say that this brownie is nutty and so yummy!  The chia seeds and the  pecan really gave it a crunch factor. Oh yeah, it's less gluten too!

#Superbowl and Friendship Day with Gluten Free Goodies

Last Sunday was the 50th Superbowl game.  I know that a lot of  household  here in the US are football fanatic and Superbowl is a   huge  event.  I didn't watch football until I came here in America and although I still can't figure out  the rules and stuff, I love watching it.  So last Sunday, we all watched it since our son  asked if we could.

I am glad that Glutino came in such a perfect timing.  The box this month includes  seeded bread, double chocolate mix, all purpose flour, frosted pastry, pretzels, and chocolate vanilla creme.  

It's funny, we made a bet whic team is going to win.  MY husband and son rooted for the  Carolina Panthers while my daughter and I  cheered for the Dever Brocos to win.  If the guys loses the bet, they will be  washing dishs the whole week lol.  So yeah, the ladies in this house won the bet whoch means the  guys  are washing dishes, wohoo.

 I opened  the buffalo style pretzels for my husband and I.The kids wanted the  gluten free chips so that's what I gave them.  It was a perfect tortilla dippers/scoops for the  spicy salsa that we had. Glad we still have  the gluten-free goodies last month. which served as their snacks during the superbowl.

My husband made us some french toast using the seeded  bread that Glutino sent us this month and it was really good.  I am not very fond of french toast because it gets lumpy or saggy  sometimes but this was  the perfect  bread to use for it, it was really good and I love it!

During the  Catholic School Week, there was a day dedicated for the teachers.  The kids were allowed to  give small   gifts, cards, or notes to the teacher.  My kids, each grab a bag of gluten free  pretzels and gave it to their homeroom teachers.  

Lastly, my daughter baked this really delicious Amish Friendship bread last week.  My  sister-in-law gave us the recipe and she  baked it for us to try. She added  You can check out the recipe through the link.

My daughter baked Shortcut #Amish #Friendship #Bread. Perfect for national #friendshipDay . She added #chia seeds to it and used #almondMilk instead if regular #milk . Thanks to my sister-in-law for the #recipe .

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Shortcut Amish Friendship Bread Recipe

We visited  Dad  at my SIL's house  last Saturday.  My FIL is getting so skinny and can' recognize anyone anymore but despite that, he still hanging in there.  He is really  good trooper although I can tell that he is tired and wanting to  rest already.  Anyway, my sister-in-law, Chris let us tried her  newly baked Amish FRiendship Bread.  She gave us the recipe   so I handed it to my daughter.

When we came back home, my daughter immediately  gathered all the ingredients and tried making it.  Here is the recipe.
Ingredients:

• 2 3/4 all purpose flour, we used gluten-free 
• 1 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 sp baking poweder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 (4 serving size) package instant  vanilla pudding mix
• 1 1/4 cups milk
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tsp chia seeds

Procedure:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.  Coat two 9x 5 inch loaf pans with cooking spray
• In a large bowl,  mix flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, chia seeds, and pudding mix; set aside.
• In a medium bowl whisk milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla.  Stir liquid mixture into flour mixture and combine well.  Evenly divide mixture into two loaf pans.
• Bake 55-60 minutes, or until a tiithpick inserted in center comes out dry.  Let cool 15 minutes, then invert and finish cooling on wire rack.

My daughter baked Shortcut #Amish #Friendship #Bread. Perfect for national #friendshipDay . She added #chia seeds to it and used #almondMilk instead if regular #milk . Thanks to my sister-in-law for the #recipe .

A photo posted by rose (@chubskulitrose) on Feb 3, 2016 at 11:58am PST

This was a nice snack that we had, timing for the national Friendship day.  This would also  be great to give as  gift during the National Hugging Day.  So if you have someone special you want to give a hug  and a nice snack, prepare this recipe, it is so good!

Churros and Taco

I made another batch of churros because my son keep asking  for it.  I followed the same churros recipe that I made last time. The only difference is that, I added a tablespoon of pistachio cream on this one.

The pistachi gave it a nutty taste which is really good, a great twist actually.

I made the churros as requested by my son so I had to make what  my daughter wanted to eat that day, she wanted tacos.

They used the tco shells but I used the gluten-free  scooper chops from Glutino.  It was a nice  switch.  I think I will be using  this  gluten-free chips from now on with my tacos.

When I make tacos, I don't normally put  the   stuff in the shell because I end up making a mess.  I always  just make a taco salad and it with  spoon but this time, I used the gluten free chips.