Day 77 - Sausage Bread

Recipe from Mom

This is day 77. Today we kind of did 2 things to make up for our absence. First, my mom made potato and leek soup. To go with that, I made sausage bread, and since it's Tuesday, our dessert night, I made pumpkin muffins a really easy.

Sausage Bread is our own recipe. We mainly make it when we have potato cheese soup, but we decided to make it with this other soup today.

Basically, I you make dough in a bread machine. We used Gluten Free Pantry's French Bread mix.

In the bread machine

Then you make some sausage in a pan.

You spread 1/2 the dough in a loaf pan.

Put sausage in the middle.

Put the rest of the dough on top.

Then you bake it, and it's 11 million thumbs up good.

My mom makes it using frozen bread dough (it's not gluten free). She rolls it out, spreads the sausage in the middle, and rolls it up like a jelly roll. My dad and her like it with mustard. We have it every Christmas, too.

The other recipe is a pumpkin muffin recipe. You get a spice cake mix (we used Namaste GF brand), one can of pumpkin, 1/2 cup of apple sauce, and 1/4 tsp of pumpkin pie mix, which we don't have, so I sprinkled cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger in it.

That's it. You mix it together, put in muffin tins, and bake it. 350 degrees for about 15 minutes.

I think we should up the thumb scale to 5. No, never mind, we'll keep it at 2. These muffins are 2 thumbs up all the way!

Day 75 - Pumpkin Muffins

Recipe from my mom's recipe box

We're celebrating today! It's day 75!!!

We had a Book Fiesta to go to at my school tonight so we just got home now at 8:00. I wanted to make something for my class at school. I thought it would be a fun thing to do and since tomorrow is October 1st, my mom said I could make pumpkin muffins for them. I hope they like them! I think they will.

I wanted to do a different recipe than the pumpkin bread Jared made, so I did a pumpkin recipe my mom had in her recipe box. There isn't as much sugar in it as the other one.

Gluten Free Pantry Flour

By the way, I've been a vegetarian for 3 days now. I will inform you how it's going. I am doing awesome right now. I saw a dead fox on the road and it kind of grossed me out, plus I'm against hunting so I'm trying it. Plus because they give the animals antibiotics so they don't work on us. I want to be healthy.

I'll let you know how the muffins are tomorrow!

Good night.

~ Sophie

Pumpkin Muffins

1 1/2 cup flour or gluten free flour mix like Gluten Free Pantry

1 1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 nutmeg, cinnamon, baking power (each)

3/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup oil

1 cup canned pumpkin

1/3 cup water

2 eggs

Combine dry ingredients, then add oil, eggs and pumpkin. Slowly add water until blended. Pour into greased muffin pans or muffin cups.

Cook for 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes

Day 68 - Commercial Break: The Best Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

Recipe from Special Guest Chef Christy Stutzman

What a day!

I mean how many days a year do you have to get an emergency root canal surgery?!

I had gross puss stuff coming out of my mouth. I don't think that I will be going to school tomorrow. After the experience of the endodonist drilling in the back of my tooth, I thought that I, Jared, deserve a break and a treat.

The Good Dr. Patel

Oh. That endodonist did get rid of my tooth thing in case you were worried (which I doubt you were) about me.

I was feeling a bit weird after all this. I wanted to make something a little sugary. I can only eat soft things, so I had the perfect thought. Especially since it's officially fall now.

After the swelling decreased a little bit and I felt better, I made my favorite thing in the whole world (dramatic pause)...chocolate chip pumpkin bread.

We have the best recipe in the world for chocolate chip pumpkin bread. It's from our friends in California, last name Stutzman.

Just mix it all together.

Mrs. Stutzman would make it for me and my friend (her son) who is also Jared, so this is kind of to honor her and her brilliance because she made it gluten free for me when I was first diagnosed with celiac disease.

This is our favorite GF flour (but we still have to try King Arthur)

Look, one handed!

All we do is substitute the flour with gluten free flour, and it has mammoth flavor.

It's not a Jamie Oliver recipe, and it's not really a healthy recipe, but everyone deserves a treat every now and then, right? So today is our commercial break from our challenge. I still cooked, root canal and all, so I say the challenge is still good.

What do you think? And I'm good?

This is 2 THUMBS UP + A GAZILLION

Notice the swelling?