murphy's is always a guest

Today was a big day. After making some pancakes, i made some mini quiches with a sweet potato crust and  then I tried my hand at lasagna.
Instead of being half way normal, using pre made lasagna noodles, and keeping the thing for myself, i went all the way out, and made the noodles from scratch (why else do i have a pasta machine?), and I invited some friends over for dinner. i made 3 pans of lasagna (2 vegetarian, and one normal) so as to make sure that if there were problems, i would enjoy them fully;)

From the get go, something went wrong. I used a tiny measuring cup which had tbsp which i confused with tsp (small letters, no caps), and i put 3 times the amount of Xantham gum, and salt, which would have been a disaster. So I tried to recover and tripled everything.
It went down from there.

The result was good, so somehow i recovered.;)
i learned:
1)The lasagna noodles should be very thin because they will double or triple during cooking.
2) People like chewy lasagna noodles, so I probably need to reduce the pre-cooking time to try to get an aldente feel.

coconut almond pancakes

Today is a big testing day.
I just made some coconut almond pancakes, from the nourishing meals cookbooks. I love that cookbook. The pancakes were delicious but very hard to flip. I made a bunch and froze them. I guess I can make them in the weekend only. They are too long to cook for a herding cats weekday breakfast .

I am gearing up to make some GF lasagna tonight. That should be interesting. It turns out that in spite of all the flours i own, i still don't have the one used in most of the home made recipe.. I am lacking potato starch.