Pancake Pleasures!

My sisters waffle recipe is fantastic! It works really well for pancakes as well. I am a big fan of both waffles and pancakes and have come up with a few additions that make them even better.

One of my favorite pancake options found below:

Gluten Free Waffles (Eating Gluten Free.Com)

(I prefer the waffle recipe more than the pancake recipe)

3 eggs separated

scant ¼ c. sugar

1 ¾ c. milk

½ c. oil

2 c. featherlight mix

1 tsp. xanthan gum

½ tsp. salt

1 Tbs. baking powder

Optional:

diced canned peaches

crushed raspberries

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. nutmeg

almond extract (flavor to taste)

(you can add all of these together, it tastes fabulous, or just a few of them)

Beat together eggs, milk, and oil. In another bowl, mix featherlight mix, xanthan gum, salt, sugar and baking powder. Mix milk mixture into flour. Bake on a hot waffle iron. (Or on a griddle for pancakes) Keep waffles in a warm oven (with the door cracked open) until you are ready to eat. Any leftover waffles may be placed in Ziploc bags and frozen. They may then be reheated in the toaster.

Toppings:

Vanilla Yogurt w/ fresh sliced strawberries

Sliced canned peaches or Fresh sliced peaches

Nutella Topping

For more of a dessert try eating with Vanilla ice cream and sliced strawberries, I'm not going to lie, I eat this topping on my waffles for breakfast. It's one of our family traditions, not healthy but super delicious.

Eating Gluten Free. Com

So I wanted to put a plug in for my sister's company Eating Gluten Free. Those of you who have been eating GF for awhile understand the frustration that comes while searching for tasty GF foods. When my mom was first diagnosed in 2002 there weren't very many good options out there. It took a lot of time and money to find a product that tasted similar to it's non GF counterpart. I remember my mother being so frustrated as she tried recipe after recipe. My mom was sure she would end up eating rice and beans for the rest of her life.

Then one day my sister found out that her neighbor's husband and all of her children had Celiac Disease. Betsy, my sister, asked her friend what she cooked and what her favorite recipes were. Kirsti taught Betsy what she knew and they began cooking and modifying recipes together. Betsy wanted my mom to be able to eat good food and Kirsti wanted the food to taste good enough for her to eat because she didn't want to cook a separate meal for herself.

As they continued cooking together they found out that Macey's Grocery store held free cooking classes and they decided to hold one for Gluten Free food. The class was a success and they began teaching more and more classes. People who came for the classes began asking for more recipes and asked if they had a web page. From there they found a company that did GF mixes and they began producing a few of their recipes as mixes.

The company is still pretty small but it is beginning to grow. People from all over the world go to the web site for free recipes, cooking hints, and to order mixes. I love the recipes and use my sister's cookbook often. Many of my friends, who are not GF, ask me for the recipes because they are so good. I definitely recommend her web site as a must have favorite.

Also there is a really cool web site called Foodie View that has a Gluten Free recipe search engine. You can type in what kind of recipe you are looking for and it will give you a GF version. I would also suggest you check this one out.