We have walls! (and snack recipe to follow...)

We have walls- finally! Myles continues to oversee this operation and make sure that things are going along as they should. The space is starting to be defined and the ceilings should be up next.

On another anote, I made these roasted spiced pecans- great snack for those of you who can tolerate nuts. Here it is!

Roasted Spiced Pecans

2 1/2 cups pecans

2 teaspoons canola oil

1 cup sugar (I used organic cane sugar)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

3/4 teaspoons coarse salt (I used sea salt)

1 teaspoon GF vanilla extract

1/4 cup water

Put the pecans on a baking pan and pour the oil over them and stir together until all the pecans are coated. Bake in the oven at 325 degrees for 20 minutes. Keep stirring and checking to make sure that they don't get too dark. Remove from oven and cool.

Next, stir together sugar, cinnamon, salt and water over medium heat and stir until sugar is dissolved. Using a candy thermometer boil to 236 degrees and then remove from heat and beat in vanilla. The mixture will be creamy. Add pecans and stir mixture. Turn mixture onto waxed paper and spread pecans out using a fork to separate the nuts. Cool and enjoy!

We have been munching on these and they are great for the sweet tooth- always my downfall!

Happy Holidays to all!

Back on track

This is our new logo- thanks to Alison. Some very special people actually have this on a t-shirt.

Benji has made it clear that he wants his food to be like ours- so he took charge- since the rest of us didn't move quick enough and picked out his own pancake!

GF potato pancakes!

Here's big Jim Decker taking some pointers from Myles

on the store plans. Maybe we should make him the head of this building project?????????

I haven't reported in awhile as not much has been happening with the store renovation. But... the sub floor is now in with promises that the work will continue. I hope so. I have been watching a house being built down the road and although it was started recently, (a few months ago) I'm willing to bet that the occupants will be in before we are! I hope I'm wrong. Meantime, we continue to work on the ordering and recipes.

We had a gluten free Hanukah- delicious potato pancakes and sweet potato pancakes using white rice flour. We also had a Sunday brunch and made blueberry scones- gluten free- they were delicious. Family members ate and we didn't tell them until after that they were gluten free. My mother snagged some scones to take home- supposedly for her breakfast the next day, but they didn't last that long. And Bryan, my son-in-law- who if you tell him something is gluten free- will push it away and eat ANYTHING else- actually scarfed down gf waffles and later on at Hanukah chowed down on the potato pancakes. So we are making converts- one at a time!

Let's hope progress continues...