First botched batch

Day 4 of being gluten and wheat free and my scalp itches. Lesley at work said I would have to keep this diet up for at least 6 weeks to know if it actually has any effect or not! SIX WEEKS!!!

But that’s not what’s bothering me now. It’s gone 11pm, Gazelle’s fast asleep and I’m on the staircase, blogging… I’m not going mad… I’m just very frustrated.

We’re having a shared lunch at work tomorrow afternoon and having made two successful batches of flapjacks and beginning to feel that I could work the oven, I decided to make a batch of gluten free brownies.

I’ve now decided that the oven doesn’t like me anymore. I thought we were becoming friends, but it’s done that whole recipe temperature/ time combo and oven temperature/time combo not matching up thing. I need an oven thermometer…  or another oven.

I tried taking the brownies out about 10 minutes ago…. about 10 minutes later than the recipe said… I left them in for longer because I couldn’t smell them, and when I opened the oven door they collapsed! AAARRRGHHH!!!

I can smell them now they’re finally out, but they look deflated. Nothing like the BBC ones…

I’m going to bed.

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Smoking cigarettes…

I’ve been wheat/gluten free for 2 days now…

… and no, I haven’t taken up smoking, but I now understand how smokers feel when they try to quit…

I’m half way through making a loaf of wheat/gluten free bread (using some Wheat/Gluten free flour I found in Sainsbury’s – at first it was weird, like trying to knead ground rice flour or pounded yam, very sticky… the dough is currently in the boiler cupboard rising) and learning how to use the gas cooker. I made some flapjacks earlier on. The first time I used the oven, took me over an hour to figure out how to light the darn thing. Then I didn’t turn it high enough so they weren’t cooked properly whenI first took them out, so I turned the heat up and baked them for another 10 minutes.

I’m scared of making a cake in there for fear that it will sink terribly. I haven’t got my head around the way the temperature works, and there isn’t a little light to tell me when it’s reached the right temperature, but I don’t just want to leave the gas burning for fear of emptying the credit on the meter – or burning the house down. I was spoiled with an electric oven at my Mum’s house… this one doesn’t have a timer, Mum pointed that out to me. Thank goodness for the countdown timers on phones, my mind is so all over the place at the moment I would forget to check the time if I was relying on the clock… if I even remembered what time it went in.

Gazelle’s just finished making dinner and he’s making me some tea.

We’re having potatoes, salmon and chickpeas… looks yummy… and yes, I am eating dinner in bed.

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