Apple Brown Betty!

Hooray, it's Fall!

As the brown leaves are beginning to cover up my sidewalk outside, I remember those days when we raked them into piles for jumping!  Fall is the fun time when we start to wear sweatshirts and begin thinking about our Halloween costumes.  The harvest time that naturally is followed by one of my favorite holidays, Thanksgiving!

Anyway, this is one of the best recipes I have for you, it is a favorite in my family.  My dad has made this for years.


Here it is:

• First, fill up a 9 X 13 pan with apple slices (I use a 5-lb bag of Granny Smith apples)
  
• Drizzle with 1/3 cup orange juice.
  

Then, mix in a bowl:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup rice flour + 1/2 cup potato flour (or 1 cup of any flour will do)
  
• 1-1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/3 tsp. nutmeg
• dash salt
• 1/4-1/2 cup butter

I mix the above in a microwaveable bowl, and nuke it til the butter melts.  Mixture should be crumbly.  Sprinkle evenly over the top of the apples.

Bake for 45 minutes at 350 or 375.  Crumb topping should be slightly browned.

Enjoy!!!

Underground tip:  Tart apples taste the best.  A combination of different varieties of tart apples is even better.

Going Bananas

I mentioned that I used to drive 35,000 miles/yr the last couple years. Fortunately, I don't have to do that anymore. But I am on the road this week. Every evening this week I have rehearsal about 1-1/4 hour away from home. This is a challenge to eat well because I get home from job #1 and have about an hour to eat/pack/email/etc. then straight out the door, onto the highway, to job #2.

Leave home at 7:30, get home from job #1 at 4:30, leave for job #2 at 5:30, return home at 11:20.

Then write a blog.

So, how do you I eat gluten-free on the go?
Lunch, at job #1 (microwave available at lunchtime):

• Frozen lentil stew (from crock pot that I made last week)
• Frozen green beans
• Yogurt
• Banana

Dinner(?) between #1 and #2:

• Finish leftover tomato basil pasta
• Apple
• Banana Bread (See recipe and photo)

But I wasn't that hungry, because it was only 4:30. So, road snacks to fill in the gap:

• One slice banana bread in a ziplock
• bag of Ener-G gluten free pretzels
• one yogurt
• Fruit leather
  
• Soynuts

I only ended up eating the fruit leather, banana bread and yogurt. but I had some choices!

So that worked out for eating today. I will be having an overnight later this week and will talk about some things I take in a cooler.

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Here's my recipe for Banana Bread, which is scrumptous, and easy.

• 2 cups Flour (1 cup Rice, 1/2 cup Corn, 1/2 cup Sorgham)
• 1 tsp Xantham Gum
• 1-1/2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp Nutmeg

Blend together the above. In another bowl:

• 2 Eggs
• 1-1/2 cups Mashed Bananas (4 or 5)
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• 1/3 cup Cooking Oil

Spray a 9" loaf pan with Pam. Mix the two bowls together. Fold into loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour, or until knife comes out clean.

Let me know what you think!