I love for out thou bread of pumpkin

My bread of pumpkin

My cake of almond meal

My rice flour, maize starch, flavourless sauce

No artificial nor wheat, rye or barley

But it’s all organic and oh so natural

Watch out for vitamins, calcium and iron

To be deficient

Would be an all time low

Lucky for chocolate you can stay

Indulging in a different way

It’s new, it burns my pocket so

But at least I’ll be healthy

Energetic and not so slow

When my intestine

Comes to heal

I’ll be happier still

Life is about moving on

So

Put on a smile

And

Tuck in to the glass half full

This is my way of being positive on having to eat a gluten free diet, yes I'm still getting used to it after all it's only been a week but I know that I will soon be feeling great. The cake I made may not look that appetising, but it's seriously yummy. :)

This recipe is totally made up by me – based on one that I’ve made before with wheat flour and one that I found from a Gluten free website... and it tastes delicious cannot tell that it’s gluten free. J

GLUTEN FREE RUSTIC APPLE AND ALMOND CAKE

1 Cup GF SR Flour

1 ½ Cup Almond Meal

1 ½ Cup Brown Sugar

2 Tbsp Cinnamon

2 Tsp of Bi-carb Soda

Handful of chopped/crushed almonds (I used a rolling pin to crush them)

Pinch of salt

½ Cup Honey

1 Large apple or 2 small ones – cut in chunks and skin kept on. Any kind but Royal Gala or Golden Delicious is best

Approx 100 – 150g butter – softened

1 cup milk

Version with wheat – instead of 1 Cup GF SR Flour and 1 ½ Cup Almond Meal you just have 2 cups of Wheat SR Flour and you only need 1tsp of Bi-carb soda

Method

Mix all dry ingredients then wet in large bowl, sometimes following order of ingredients is good. Pour into a greased cake tin. Bake in moderate oven until firm to touch or skewer comes out clean. *check after 40 mins

My favourite quotes (have changed)

I've kept the one about imagination, I've added the one from Aristotle and the one about friendship.

I believe that if you have a good imagination you can see a lot of possibilities in the world and that knowledge is only obtained by reading a book or doing some research, but wonder and curiosity can take you somewhere way beyond what is written in a book, shown in statistics or said by an expert.

Teaching as I have learnt and still learning and will forever be learning is about understanding and not just in the subjects you teach but in where you teach and the students you teach and most likely more than that as well.

Lastly, if it wasn't for friendship then I wouldn't have so much in my life that I do, I wouldn't have overcome pain, I wouldn't have gotten through sad moments, I wouldn't be optimistic, I wouldn't cherish happy times and I wouldn't have learnt the strength that friends can give you especially from those that we may only have when we bring them to us.

Zehnder Pumpkin bread is the best!!!

Confusing Ingredients

I just want to cry a million tears

While knowing I am strong

Direct myself

To

The foggy covered

Jet black road to

Recovery

While figuring out the ingredients

Of confusion

Inside a box of

Illness and pain

Before uncovering

The secret recipe

Of a healthier

Life

That’s no longer as

Simple

BREAKFAST:

Pancakes with GF self raising flour, egg, milk, salt heat pan, melt butter and cook like you would normally cook pancakes. Topping of choice: Gippsland Dairy yoghurt, YUM!. Drink : GF chocolate milk (substitute for Milo)

Wrote this morning....

Coeliac Disease

I now have Coeliac Disease which means that I have to find a snack that has no gluten and goes well with tea! This is a challenge that I'm willing to face and have fun with. Maybe this blog may also include recipes one day... you never know!

THE BEAT OF LIFE

My fingers dance to the beat of my feet

Sometimes a little too much

Without watching out for

The dangers

Of a road crossing

Through the messiness

Of people

Who walk through a city wonderland

Of shops, streets, restaurants, trams, lights,

While we listen

To the music

Of our hearts

Allowing tears to be pushed through

The gap

When we want the

Grief to be complete

And no longer

A struggle

Of knotted pain

That keeps us from being in an

Abundance

Of freedom

And pure

Happiness

Found in a new path

Towards

Our fortress of life

In reconstruction

Allowing us to dance

Once again

(Emma Phillips 08/04/2011)

re:Grateful

I wrote this on the date that is posted below the poem. However, I decided that I would post it today because of the mixed feelings I have with coming up to Christmas. Christmas is usually a time to be happy, merry, love, joy, hope and be with family. For some though it can be sad, a time to remember loved ones, stressful, a time where you might be away from home, etc. At the end of the day though I would have to say that even though I may have experienced pain, sorrow and a few other negative 'life' feelings throughout this year- I am grateful, I'm grateful for what I have, the opportunities I have been given and the people that I have met because I don't think that I would be who I was without them.