QC Celiac Group's Thanksgiving Dinner

Tonight is the QC Celiac Group's Thanksgiving dinner at Hy-Vee in Rock Island. I can't wait. I have my date. I have my dish and I cannot wait to feast on gluten free food this evening. Hope to see some of my gf friends there tonight.

This is what I'm bringing to share:

Cornbread Corn
Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
1 can Whole Kernel Corn - drained
1 can Cream style Corn
1 stick of butter - melted
1 ½ cup Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Cornbread
8oz Sour Cream

Tweet it to the World

Some people are not familiar with Twitter. It's a website that allows you to stalk follow your favorite people or companies. I use this site to follow all kinds of gluten free people and companies that offer gluten free products. Updates are limited to 140 character so the updates are short and sweet.

I have won free products from Bob's Red Mill just for tweeting about a product of their I like or disliked. You can ask questions and re-tweet other people's posts to get the most readers out of it.  There are also celebrities, news, and regular everyday people who use twitter everyday. And its FREE!

I use twitter to let the world know (or at least my followers) when the blog is updated and to keep up with new products coming out by companies like Bob's Red Mill, Kinnikinnick and Ians. I also follow other bloggers who are gluten free bloggers, they tend to post links to recipes and contests for free gf products on their blogs. To find the companies use the search feature and they usually come up right away.

Twitter is very easy to use. If you want to follow me I am @dispatchergurl on Twitter. Happy Tweeting.

Mighty Tasty Hot Cereal - Bob's Red Mill

I have had the Bob's Red Mill Mighty Tasty Hot Cereal sitting in my cabinet for a while. I haven't tried it until today because it takes a while to cook and most mornings I would rather get 20 minutes of extra sleep rather than make sure I have a hot breakfast. Today I was up earlier than I needed to be and thought it's a chilly morning and I'd love a hot breakfast.

I pulled it out of the pantry and read the back. The instructions are to boil 3 and 1/4 cup of water with 1/4 tsp of salt - when it's boiling, add 1 cup of the cereal. Turn it to low and cover, cook 10 minutes stirring occasionally. It makes 3 cups of the cereal. HOLY COW, I can't eat 3 cups of gluten free hot cereal in the morning, so unless you are making it for a family I would 1/2 or even 1/4 that recipe. I did it in 1/2. I brought 1 and 2/3 cup of water to a boil with a pinch of salt. I added 1/2 cup of cereal from the bag and mixed it well with the boiling water. I covered it and turned it down to low for 5 minutes, stirred it, recovered it for another 5 minutes. After the allotted 10 minutes of total cook time I stirred it again and thought, oh my, there is no way I can eat this much. I dished out 1/2 the pan into a bowl and added a TBS brown sugar and a drizzling of honey and stirred that in letting it really get mixed well.

Realize I was a bit nervous at this point. I can see that it is "gritty" for lack of a better word and that it appears to be made from corn, which is good. I hate Oatmeal! I was forced to eat it as a kid, never liked it then, still don't like it now. I can choke it down if I have to, but its my least favorite breakfast food and not one I would ever request. I was concerned this hot breakfast was going be like oatmeal.

I was pleasantly surprised. It was good, no not good, great. It was sweet and even the texture was easier to palate than oatmeal. I am thrilled to find a hot breakfast cereal I can make on my days off, it still takes too long to make on days I work and there isn't a microwave option, so until I have a stove at work, I will have to just settle to make it on my days off.

It's definitely worth trying and its reasonably priced at around $3 for the bag. It makes A LOT!!!