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Hi Bev,

I have to show my ignorance here and tell you I know nothing about haemotomochrosis...even did a google search and found nothing. Is there something I'm missing? Is this the way it is spelled or is it called something else? Do you have a link? I certainly am NOT up on celiac disease like I should be. I figure as long as I'm eating GF and feel Sooooo much better by doing so, then I don't necessarily need to know all the medical conditions connected with it. Heck, I'm just trying to get smart on my current condition.......acute thyroiditis.......not a nice thing to have.

I had a good laugh at your ping-pong, with bubble gum center, muffins. How well I know about all the "flops" that are very easy to do, even for the best of cooks. One of the well known writers of a GF cookbook admits that she never knows just how her bread is going to turn out, because no matter what she does, no matter how much she tries to be consistant, the bread is different..........each and every time. How well I know that to be true!! The first loaf I tried I made in the bread machine, and it was even from a mix from The Gluten Free Pantry. It turned out just like a building brick. I put it out for the birds. The little birds couldn't peck even one little chunk out of it. It was the ravens, and then it took them a week, to work thru it..........great fun to watch!!! Since then I've gotten better. I've yet to make the rice muffins that are in the recipe index here, but they sure seem easy. Have you tried them?
Well, what I can tell you is that if you make a good GF flour sub mix (rice flour, potato starch flour, and tapioca flour) and use it in place of reg. flour in a recipe (plus some xantham gum) you get a good product, especially in quick breads and muffins. Bread, using yeast is another story, and sooo tricky that it's almost worth just buying the commercial GF rice bread instead.

Like you said:

I agree, because I'm mostly Irish.......plus a little English and French thrown in..........
it's the pits.

Going to Fiji? How nice. I had friends that worked in Pago Pago but never got there. My hope is to get to New Zealand and Australia one of these days. Had the chance when I got out of college. Most of my friends took jobs in Aus since they were highly recruited at that time. I always regreted not going too.......

Anyway, have a great time on your trip, and if there is any recipe I can help you with let me know.........

Kandee

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