menu musings: gravy train

I don't really like gravy. I mean, I'll eat it if it's already on my meal, but if it's on the side, I opt out. My husband, on the other hand, loves gravy and sauces and condiments. So I tried my hand at a gluten free gravy from scratch. I searched the internet for some recipes, but I quickly became overwhelmed by too much text... yes, my laziness is real.
So, I know that gravy is made with some kind of mix of water and flour, so I decided to wing it. I did search for a simple gravy recipe just to get the proportions of flour and water. It turned out delicious. Here's my recipe for gluten free gravy.

Ingredients:
onion (about 2 sliced rounds)
1/2 green pepper
mushrooms ( I used 4 baby bellas)
2-3 tbsp olive oil
1 cup water
1/4 cup gluten free flour (I used millet flour)
1/4 cup chicken (or whatever meat you're cooking) drippings
sea salt to taste

Make it:
1- chop the onion green pepper and mushroom
2- in saucepan heat oil over medium fire
2- add chopped veggies to heated oil and toss around for about 5 minutes
3- add water
4- fold in flour
5- stir in drippings
6- stir, stir, stir. once mixture begins to thicken (should happen very fast) turn fire to low and cover for about 6-7 minutes. keep a watch on it for desired consistency.
7- salt to taste
8- the end.

Enjoy!

photo challenge: week fourteen

catching up with the joneses

We're not the Joneses but you get the point. 
Okay okay, I know I haven't posted in quite some time. It's not for lack of content, I actually have possible blog topics run through my mind quite often throughout the day. The problem has been that I kinda don't have time. This may sound weird considering I'm a stay at home mom, but it's true. My "me time" is made up of stolen moments in between chores, Maki's naps and Daddy time. {break for cranky, teething Maki}
But here's a quick update of what's been the haps' 'round here:
Maki is nearing 9 months! So awesome. He's a super crawler. He pulls himself up to standing. He's beginning to let go just long enough to realize he's standing on his own and panic. He has 2 and 2 halves teeth {bottom two are completely in, top two are still coming in}. He's super active. He loves his activity table. We jokingly call it his deejay table because he loves the music mode and when he's on it he looks like a deejay playing a set. He's still breastfed {not technically exclusively, but pretty much exclusively}. We are still trying to introduce solids. He's not too interested in food. He just wants to be included in what we're having at the dinner table. He likes apples, oranges, veggie chips {and chicken bones}. He doesn't really like purees. He did them maybe for a week or so, and then was over it. So the Baby Bullet is basically Mommy's smoothie maker. We're still gluten, egg and dairy free. We are thinking of making our way to the meat free side as well, but for now we're just limiting our meat to no more than 4 times a week.
I think this about catches us up, I am committing myself to do a written post at least once a week. So be back soon!

photo challenge: week thirteen

I'm playing with the watermark placement. I like this one.
Thank God for the photo challenge, I've completely neglected my writing posts. The guilt is becoming overwhelming. New post coming soon. 

photo challenge: week twelve

Oops, pretty late on this one. Time just got away from me. I like the intent of this photo, but not necessarily the execution. This is a photo I would probably play around with in Photoshop to get just right. There's dopeness here that just needs to be brought out.

phot challenge: week eleven

Today's photo is actually from way deep in the archives. It's a camera phone shot of a 35mm black and white film print. When magic was done in the darkroom.

photo challenge: week ten

I don't know where this guilt about not having written in a while comes from.... but at least I'm keeping up with the photo challenge. *Cue music... "it' my blog, I can do what I want to...*