Posts Tagged ‘Bread’

Trader Joe’s GF English muffins

This morning I decided to bite the bullet the try the GF english muffins Husband bought me the other day from Trader Joe’s. I don’t have anything against english muffins excepting the gluten free calorie count and it took me a while to wrestle myself into trying them.

Was I ever glad I did! I can’t remember the last time I had an english muffin and these weren’t muffins in the crumpety-Thomas’s sense but solid, scored muffins which did NOT crumble in my toaster, went great with peanut butter and jam and let me say again did NOT crumble!

I don’t have much to complain about here. They’re nice, solid looking baked goods with good colour, good taste, good weight (not too light, not too heavy) and were 210 calories for a whole muffin, so 2 halves. They’d be great for homemade Egg McMuffins or even under country gravy or hey, why not red beans and rice? Love um. love um, love um :)

Tasty Factor: yum! Hold up excellently in a toaster and don’t get soggy under jam.

Poopy Factor: they are a tad heavy but already scored so that’s a plus.

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Sisters Three GF bread mix

I spent a weekend with my best friend recently whose 2 boys are autistic and she herself has multiple food allergies. The younger son is presently on a restricted diet with includes no gluten so she’s well versed in alternate diets. Before I came she excitedly told me she’d found a really good GF bread mix and her mother was whipping up a loaf in my honour. I can’t tell you how exciting this was. GF sandwich bread? A real peanut butter sandwich for little old me? YEEHAW!

Now seriously I’ve never been brave enough to try GF bread so I don’t have much to compare this to but Sisters Three Gluten Free white bread mix IS the schnizzle. Soft on the inside, crusty on the outside, sliceable and actually white coloured, I was in bread heaven. Seriously. The outside was crusty, which I didn’t actually love but gave some texture to my PB sammie and I have no complaints.

Lucky for me, when I returned home I found a bag of the mix tucked into my duffel and as I don;t have a full loaf pan, I thought I’d be swift and make ‘scones‘ by dropping the mix onto a greased baking sheet. While this turned out ‘okaaaaaaaaaay,’ I probably would have preferred anther PB sammie in the longrun. Like I said, they’re okay but I’d recommend baking it as a loaf in a pan. Then again, my best friend’s mother can turn out just about anything better than me so it may have just been that!  I’m also not sure where my friend got this mix but I’m guessing the Punxsutawney Wal-Mart which has a surprisingly large selection of GF items in its own aisle. On this subject I say to Pittsburgh AGAIN, get with it already and stock more. If you stock it, we will buy.

Taste Factor: Excellent! Good texture, good taste, keeps well.  The non-GF’ers loved it too.

Poopy Factor: I didn’t really like the crust on it and the mix uses Crisco which made my internal calorie counter have a stroke.

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