In the kitchen

Greetings from my kitchen!   A fairly unusual place for me to be spending more than 20 minutes.

Background: Germany's eating theory basically revolves around "the clean plate club".  Everyone typically finishes everything on their plates at each meal (remember, they pay per bag for their trash), and in addition to that, no old food in the refrigerator should go to waste!  So, in that spirit, I decided to use all my rotten apples to make some homemade apple sauce the other night - inconveniently the same night my host mom was making a lamb feast for her boyfriend.  But, the situation forced me to carry on conversations in German/English for two hours, and I left - surprisingly - feeling really great about the amount of German I was able to understand!

This may not look stellar, but it was de-licious!! 

Last night (when I started writing this post and was actually in my kitchen...) I made my first attempt at gluten free pizza.  It took from 8 to 11pm from start to finish, and although it looked like thick pancake batter when I slathered it on the pan, it actually turned out looking and tasting like delicious pizza!! I was quite pleased/surprised it worked out (new recipe, new products, new units of measurement, and a lot of help from google translate).

Yum yum yum.  Pizza with no tummy or headaches.  Livin' the life. 

So, evidently I've acquired a nack for cooking (probably just because of my frugality and specific dietary preferences).  If any of you have any dinner or dessert recipes (that don't have wheat in them, until I figure out what's wrong with me), I would really appreciate if you could send them my way!  Although I do have one request - that they can be prepared in an hour or less.

If you have any you'd like to send (the more the merrier), just send them to my yahoo or school email accounts (and if you don't know what those are..... I'm not sure how to help you, but I don't want to post my email on this site because it's public and I don't want the world to see it).

Thanks!