Busy Day in the Kitchen

Some time in the morning, Tessi asked if we had any crackers since we have so much block cheese in the fridge. We didn't, but I remembered a recipe using garbanzo flour for gluten free crackers I saved and was pretty sure I had all the ingredients to. Orion was very enthusiastic about the idea, so I looked it up, and sure enough, we were good to go.

It is really a pleasure to cook with Orion these days. He has gotten to the age where he is truly helpful. Sometimes if I am holding the baby, he does things for me I honestly would have a hard time with!

Here he is cutting the dough into shapes. So they weren't very uniform, but unique is better anyways!
Poking holes so they don't puff up too much.
I am apparently on a trend of deleting photos by mistake because that is what happened to my finished product picture. I was quite pleased with them though. Garbanzo bean flour has this certain bitter taste I really don't care for. That is why it was still hanging around in my cupboard. I tried the dough and could definitely detect it, but in the baked ones, I couldn't at all! I think it was the flavor of the nutritional yeast that masked it. Tessi liked them alright as well. Enough to snack on with some cheese slices anyway!

Later I brought to fruition a brilliant idea I had recently.
OK, so this isn't rocket science, and I'm sure a zillion other moms have had the same idea, but I was proud to come up with it on my own! I have had this snow shaver sitting around for ages. I never really used it because I wasn't so keen on the idea of all the sugar in the regular snow cone syrups. Then I saw it sitting in the garage recently and got to thinking.... Wait, I can just make juice ice cubes! Even better if I buy something like purple grape juice as it will give it that authentic snow cone color! As expected, it was a huge hit! I can't wait to try it out in lots of flavors!