First Try……..Failed!

Ok, so I know this isn’t very blog worthy, but I figure I am writing this blog to keep in touch with everyone. And if you have known me long enough you know that I am terrible having conversations on the phone. I am just not a phone person and never have been. The only persons that I consistently have ever talked to on the phone is my Mom and Uriah.

Ok…so back on topic. This is what I what I would talk to you about if I actually did get around to calling everyone.

For those of you who are just now catching up with my family, you need to know a little history. Isabelle has several food allergies and Abinadi has decided he wants to be just like his sister and has just about all the same allergies. They are allergic to soy, apples/pears, milk, and quit a few other fruits and vegetables. For those of you who are like me and never looked at the ingredients on your food, you have no idea that SOY is in everything! It is an emulsifier and preservative. To put it in different terms, soy makes up 25% of all Americans’ calories! Now I am not talking about soy milk or pediasure. I am talking about your everyday store bought food, your fast food, and just about everything else. To make matters worse, if you find a food that is soy free, it usually has milk or apples/pears in it. So for the past couple of years we have been searching for food that my children can eat. We found a few brands at health food stores, but sad to say that since health food has become more popular and their products are more popular, these brands have sold out for profit and now put soy in all their products. (Soy is the cheapest of all vegetable oils)

Ok, sorry for that rant…back to the story again. Well about 5 months ago I had come to the realization that I could no longer find soy and milk free bread. So I had to start making all our breads from scratch. The cookies were the next to go, but that didn’t break my heart too much, cookies are easy. But now all the crackers we used to buy now have soy. Crackers aren’t so easy. I’ve been looking for recipes for a while now but hadn’t tried anything yet. Uriah had been TDY these last two weeks and I had hoped he would find some crackers in the lower 48. But sadly they all had soy too.

So I gave in today and tried making some butter crackers. I don’t think I got the recipe quit right. I might change how I cooked them. But I think I need a different recipe. They kind of came out like sugarless sugar cookies. Not my cup of tea. Isabelle liked them, but then again she likes anything new because her choices are so limited.

I am still debating if I want to try a new recipe or keep working on the one I have. It has taken me several tries to get the tortilla recipe finally right. So maybe it just needs some perfecting. I do have to say though that Wilton’s fondant rolling pins and mat are awesome for rolling dough. (Especially if you don’t have that much counter space) I use them for everything.

So that’s my boring story that I wanted to share. I know it’s long. I really just wanted to share the fact that making crackers…not so easy. But the story doesn’t make too much sense without all the history. So thanks for reading my rambling. It wouldn’t have taken so long to tell if I had told the story over the phone, but then again, that’s a lot of phone calls.

If any of you have any good cracker recipes or tips, I am open to suggestions! Please help if you can. If not, you are all going to get an update of every trial and failure in this cracker baking adventure. So if you don’t want any more boring long winded stories, please help!

We love and miss you all!