My blog has readers? Oh, and mashed potatos.

Ok, I was very surprised to get three comments on my blog yesterday. HA. It's nice to know that people read this stuff!

So, let me tell you about my first gluten free cooking adventure.

It wasn't that exciting...but still.

As I'm still recovering from a wisdom tooth removal, I'm only eating soft foods - last night I thought I was well enough to have mashed potatos. Woohooo.

This may be hard to believe, but I had NEVER made mashed potatos start to finish before. Sure, I've done the mashing... I've done the peeling... But I had never done the actual BOILING, so I had no idea how long to cook the things. HA. (I'm 26 - you'd figure this is a skill I would have acquired...but no. Oh well).

So, I quartered about seven potatos - left the skin on! - and threw them in a big pot of water. Boiled them. Took them off the heat when a fork went in them smoothly. BUT - I forgot to keep an eye on how long that took. Bwahahaha.

Anyways, then I threw the potatoes into my Kitchen Aid mixer, plopped in half a cup of sour cream, some garlic salt, salt and pepper, and whipped those bad boys up.

I had heard that the KA mixer made awesome mashed potatos - I heard right!!!

They were soooooo creamy and delicious! No more hand mixing mashed potatoes for me!!

Next time I'll put more seasoning in... but I was pretty happy with them.

Yes, I have a feeling that my gluten free cooking is going to be a tad boring for a while, but that's ok by me!

Now I have a question for my fellow celiacs...

Do you still cook with regular gluten products (ie. flour) for your families?? I still want to bake cookies and muffins for my hubby, but I'm not sure if I'm even supposed to be AROUND gluten flour etc... What do you all do???