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MOTHER’S DAY GIFT IDEAS

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With Mother’s Day around the corner you are probably thinking about what kinds of things to buy or send to your mother and your mother-like friends and family.  I love to spend the day in the garden working and planting as a family.  We then have a family barbeque.

Here are a few ideas for you if you are still considering your options – they include buying and making – or rather – baking home made gifts!

If you are looking for a special Gift Basket we can help you!  We have a selection of beautiful gift baskets on our new website at http://www.gilbertsgourmetgoodies.com/gift-baskets.html#sampler

Since I have so many food allergies, and I want fresh, healthy food, I prefer to eat at home.  Buying a cake and ice cream does not work either.   So for this Mother’s Day we will have a barbeque and fresh, grilled veggies.  For dessert we will make one or several treats:

1) A cake using a tub of the Sugar Cookie Dough which we will roll out into a cake pan and bake.  We will top it with fruit, berries and sorbet for me, and ice cream for the rest of my family.

2) Raspberry filled sugar cookies.  Check out my recipes in my blog – we will roll out the Sugar Cookie Dough and cut out and bake cookies, and then fill them with raspberry jam and/or dark chocolate.

3) We might make chocolate chip bars (like brownies) using the Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and/or brownies using the Brownie Cookie Dough.  We will top them with sorbet for me, and/or ice cream and whipped cream for the rest of my family.

SInce it is Mother’s Day we will make these goodies together as a family. You can also create and bake your favorite cookies or brownies with our cookie dough!

DELICIOUS, FUN & E-Z COOKIE DOUGH RECIPES & LOCATIONS

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I’ve received numerous emails and calls about our cookie dough.  I love our cookie dough – it’s SO easy to use – no mess, mixing, just scoop and bake . . . . OR roll it out, make cookie cutter cookies (my favorite!), bake and decorate.  Nothing compares to making your own cookies right at home, eating warm cookies right out of the oven!  It’s fun and it’s easy!  It’s a great family activity, great for birthday parties, school events and more.   Here are a few ideas you can use to make your own cookies and treats at home with our 3 flavors of cookie dough.

Sensational Sugar -  make sugar cookies and holiday cookies, and/or as a base for many different types of cookies including snickerdoodles, thumbprint cookies, sandwich cookies, and cut out cookies.  Our customers love it because it’s not too sweet.  Create your own special cookies with this very versatile cookie dough!

Chewy Chocolate Chip – packed with dark chocolate chips this dough makes super delicious chocolate chip cookies and is a favorite among our customers.    So yummy – whether you make your cookies tiny, small, medium or large they will be a hit!  During the summer we like to make chocolate chip cookies and fill them with ice cream (or ice dream) for a special ice cream treat.  It’s fun, easy, yummy and another great activity to do with your friends and family!

Chocolate Brownie – this is our newest cookie dough.  You can use it to make chocolate cookies.  You can add chocolate or vanilla chips or another type of candy for a special surprise cookie.  Make these cookies and fill with ice cream for a really special ice cream sandwich treat!  Want brownies?  Just spread in a pan and bake and voila!  Cut the brownies, add ice cream and have a brownie ice cream sundae treat.  Yummy!

I’ve been asked how many cookies you can make with one tub of cookie dough.  It depends on the size of your cookie.  We can bake 40 bite-sized cookies out of one tub (check our website for a picture of these if you’ve never had one ).  We’ve made over 100 tiny cookies and more than 90 small cookie stars and heart cookies with one tub.

You can also make wonderful cookie cakes with one tub of cookie dough.  Just roll the dough out into a cake pan that you’ve sprayed with cooking spray.  Use a spatula to even out the dough and bake – and you’ve got yourself a delicious cookie cake!

You’ve been asking where you can purchase the cookie dough.  There are 5 stores in Connecticut that carry the cookie dough year round.  All of them have the dough in their freezer section, sometimes in the frozen gluten-free freezer, sometimes with the ice cream.  If you don’t see it, please ask someone in the store to help you find it.

  • New Morning Natural Market in Woodbury
  • Shoprite of Enfield
  • Wishing Well in Sandy Hook
  • Nature’s Temptations in Ridgefield
  • Whole Foods in Darien

Some Whole Foods in the Northeast carry the cookie dough year round.  Others carry the dough during the holidays.  It depends on their freezer space, gluten-free customer base and how quickly the dough sells.  This includes: Tribeca & Union Square in NYC;  White Plains, NY;  Darien, CT; Edgewater & Paramus, NJ; Portland, Maine;  Woburn, MA.

If you’d like to see our cookie dough (or other products) in your local store please ask the store manager to order them;  local retailers listen to your requests and want to meet their customer needs.   Please send us an email with the store information so we can contact them too.

You can always order the cookie dough on line.  We ship via fedex ground, which is a one day shipment time in the NY Metro and New England region.  Outside of this region you would need to ship via overnight service, which can be expensive.

We hope you enjoy our recipes and ideas for how you can use our cookie dough to make your own special cookies and treats.  Please check out our recipes in our blog archive and on our website.  Send us your favorite cookie dough recipes and pictures and we will post them on our facebook page!

 

Gluten-Free, Nut-Free Matzoh Recipe

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If you are gluten-free, trying to find gluten-free matzoh in your local store is not always so easy.  If you live near one of those stores that do carry it, you are lucky.  You can always order on line too.  Then there are the many recipes on the internet.  Most are made with either almond or nut flour, soy flour and other ingredients that I cannot eat because of my allergies.

Even when I do purchase gluten-free matzoh I still like to make my own.  I think it’s original and more like what our ancestors ate .  But that doesn’t mean it looks or tastes good. . . . Until this year!

I found a bunch of recipes that I could not use due to the ingredients, so I tailored them and came up with a matzoh recipe this year that we like!  I made small, individual cracker-like matzohs instead of sheet matzohs.  We love the taste and the size!

Recipe:

1/3 cup of Potato Starch

1/3 cup of  Brown Rice Flour

1 Tablespoon of Flaxseed Meal

3 Tablespoons of Olive Oil

3-4 Tablespoons of Water

Salt to taste (1/4-1/2 teaspoon)

Mix the potato starch, brown rice flour and flaxseed meal together.  Add in the olive oil and mix.  Add in one tablespoon of water at a time until the mixture is soft enough to handle and roll into balls. Add the salt to the mixture to taste.  You might need to add in a little more or less oil and water until you get it to the right consistency. Don’t be afraid to experiment!  If you add to much liquid you can always add in a little more flour.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil.  Take a heaping tablespoon full of the mixture and press down into a flat circle.  Repeat until all of the mixture is used.  Prick the mini matzohs with a fork.   Bake at 400 degrees for approximately 8-10 minutes.  Cool and enjoy!

Tips:

For the first batch  I sprinkled salt onto the matzohs.  The result was a bland matzoh cracker that I did not like.  For the next batch I added the salt into the mixture before baking.  We liked it much better.

Ingredients: I love olive oil! Note that it does give the matzoh a little olive green twinge.  You can use another oil if you prefer.  If you don’t have  or can’t find potato starch then try tapioca starch.  I’m going to try the next batch with tapioca and see how that turns out.

Baking Time:  Bake less time for a softer matzoh, longer for a crispier matzoh

My recipe made 9 matzoh crackers.

Gluten-Free Matzoh

Gluten-Free Matzohs