May 13th, 2009
Hot Pockets!
Homemade Hot Pocket
Not bad, right?
It’s so simple, and now that I have Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour (check it out in the sidebar, right there), I can make my own version of Hot Pockets with fresh, whole ingredients that do not lay your soul to waste. And for pennies a pocket.
I use Gluten Free Pizza Dough (click on Blue Plate Specials and scroll down on that page for the super simple recipe), roll it out, and fill it up as you please. Here, I made a simple, inexpensive vegetable chili, put a few tablespoons of that, topped with shredded cheese in the center of the dough, and then folded it over, pinched as you see here, and popped it in a hot oven (start at 425 degrees and go higher if you get impatient). Voila! My kids love it. They get to eat with their hands! What could be bad.
I’m beginning to think that pizza dough is the key to kitchen happiness. Wait a minute…. Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour is the key to thrifty gluten free pizza dough, and thrifty gluten free pizza dough is the key to kitchen happiness. So, tautologically speaking (if I may speak freely), Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour is the KEY to kitchen happiness. Life is good….
Not that you really need to know this about me, but I ran a few miles yesterday morning. Just around the block, and at a snail’s pace. But it was the first time in 6 or 8 months. I find that it helps me to cope better with life in general. Right now coping is not simple for me, and running is possible.
The weather in NY these past few days has been perfect for running, the fog of my having been laid off from my job in March is finally starting to lift, and my children are really becoming more insane by the day. They 3 are all in ribbons because school is fixing to end for the year relatively soon, and they are fixed on what is ending (school as they current know it) and for my older 2 who will be going to schools in the Fall that are new to them, they fear the unknown. So what I’m trying to say is that I need to be able to coax them through these few months with at least a modicum of grace, and if I go for a run, I find that I really do have my wits about me much more reliably. Not that I always have my wits about me, but I do more frequently. And I’m nicer. Why is it that the other mothers all seem to find this easier to accomplish?
What does all of this have to do with Hot Pockets? I’m sure I could come up with something, but I must fit in a run before it’s time to pick up from preschool, you see….
Warmly,
Nicole
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Posted on August 15th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Hello Nicole! I just stumbled across your site, and I would like you to know that your recipes sound amazing! I have been a diagnosed Celiac since I was about 8 (Im now 25) and I still have yet to perfect any home made gf baking, Although with your recipes I think I might be brave enough to try!
Thank you for your site!
Posted on August 17th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Hi, Sarah,
Welcome! You can absolutely do this. You just need a few tricks of the trade, & I’m happy to share what I know.
Warmly,
Nicole
Posted on October 8th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Sorry to hear you were laid off in March. I was laid off too — at the end of July, which has really turned out to be a kind of blessing because I have had the time to change how we do things around here. This preoccupation with Celiac along with cleaning and painting has helped keep me busy and something like sane.
Take care, Christina