Gluten free // Sin gluten

Hace alrededor de medio año que mi madre empezó a comer sin gluten. Los resultados han dado negativo para celiaquía, pero el gluten y ella siguen sin ser amigos. Empezó a comer sin gluten cuando yo estaba en Nottingham, pero cuando yo volví a casa la convencí para que se comprara una panificadora. El pan de compra es demasiado caro y a mi me sabe a plástico. La receta que repetimos todas las semanas es ésta, de Sin gluten es más rico. Le he dicho a mi madre de probar otros panes, pero está tan encantada con éste que no quiere cambiar. Creo que es porque el primero que hice fue un truño total... Pero mirad el segundo que hice con la receta de Sonia.

Además Sonia es un amor. Mira que le pregunté de cosas y me contestó a toditas todos y bastante rápido. Estoy muy agradecida por todo lo que me ayudó porque yo estaba segura que la levadura Royal era sin gluten y valía para panificadora, pero no. Lo mejor de todo es tener el ambientador de pan recién hecho todas las semanas. Cada vez que horneo mi padre se pone a decir que tendría que hacer para todos. Qué celosos son algunos.

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It's been about a year since my mother started eating gluten free. She's not celiac, but gluten doesn't work for her. She started her gluten free diet while I was living in Nottingham, but when I was back home I convinced her to buy a bread maker. The free gluten bread that you can buy is too expensive and distasteful. The recipe we do again and again is this, from Sin gluten es más rico. I told my mum to try another bread recipe, but she's so happy with this one that she doesn't want to change. I think it's because the first one was a fiasco... But look the second read I made with Sonia's recipe.

In addition, Sonia is very sweet. I was asking her each other day and she answered me very kindly and fast. I'm very grateful with all the Sonia's help, I though the usual Spanish yeast was gluten free and appropriate for the bread maker, but no. The best of all is having the smell of fresh baked bread once a week. Every time I make the bread my father want me to make it for everybody. What a jealous man!

Growing up

Some time ago I spent a weekend at my brother's countryside house. He's living where my grandparents used to have the animals and a small house with a little swimming pool (all built by my granduncle). It's located in a quiet place where there are not motorways, just ground roads. It's relative near from the city, but far enough for being in complete silence at night. Just with the crickets song, if you like it as I do you'd love it as I do.

He's really skillful, so he built many things to make the place more comfortable and useful as well as safe for their son. Little by little he has been growing up a vegetable garden, which has been getting bigger lately. I love the fact I can pick my dessert up from the bush. And, as he has got some chickens he's growing some corn to feed them.

Keep going

I've been quite busy lately, and not in a pleasant way. That's why I didn't feel like writing or posting anything. But, after a too long period of meditation I've decided I need to keep doing things. I've never posted regularly, but the truth is I've never try it. So, posting more is one of my August goals (which are several and not easy, just because I've never done it before). I'll do my best.

I've about one hundred thing that I want to share with you, so I'll prepare carefully every single one. First of all, because this is a short post and I want to start big small things, I'd like to know if you have ever seen this strange animal: the pangolin. It's not an armadillo, it walks with the two posterior legs. For me it was an amazing discovery.

I found this photo here. It's adorable, and it makes me remember "Avatar" (maybe the eyes).

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He estado bastante ocupada últimamente, pero no por gusto. Por eso no me apetecía escribir ni publicar ninguna entrada. Pero después de un (demasiado) largo período de meditación, he decidido que lo mejor es seguir haciendo cosas. Nunca he publicado regularmente, pero la verdad es que nunca lo he intentado. Así que uno de mis objetivos de agosto será publicar más, aunque tengo muchos y son difíciles. Pero la dificultad reside en que nunca antes los he hecho, así que haré todo lo que pueda.

Tengo como un centenar de cosas que quiero compartir contigo, intentaré preparar cada una con esmero. Lo primero, más que nada porque ésta es una entrada corta (hay que empezar por las pequeñas cosas), quiero saber si alguien conocía este extraño animalito: el pangolino. No es un armadillo, camina con las patas traseras. Para mí fue todo un descubrimiento.

Encontré esta foto aquí. Es monísimo, me recuerda a "Avatar" (puede que por los ojos).