I’m lucky not to have a gluten intolerance, wheat allergy or anything that would keep me away from the stuff. But in my other life as a woman who works in a coffee shop I meet a lot of people who are. Including one of my favourite babies.

I’m working at tweaking my favourite brownie recipe into a GF version. I admit I’m not trying very hard. Or rather it’s not that hard. My go-to recipe is from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. I tend to double the recipe. To free it from gluten I’ve used Doves Farm GF flour. They suggest using more liquid but so far I’ve had success with a straight switch. It turns out a little sweeter so I’m going to have to do a few little tweaks but I’m hopeful that I’ll have a working GF brownie recipe soon.

And a slice of brownie for my favourite baby.

When I went to make the Italian Sausages from Skye Micheal Conroy’s Seitan And Beyond I’d already made a few recipients from the book. I’d even made a few different versions of hand rolled, steamed sausages. I thought it was going to be easy. Even after I read the introduction that said they where going to be extremely wet. I thought I knew what to expect.

Yeah okay, it all went wrong. The theme of today’s post is flops after all. It was wetter than wet. I don’t know if it was my vital wheat gluten or the extremely humid weather. It definitely wasn’t my fault, I’m never wrong. But I still managed to scoop some of the really gross, wet dough up and pop it on a square of foil. Then I started to roll. And I guess I took my frustration out on the rolling process. It exploded a little.

Okay, so I ended up with seitan dough on the other side of the room. On the radiator, on the wall, in the carpet. All over the kitchen counters too. By the time I rolled the wet dough into six fat sausages and sat them in the steamer the splatters had already dried like concrete onto everything. Thank god the sausages were delicious.

They taste amazing. I wanted something a bit like the Tofurkey Italian Sausages only without chilli because Kate complains about spice. They hit the spot. They’re fantastic on pizza or chopped up on pasta when you need a low effort meal. I just follow my instincts now when it comes to hydration levels.

So I had a great very detailed post planned today. Unfortunately it was on tomorrow’s theme. I mixed up the order. And then I was busy today. I’m starting a craft group at work and then I had work in the afternoon. Basically it all went wrong. But I did have a great time knitting and drinking a green smoothie.