Finally Had A Dairy-Free Pancake For Breakfast!

While I am on a dairy-and-soy-free diet, I found a few techniques on making it easy to find special foods faster. The easiest way is going to a store with aisles or corners specific for the diet and I found a lot by looking at the Gluten-Free corner.

As a busy nursing mom, I barely have time to take care of myself, what more to cook from scratch. That's why I haven't tried making a homemade pancake though I've read a lot from other food blogs. :) That's the reason King Arthur Flour Gluten Free pancake mix really got my attention. I love eating pancakes and waffles for breakfast and this pancake mix is just the perfect thing for me at the moment.

According to the recipe, I can substitute oil for butter and that's what I did. Also, substituted rice milk instead of the regular cows milk. While cooking the pancake, I saw a lot of bubbles and I thought this wouldn't look nice again, but no! I guess these are the most good-looking pancakes I've ever cooked. Haha!

Because I used less tasty ingredients like the milk and oil, instead of the rich and creamy taste of butter, I just have to top it with something sweet! :D That is the pancake for me and my daughter, half topped with Hungry Jack Pancake Syrup and the other half with Hershey's Chocolate Syrup. Ooooh soooo goooood!

How about you, have you tried gluten-free foods? What do you use to top your pancakes?

Coconut Coffee and Ice Cream

Summer will officially start in less than a week and I bet you can already feel the warmth of the scorching sun! Haven't turned the AC yet because we have a home improvement project going on and the vents have not been cleaned. Anyway, this makes me want to snack on cold food and drinks. I can't think of anything but ice cream and cold coffee. And I found some organic ones!

It's my first time to try a vanilla ice cream with soy as milk. Well, what can I say, SO Delicious Soymilk Vanilla Ice Cream's taste is something I have never tasted before. I imagined it'll be sweet just like soy milk, but somehow it's not. Yes, it has that creamy taste but it lacks sweetness. So I had to add some caramel bits and also some chocolate morsels. My 3-year old did not like the taste but my husband was able to manage with the add-on treats.

Now, to the next cold treat! I guess me and my husband have extremely different taste buds. He was the first to So Delicious Cococcino and he said he can taste the coconut more than the coffee itself. So I tried it myself and I thought, no not really, it was a good coffee! (You should know I was once a barista.) Cappuccino's have foam but this one doesn't. To me it doesn't matter as long as it is delicious! This single pack Cococcino has a resealable cap so you can bring it along for a walk, put it in you bag and it still won't spill. For me, it's best with crushed iced. I love drinking it as a snack. It's refreshing! I wasn't able to try but I bet it'll be a great smoothie, with some chocolate shavings on top. Oooh!

SO Delicious products are organic, dairy-free and most of all Fair Trade. I love that these products are Fair Trade because every time I purchase those products, I know I am helping farmers get fair share from doing the hard work.

DISCLAIMER

I was not paid in anyway to do a review of the products mentioned above. I was given samples to try but everything was based on my 100% honest opinion.