Skillet Naan Bread Gluten Free

Naan Bread

• § 1/2 cup of water
• § 1 tsp sugar
• § 1 tsp gelatin
• §
• § 1/4 cup olive oil
• § 1/3 cup yogurt , I have also used sour cream with great results!
• § 1 egg
• § 1/2 cup millet flour
• § 1/4 white bean flour
• § 1/4 brown rice flour
• § 1/2 tapioca starch/flour
• § 1/4 cup sweet rice flour
• § 1 tsp xanthan gum
• § 1/2 tsp baking powder
• § 1 tsp salt
• § sweet rice flour

1.Mix sugar and gelatin , add warm water and yeast - let proof

1. Beat oil, egg, and yogurt (or sour cream )
2. Add proofed yeast
3. Blend well together dry ingredients and add all at once to liquids
4. Mix together, then beat on high for 2 minutes
5. Turn dough out onto counter sprinkled with sweet rice flour
6. Using as little sweet rice flour as possible, work into dough only until dough is able to be handled
7. Using hands pinch off pieces of dough to form into thin circles
8. Serve with Judy's Tzatziki Dip , or use for Anneliese's Naan Pizzas, or just enjoy them any way you please !

Compliments of Mennonites Girls Can Cook

I'm all for exchanging roses, chocolates, and cards with the people we love - but what are you doing for the love of your life - YOU?

Pause...notice whether that question made you uncomfortable. If so, why?

• Do you feel undeserving?
• Do you feel unimportant?
• Do you tend to put yourself last?
• Did somebody tell you that it was wrong to love yourself?
• Are you waiting until you achieve some arbitrary goal first?
• Are you afraid that if you accept yourself as you are, you won't be motivated to make changes?

These are just lies that undermine the most important relationship you'll ever have - your relationship with yourself. When self-love is lacking, self-care is usually lacking too. That leaves a bottomless pit that can't be filled with food - or anything or anybody else.

Valentine's Week Make-over

Ready for a relationship makeover? Here are seven gifts to give yourself over the next seven days. By Valentine's Day, the love of your life will know exactly how you feel!

Love - Your first gift to yourself is unconditional love. This means that you love and accept yourself as you are, no caveats, no "excepts" or "whens" or "buts." Write yourself "love" notes and place them on your mirror, computer, nightstand, or where ever you'll see them and remember that you are loveable.

Nurture - Do something wonderful for yourself! Treat yourself to a long bath, a massage, a movie - whatever will show you how much you care.

Nourish - Treat yourself to a nourishing, delicious meal. Choose an interesting recipe and purchase fresh, beautiful ingredients that you'll lovingly combine for your special guest - you! (Of course, if you prefer, you can take yourself out instead.) Enjoy your lovely meal without any distractions and be good company for yourself.

Move - Take yourself out for a long walk, turn up the music and dance, or try that yoga class you've been thinking about. Be grateful for the amazing body that has carried you through all of these years. Love it and it will love you back.

Trust - Buy yourself  two or three pieces of the best chocolates you can afford. Trust yourself to eat them in a way that brings you joy and pleasure. And if you overdo it, trust your body to let you know it.

Inspire - Inspire yourself with a great book, beautiful music, a breathtaking view, or whatever reminds you just how lucky you are to be alive to experience it.

Excite - Don't allow your relationship to stagnate. Be brave and do something big that makes your heart pound a little. Stretch yourself beyond your boundaries: sign up for that class, plan that trip, take that risk...what are you waiting for?

You are not perfect. Get over it.

But you ARE loveable, deserving, important, and beautiful just the way you are! If there is something about yourself or your life you'd like to change, do it because you love yourself, not so you'll love yourself.

Eat Mindfully, Live Vibrantly!
Michelle May, M.D.

This is from her blog. I was given as an Area Captain gift her book below. If you ever get a chance to read it I would highly recommend it.

Give yourself a hug, be kind to yourself - afterall you are YOUR special Valentine!

Remember the crock pot? I couldn't have lived without mine while I was going to college full time as a mature student and raising two children. Even now I still use it - just put everything in it and forget it. Never did I think that it could help me be healthier, lose weight - well the saving money I did know - until I stumbled across this article below. If you haven't used your crock pot in awhile it may be time to dust it off - and if you don't own one it may be time to purchase one. Read on.

 1: Lose Weight

How the slow cooker can help: Cooking at home is a great first step in trying to get your diet under control. Since slow–cooked food relies on long, moisture-rich cooking, you can use less oil than if you were cooking with dry heat in the oven or on the stove. Using your slow cooker to make dinner means that dinner is ready when you get in the door—no more hungrily snacking on other food while preparing dinner.

20 Low-Calorie Meals from Your Slow Cooker

 2: Cook More Healthy Meals

How the slow cooker can help: Using a slow cooker can save you major time preparing meals. By prepping ingredients and putting them in the pot before you leave for work in the morning, you know that when you come home dinner will be waiting. Bonus: Use the extra time you save and hit the gym after work.

The 5 Healthy Meals You Should Learn to Make This Year

Resolution 3: Save Money

How the slow cooker can help: Crock pots lend themselves to stews and other one-pot meals that let you stretch more expensive ingredients, like meat, further. You can save $6.45 per month ($78 a year) if you replace 1 pound of boneless, skinless chicken breast [$4.99] with 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs [$3.49] once a week for 30 days. Try these Slow–Cooker Recipes for $3 or Less per Serving, such as Rich Chicken Stew and Pulled Pork (pictured). Bonus: chances are a slow-cooked meal will yield leftovers (like these Crock Pot Recipes to Cook Once, Eat Twice). Bring leftovers for lunch the next day and you’ll save on lunch money, too!

Click to take you to page

Last year we had different chapters host walks and it did OK - but faded towards the end.

I thought this year we would try something a little different - walk with a purpose. By this I mean - there are so many different charity walks that we could do together that no individual chapter needs to take the responsibility for - but it would still allow us to walk as a TOPS team.We are still getting the benefit of walking, socializing with fellow chapters, and an extra bonus of supporting some great causes.

Do you think this will help get more members out to the walks - in previous feedback TOPS members have repeatedly mentioned they wanted more TOPS inter-chapter functions and also more community involvement?

I would love to hear your feedback and hope to see you out at one of the walks!

I am a very visual person and when I saw this it was like an 'ah ha' moment for me. This would work for me for the planning part and I am in the midst of making a recipe rotation system.

If you would like the tutorial click here.

Do you have ideas on how to plan your meal? Would love to hear them. Comment by clicking on title of this entry.

Well this is my second weigh in for me at my chapter and I best get moving along with this star as I am only down a half a pound from the beginning of the year and that is with me staying the same tonight.

I know I have my eating pretty well under control - but definitely need to improve my water consumption and exercise.

My goal(s) for this week is to drink one glass of water in between anything else I drink (I always have a drink with me) unfortunately it is usually diet cola. The next goal will be to incorporate at least 3 days of intentional exercise this week - one of them being my new exercise video I got on Pilates for Beginners.

Are they S.M.A.R.T. goals?

S - Specific

yes I feel they are.

M - Measurable

yes they both can be measured

A- Attainable

well I surely hope so - I wanted to start small and work up

R- Realistic

yes  :)

T - Timed

Yes this week

Do you do this with you goals - make sure they are S.M.A.R.T. goals?

I will let you know after my next chapter meeting on the 18th how I did.

Would love to hear some of your goals and if you are meeting them - I hear by sharing your goal and actually putting it out there it is more likely you will achieve it - Give it a try - what do you have to lose? (pounds)  :)

Every once is awhile I receive an email I feel must be shared - this is one of them.

This is something we should all read at least once a week!

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio .

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.  My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short – enjoy it.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful.  Clutter weighs you down in many ways.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to be happy.  But it’s all up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive but don’t forget. 

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have not what you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."


Is there any life lessons you would add?

So we are on the 9th day of January - are you still on track for your New Years resolutions.....

Did you set weekly goals - were you able to achieve them - do you reward yourself when you do - what do you do when you don`t achieve them. Have you thought about setting daily goals.

I just read an amazing book by Jillian Michael s called Unlimited: How to Build an Exceptional Life. So many people identify with Jillian from The Biggest Loser but this book isn`t just for diet nor exercise - you could call it a Self help Book (but with an attitude) a real one. I found it one of the best Self Help Books I have ever read. It is like so many others that tell you that you can really have anything you want bad enough - but Jillian doesn`t stop there - she goes on to tell you ONLY if you are willing to do the work to get it.

She talks a lot about goal setting and if you struggle with goal setting, sticking to it, etc - I would highly recommend this book. If you have an  e reader I may be able to share it with you - will have to get the instructions from my daughter. She has many online quizzes you can take to help you on YOUR journey to your exceptional life (however you define it).

I believe for me it was Oprah Winfrey who first introduced me to the Attitude of Gratitude, the Gratitude Journals and such but throughout the years so many people have broadened and shared their thoughts on this particular topic. I truly believe for myself that a grateful attitude has helped me through some tough times in my life - even when some days all I felt grateful for was that I had a bed I could stay in all day.

Do you make a conscience effort daily to realize what you are grateful for - do you have a gratitude journal.

While looking for more information on this topic I stumbled across a Facebook group that is all about the Attitude of Gratitude where people got to share what they are grateful for. If you would like to check it out click here.

If the old saying `birds of a feather flock together`then I would definitely want to be with those positive attitude people.

What are you thankful for today......

On our January Calendar yesterday's challenge was to take the time to plan 3 meals in advance - did you accept the challenge?

When I was a young stay at home mom , running a home based day care, I did this routinely - I don't think I could have managed any other way. I always started out with the basics such as Tuesdays was always Pasta night and Thursdays was always chicken - and Sundays I would sit down and figure out what dish with the themed meal. It really helped with not only the grocery shopping but was a time and money saver also. At 5 o'clock I not only knew what I was eating - it was already cooking. It saved money as I wasn't wondering what to eat and ordering a pizza instead.

While healthy eating, planning is a top priority as we all know - if we fail to plan, we plan to fail!

I have found a page that might help in the planning process and help make it a bit of fun also. Perhaps you can start with baby steps such as I first started out with by defining which night is chicken night, which night is fish night, etc - then continue on with figuring out what dishes.

Or perhaps you have been a planner all along and you can share some of your tips with us?

Click here to view the page I found.

How did you celebrate the end of 2011?

I had always heard that you should celebrate New Year's Eve the same way you want your New Year to be - I was tucked into a warm bed with my tea and KOBO at 10 pm. so I am hoping my New Year will be warm, calm and full of information.

Do you make New Year's Resolutions?

I tend to make the same one every year - to become a better person that I was the year before - so far I have been successful every time but in reality there is no way to really measure it.

In reality we can start fresh any day, any hour, any minute but so many people wait for a New Year. I read an interesting article today about how to keep your New Year's Resolutions and thought I would share it with you.

Click here to read it.

What are you going to do in the next 365 days?