Expensive Karma - Dang.

[milee]

Gluten Free All Purpose Flour Mix
3 parts brown rice flour (I use Bob’s Red Mill)
3 parts corn starch
2 parts soy flour , sorghum flour or garfava flour
1 part masa harina
I’ve given you this recipe in “parts” so that you can make as much or as little as you want. I usually use a 1 cup measure, so I end up with 3 c. brown rice, 3 c. cornstarch, 2 c. soy flour and 1. c. masa harina. However, I’ve also used a teaspoon measure when I needed just a little bit.
Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. (If you’re new to mixing flours, then you want to make sure that you don’t see any clumps or streaks of indiviual flours. By the time you’re done it should be one homogeneous bowl of flour.) Transfer the flour to a canister or other storage container. You’re done!

[montrose]

What's the source of the recipe?

[milee]

I don't remember.

Was pulling recipes up late at night. Will search more later to see which site I found it on.

[montrose]

Don't be
It's just that there are certain bloggers whose recipes never seem to work in my hands. Never! It is so hard to buy GF flours at triple or quadruple the price of regular flour only to toss the results in the trash. So I'm pretty particular now as to whose recipes I'll try.

[milee]

OK, found it. www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/finally-really-good-sandwich-bread/

[milee]

FWIW, it came out pretty much like the picture on the site. Mine didn't rise quite that high - or rather, it did, but then the top became more flat when it cooled - but other than that, the picture was a pretty good representation.

One thing I find really helps in every recipe is to make sure the ingredients - especially the yeast - are fresh.

Oh, and if you don't need the ingredients immediately, get them on Vitacost.com Vitacost seems to be about 25% - 35% less expensive than our local health food stores and if you order $49, shipping is free.

[montrose]

I meant to say earlier that I've had good success with either eating or making traditional "bread-like" gluten free foods.

Corn:
Tortillas-never made, but ready-made corn tortillas are everywhere.
Polenta
Arepas (Venezuela); I don't know if the recipe I used was authentic, but they were pretty tasty

Cassava:
pao de queijo (Brazil)
Bammy (Jamaica): I find the flatbread frozen, then thaw, soak in coconut milk and fry (or bake???)

Chickpea flour
I found a recipe on Dr. Oz for chicken soup with chickpea dumplings. They were actually pretty good, although not for leftovers, as the dumplings started to dissolve
Fried balls -(India) not sure what these are called, maybe pakoras? I found them for sale at an Indian grocery store.
Socca/farinata (France/Italy)- next on my list to try as a base for thin crust pizza
Cake - this was actually made with mashed, canned chickpeas. It was interesting, not bad, not good, but interesting.

Buckwheat
pancakes (France) - haven't tried a gf version of this yet

Cocoa
flourless chocolate cake
flourless fudge cookies
financiers

rice flour
Bibingka (Phillipines)- A sort of chewy cake, like mochi.
rice noodles/rice paper (Vietnam?) - can buy at Asian markets

Almond flour
Clementine cake (England? Nigella Lawson)

I'm sure there's more, but these are things I've tried or are on the list to try. They seem to work better for me than the new recipes that people come up with. That said, I have the following flours: almond, teff, brown rice, white rice, sweet rice, coconut, flaxseed, tapioca, potato starch, corn starch, masa harina and buckwheat, all from trying different things.

[milee]

Those sound great! Thanks for pointing out some of these ready made foods. I really like corn tortillas, polenta and rice noodles, so it's nice to know they're OK.

Since that Gluten Free All Purpose Flour Mix made a pretty large batch, I had some left over. My 8 year old just used it to make our favorite oatmeal raisin cookies allrecipes.com/recipe/beths-spicy-oatmeal-raisin-cookies/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=beths%20spicy%20oatmeal%20raisin%20cookies&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Home%20Page

They were very good. Everybody ate them and liked them.

But the 8 year old didn't like the GF bread, even with Nutella.