improv night with gluten-free crackers

inspired by maggi (who was in turn inspired by 101 cookbooks), we tried to make crackers from scatch tonight -- gluten-free crackers, of course!

the first recipe (found on some gluten-free blog somewhere) tasted, as jason says, "like its constituent ingredients." yum. flour. i love tasting flour.

so we improvised a new recipe.

here's my best recollection of what we threw together..

1/2 cup rice flour
1/2 cup quinoa flour
1/3 cup (or less) of flax seed meal
sprinklings of black and white sesame seeds for color / texture
(just make it look artisan - you'll know when you've got enough seeds)
2.5 tsp of wheat free tamari
...
and here's where it gets really improvised...
...
i think it was probably about 1.5 tsp of Smart Balance
i think it was about 4-5 tablespoons of water
and i salted, kneaded, tasted, salted, kneaded, tasted... until one point when i thought "oh no - that was it - that was too much"

turns out - they're pretty darn good. not too salty at all.

they taste, as jason says, "like food."

that's a high complement indeed.

pictures to come later.