Laughter And Gluten-free Recipes

Last night we went to see Lily Tomlin in our podunk town of aging baby boomers.  As is her style, Lily came on stage full of that energy that is amazing, brilliant and funny.  I laughed so much and smiled so much that my face hurt when it was all over.  A respite from any troubles in life, laughter doesn't mean you have to be anyone special or have a job or be pretty or even laugh correctly.  Laughter is unavoidable if you want it.  It just comes right in and tickles you and then you find yourself pounding your knee in exclamation!

Most of us in the audience were old enough to have watched Lily Tomlin on Laugh-In and been fans ever since. We all laughed knowingly in the same parts of her routine and in unison.  We are the aging population of baby boomers and their trailing edge siblings.  We actually remember that era of television when there were only seven channels locally and cell phones had not entered our world like a cancer never to be outlived. 

Other gravity defying  recreation has involved a new cookbook for me-Babycakes Covers The Classics by Erin McKenna.  I am attempting to illuminate or expunge gluten from my diet and it isn't that easy.  The bread is like dried out cardboard and my attempts at making cookies has been a real joke that should not cause laughing.  In fact I tried some online recipes from a blog I won't mention and they became doorstops that were tasteless and dry.  I then tried converting old favorites into gluten-free objects of desire and they came out flat and crumbled into a pile of ingredients.  I am a bad cook but something was really wrong here.

So, I splurged and bought Erin's new cookbook and we shall see.  Some of the recipes are beyond me and I love her writing style and the idea of making gluten-free donuts. She makes me laugh.  I really just wish she had a bakery here so I could go and eat through the display cases.  Guess I shall have to work harder since I live in podunk northern California.  Just the same, check out Erin's website for some fun: http://www.babycakesnyc.com/about.html

I am going to keep trying to have some more fun today even though it is rainy out there because Monday comes whether we have a job or not, whether we worry about our lives or not and whether decisions about what to do next are clear to us or not.  Laughter can always lead the way because it doesn't cost a cent.