EVOO cookies recipe

These cookies are adapted from Allyson from manifest:vegan

The original recipe is lemon olive oil cookies:
http://www.manifestvegan.com/2011/06/lemon-olive-oil-cookies/

Since my Clem can't have lemon in anything I took lemon juice out and sub with rice milk and I also sub almond meal with flax seed meal and chia seed since she can't have almond neither.

Dry ingredients:

1 cup of sorghum flour

1 cup of brown rice flour

1/2 cup of potato starch

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1 teaspoon of xantham gum

1 teaspoon of baking soda

Egg sub:

1/8 cup of flax seed meal

1/8 cup of chia seed

1/2 cup of warm water

Wet ingredients:

1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil

1/2 cup of rice milk

4 tablespoons of agava

Directions:

01 Preheat oven at 200 C

02 Egg substitute mixed flax seed meal, chia seed and warm water and set those aside for 15 minutes so they can form into a gel and sticky texture

03 Mix all the dry ingredients into a bowl. Mix them well.

04 Mix all the wet ingredients into a bowl. Mix them well.

05 Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix them well. Then add in the egg substitute. Mix and mix and mix.

06 Roll cookie dough into rounds and press down each piece with a spoon and place them 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.

07 Bake for 12 - 15 minutes.

EVOO cookie dough.

It is crispy on the outside and chewy inside.

Celebrating a gluten free birthday

Today is Clemmie's birthday.

I was just too busy to trial and error a cake recipe so I resulted into purchasing a cake mix by 1 2 3 Gluten Free called Devil's Food Cake Mix! I found those at Little Giant located at Causeway Bay.
1 2 3 Gluten Free also has Buckwheat Pancakes mix which is very awesome. My kiddies love those. 

I was cheating a bit cause I couldn't find palm shortening anywhere?! ... I mean anywhere in Hong Kong that is. I even looked at gourmet food stores and found no palm shortening. So I used a whole stick of butter instead. Clemmie could actually go on dairy rotation, but not recommended.

And I used cream cheese for frosting.

For frosting:

1 pack of cream cheese usually 200g
1 to 2 Tablespoons of agava depending on how sweet you want your frosting to be
1 Tablespoon of rice milk just to loosing the cream cheese and make it batter like
6 small strawberries chopped up and add to the mixture

For the cake batter I did change up the recipe from the box a bit.

For cake batter I added these to the premixed flour:

1 stick of butter usually 200g
1/8 cup of chia seed
1/8 cup of flax seed meal
1/2 cup of warm water
1/2 cup of brown sugar
4 Tablespoons of agava
3 cup of rice milk

Pre heat oven at 375 F. 

Soak the chia seed and flax seed meal in 1/2 cup of warm water.

Butter beat till creamy with a mixer. Add brown sugar and beat. Add chia and flax mix and beat.

Add 1 cup of rice milk and beat. Slowly add in the cake mix.

Then add in more rice milk. Then more cake mix.

Repeat until it is thick and gooey.

I have a convection oven. It takes 30 minutes at 375 F.

Wilbarger and Speech Therapy

Starting the 2011-2012 school year September 1st. Clemmie is going to Watchdog and ESF Wu Kai Sha and Theo is going to French International School.

Clemmie's OT Ms. Wincy at Watchdog started us on the protocol because of Clemmie's sensory seeking and tactile defensiveness. She said to start with 6 sessions of brushing and compression every two hours. So far I put in 4 sessions each day during the weekends and I was able to put in 3 sessions today and probably for the rest of the school days I can at least put in 3 sessions.

It is very easy to do. Clemmie didn't like it very much at first, she wouldn't let me complete the brushing and compression. And everything takes less than 5 minutes to complete.

I go in a circle starting from the right hand, her back, left hand to left leg and ends on her left arm. I go back and forth with the brush, but if your child is too sensitive you should start with going one direction only.

I start by holding her by her right wrist with her right hand palm up and brush up the palm of the hand all the way to her upper arm and back down and do that 3 times then turn her right palm face down and brush all the way up and back down three times. Then cross over to her shoulder and hold her by the  to her back and do the W shape 3 times back and forth. Hold her left hand palm up and brush up and down the arm three times and then left hand palm down brush up and down three times. Then hold the left ankle as you hold the left wrist then let go of the left wrist as if you are continuing with the brushing down to her legs in the same manner then to the other leg.

Compressions that I do for Clemmie are her fingers and toes. Just pulling and pushing of the joints, then her shoulders and elbows by pressing on her shoulder awhile holding her elbow in a 90 degree angle. Same with her knees and ankles/heels by pressing down on her knees and holding her ankles/heels. Do those compressions 10 times at each.

I probably will probably update about Wilbarger brushing and compression in about a month to see what differences I have seen in Clementine.

And as for speech therapy, the director at French International School questioned our intention for Theodore, since he is going to a French school is English speech therapy that important? At this point I think any therapy is important especially with speech for Theodore. Would it be confusing for him to go to an English and a French speech therapy?? That I have no clue. I am willing to give it a shot.

Autistic-Like

I came across the trailer of this movie about Graham Linthorst. A child who is mis diagnosis with autism which actually is sensory processing disorder. I have hope that we can get SPD into the DSM-5 classification that comes out in 2013, so children with the mild version would receive treatment accordingly.

One question was asked why is SPD under mental or psychiatric disorder. It is a neurological disorder and the impact in children is high because it takes in many form from socially inept, emotional tail spin and academic failure. SPD is a hidden disorder.