I’m back. You’re so happy right?!

Sorry it’s taken me a whole week to post. In all honestly, I just didn’t have anything to post about. But now I do.

I want to talk about spoons and the role they play in the act of eating chili. I don’t think that they should have a role at all. Don’t get me wrong, I think spoons make wonderful tools for getting the chili into your bowl, but the job stops there. Chili needs to be eaten with bread. Not bread on the side, I mean replace the spoon with a great piece of bread.

Yes, there are clearly some obvious issues with this method. If the bread bends how do you get the chili to your mouth. If the bread gets soggy, how do you avoid dripping everything down the front of your shirt? Normally, I would say lightly toast the bread so that it’s firm but not crumbly. Well, nothing about life is normal for me anymore. So there had to be a Plan B.

Meet Plan B.

Lakeview Bakery’s Brown Rice Red is the perfect solution. It’s firm so no bending under the weight of the good stuff. It’s dense so no soggy mess down the front of your shirt. And it doesn’t really have any sort of distinct taste, so it won’t interfere with the awesomeness that is your chili. And just think – that’s one less dish you need to wash.

Now, I will say this: I wouldn’t say that it makes the best sandwich bread – for all the reasons it makes a great chili bread. In the grand scheme of things, I don’t really think this is a case of needing to have your cake and eat it to.

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My mother’s butter tarts kick your mothers butter tarts in the butt. So much so, that I have friends that request my mom make them butter tarts and mail them across the country. Oh yes, they are that good.

You can only imagine my delight when I came across these little wonders. Yup total excitement.

I found these at Co-Op and could barely contain it. Not only is Lakeview Bakery a local company, but they understand the importance of the butter tart.

So what did I think?

Ha, like you didn’t know I was about to tell you.

Well…let me begin with spreading some love. Lakeview Bakery is great.  As one of the early adopters of gluten free baking in Calgary, I have nothing but love for their efforts. I would also like to spread some love for the filling. Very, very tasty. Just sugary enough that your teeth hurt (as they should with a butter tart) and just enough raisins that you feel like you’ve made the healthy choice without feeling like you need to go hug a tree and call it organic.

Okay, so, now for the less than love part of this post. I can’t hide it. The tart was not good. I found it dry, thick and it left an odd after taste in my mouth. I tried heating it up, I tried adding soy milk, I tried my best to love it. But I couldn’t. If they could perfect the tart shell, I would worship at the butter tart alter.

I’m going to digress here:

You know what would be FANTASTIC…if someone could create gluten free tart shells that I could fill myself then pass off as homemade. That would be FANTASTIC.

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