Tomato Onion Bread

This recipe is, as they “easy as falling off a log”, and it has endless possibilities.  It will tell you now that I am also working on a variation involving pears, possibly one with squash, apples….as I said, the possibilities are endless.

And speaking of falling off things…..

I am becoming my mother.  Sigh.

Our dog loves to sit on the wall in front of our house and watch the world walk by. And bark at the world. Especially certain dogs.  No idea why.

Anyway, I had her out on the wall, and was maybe not particularly paying a lot of attention since I was on my phone, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw her start to roll over onto her side.  Unfortunately for her, there was not as much wall as she thought and she sort of maybe kinda landed on her head, bounced a bit off her shoulder, and ended up on her feet. ( The wall is maybe 2 feet off the ground, we are not talking the Great Wall of China here)

Naturally, I kept a cool head.  I picked her up, put her back on the wall, and resumed what I was doing. Or not.

I may actually have screamed, “Oh my God! Baby, are you all right!?!?” Cuddled her, held up my hand and asked, “How many fingers do you see, one or two?” Rushed inside to get an ice pack (for the record, dogs do not appreciate having an ice pack held against their head), asked her her name and address, tried to get her to bend her paws, tap dance, recite the preamble to the constitution, and pulled up the vets number on my phone.  Every time she dozed off that evening, I woke her up to make sure she wasn’t slipping into a coma (which went over about as well as the ice pack.  It was the only time I have seen her ever go voluntarily into her crate, close the door, put her back to the room and pull the blanket over her head). All of which my mother apparently;y did to me, her firstborn whenever I so much as bumped myself on the crib pad.

Fast forward to my sister who fell off the changing table one day (a considerably higher drop than our wall) and my mother waited a week to casually mention it to the doctor.  I believe his response was something along the lines of blowing a party horn and throwing some confetti into the air that she wasn’t acting all cray-cray anymore.

Hmmmmm.  Maybe I need to get a second dog.

But, on the other hand, this story does explain a lot…about my sister.😁

Ingredients:

• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 1 cup finely sliced onions
• 1  1/2 cups finely sliced green onions
• 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup spelt flour
• 1/4 cup millet flour
• 2 Tablespoons arrowroot powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 Tablespoons butter, melted
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 tomato, thinly sliced
•  Vegan Parmesan (optional)

1. Preheat the oven to 400
2. In a small pan, over medium low heat, sauté the onions, green onions, basil and salt till soft; about 5 -10 minutes
3. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, millet, arrowroot. Baking powder, salt and oregano.  Pour the butter over and mix until it resembles wet sand (I use a pair of surgical gloves and just squeeze and rub till I get it really fine.
4. Add the milk, and stir it or just get your hands in there and mix it up till it is almost like playdough.
5. put it into a greased 8×8 pan, using your hands to press it evenly out into all the corners.  Spoon the onion mixture over it, top with tomato slices and cheese and bake it for 20 minutes.

 Enjoy!