text: Living With Imperfection: October 2010
  We're "free" at our house . . . gluten-free that is, to adjust to the digestive systems of 3 family members whose bodies can't remember where they put all the enzymes they need when it comes time to digest the wheat. And so we accommodate those quirky digestive systems. And for a while that meant no cookies, no cupcakes, no bread, no pizza until we could find some substitutes.
  And for Youngest Daughter, that would have meant no Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting for her birthday . . . except for the fact that this delightful book was given to me!
  Silvana has her own special flour blend, which had me purchasing, for the first time, rice flour, potato flour, tapioca flour, and xanthum gum. She's got a great blend going here, and it works!
  Young hands sifted the flours, stirred in the puree, piped the strawberry buttercream frosting and topped the creamy mountain with a specially-picked-out fruit snack. The Olders Kids said there was too much frosting. Are you kidding me? Too much creamy, butter-based, powdered sugar-fluffed, fresh strawberry-infused frosting? No way. These were great. Flour was not missed. We're happy to be free.