Gluten-free baking is a real challenge, so much that there are shelves full of cookbooks devoted to turning out baked goods that, hopefully, aren’t dry, crumbly, dense, starchy, greasy, gummy or tasting of cardboard. The truth is, gluten-free flours just don’t act like wheat flour – it’s not in their chemistry. In most circumstances, you… Continue reading My Gluten-free All-purpose Flour Blend and Lemony Pound Cake
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Peach Upside-Down Cake (Gluten Free)
What can I say? We inadvertently took a six month sabbatical from blogging, but we never took a break from cooking, eating well, and listening to great music. Thanks to you all that have continued to follow us anyway – – we hope to get back into the swing of this. There will be some… Continue reading Peach Upside-Down Cake (Gluten Free)
Banana Date Walnut Bread (grain-free)
Faced with rapidly blackening bananas in the fruit bowl, I turned to the ever-popular means of using them up…banana bread. My old recipe for banana bread used wheat flour, but thankfully these non-yeast breads adapt well to using almond flour. The other big change in this recipe is the lack of processed sugar. After 3… Continue reading Banana Date Walnut Bread (grain-free)
Cheddar Bacon Biscuits (grain-free)
These savory little shortbread cookies will taunt you until you have eaten every last one – I’ll warn you now! I had to make batch after batch of these because I “forgot” to take a photo, and next thing I knew, they were all gone. I first set out on the path to make plain… Continue reading Cheddar Bacon Biscuits (grain-free)
Sunday Morning Bacon and Swiss Quiche
Prospects are grim for getting breakfast in this house, any day of the week. That’s the reality when the cook of the house is not a breakfast eater, made more difficult when the cook does not really care for the taste of eggs. My poor husband subsists on nuts, berries, and yogurt most of the… Continue reading Sunday Morning Bacon and Swiss Quiche
Gluten-free Carrot Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
We had a JAWS (Blu-Ray) viewing party over the weekend, so I made these tiny carrot cakes. I can’t think of a thing to tie these events together, so I guess I fail at theme parties. Incredible taste aside, my favorite thing about carrot cake is the interesting texture. The recipe is so forgiving, you… Continue reading Gluten-free Carrot Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
Fudgy Chipotle Brownies (Grain-free, Gluten-free)
Most nights, we treat ourselves to a small square of dark chocolate for dessert. It is not too guilty of a pleasure, since dark chocolate is packed with cell-protecting antioxidants, known to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer. Of course, that is exactly what I’m thinking about as I savor my portion and… Continue reading Fudgy Chipotle Brownies (Grain-free, Gluten-free)
BBQ Chicken, Bacon, and Pineapple Pizza (gluten free)
Santa brought me several bags of Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free, Dairy Free Pizza Crust mix this past Christmas. Evidently Santa not only knows when you’ve been bad or good, but he also is aware when you have been suffering a serious craving for pizza! Since I haven’t experimented with making my own gluten-free crust from… Continue reading BBQ Chicken, Bacon, and Pineapple Pizza (gluten free)
Oven Barbequed Chicken
…and a product review for Bone Suckin’ Sauce! I love bbq chicken on the grill – especially the bits of crispy skin with sauce, blackened with caramelized sugar from the flames. However some days grilling outdoors just isn’t going to happen, for instance when the cold winter wind is blowing rain. Brrr! Thankfully, pretty-fine barbeque… Continue reading Oven Barbequed Chicken
Sausage Cheese Balls (gluten-free)
One of my favorite holiday food memories is from spending the night at my cousin LuAnn’s house every year. Her mother, Norma, always had plenty of delicious, homemade treats in the house around Christmas, and we thought we were so clever sneaking into the kitchen in the middle of the night to gorge on fudge,… Continue reading Sausage Cheese Balls (gluten-free)
Chicken with Mushrooms and Grapes
Suddenly it is almost dinner time, and I haven’t the faintest idea of what I’m going to cook. This is an opportunity to take inventory of what is in the refrigerator, then google it and see what you come up with. It is food roulette – there are hardly any ingredients that someone hasn’t thought… Continue reading Chicken with Mushrooms and Grapes
Crustless Mini Pecan Pies (grain-free)
Pie filling recipe adapted from Cooks Illustrated (membership required to view link) This recipe may have been born out of my inability to concoct a gluten-free pie crust that meets my satisfaction, but that doesn’t mean these crust-less gems give up anything that you expect in a pecan pie. They are every bit as gooey… Continue reading Crustless Mini Pecan Pies (grain-free)
Cornbread Pudding
Modified from Tom Douglas’ Seattle Kitchen Cornbread pudding is one of our perennial favorites for any holiday meal. Not only is it melt-in-your-mouth good with a creamy custard base, savory herbs and dry aged cheese, and a touch of natural sweetness from corn and caramelized onions…mmmm…what was I saying? I seemed to drift off there… Continue reading Cornbread Pudding
Paleo Magic Cookie Bars
Grain-free and “dairy-optional” Remember Magic Cookie Bars? Those gooey clusters of graham cracker crumbs covered with milk chocolate chips, nuts, sweet coconut flakes and drenched with sweetened condensed milk. Neither do I….ha! I’ve been in major denial of this particular obsession, but no longer. Today we have Paleo-friendly, Magic Cookie Bars with no grains, no… Continue reading Paleo Magic Cookie Bars
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