Category Archives: Gluten-Free

Summer Corn Salad

Summer has arrived full-on and I don’t know how the hell it happened. Next week is July? How’d we get here? For the first time in 28 years, I’ve got a garden that is chock-full of produce. Rich two-year-old compost … Continue reading

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Smoked Salmon Salad with Lemon Basil Vinaigrette

Sometimes a girl eats too many doughnuts for her birthday. Then chases them down with extravagant fru-fru cocktails, copious amounts of amazing sushi, and inevitably, birthday cake to round it all out. Sometimes the next day, that girl says, “Damn. … Continue reading

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Sweetly Spiced Yogurt Pudding

We just had a week filled with birthday celebrating. Silas has had three separate birthday celebrations – all of them including homemade treats and cooking. I made a vanilla cake with salted caramel meringue buttercream filling. The process of making … Continue reading

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Gluten Free Green Chile Sweet Corn Mac and Cheese

The last week has been a whirlwind. While I’ve got more than a few recipes ready to show up on this little blog, the last handful of days have been long and come 10:30 at night, the last thing I … Continue reading

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What About All That Whey? (Recipe: Cardamom Whey Refresher)

I posted a recipe yesterday for homemade yogurt. The thing about making homemade Greek yogurt is, you wind up with a lot of leftover whey. Yes, like Little Miss Muffet. Whey is the liquid by-product produced by strained yogurt. It’s … Continue reading

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Strawberry Basil Gin Cocktail

Can a person have a “drinking career?” I was about to start this off with, When I think about my drinking career… Then I realized drinking isn’t exactly a job nor how I’d ever hope to describe the majority of my day to … Continue reading

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Toasted Coconut Cardamom Rice Pudding with Blueberries

In the last few weeks, I’ve grown a deep appreciation for leftovers and nearly empty refrigerators. I’m not even being sarcastic (gasp, I know). The sparseness remaining once all the newer groceries have been consumed can be motivation to try … Continue reading

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Bleu Cheese Polenta with Spanish Chorizo Sauce

  I fully believe in putting care, intent and thought into everything I cook. That doesn’t mean I need to make an overly elaborate multiple course dinner every night, or that the meal must consist of an exhausting list of ingredients. … Continue reading

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Vegetarian Soyrizo Hash with Baked Eggs and Ricotta

In the last six years, the amount of meat that goes into my diet has drastically shifted. Truth is, I enjoy learning about plant based proteins and nutrients… in a very nerdy way, which has included reading about the ways … Continue reading

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Big Red Juice

I’ve never been good with diets. The first time I remember trying one I must have been nine or ten. What I remember most is a white paperback book from the late 80’s – this one, actually – and trying to … Continue reading

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