Udi’s Gluten-Free Pizza Crust

This last week I tried a new GF pizza crust to make pizza at home. Udi’s GF Frozen Pizza Crust is pretty darn good, and it reminded me how much fun it used to be to make pizza at home for sleepovers and birthdays. It comes in a pack of two rounds, about 5 inches [...]

First Picnic of Summer & Gluten Free “Kitchen Sink Quiche”

Finally enough sun, and on a weekend! This called for: The first backyard picnic of Summer 2010… one of many to come! One of the many great things about being “near neighbors” (about 5 blocks away) with a good friend is that planning a last-minute picnic dinner is no big deal. “You wanna?” “Sure! I’ll [...]

Recipe: Apricot Honey Muffins with Winnie the Pooh

While visiting Mom & Dad this weekend, I came across a favorite little cook book from childhood: The Pooh Cook Book The book was first published in 1969 and is illustrated throughout with the same line drawings by Ernest A. Shepherd that you’ll find in the original Winnie the Pooh books by A.A. Milne. You’ll [...]

Recipe: Gluten-Free Cranberry Ginger Trifle

This pretty layered dessert was inspired by a dish my Aunt Linda used to make for family holidays. I lowered the sugar level and added a few of my favorite things: Ginger snaps (GF of course) and lots of savory spices! (From the peanut gallery, the husband says, “Oh yeah. You can make this any [...]

Matters of Taste

“Had I but known!” Here’s a little something I realized the other night that might have jump-started my culinary enthusiasm years ago: When you make a meal, you get to make it the way YOU like it. Seriously, did you know this? The person who cooks get to make all the decisions! Last week, I [...]

Recipe: WYSIWYG Cucumber Salad

WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get. Sorry, I’ve been spending too much time in the nerdy website design industry. Anyways, here is a tasty late-summer salad for all those fresh cukes and tomatoes in your garden and at the summer farmer’s markets. WYSIWYG Cucumber Salad Last weekend we had a “Roommate Reunion” [...]

Recipe: Gluten Free Apple-Zucchini Bread

Kanarie and TheFred’s Mom gifted us with some beautiful zucchinis from her garden… despite our rare Washington summer swelter, I immediately thought of oven-warm zucchini bread. Mmmm! GF Apple-Zucchini Bread This recipe is a GF adaptation from the trusty Betty Crocker Cookbook my mom gave me in college. (Find the original recipe in full here, [...]