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 [...]

Year of Gratitude #3

Note: Older post lost in the shuffle… re-posted here. Today I am grateful for: 1) Short phone calls just to say hi. Actually, this happened to the husband last night, not me… but I was still grateful. Grateful to his friend in Cali for making 10 minutes to say “hiya.” Grateful for the brief but [...]

Granny Lala’s Bakery: The Genuine (Gluten-Free) Article

Granny Lala’s GF treats taste home-baked… by a really good baker. This is officially my lucky month. Lucky as in “Here, Emilie! I made muffins! Have a brownie! I found this store that sells gluten-free cookies, and I bought you some!” Yep. December is definitely my lucky, fat-n’happy, gluten-free gorging on delicious baked surprises month. [...]

Cupcakes for Breakfast

Dear Corina Cake Bakery: Thank you for your cozy, light-filled neighborhood locale and your sweet floury smells that fill my morning walk to work. Thank you for the genuinely warm greeting from behind the pastry-laden counter and for taking the time with each customer to explain ingredients and mention which goodies are fresh out of [...]

Gluten-Free Fryer Foods at Quality Burrito, Olympia!

I love bar food. I love late-night and happy-hour menus. I love fries and all things fried. Sadly, since I converted to a gluten-free diet, this love has mostly gone unrequited. All the best bar-side, late-night, bad-for-you foods are usually drenched in flour batter. I say mostly unrequited, because, yes, I have sometimes continued to [...]

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, [...]

New Tradition! Lefse (for the Wheatless)

Last Friday (one of my extra days)  Kanarie and I embarked on a little culinary adventure: Gluten-free lefse. For the uninitiated: Lefse is traditional Norwegian fare–an oversized, very thin potato pancake of sorts, meant to be rolled or folded with a thin spread of butter and cinnamon and sugar, or (as my family likes it) [...]

Day Trippers in Portland: Book-Heaven & Gluten-Free ESB!

As the last part of the Epic Weekend of Mid-May 2009, the husband and I headed South to Portland . He had an audition, and I had the day off, so we decided to make a day of it! Well, technically, it was a day and an abbreviated overnight, graciously granted by Lizzie and the [...]

Vinegar for a GF diet: Malt vs. Distilled

I’ve just learned about a sneaky new source of Gluten… Vinegar. Really?? Ahhh, man. All this time, my seemingly-innocent, crouton- and other-crunchy-things-free salads have been harboring yet one more harmful malefactor. Vinegar, in case you haven’t noticed, is a key ingredient in lots of other products… specifically condiments. Mayonnaise, barbecue sauces, and of course, most [...]