More and more nice bakeries and pastry shops are using attractive paper baking molds. They are especially good for cup cakes one takes to a pot-luck gathering, or a coffee cake one might take with a bag of coffee as a hostess gift for the morning after a dinner party. And since we’re not going to reinvent … Continue reading
This has been such a long held belief of mine that I’m amazed the only famous person I could find credited with the idea is Debbie Allen. It seems so universally true I was hoping for (da Vinci?) No basil for pesto? Use parsley and/or carrot tops. No peanut butter for cookies? Use almond butter or tahini. No … Continue reading
Easy, inexpensive, “green”…. BNTO’s canning jar lunch box adaptor is genius. Think how much fun it will be to pull six individual salads with dressing, cheese and homemade GF crackers, or portions of granola and yogurt out of your picnic basket. The design is inspired by a Japanese bento box with the benefit of using containers almost … Continue reading
Gift giving season is year around. Below is a list of of our favorite kitchen items, things we use weekly if not daily. Some we’ve recommended before and at least one may require patient searching, but all will make a difference in the kitchen, and be a welcome birthday, housewarming or hostess gift. 1. French Lily … Continue reading
Eat to live or live to eat? That is the question. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) knew the answer, and you probably do too. When we “diet” it is often with the sense of deprivation, of going without. Some have physical conditions that require a unique approach to food. Gus’s reason for following a strict gluten-free diet … Continue reading
A year ago Nathaniel sent me a link to the first outline for glutenfreegus.com. It was followed a few minutes later by a request for a recipe… which was followed by a request for photographs of (Pumpkin Harvest Muffins.) We’d stopped baking commercially a year earlier, moved into a smaller home, and I was concentrating on … Continue reading
October 20, was the 15th anniversary of Gus’s diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes. 15 years ago today the results of blood tests confirmed his endocrinologist’s suspicion that he also had Celiac Disease. We have advice to share having been on the gluten-free baking path ever since. Some is noted in our recipes, but lists are nice … Continue reading
Gluten Free Gus 