Delicious, nutritious, easy, fast, this savory dish is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Even if you splurge on the nicest free range eggs, organic cheddar, heirloom tomatoes and Vidalia onions, it’s an inexpensive way to satisfy the craving for a hearty meal. Traveling to Lake Tahoe to visit Gus who is working at Stanford … Continue reading
“Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.” ― Samuel Smiles Lots of us talk about wanting to change our dietary habits. Some of us have to for medical or religious … Continue reading
A lot of you have been eating Quinoa and Kale Salad; Pumpkin Cream Cheese Brownies are your reward. We’ve been using pumpkin and/or fall squash almost every day. There is a container of yesterday’s oven roasted pumpkin in the ‘fridge for today’s brownies and ravioli. There is almost no excuse for using canned pumpkin at … Continue reading
Again with the scones! Yep. These hearty rich breakfast treats are delicious warm from the oven or as a vehicle for clotted cream, artisan butter, special jams, jellies, and/or honey. Oat flour adds nice texture and flavor. Using it in tandem with a GF flour mix insures that the scones are well balanced. Not too … Continue reading
Buttermilk Biscuits warm from the oven served with honey and Vermont Creamery Butter seemed the perfect way to celebrate the first day of fall. Sunday mornings are lazy affairs these days. Even if we get up with the sun to walk or swim before breakfast there seems to be time to languish over something homemade, … Continue reading
“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.” ~ Mick Jagger For 15 GF years I’ve thought that what Gus and our family wanted was gluten-free pizza dough sexy enough to imitate a delicious, chewy, crispy-at-the-edges conventional one. Starting in 2000 Portland Pie’s … Continue reading
Couple of things about Angel Food Cake: 1. It can be the cake base for Crunch Cake (though many prefer “butter” or “sponge”.) 2. Peter is an excellent cook, but not a baker. However at age 8 he started practicing Angel Food Cake with his grandmother, Mimi, and went solo at 13. 3. I made … Continue reading
You know the revolution has been successful when an almost 81 year old grandmother who doesn’t want anything for her birthday (except maybe a massage, tickets to Paris, and certainly cake and singing) is getting a Paderno Vegetable Pasta Gizmo. She’ll love it. Better, she’ll use it with pleasure. Perhaps not as much pleasure as … Continue reading
Last night the woodchuck ravaged the broccoli: arghhh! In his defense we committed a major offensive on the entrance to his underground network last weekend, a reminder that humans rank as an invasive species: filling, paving, digging, diverting, building, and emitting with startling speed and efficacy. The woodchuck is owed a little broccoli. Continue reading
Organic plums are showing up at Whole Foods and independent health food markets, a harbinger of late summer. It’s a little early, but we couldn’t resist the pretty fruit, knowing their tanginess would be perfect with the flavors of lemon and almond. Continue reading
Gluten Free Gus 