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gluten free

Chocolate Peppermint Roll with chocolate ganache

December 12, 2011

Own your life.  Own every last bit of it. Don’t send your Christmas cards out until you’re good and ready.  Wear neon purple tights with a grey dress… why not ?  Go heavy on the gold eyeshadow…tis the season.  Green nail polish?  Go on.   Run through the rain… or sleep in and skip exercise [...]

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Cold Avocado Soup with sweet corn and bacon

August 18, 2011

I know what you’re craving.  I know what you’ve got on your mind.  I know juuuuust the thing you need. Cold.  Green.  Soup. Sexy right?  Just the thing you’ve been yearning for?  The answer to all of your burning questions?  The great treasure? Wait…. no!? Cold green soup isn’t your thing?  Come on…. let me [...]

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Gluten-Free Strawberry Cupcakes and a giveaway!

April 29, 2011

Baby steps. I need to take baby steps when it comes to gluten-free baking. Maybe the flours confuse me.  Maybe I have no idea what guar gum is.  Maybe arrowroot is intimidating. … It’s just that I know exactly what all-purpose flour is going to do when I combined it with baking soda and buttermilk… [...]

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Gluten-Dairy-Cane Sugar-Free Homemade Granola

November 17, 2010

Something pretty remarkable happened.  I stepped in my kitchen and baked something without flour… without milk or eggs or butter… and without sugar. I was wide-eyed.  I was nervous.  This sort of thing is way out of my sugar/butter/flour comfort zone. It turns out… I might have a new comfort zone. … A new, delicious [...]

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Crustless Quiche with Spinach and Mushrooms

May 11, 2009

I’m not sure exactly how to say this, so I’m just going to go ahead and put it out there. For the first time in…. ever… I had fun at a baby shower.   Real time, legitimate good times at a baby shower.  I wasn’t even faking it, not even a little bit. I’m going [...]

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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

April 21, 2009

This I Used To Believe I believed that if I wore  a stretched out paperclip across my front teeth I would be one of the cool kids with a retainer.  It turns our that retainers only seem cool when you don’t actually have to wear one. I believed that if I sunk down in my [...]

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Gluten-Free Lemon, Almond and Polenta Cake

March 30, 2009

Please allow me this bright and promising Monday morning to keep it one hundred percent real with you.  While this gluten free cake was buttery, nutty, bright with the flavor of lemon and perfectly sweet, the truth is, it ended up all over my floor.  Well… ok, bits on the floor, chunks on the counter, [...]

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