Celebrating life with (gluten free) food and littles on the California Coast
A gluten-free focaccia recipe with real sky-high bubbles, no gumminess, and Ligurian- or Puglia-style options — thin and crisp or thick and fluffy. Let’s talk about focaccia. I’ve been seeing it everywhere: bubbly, golden, crisp, full of structurally impossible sky-high bubbles. Gluten bakers stretch and fold and pour out that beautiful dough, leaving us gluten-free […]
Gluten-Free Aebleskiver (Danish Pancake Balls) Venture with me down the California coast to the charming, if touristy, town of Solvang. Historically a Danish enclave, it’s dotted with windmills and shops selling all manner of Northern European odds and ends, plus cafes serving butter cookies and pastries. But most importantly, that’s where I first met the […]
Gluten-Free Baking Ingredients: The Full Arsenal One of the hardest things about recipe development for gluten-free bread is getting your gluten-free baking ingredients right. For example, the wrong psyllium husk turns your bread purple, and some flours — like stone-ground rice flour — leave your bread gritty and sandy. (In fact, until I discovered wet-milled […]
This Oatmeal Honey bread is my nostalgic spoof on the oatnut bread I ate as a kid. I loved oatnut bread from Oroweat as a kid. Maybe because, ironic with my current celiac issues, my mom always bought the dense 100% whole wheat stuff. But sometimes she would go to the Oroweat outlet up the […]
These are classic – well maybe better than classic – brown butter is a revelation for chocolate chip cookies – those nutty toffee flavors. And extra brown sugar relative to white. These cookies are crispy and caramel on the edges and soft, chewy, and fluffy in the middle. They are a little nutty, a little […]
I once had a hankering for a favorite roasted eggplant salad in February, this was unfortunate because eggplant is outrageous in February, but what else could I get to make a hearty main dish salad for a stylish lunch. I wish I’d thought of this (before I spent a fortune on eggplant). Instead of that […]
I added a new cookie to the Christmas mix this year. My kids love candy canes (I love candy canes) so why not add them to our Christmas cookie platter. I made some with the kids (who doesn’t love rolling little snakes) and they were gone in a day. They use my Sugar cookie cutouts […]
Gingerbread was never one of our holiday cookies. I don’t think my mom liked it, and who can blame her. The dough is usually sticky and irksome to work with. The resulting cookies smell spicy but they have the texture and flavor of a car air freshener. I’d beg to add gingerbread, and when I […]
Snow Balls, Russian Tea Cookies, Mexican Wedding Cookies. Whatever you call them I always thought of them as the dry powdered sugary cookies you make just because they look pretty on a Christmas cookie platter. You don’t actually want to eat them. Well toasted pecans and my cassava almond sugar cookie dough change all that. […]
Jam drops are my favorite holiday cookie. Buttery shortbread, crunchy nuts, and a pop of fruity jam. They also make a beautiful addition to a holiday cookie plate without any fake red stuff. When I was a child, my mother would make would make 7 or 8 kinds of cookies and stack them in the […]
Celebrating life with (gluten free) food and littles on the California Coast
