Celebrating life with (gluten free) food and littles on the California Coast
Gluten-Free Ciabatta with a Big, Open Crumb Ciabatta, the “slipper” of breads, is a wild, fun, not-too-serious take on bread. Baguettes are lovely and sourdough boules are de rigueur, but ciabatta lets us push the limits, and these days it’s my favorite go-to bread. Gluten-free or not, I expect ciabatta to have big bubbles from […]
It’s fall – time for pumpkin everything – and these grain-free gluten-free pumpkin muffins don’t dissapoint. Heck they are honestly better than I remember gluten recipes – more fluffy, more tender, more nutty, perfectly buttery. They use about a whole can of pumpkin puree. The other day, we went to Trader Joe’s to get our […]
Gabriel helped me make this cauliflower salad today…It’s his favorite (though he only eats the raw cauliflower and only if its purple). I agree with him, adapted from Ottolenghi simple (my version is even simpler). I up the raw cauliflower, depend heavily on mint (I’m always growing tons of it in my garden) and lean […]
These banana chocolate chip muffins are almost too quotidian to even bother with a post about. If it weren’t for two things I might not have bothered. First, I got a dry crumbly gluten free muffin not too long ago. And then, a few days later, a gummy chewy one. There are too many bad […]
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 […]
Celebrating life with (gluten free) food and littles on the California Coast
