Celebrating life with (gluten free) food and littles on the California Coast
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 […]
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 […]
This clementine cake is based on Nigella Lawson’s viral clementine cake which is based on Claudia Roden’s orange almond cake with a couple of fantastic upgrades. First I add butter even if I am not adding the cranberries. It gives just the right touch of richness. Second I add brandied cranberries – it is basically […]
Green banana flour bread is easy and spectacular gluten free bread. Green banana flour has solved a whole bunch of ahem problems for me. I haven’t been eating nuts and grains these days and this paleo friendly bread fits the bill. There is some debate as to whether green banana flour is a super food. […]
I love coffee cake, particularly crumb coffee cake. The kind where buttery crumbly crisp topping makes up half the cake. It’s the thing I always used to want at Starbucks (though it’s not ever quite as good as it looks). I could put streusel topping on everything – banana bread, boring muffins. But the This […]
