Celebrating life with (gluten free) food and littles on the California Coast
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 […]
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 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 […]
This is a simple buttery sugar cookie recipe that works great for precise cutout shapes. I like to make a big batch of this dough and use it as a base for all my holiday favorites. It’s great for icebox cookies, jam drops, snow ball / Russian tea cookie/ Mexican wedding cookie. These cookies are […]
I love these green banana flour ” oatmeal” cookies. They are based on my favorite oatmeal cookies –https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-one-bowl-oatmeal-cookies-recipe and I was feeling really deprived in gluten free land (especially since I don’t really tolerate grain particularly oats well) but I decided to try them with my new love – green banana flour -it makes a […]
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. […]
