This is not the most stellar recipe post, but I thought I’d share that lately I’ve been making a quick side dish out of the extra farm eggs we have now that I’m no longer nursing and eating two each morning (and I keep forgetting to decrease my order size!). My son loves eating these…
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Gluten-Free Rhubarb-Apple-Strawberry Pie (no dairy, low sugar)
Mother’s Day was also my husband’s birthday. I got my special time running a half-marathon, and then we went out for brunch with friends. He didn’t get much special time, having promised a neighbor we’d babysit for them. D’oh! But he did mention an idea to buy a slice of rhubarb pie for himself, so…
Coconut flour cupcakes
This recipe adaptation comes from Bruce Fife’s Cooking with Coconut Flour I’ve reduced the sugar and replaced butter with coconut oil to make a fully dairy-free and gluten-free cupcake. These are high protein, high-fiber and rich, even without the butter. 3 Tablespoons coconut oil (melted)3 eggs (warmed in water first so they don’t clump up…
Spring cleaning
I went to a great detox class the other night with Monica Corrado of Simply Being Well. She talked about ways to use nutrition to support your liver and why spring is the best and most natural time to do detox. I hadn’t realized that a “cleanse” is the most intense thing you can do…
Experimenting with Quail Eggs
Last week at Whole Foods, we spent some time looking at the fresh, loose eggs, which I’d never purchased there. (We get our chicken eggs through a farm share, and I just placed my first order through Joel Salatin’s Polyface farms). Quail was a new word for us, thanks to the one bit of TV…
Choose the right ingredient
This is what coconut flour waffles (with a little almond meal and flax meal) should look like: This is what they will look like if you accidentally put in 2 T of xanthan gum instead of arrowroot (which we use instead of corn starch in this recipe, and we use coconut milk and almond milk)
Fancy Dinner: CityZen
We had splurge Merry Christmas dinner the other night at CityZen at the Mandarin Hotel. Fortunately it wasn’t until the following night that my son woke a few times before midnight. Thankfully, on our night out, all was quiet. We left at 7:30 and didn’t return until 11:00 after a lovely dinner (with a neighbor…
Gramma’s Kitchen: Better than Wendy’s!
On the day before Thanksgiving, we had the pleasure of a lovely little breakfast at Gramma’s Kitchen outside of Mansfield, Pennsylvania. This is the only photo I successfully snapped before my camera battery died, which is a shame, because I’d have loved to snap one of the cute grannies on duty or the vegetable omelet…
Fitting in with carbs: gluten-free rolls
Kneading dough is part of our Waldorf school’s curriculum, and it turns out you don’t really knead gluten-free dough. The xanthan gum is what adds the elasticity. So rather than use gluten-free dough in the classroom, my son’s teacher and I decided the class would use wheat as usual and we’d just bring in our…
Snacks to Go
My son has always been into things he could chew — munching on celery at 10 months but pushing away purees. Now that he sees other toddlers eating chips and pretzels and cereal, he really wants more crunchy options than rice crackers. One new gluten-free option our local My Organic Market just started carrying is…
Gluten-Free Baking
I took another great cooking class last night with Monica Corrado of Simply Being Well: Cooking for Well Being. This one was on gluten-free muffins and quick breads, which were delicious! We did a touch test to feel the difference between three types of rice flours: Bob’s Red Mill and Arrowhead Mills, which were very…
Giving up the Goat
I really hoped we could tolerate some goat cheese, my son and I. We bought some of the same kind we were eating a year ago until the chiropractic neurologist muscle-tested us and said “Absolutely not,” literally tossing the morsel I’d brought aside. “I just adjusted him!” she exclaimed, as though eating something his body…
Gluten-Free Casein-Free Pie Crust
“I’d given up on pie until I tasted yours,” said my friend S, who recently went gluten-free and dairy-free. I think she’s exaggerating, but I admit I was pleasantly surprised to taste the GFCF strawberry-rhubarb pie I made when we gathered at her parents’ lakehouse with three other families from our Bradley childbirth class. Yes,…