Dear Friends, I am so excited to share my new blog news with you! I've packed my bags and moved to new digs. You can now find me at my new blog "Gluten Free Diva". It's still the same ol' me. Just a new coat of paint! And just in case you're looking for some of my recipes, like the Gluten Free Cinnamon Rolls or the Bagels or the Challah or any o...

What does my blog full of gluten free recipes have to do with ending childhood hunger in America? Everything, I hope. Having taken the NO KID HUNGRY pledge and participating in the SHARE OUR STRENGTH event has turned my head around.As Tonight, after carefully reading through the Share Our Strength website and seeing the width and breadth of what th...

What does a gluten free diva do when she wants a Gluten Free Peanut Butter Blossom cookie and it's 10:30 PM? She adapts a recipe to be gluten free recipe, clicks her heels, prays to the gluten free gods that the recipe will work, puts on her apron and gets baking. I swore, after they came out of the oven and cooled off, that I would only eat one....

Gluten Free Thanksgiving Pecan Pie. I never thought I would string those five words together in a sentence and live to tell about it. Pecan Pie is one of my top five favorite desserts in the entire world. And the fact that I haven't had any for at least as long as I've been gluten free, which is since November 2006, you can imagine how much I was ...

Are you wondering why I thought to feature gluten free recipes that include curry in my Gluten Free Thanksgiving menu? You see, the thing is, I'm crazy about curry. The smell, the taste, the color. And when I combined the yellow of curry with the orange of butternut squash, the hybrid dazzled my eye not to mention my taste buds. Add just a few more...

As  This is a gluten free recipe for Gluten Free Chocolate Banana Muffins. I'm happy to report that it represents the best of many worlds. First of all, it contains chocolate. Say no more. You agree, yes? Second, the recipe calls for Almond Flour, so it is a grain free recipe as well. Thanks to Elana Amsterdam of Elana's Pantry, almond flour is on ...

I woke up this morning and immediately had my sights set on developing a gluten free recipe using sweet potato, dinosaur kale, and brown rice wraps. Three players in my story. Read on. Marriage is in the air. Our youngest daughter is getting married to a most wonderful young man next fallAs and we are smack in the middle of wedding preparation flu...

Gluten free, egg free, and dairy free biscuits for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks - my idea of a well-balanced diet. Ok, well, not exactly. But these biscuits are definitely hard to resist. We polished this batch off in less than 24 hours. Just the two of us. If I made these on any kind of a regular basis (daily would be lovely), my jeans wou...

Gluten free waffles and dairy free waffles and egg free waffles.Crisp. Tender. Fluffy. Dripping with maple syrup. Yes, I'm back on my breakfast kick. I've made pancakes and waffles before, to be sure. But I've still been hunting for the holy grail of gluten free, dairy free, and egg free waffle recipes. The thing is¦.the texture had to be just so....

Short post tonight. Just wanted to share last nights' dinner with you. Salad: nothing fancy, but welcome the crunchy goodness Kale chips: on a kick with them, as you know from my last post. Spanish Lentils: recipe from this blog. Love them! Have been eating leftovers for the last few days. Homemade Sesame Salad Dressing: anyone interested in the r...

Please tell me you'll try them. Appearances can be deceiving, trust me. While they might not have the immediate appeal that a bowl of salt and vinegar potato chips might, what they're missing in eye candy is well made up for by flavor and crunch. Truth is, I am a sucker for salt and vinegar potato chips. The day that I discovered them was the begin...

Sesame Butternut Squash & Adzuki Bean Saute What do you think about leftovers? I don't just like them. I love them. Especially if the reruns are as good as the original. Don't get me wrong. IAs love to cook. I love putting on my red paisley apron and giving myself the luxury of being in the kitchen for a few straight hours. But there are times when...

You're thinking Apple Pie, aren't you? You're right, almost. Asian pears. That's what I patiently peeled and cored and sliced to make this gluten free pie disguised as a galette (a kind of fancy name for a sort of pie). I've seen these specialty pears now and again in the produce section of the market and have always wanted to try my hand at them. ...

Have you thought about juicing but haven't taken the juicing plunge because you don't know where to start or because you don't have a juicer? Maybe my post will inspire you to add juicing to your daily routine. And if you do, you will impress yourself when you create fancy juice bar type juice concoctions at home (I sound like an infomercial, don't...

It was 11:55 AM. I had just tackled a morning full of conference calls, emails to return, and towels to fold (the benefit or curse, depending on your perspective, of working at home). All of a sudden, out of nowhere, I was beyond starving. I needed to eat something fast, but I wasn't interested in leftovers, my usual modus operandi when hunger hits...

One of my most prized possessions is her red paisley apron. Whenever I fasten the front buttons, I see her standing in her small but quite functional all-white kitchen doing the same. I can't say I learned how to cook or bake gluten free as a direct result of being by my mother's side, since she left this good earth two years before my Celiac diagn...

Oh Mac & Cheeze, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1. It's very creamy and is the ultimate in comfort food. 2. It's quick and easy to make, and sometimes you just need quick and easy. 3. It makes me feel like a kid again. Add a popsicle for dessert and it's a homerun extraordinare. 4. I can eat it naked (not me, silly, the noodles! I c...

I was about ready to ditch my ice cream maker when I decided to give it one more try. You see, I've tried a whole slew of different dairy free gluten free ice cream recipes, but all I ever got was mush, barely even soft serve, at most. I figured that the buck stopped there. I was starting to believe that homemade, hard, scoopable dairy free gluten ...

Never. Not in a million years. I've seen all of those Brownie recipes floating around the internet. You know the ones I'm talking about. The ones that feature beans. Black beans, to be sure. Lots of bloggers have made and sang their praises. Not me. I wasn't going near a brownie recipe that contained beans. Come on, you gotta be kidding?! Beans in...

Breads From Anna: Apple Muffins & Maple Walnut MuffinsYesterday, my husband and I held our annual Summer Music Intensive in which Early Childhood teachers join us for 6 hours of fun and music-making! In all the years we've held these seminars, we've always served a light breakfast upon their arrival to our house, and then a lovely assortment of lun...

Rein's Deli has a gluten free menu and it rocks!About a week ago, my husband and I dined at Rein's Deli in Vernon, CT, just off Rt. 84. If you read my blog, you know that, for the most part, I'm leaning towards not eating meat (or flesh of any sort). But I do make exceptions, especially when traveling, as I find it enormously challenging to find sa...

One of the hardest things about being diagnosed with Celiac and having to go gluten free had everything to do with breakfast. I mean, I was a creature of habit - if you gave me a New York style water boiled bagel with a smear of cream cheese, I was a happy girl. Of course, I would ALWAYS have a stomachache after eating my beloved bagel and I would ...

Oh no, not again. Please tell me that you're not still on that pancake kick!Yes, folks, it's true. But I believe that I've finally reached the summit. These pancakes represent the final frontier. Kudos and thanks must go to CinnamonQuill, who put on her knee high boots and slugged through the mud to find the answer to the conundrum I've found mysel...

Cinnamon Raisin bagelsPre-Celiac, I was never a fan of Cinnamon Raisin bagels, but these bagels rock my gluten free world. I swear, I will never complain about wishing I could eat the old gluten-filled bagels again. I'm a make-it-from-scratch kinda gal. I don't mind hauling out what seems like a million containers of flour from my pantry just to ma...

Post gym workout, give me a cold smoothie and I'm a happy camper. Add lots of good stuff to it, all the stuff we know we're supposed to eat but somehow don't always get around to. Then kick back and sip on your smoothie and enjoy the beautiful day! I've been enjoying morning smoothies for a few years now. There's my Banana Cocoa Smoothie, and my Ch...