gluten-free

Spring Quinoa Salad with Honey Lemon Vinaigrette

May 2, 2017 Salads
Spring Quinoa Salad

I had my besties over for brunch this past weekend, and I was so happy with my menu planning and excited to write about it here! My friend Aoife has a few restrictions (no gluten, dairy or eggs) but nothing that prevented me from whipping up a totally delicious brunch (in my humble opinion!). While […]

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Peanut Butter Pretzel Truffles

March 27, 2015 Cookies
GF Treats

My lovely friend Aoife is getting married this May, and we celebrated her wedding shower a few weeks ago. I offered to bring treats, and they needed to be both gluten-free and dairy-free for the bride-to-be. After consulting my Oh She Glows cookbook, a few other websites, and remembering what I made for her sister’s […]

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Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Bridal Shower Treats

October 2, 2013 Cookies
GF DF Treats

It was my absolute pleasure to help out my friend Aoife with her sister’s bridal shower treats last month, because I love her family so much, and also because showers are often where baking and crafts collide. An additional little challenge was that all of the food for the shower had to be gluten- free and […]

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Spaghetti with Swiss Chard & Garlic Chips

February 17, 2010 Elimination Challenge

I was talking to Chris on the weekend about this whole Elimination Challenge business. He’s trying to do the same thing and generally clean up his eating, but not in such an extreme way. Although neither of us has read any of Michael Pollan’s books, we could both recite his mantra: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. […]

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Spicy Baked Sweet Potato Wedges & Turkey Burgers

February 15, 2010 Chicken & Turkey

Do you have certain dishes that you make so regularly, you just assume everyone else eats them all the time too? That’s how I ended up in Lydia & Andrew’s kitchen last summer teaching them how to make Sweet Pototo Wedges. Lydia claimed that she couldn’t make them. Um, huh? Scrub, slice, toss, bake! That’s it! But […]

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Chocolate Souffle Cupcakes with Mint Cream

February 14, 2010 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing

We interrupt this Elimination Challenge to bring you a special treat - flourless chocolate cupcakes topped with white chocolate mint whipped cream. Oh yes. I brought these to Aoife’s birthday party on the weekend and they were a huge hit. Too bad I couldn’t eat one All week long I was wondering if I would […]

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Mango Salsa

February 12, 2010 Elimination Challenge

My mango kind of drove me crazy this week. When you’re trying to plan every meal to get you through a week with no sugar and no caffeine, dealing with a high maintenance fruit is perhaps not the best idea. I poked my mango every morning and every night waiting for the right day to pull the trigger on […]

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Hummus Cakes

February 11, 2010 Elimination Challenge

When I was strawberry picking at The Ridge last summer (a story for a separate Retro-Blog post, no doubt), Alexis’ Mother-in-law made us an amazing vegetarian dinner. Aletta is so thoughtful, she had a stack of Alexis’ old Vegetarian Times magazines, and had picked out Caponata Stew and Hummus Cakes to make. There was also homemade bread, apricot chutney, homemade […]

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