Gluten-free, real food recipes.
These Fudgy Teff Brownies are not only decadently rich, but gluten-free, refined sugar-free, and packed with healthy teff flour.
The school year is now in full swing and I, of course, think daily about what I’m going to have as an after-work treat. Nothing changes, does it? My sister was in town recently and we got into a conversation about our back-to-school rituals when growing up. Mine, even as a grade school kid, was all about writing lists. (Really, nothing changes)….
Blueberry and mint come together with white rum and simple syrup to make this refreshingly cool frozen blueberry mojito cocktail.
A few weeks back we went blueberry picking, driving south of Kansas City, where the city sprawl opens to green fields and two-lane highways. As most days in July, it was hot and humidly oppressive. Our initial plan was to go early to avoid the heat, but somehow we arrived and it was high noon. The cloud cover that we thought would shade us broke wide open and the sun gave us its best glare….
Easy and healthy, these Millet Buckwheat Crispy Treats with Cacao Nibs are a satisfying gluten-free treat made refined sugar-free with honey!
Nothing makes you appreciate organization more than total chaos. We’ve been in our new home almost three weeks now and working like mad to do some renovations before the two of us head back to work for the upcoming school year. The new place has great bones, character, and mood-lifting light, but there are elements throughout that look like someone threw a party in the mid-90s and forgot to clean up. So, things remain in boxes, shifted this way and that, to make room for the work that needs to be done….
Fresh mangoes and raspberries, honey, and topped off with prosecco, these Mango Raspberry Bellini Popsicles are a perfect summer treat. Gluten-free, refined sugar-free.
The day we got married felt like one of the hottest days in July that Kansas City has ever seen. We were still living in NYC but decided to have the wedding in my hometown, a location that would make things more centrally located for our friends and family coming in from all over the country. The fact that all our favorite people and loved ones were all in one place for that special day is still something that makes my heart overwhelmingly happy. But the heat, and the humidity—let’s not forget the humidity—were of epic proportions. I found myself saying to our visitors, “It’s not usually like this,” or “It gets hot here, but not usually this hot.” It’s as if by saying this I was going to watch the sweat magically disappear from their brows and they would then tell all their friends back home that Kansas City is a wonderful place with really great summer weather. Really.
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A coconut lover’s dream, this gluten-free Coconut Cake with Blackberry-Coconut Whipped Cream and Mixed Berries is a delicious and simple dessert. Grain-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free.
In the last two weeks I’ve spent a lot of time sitting on the bedroom floor surrounded by photos, mementos, scrapbooks, and special objects that have followed me for years from place to place. The things that I just can’t seem to part with even though they sit forgotten in a box until the next time I move somewhere new and I pull them out all over again. This sorting and repacking system gets me nowhere – nothing is ever discarded and the box(es) of important things only grows….
This Strawberry Hazelnut Crisp is an easy, grain-free, summer dessert made gluten-free with almond flour and chopped hazelnuts.
Strawberries are pretty much the best, aren’t they? They are so special that there is a Cherokee legend about the first strawberries. The story goes like this. The First Man and the First Woman on Earth have an argument. Upset, the Woman leaves and heads out towards the forest. The Man takes off after her but she is already too far ahead. The Man pleads to the Creator that he do something to slow the Woman down so that he can catch up. Along the Woman’s path, the Creator places berries of all kinds – blackberries, huckleberries, gooseberries. She doesn’t pause to look at any of them. The Creator then places the first strawberry plants along her route and she stops to take in the beautiful leaves and berries. She tastes one, then another. She continues to eat the sweet berries and her anger towards the Man melts away. The Woman gathered up as many strawberries as she could and started home, reuniting with the Man on the path back.
I can pretty much relate to the allure of the strawberry. They’ve been a staple around here for the last few weeks as evidenced by my strawberry rhubarb sorbet and double chocolate chip cookies with strawberry-coconut cream. I can’t say strawberries have helped smooth over any of our disagreements (what disagreements?!), but they sure make the spring and summer months a little sweeter….
