Butternut Squash Risotto This is a hearty dish perfect for late fall or winter. It’s also wonderful with any root vegetable like turnip, carrot, parsnip, rutabaga, and sweet potato. If you don’t want to bother cutting the squash many stores offer it pre-cut. For more nutrition, use the same amount of barley as rice, except […]
Grandma Hoerner’s Applesauce review and Duck Sauce recipe
Last year, I met the nice folks at Grandma Hoerner’s at The Fancy Food show. I loved their products like the preserves and the dark fudge sauce. I must have made a comment about how much it was like the low sugar preserves I buy from Trader Joes. Guess what? That’s their product! Last year, […]
Russian kale, lentils and sausage
What do you do when someone drops off a big bag of Russian kale to your house? Cook it like spinach and see what else is in the pantry. I am fortunate to have friends at The Heal Project which is where it came from. The kale was left over after they were preparing fields […]
Gluten-free beef stew recipe
When the weather turns cool, I think comfort foods. With a busy day ahead, I knew my crock pot would come in handy. Once again, it delivered, even with a power outage toward the end of its cycle! Here’s a delicious recipe for beef stew which I have converted to gluten-free. To make it “with […]
Thanksgiving leftovers pie
Need a new idea besides turkey soup or enchiladas for your turkey dinner leftovers? Try this quick and easy recipe that’s just as good as your original meal. This is less than a recipe and more of a methodology (ps sorry for the quality of the pics; lighting was not great). First, grease a 13×9 […]
Gluten-free gravy
If you think making homemade gravy is harder than the SAT’s, think again. Instead of using a gluten-based roux (butter and flour), start using slurries. A slurry is a combination of a starch and cold water (equal parts) which are mixed into a hot liquid like chicken or turkey broth. The ratio that I use […]
Gluten-free Halloween Party
A simple GF pumpkin muffin with pumpkin cream cheese frosting If you have ever been in a social situation and can’t have the food around the buffet table, whether it’s related to allergies, religion or weight loss, it can be quite difficult. What if it was the other way around? Imagine arriving and being able […]
Gluten-free Spaghetti, Rice and Lentil pilaf
Halloween food should look scary but still taste good! When it comes to Halloween cooking, you want your food to look scary but not taste that way. I used to make a “bug salad” a few years back but with barley so it wasn’t gluten-free. However, you could substitute rice or quinoa for it so […]
Roasted Tomatoes over Polenta and Mascarpone recipe
When Sarah Henkin and I were trying to come up with a menu item for samples at the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market FoodWise booth, we decided to make delicious, late summer tomatoes the centerpiece. We needed to keep the dish simple since there were some other events happening that day. Roasted tomatoes on top of […]
What I learned about food and eating on my cleanse
I had an amazing experience this summer when I “cleansed” for 10 days. The reactions I received were interesting; some people thought I was going hard core, you know, like water with lemon and cayenne pepper with maybe some celery sticks for dinner. Many people were supportive. All I know is that I certainly felt […]
