For years people over-looked the culinary range of possibilities of this ingredient. Artificial, well-known versions of this ingredient fill grocery store shelves; authentic, lesser known, but better quality versions are difficult to find. Step-sibling to the more popular and preferred darker varieties of its substance, some people even doubt that the this ingredient even deserves…
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Eat Your Landscaping: Rich Hearty Gluten-Free Vegetarian Yucca Flower Posole
I recently had a conversation with someone about food sources the early settlers in South Texas (sources already familiar to the natives in the area) would have found available. The mesquite tree, specifically mesquite pods, were the topic of our conversation. Soon after that discussion, however, I realized that the settlers would have also had…
You Will LOVE This Unique Gluten-Free Chicken Pot Pie Recipe!
It’s a little smoky. It’s a little sweet. It’s a little cinnamon-y. It’s a LOT delicious. This smoked chicken sweet potato pie filling, infused with a little bit of port and baked in a flavorful gluten-free mesquite flour crust, is not your mama’s chicken pot pie. It’s a great way to use left-over smoked chicken,…
Tis the Season for Creamy, Rich Pumpkin Soup
Autumn is such a lovely season. I love autumn. Well, I love the idea of autumn, the kind of autumn people in Northern states experience: the autumn of richly golden and red leaves on trees, fluttering in a cool, crisp breeze; morning frost glistening on ripened pumpkins sitting on the steps of porches; scarecrows on…
Gluten-Free Pasta High: A New Use for Hemp (No, not that kind!)
One of my favorite food movies, Big Night, has a scene in the restaurant owned by Italian immigrant brothers Primo and Secundo, a version of which has occasionally played out in our house over the years. In this scene, a woman who has ordered risotto asks for a side order of spaghetti. Primo, the brilliant,…
Indonesia Does Gluten-Free: Nasi Pecel (Vegetables and Rice With Spicy Peanut Sauce)
This blog is devoted to gluten-free cooking and eating, but I should call this post Strava food. The one social media site that makes the most sense to me, and to which I post one or more times a day, is Strava: a site devoted to cycling and running. People post their daily activities on…
Persian Inspired Jeweled Rice: So Many Flavors In One Dish!
A chance visit to a local San Antonio restaurant that serves Afghani food changed my life. One day a couple of years ago I planned to take my mom to lunch at a small, independently-owned coffee shop that serves breakfast and lunch. When we arrived at the coffee shop, we found it closed for renovation….
Forty Days of Vegetarian, Gluten-Free Dining
The Lenten season, the forty period (excluding Sundays) that begins Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter) is sort of a season of contradictions. As a liturgical season for Christians, it’s a time of self-reflection and penance. It’s also time of abstinence and prayer as we prepare for the Easter celebration…
Beyond Gin: Spice Up Your Cooking With This Berry
Every year, Texans dread the onslaught of cedar pollen that wreaks havoc on everyone’s respiratory system for the two months or so that the mountain cedar trees engage in their mating ritual. Cedar fever, with its flu-like symptoms that are mostly unresponsive to any over-the-counter medications, makes mountain cedar a much maligned reputation: a brush…
