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…
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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…
Which Chinese Squash Makes a Delicious Gluten-Free, Grain-Free Greek Pasta Salad?
It’s bright yellow, oblong, with a shell that’s unyielding to the touch. When knocked upon with knuckles, it sounds somewhat hollow. By its appearance alone, the spaghetti squash (or vegetable spaghetti, noodle squash, vegetable marrow, squaghetti, mandarin squash, depending upon where one lives) seems much like any other type of squash.Even when it’s cut open,…
Busy Day Crock Pot Gluten-Free Veggie Lasagna
When Irving Naxon received a patent for, and then started marketing, his Naxon Beanery in 1940, he made possible a way for busy people to have warm meals waiting for them at the end of long, hectic days. Nixon’s Beanery was the first generation slow-cooker, which gained popularity when Rival Manufacturing bought the design from…
Spicy Salmon Tacos With Watermelon Salsa
Have you seen hints of its arrival? On Yahoo news? Huffington Post? Twitter? Various food-related blog and web sites? That ubiquitous (albeit lovely, warm) flavor that takes over everything, every autumn? Pumpkin spice latte, bread, beer, cookies, cake, dog treats, pumpkin spice everything! Hey, I love pumpkin spice as much as the next girl, but…
