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…
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Recovering Traditional Naturally Gluten-Free Hopi Ingredients: Blue Corn Mesquite Flour Tortillas
I’m currently reading Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table, written by food historian Dr. Massimo Montanari. Dr. Montanari, within the context of discussing the history of medieval food and cooking, notes that in contemporary times we try to “authenticate the present by recalling the past, to legitimize what we are making now by saying…
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,…
Ending Peach Season With A Bang: Gluten-Free Peach Caramel Pie With Amaranth Crust
Come clean with a child heart. Laugh as peaches in the summer wind. Let rain on a house roof be a song. Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards in late June. (from “Lessons,” by Carl Sandburg) These days, though growing shorter, are hottest we’ve had all summer. The heat…
Do You Want to Jazz Up Your Gluten-Free Sourdough Bread?
Use mesquite flour! I’ve blogged about this unusual gluten-free flour several times, and I recently wrote an article about mesquite flour in Texas for Edible Austin magazine, but it is such an interesting ingredient that I find it worth another post! The flour milled from pods harvested from trees that many people view as a…
Why, Yes! That Gluten-Free Pasta Is Made With Mesquite Flour!
Mexican Chocolate Filled Vanilla Bean Mesquite Ravioli With Caramel Sauce I recently taught a gluten-free pasta-making class , in which one of the attendees recounted her growing up years, when she and her siblings gathered fallen mesquite pods from the ground to be given to a Hill Country rancher who used them to feed his…
Super Sweet, Gluten-Free Mesquite
Nobody has written a memorable poem on the mesquite. Yet the mesquite has entered into the social, economic, and aesthetic life of the land; it has made history and has been painted by artists. In the homely chronicles of the Southwest its thorns stick, its roots burn into bright coals, its trunks make fence posts,…
