Sometimes the best things in life are the things we don’t often stop long enough to contemplate. Take for example the rare sunshine (in the PNW) through my skylights in the living room. Both Max (our black lab) and I were lounging in the sunshine on Saturday for as long as it lasted. (I swear [...]
Gluten-Free Staples: What do you have in your cupboards?
March 26, 2008 25 Comments
(Click on the picture to learn more about it (see info) and learn what is NOT pictured but on hand.) I think we can all agree that learning about Gluten-free living is *definitely* a gradual process. While “giving up gluten’ can be instantaneous, it is a huge process to get back in the kitchen with [...]
Gluten-Free: Sun-dried Tomato Sandwich Bread
March 13, 2008 18 Comments
On Sunday afternoon, I made this great sandwich bread. I tend to make bread on Sundays so that I can have sandwiches for lunch the first few days of the week. It makes for an easy lunch to pack and quite honestly, I really enjoy a good sandwich. Maybe that is what I missed the [...]
Banana-Date Breakfast Cookies/Biscuits
March 10, 2008 10 Comments
Last year at graduation, a graduating senior who had been in my class since she was a freshman (in a variety of the courses I teach), she gave me a parting gift. She gave me a coffee mug that says “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail” (Unknown). What [...]
GF: Orange-Quinoa Muffins
January 15, 2008 4 Comments
I’ve been cooking -really, honest! I just haven’t been taking pictures (doh!) nor posting. Sorry. Life of a teacher- it’s a bit unpredictable. (OH! But here’s a tip: those biscuits? They make the most fabulous dumplings in Chicken and Dumplings!) Last week I made some rockin’ O’Henry bars (baked sweetened GF oatmeal base with a [...]
Gluten Free Homemade Croissants!
January 9, 2008 122 Comments
Dear reader or fellow gluten-free lifestyler, Do you know what I ate two nights ago for the first time in eight years? Something so delicious and delectable that I practically made myself ill because I couldn’t resist and I ate THREE of them! I’m talking about homemade gluten-free chocolate-filled Croissants. Yeap. Catch you breath. I [...]
GF: Holiday Blogging Event Round Up #1
December 3, 2007 9 Comments
Forgive me while I post this is a meditative mood. Life has been in an uproar with the weather here and it has seriously impacted my ability to focus. And not in a good way. The Thanksgiving Holidays are over and I have just been eating the last of the Turkey and White Bean soup [...]
A shout out to Shauna
November 20, 2007 1 Comment
So… I am still home sick. Apparently when I want to get sick, I’m going to do it well and get it ALL!!! Wahoo! (Not really though.) This morning I opened my work email only to discover 68 unread messages (OMG OMG OMG) and as I began to plow through them with as many responses [...]
GF Bento Lunch
October 4, 2007 8 Comments
Mañana es viernes. Wahoo! Friday! I *love* Fridays. Almost as much as I adore Saturdays, but not quite. I can sleep in on Saturdays. Nothing beats that. Last Friday my colleagues had a potluck lunch meeting. The gals were so sweet. One of them came to see me the day before about the beef/steak stew [...]
Bette Hagman: from the Seattle Times 9/16
September 16, 2007 6 Comments
Hagman, Bette Bush – Click here to sign the obituary guest book Bette Bush HAGMAN, a.k.a., The Gluten-Free Gourmet Age 85, passed away peacefully on August 17, 2007 at her home in Seattle with her daughter, Karol, by her side. Bette was diagnosed with celiac disease, an intolerance to wheat, barley and rye, [...]
Reading labels…ah, what joy!
August 10, 2007 Leave a Comment
When you have celiac, you take nothing for granted. You read and reread every label trying to figure out just exactly WHAT they have put into it now. You carry your cell phone to make calls in the grocery store (although not as frequently as you start to get a handle on “gluten free shopping”). [...]
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