GF: Crispy, Melt-In-Your Mouth Sugar Cookies

GF: Crispy, Melt-In-Your Mouth Sugar Cookies, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Cookie breaks are definitely needed around my house lately. The Chicklet has started day care (in a private home with a LOVELY LOVELY woman who adores her!) and she is mastering her abilities to toy with my (and her daddy’s) heart. First just let [...]

Soft and chewy GLUTEN FREE Sugar Cookies

Soft and chewy GLUTEN FREE Sugar Cookies, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. FINALLY! I finally have a chance to share a recipe with you! The Chicklet had a couple days of all day daycare this week as school begins again for me next week and I am moving classrooms. She did AMAZINGLY well….. Mommy on [...]

GF Tortilla Soup

GF Tortilla Soup, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Sorry for the blogging lags, everyone. I really do have things to share… just not a lot of computer time to share them! And forgive the photo… it was taking without much broth so you could see the ingredients and with a HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPO begging for [...]

Bah… starting over ….

This week an absurb heat wave melted my brain, took away my sanity and forced us to seek shelter in a local hotel.  Really .  Our house was so hot, neither the Chicklet nor I were sane by the time my sweet Love returned from work.  The following morning, I checked in to a hotel. [...]

Gluten Free Sunflower & Millet Bread

Gluten Free Sunflower & Millet Bread, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. It’s picnic season around here. For some reason, the month of July means picnics as of late for us. Personally, I think it’s the heat multiplied by the lack of air conditioning at home, quadrupled by the fact that the hottest time of the [...]

New School, Gluten Free No Sugar Nut Butter and Oat Cookies

New School, Gluten Free No Sugar Nut Butter and Oat Cookies, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Okay..what the heck is going on! Time is FLYING! FLYING, I tell you! I completely intended to post this the day after we made them (oh…about the 10th of June). Suddenly, I look up and Father’s Day is tomorrow! [...]

Gluten Free, Old School No Bake Nut Butter and Oat Cookies

Gluten Free, No Bake Nut Butter and Oat Cookies, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. So I picked up a copy of an old cookbook that I have from “Up North” (You, Minnesotans know what I’m talking about…). I started to check out the index as I have just picked up these delicious blueberries that Zoe [...]

Setting up for success

  Setting up for success, originally uploaded by Kate Chan.   So, I’ve been trying to find my way back in to the kitchen. I really miss baking and exploring what I can make with different things. However, having an active toddler roam – or rather – speed around makes it difficult to have sustained dedicated [...]

Gluten Free Quinoa Salad

  Gluten Free Quinoa Salad, originally uploaded by Kate Chan.   Some days are pure magic. MAGICAL MOMENT #1:   Nature and The Chicklet Like when the sun shines and the breeze kicks up just enough to blow her little pixie hair bangs about her forward… just enough to make her throw her little hands [...]

Happy 1st Birthday/Tol, Baby!

Happy 1st Birthday/Tol, Baby!, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Don’t you love the look on her face? She’s watching a bird fly overhead. (She’s wearing the hanbok sent with her from her Korean foster mother.) We spent this Saturday with family celebrating birthdays. Both Zoe and her cousin, J, were born on May 16 – [...]

Gluten Free Skillet Pasta

Gluten Free Skillet Pasta, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Oh, I’m tired. Yes, this little girl is quite the wiggly worm – I love it! But, yes, I am tired. Thankfully, her dad has been able to stay home with us for these first few weeks. I’m so happy he did, too! Not only has [...]

Gluten Free Coconut Cupcakes

GF Coconut Cupcake, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Yes, my mind is whirling with the great news of our kidlet making an appearance. It feels SO GOOD to have a DATE on the calendar attached to a flight number and everything. It’s really an amazing thing. It is the first time in this very long [...]