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 [...]

Orange-Strawberry Salad with Pomegranate Dressing

Orange-Strawberry Salad with Pomegranate Dressing, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. So my Love and I have the flu. Of course we do. After all, this was a four day weekend for me. So, to make it lovely, the flu came in for a landing on my head at 4:45PM on the way home from work. [...]

The Gluten Free & Healthy Bon Bon

The Gluten Free & Healthy Bon Bon, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Feast your eyes on these nutritional details: Sugar Free. Casein Free. Transfat, Saturated Fat Free. (Possibly nut-free, if you so wish.) A fudgey, delicious bon-bon. Oh, your taste buds will thank you. So, my friend Ginger has been on my mind. (And a [...]

Dunk, doodle and dream

Gluten Free Orange-Almond Biscotti, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Last night while grading papers, my mind wandered. (Actually, it screamed “COME ON, ALREADY!”, but “wandered” sounds much better, don’t you think?) We are at the end of the semester at school. FInal exams are this week. And, to be honest, I had truly hoped *NOT* [...]

Gluten Free Homemade “Oreos”

Gluten Free Homemade “Oreos”, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Okay… don’t tell anyone… but I just ate the best freakin’ “Oreo” cookie. Don’t worry. I didn’t fall off the gluten-free diet. And yes, I will have to log more elliptical hours for this treat. But honestly, I just needed a little chocolate to relieve this [...]

Gluten Free: Mexican Wedding Cake Cookies

Gluten Free: Mexican Wedding Cake Cookies, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. I don’t think my mom could ever make these cookies fast enough – nor often enough for me. There is something magical about a cookie that melts in your mouth, don’t you think? I made a few dozen of these cookies to share with [...]

Super Easy, Gluten-Free Christmas Treats

Super Easy, Gluten-Free Christmas Treats, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Phew! We’re done! I think we are done, anyway. We’ve mailed off Christmas cards to our friends and family and have been baking and cooking this week to finish up gifts. My Love’s office has a cookie exchange every year and we always end up [...]

The Ice Dream Cookbook: A review and an adoption fundraiser

The Ice Dream Cookbook, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Rachel Albert-Matesz: Wherever you are, please take a bow. I love your gluten-free and casein-free cookbook, and I apologize for my tardy book review. And many, many, many thanks for the donation to the Adoption Fundraiser. Your book is on sale now and will make an [...]

Gluten Free Thankfulness and a Cranberry-Mango Chutney

Cranberry-Mango Chutney, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Every year about this time of year, I work with my students on different things that allow me to incorporate the idea of Thankfulness. Considering the quickly approaching holiday, there is often a thought of turkey with a side of mashed potatoes (or mashed potatoes with a side [...]

Easy, cheap GF Caramel for your apples

Easy, cheap GF Caramel for your apples, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. We picked up some delicious Jonagold apples this week. They are perfectly crunchy with a perfect balance of tart and sweet. Since they are not the sweet, sugary kind – and it is caramel apple season, after all, I thought I’d make a [...]

Gluten Free: Pie-in-a-pumpkin

Pie-in-a-pumpkin, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. Yesterday I got home from school earlier than I had all week. In fact, I got home in time to take the dog on a quick one-mile walk AND go to the grocery store before my love got home. Sadly, this means that my backpack is also BURSTING with [...]

Blueberry Goodness…in a cup

The last of the season’s blueberries…smoothie form, originally uploaded by Kate Chan. It’s the last of the season’s blueberries. A rather decent way to start my all night, freak-out, typing session… don’t you think? Actually, besides just giving me a great boost of energy to use my favorite blueberry farm bluebs (as we call them), [...]