Archive | September, 2010
Eating Gluten Free in San Francisco

Eating Gluten Free in San Francisco

On vacation I take photos of the food I eat. I’m funny that way. This is our trip to San Francisco, gluten and dairy free! If you are headed there don’t miss these stops.

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Hot Bodies are Healing Bodies

Hot Bodies are Healing Bodies

After much anticipation I finally went to my first heated vinyasa flow yoga class.  I’ve been to a few different yoga classes at the gym I belong to and really didn’t like them very much.  My sinuses always seemed to give me troubles and the hour long class was way too long for me to [...]

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Ham with Peas and Potatoes Au Gratin Recipes

Ham with Peas and Potatoes Au Gratin Recipes

Who doesn’t love a creamy dairy free potatoes au gratin with a little ham that is gluten free and peas to top it off!  I’m a little late in sharing this but it’s never too late to add this to your menu. This is another quick and easy meal if you have a few kitchen [...]

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Menu Plan Monday- September 27, 2010

Menu Plan Monday- September 27, 2010

What do you have cooking this week?  Still soccer season here so we’re keeping it simple.  Salads with lots of good greens, veggies tossed in wherever I can and lean organic protein.  That’s a good recipe for any week.  If you are a fan of honey and you missed Friday Foodie Fix-Honey then you missed [...]

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Friday Foodie Fix- Honey

Friday Foodie Fix- Honey

Today’s Secret Ingredient for Friday Foodie Fix is Honey!  Sweet sticky liquid gold.  A wonderful gift to us from bees.  I like honey in my tea, in my muffins, salad dressings, glazes and sauces.  The best honey I’ve tasted came from fellow blogger Shirley from gluten free easily.  Tastes amazing.  I’m not sure what types [...]

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Shrimp, Chorizo and Cauliflower Rice Recipe

Shrimp, Chorizo and Cauliflower Rice Recipe

A quick note about a quick meal.  This is really fast to prepare if you purchased your shrimp cleaned and deveined.  I had not so it added 10 minutes to my prep time.  I also chose to butterfly these shrimp since they were not very large and I wanted them to appear bigger than they [...]

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Menu Plan Monday- September 20, 2010

Menu Plan Monday- September 20, 2010

A week’s worth of gluten and dairy free meals and many are grain free too. I’ve included prep time, active cooking time and inactive cooking times. What does your week look like and what do you have planned to eat?

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Friday Foodie Fix- Plums

Friday Foodie Fix- Plums

Today’s Secret Ingredient for Friday Foodie Fix is plums.  I have loved plums since I was a kid.  The dark sweet plums were always a summer treat.  Plums can be round or oval and 1 to 3 inches.  They can be yellow, green, red, purple, and indigo blue.  Fresh plums are available May through October [...]

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Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef Cookbook Review

Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef Cookbook Review

Has your copy of Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef- A  Love Story with 100 Tempting Recipes Cookbook arrived?  If you pre-ordered it you should have it by now but if not, what on earth are you waiting for?  OK, have you at least visited their blog, Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef?  Shauna and Danny will [...]

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30 Days to a Food Revolution- Living Free

30 Days to a Food Revolution- Living Free

Aubree Cherie Pack blogs over at Living Free where she dreams up new (and sometimes random) ways to create tasty food. Although Aubree has not been tested or diagnosed with Celiac disease, gluten is something that her tummy just can’t tolerate. Throw in being lactose intolerant and a long history of family diabetes, and you’ll [...]

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Menu Plan Monday- September 13, 2010

Menu Plan Monday- September 13, 2010

This is going to be one of those busy school weeks.  Back to school night, soccer games, meetings and anything else you can list that will keep me out of the kitchen most nights.  So I’m cooking over the weekend for the week.  Some things I can finish up the night I serve, some I [...]

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Friday Foodie Fix- Chickpeas

Friday Foodie Fix- Chickpeas

Today’s Secret Ingredient for Friday Foodie Fix is Chickpeas.  They are also called garbanzo beans and in Italy ceci.  Chickpeas are legumes.  They are round but with sensual curves and a pale creamish yellow color which is nothing like a lemon.  Firm texture and a nut like flavor fill your mouth.  You can even undress [...]

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La Cecina- Chickpea Bread Recipe

La Cecina- Chickpea Bread Recipe

I first saw this wonderful bread on Dolce Vita, David Rocco’s cooking show.  It is naturally gluten and dairy free and so easy to make.  I really like this bread with a salad, a meal, or as a meal on it’s own when I’m traveling. If you are looking for something that is also budget [...]

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Roasted Chickpeas Recipe

Roasted Chickpeas Recipe

How I love chickpeas or as some call them, garbanzo beans. I was not always a fan but over the past 5 years we have become very close. I make La Cecina which uses garbanzo bean flour (recipe coming later this week), hummus and these little gems.    All three of them traveled with me [...]

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Friday Foodie Fix- Coffee

Friday Foodie Fix- Coffee

Today’s Secret Ingredient for Friday Foodie Fix is coffee.  People either love it or hate it.  I’ve never been a fan but my college age son says I should really give it a try and can be used in so many recipes. So this summer on vacation we went to Blue Bottle Coffee in San [...]

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