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Weekend Kitchen Tip – How to Cook Your Thanksgiving Meal Without Going Crazy

How to cook your Thanksgiving meal without going crazy and details on the Gluten Free Thanksgiving Progressive Dinner Party. It’s virtual!

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Weekend Kitchen Tip- More Gluten Free Blogs

Two videos from gluten free bloggers sharing their culinary point of view. Watch Book of Yum, Sure Foods Living and Gluten Free Doctor!

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Weekend Kitchen Tip – Wine Glasses

It’s the weekend and you’re making a really nice dinner and have even invited guests.  You decide to serve wine, maybe with each course.  Does it make any difference which glass you use for the white and the red wines?  Can we just use the same glass? Michelle Lentz from Wine-Girl.net was gracious enough to […]

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Weekend Kitchen Tip – Crockpot Cooking

This weekend your kitchen tip is all about how to use your crockpot and is brought to you by Stephanie O’Dea.  Stephanie is known as the crockpot lady and has just published a cookbook, Make It Fast, Cook It Slow- The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking.  I like that the cookbook also says it’s […]

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Weekend Kitchen Tip – Gluten Free Easily

Our weekend kitchen tip is brought to you by Shirley Braden from Gluten Free Easily.  Shirley shared this while attending the BlogHer Food Conference.  I think she has some great advice and if we all followed this life would be better on so many levels. Shirley was my partner in crime at BlogHer Food Conference.  […]

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Weekend Kitchen Tip – Frozen Spinach

If  you are needing chopped spinach in a dish you are baking or a soup or stew you are cooking, consider using a frozen box of chopped spinach.  You will save a lot of money. 1 1/2 pounds of fresh spinach equals a 10 oz box of frozen spinach. Fresh spinach 6 oz bag $3.79* […]

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Weekend Kitchen Tip – Storing Gluten Free Flours

If you are baking with gluten free flours, store them in your refrigerator or freezer.  They will stay fresh a lot longer.  This is especially true if you buy a 25 pound box of almond flour.  I recently did this so I could have great flour to make the recipes from The Gluten-Free Almond Flour […]

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Weekend Kitchen Tip – Extra Basil

Fall is here and it’s basil harvesting time!  Actually you should be doing that all the summer long.  The more you cut, the more it will produce for you.  What do you do with your extra basil?  I like to freeze the extra basil from my garden.  You can also freeze the fresh basil you […]

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Weekend Kitchen Tip – Stock or Broth

Stock up on stock and don’t let it go to waste.  Stock is a great addition to so many dishes.  It’s the base of soups, sauces, gravies and adds flavor just where you need it. First let me make sure you know the difference between Broth and Stock.  The main difference is that stock is […]

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Baking From The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook by Elana Amsterdam

School started and I made a promise to myself that before it did, we would bake and cook some breakfast and dinner items to make life easier on busy days.  Well this past weekend I kept that promise.  We sat down with Elana Amsterdam’s The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook and started making our plans.  By […]

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