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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Pie Recipe

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Pie Recipe

My family loves gluten and dairy free chocolate peanut butter cream pie.  So much so that when I went away for the weekend recently it was requested I make one before I leave.  Since it’s so easy I was happy to do so. I like it because it’s also vegan and grain free. This recipe makes [...]

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Gluten-Free Kandy Kakes Recipe and Win This Cookbook

Gluten-Free Kandy Kakes Recipe and Win This Cookbook

Today is a sweet post from start to finish so make sure you read all the way to the end. I grew up outside of Philly loving Tastykakes.  There were the chocolate or vanilla cupcakes filled with cream or buttercream, the Jelly or Butterscotch Krimpets and the really over the top Juniors which was either [...]

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Gluten-Free Mincemeat Pie Recipe

Gluten-Free Mincemeat Pie Recipe

I can’t believe I’m turning into a baker!  I have to say I have a lot of help from people like Kelly at Spunky Coconut.  I’ve adopted her blog this month as part of Book of Yum’s monthly Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger.  This is a fun event that I love to participate in but often [...]

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Captain Jack’s Chocolate Rum Cookie Recipe

Captain Jack’s Chocolate Rum Cookie Recipe

What could be better than chocolate and rum?  Maybe a good looking pirate to share them with! Grab your pirate and enjoy a plate of these little treasures.  Well, you might want to share it with the whole crew because this recipe makes 48 cookies. I’m really excited to be sharing this cookie recipe with [...]

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Friday Foodie Fix – Agave

This week’s Secret Ingredient for Friday Foodie Fix is Agave. Come find and share recipes using this ingredient.

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Chocolate Sorbet with Roasted Chocolate Nibs

Welcome to the Frozen or Chilled Dessert day for our Gluten Free Dessert Progressive Dinner Party.  I’ll be serving my Chocolate Sorbet with Chocolate Chunk and Roasted Chocolate Nibs. Chocolate is one of my favorite things to eat.  I of course had to make a frozen chocolate dessert for the holidays.  This Chocolate Sorbet with [...]

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Pumpkin Pudding for Breakfast!

Recipe for Gluten Free and Dairy Free Pumpkin Pudding

Before I get started on the Pumpkin Pudding, I finally got it together and this recipe was submitted to Go Ahead Honey, It’s Gluten Free!  A fun blog carnival with a different theme and host each month.  This month Life, Gluten Free is hosting and the theme is pumpkins!  You’ll also see it on Friday [...]

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Gluten Free and Dairy Free Comfort Food is Good Anytime

Gluten Free and Dairy Free Comfort Food is Good Anytime

After spending 24 hours smelling this wonderful beef brisket cooking in my house we had to have it for dinner tonight.   I was originally making it to have on hand for other dishes like pupusas, tamales, tacos, BBQ and many others.  I decided today as I was pulling the meat out, at which time [...]

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Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Sugar Free Blueberry Ice Cream for Breakfast

Who says you can’t have ice cream for breakfast?  People eat yogurt for breakfast and no one gives them that look.  You know the look.  You probably made it yourself when you read the title. I made this wonderful breakfast last night after reading Ali’s blog post Dairy Free, Sugar Free Strawberry Ice Cream.  Her [...]

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Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger -Elana’s Pantry Gluten Free Twinkies

As soon as I saw Elana’s post on Gluten Free Twinkies I knew my son and I would be making these.  This month I’ve adopted Elana’s from Elana’s Pantry for Book of Yum’s monthy event, Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger.  This is a fun event where you can get a lot of great gluten free [...]

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Blueberry and Blackberry Crumble Pie

I have not made this pie since last summer and can’t wait to get busy on this again.  I think this week I may use this same process and use the strawberries that are in season.  What are your favorite berries?  What fruit combinations do you bake? So far I’ve only found one problem with [...]

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Amazing Toasted Nuts

I like to have a bowl of these nuts around to snack on.  It’s a nice mix of beans and nuts.  The beans get nice and crispy and blend in well with the nuts.  I also like the play of sweet agave with the spicy cayenne pepper. Ingredients: 1 (15 or 24-ounce) can garbanzo beans, [...]

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Bananas Foster with Dairy Free Coconut Milk Ice Cream

This is one of those wonderfully naughty desserts.  It tastes great, makes a really cool presentation and it’s sweet.  What more can you ask for?   Well this version is gluten free and dairy free.  The main source of sweetness comes from the agave but there’s sugars in rum too, so this I’m sure is high [...]

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Chocolat –My date with Johnny Depp

The weather here is very cold and icy so I decided tonight to curl up on the couch and watch Chocolat, the movie where I first fell in love with Johnny Depp.  He and Juliette Binoche are two of my favorite actors.  This wonderfully decadent movie is full of thick, delicious looking chocolate.  My favorite [...]

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Macadamia Nut Breading

Ingredients: 12 oz Unsalted Macadamia nuts (available in my store and I found some locally at Trader Joes) ¼ cup Gluten free & sugar free tortilla crumbs (use your favorite bread crumbs) 1 tsp basil Sea salt and Pepper to taste Add ingredients to a food processor and process until ground.  I like to have [...]

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Macadamia Nut Crusted Tilapia with Vegetables & Quinoa

Opening the refrigerator 1 hour before dinner, I worked on using things I had leftover from previous meals.  The macadamia nut breading mixture and the quinoa were waiting in the refrigerator.  When I am putting together dinner I know what my protein will be, but sometimes not really how I will prepare it or what [...]

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