Gordon Ramsay, I Love You.

Posted by on Dec 16, 2010 in Blog Fun, Cooking |

We watched Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Christmas part one a little on accident (my back was out and I didn’t want to get up). I rather snorted about the “ultimate” part. But. I started taking notes early on. Tonight I made the turkey, gravy, cranberries, and (Gasp) the steamed pudding. I usually loathe puddings like that. I’m SO in love right now. I made mine gluten free by taking 100g of my fave all purpose GF flour...

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Quick GF Cookie Trick

Posted by on Dec 13, 2010 in Blog Fun, Cooking, Gluten Free |

Over at The Cracked Kettle there’s a taste test going on. I’m willing to bet everyone has AT LEAST one friend who’s gotta live gluten-free. Holidays are a lousy time to have to avoid gluten. Thank goodness, then, there’s a quick-and-dirty way to make chocolatey holiday cookies that are safely gluten free that you can give to a soon-to-be-eternally-grateful friend. No one brings GF cookies to a party. Why not be the...

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Gluten-Free Chanukah

Posted by on Dec 1, 2010 in Blog Fun, Cooking, Gluten Free |

What can you do living gluten-free when it comes to holidays. A lot, actually. I’ll share my stunning success at Thanksgiving Stuffing shortly, but there’s a more dire topic at hand: Jelly Donuts! Even if you don’t celebrate the festival of lights, you probably know that Chanukah is a celebration surrounded by a puddle of oil—symbolic oil and cooking oil. Symbolically, historically, there was only enough clean oil left...

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A Dickens of a Christmas—Hot Buttered Goodness

Posted by on Nov 23, 2010 in Blog Fun, Cooking, Web Fun |

I’m not partial to hot buttered rum. Not because I’m a tea-totaler or anything like that, but because of a very specific and unfortunate accident that included the holiday season of 1978, my best friend Kerry, an unsupervised afternoon, and her mother’s fresh, double-batch of rub ball dough. I don’t want to get into details, but lets just leave it by saying that the smell of rum continues to make me turn a lovely shade...

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Now is the Season for Making Marmalade—Canning Across America

Posted by on Nov 16, 2010 in Cooking, Web Fun, Writing |

Mmmmmm. Marmalade! Now is the Season for Making Marmalade — Canning Across America. Not only is this a great idea, but it’s also got a link to a truly useful article on how things like weather and elevation affect food prep. I’ve found myself frustrated by the difference in baking between New York and Arizona, so this was something of a culinary life-saver. (The articles are also written by an old friend of mine.) Enjoy this...

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