Gluten and Dairy-free Honey-Teriyaki Meatballs are a perfect appetizer for anyone with food allergies. When it comes to appetizers, they are often a food allergists’ worse nightmare. There’s a guessing game that goes on inside your head. Hmm, looks thick, probably flour. Ooh, that stuffed mushroom looks good, filled with fake crab meat. Yum, how [Read More]
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and if you are looking for a great side-dish to make, you might consider this yummy recipe of Roasted Squash Rings & Apple Sausage Stuffing. It’s especially a good idea if you are heading to someone’s house where only traditional full-on gluten stuffing will be served. Year after year [Read More]
Welcome to our AutumnHarvestDinner# When Cherie, a blogger from Canada, invited me to join in a virtual around the world Autumn Harvest Dinner, I was all in. Every part of this beautiful meal has been prepared gluten & dairy-free. We hope you will click on the images below and enjoy a fall stroll through some [Read More]
Dice it and fry it, grate it and bake it, no matter how you slice it, zucchini is one of those vegetables you can put in just about any dish. It’s perfect for vegetable lasagna, in quick breads, or battered and fried. Well, now you can add my Italian Pesto & Balsamic Zucchini Boats to [Read More]
Baked Beet Chips with Sea Salt are not only super easy to make but they are a nutritional anytime snack! They bake up nice and crisp and taste delicious. I had never been a fan of beets. My mother and grandmother often pickle beets, and quite honestly, that was the only way I had ever tried [Read More]
Is there really such a thing as the perfect gluten-free pan-fried oyster? My husband grew up part of his life on the shores of New Jersey, and the other part on the shores of the Puget Sound, where fresh oysters abound! One of his favorite meals is pan-fried oysters. They are one of the first items on [Read More]
What makes a homemade authentic Mexican salsa? Start with plump ripe tomatoes, mild, medium, and spicy peppers, onion, garlic, cilantro and a hint of lime. What makes this salsa so yummy is roasting the tomatoes until they are nearly charred, blending the peppers in a blender to create a texture that helps the salsa stay [Read More]
Recipe: Diary-free Dessert: Strawberry Rhubarb Compote with Spiced Coconut Whipped Cream There are two spring veggies that are my favorites, rhubarb and asparagus; and yes, rhubarb is actually a vegetable. It is most often used in desserts, so many would think it is a fruit, but like the tomato that is actually a fruit, you [Read More]
Years ago someone told me hummingbirds didn’t have feet. That,of course, isn’t true. Possibly they had only seen a hummingbird in flight and never at rest, or perhaps they knew I was very gullible and would believe them. Hummingbirds do tuck their tiny little feet in their feathers, which would make one believe they might [Read More]