Would you like to know a delicious way to cut those carbs? Try substituting cauliflower for rice in this cauliflower fried rice recipe. I know, I know, don’t mess with the fried rice, but oh I did and it is good. I mean really good! The kind of good that makes it hard to believe it’s cauliflower. Call me [Read More]
I took a recipe I love, Lemon Chicken Piccata but at a whopping 1025 calories per serving from the Pioneer Woman’s Piccata recipe I knew I had to trim it down. And trim I did, to a mere 255 calories per serving! Now you might be asking if it still tastes good. When that many [Read More]
New Year’s Resolutions: New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, and with it comes all those resolutions that we state with such exuberance! I will lose those fifteen pounds that I said I would lose for last year’s resolution. I will get my sluggish body to the gym. I will give up my vice, you [Read More]
I visited the beautiful city of Venice about a year ago with my husband. It truly is a romantic city, even though our gondola driver smoked a cigarette the whole time, rather than sing an Italian song. I asked him if he was going to sing to us, and he said we’d probably jump out of [Read More]
Growing up gluten-free I never had a Christmas cookie, let alone Gluten & Dairy-free Sugar Cookies! Honestly, I didn’t know what I was missing. The simplicity of a sugar cookie is probably what I love the most. I like the fact there are no other competing ingredients such as chocolate chips, raisins, or spices. It’s [Read More]
The Quince, a Peculiar Fruit: I like trying new things, so when I found this interesting fuzzy fruit called a quince, I had to try it. It looked like a cross between an apple and a pear and I wasn’t even sure how to cook it, but isn’t that half the fun?! I searched the internet and found that it [Read More]
Quick & Tasty I tried Modern Table meals for the first time a little over a month ago at Costco. Modern Table Meals was started by a group of busy moms who wanted to bring healthy and easy meals that taste yummy to everyday life, and that is exactly what they did. Their Modern Table [Read More]
I teach gluten-free cooking classes at a local olive oil and vinegar store and this month I will be presenting among several other recipes, a gluten-free olive oil cake. If you’ve never tried one, you need to! The moistness in this cake is superb. I decided to create a cake that represented autumn in its taste, so [Read More]
I have never been a huge cauliflower fan, maybe because my mother always boiled it in water and served a mushy head of white brains, as I always saw it. It wasn’t until my adulthood that I actually started enjoying cauliflower, especially baked. My husband has always thought of cauliflower as a vegetable you need to [Read More]
The last time I visited Astoria, Oregon, was back in the ’90’s when we took our kids to find the house where the “Goonies” was filmed. They were excited when we found it and I still remember them hoping to see the old pirate ship with its trove of treasure, any child’s dream. We, of [Read More]