Years ago, I saw a cartoon in a women’s magazine. In the frame were two girls aged about 5 or 6, facing each other. Girl One (self-satisfied smile on her face): My mommy lets me eat candy every day. Girl Two: (scowling): That’s not candy, stupid. That’s broccoli. Girl One (crushed): You mean. . . broccoli […]
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Crumb Coffee Cake (Gluten Free, Sugar Free, Vegan, Anti-Candida)
The quaint old notion of friends “dropping in” for a visit seems to have disappeared somewhere around the same time as shoulder pads, Eight Tracks, or Electric Light Orchestra. When I was a child, my mother and her friends would pop over to each other’s homes at a moment’s notice, stopping by without any embellishment (never […]
Savory Muffins with Herbs, Oven-Dried Tomatoes and Green Onions
As someone who follows an anti-candida, sugar-free, gluten-free, vegan diet, I’ve encountered my share of skepticism. Every time I tell someone about my dietary restrictions, I’m hit with either incredulity (“But what’s left to eat?“), pity (“Oh, you poor thing! You must miss real food!”) or derision (“hmm, yeah, bet you just love eating that […]
Raw Gingersnap Cookie Bon Bons
[Note: this recipe is now available in my cookbook, Naturally Sweet and Gluten-Free, along with over 100 more refined sugar-free, gluten-free, egg-free and dairy-free treats!] [Grab a few of these babies and while away the afternoon. . . . photo credit for photo above: Celine Saki] Seriously, what more do you need than the word […]
Mock Chopped Liver plus Recipes for Easter and Passover
Today marks only a few days before the start of Passover, and Easter is right around the next corner–it’s time to cook for the holidays! Since the HH and I are invited to a friend’s house for a seder this year (and since her niece is a vegetarian), I decided to bring a dish that normally […]
Potato Boats with "Sour Cream" and Herbs
The expression, “it’s complicated” is often enough to make the blood drain from my face and my forehead break out in a cold sweat. For example: Scene One: Ricki and her then-boyfriend, Rocker Guy (he of the black leather pants) at Rocker Guy’s apartment, shortly after Ricki stumbles upon RG sitting a little too close to […]
SOS Adzuki Beans: Adzuki Spread
If you are (or were) an English major in university–or even if you know someone who studied English–you are probably familiar with one of the most common themes in literature, “appearance versus reality.” You know the one: it’s the notion that things are not always what they seem to be on the surface, and the way we […]
Everything-Free Chocolate “Buttercream” Frosting (Sugar-free, Dairy-free, Nut-free, Grain-free, Egg-free, Soy-free, Corn-free)
[Whipped “buttercream” variation. Go ahead. . . lick the beaters.] When we were kids, my sisters and I used to crowd round my mother every time she baked something (coffee cake, chocolate chip cookies, cheesecake, or her legendary chiffon cake) just so we could vie for who’d get to lick the beaters, or bowl, or spoon (this […]
Butter Berry Cake Bars*
*no, of course it’s not dairy butter, silly! The “butter” comes from “butterscotch,” which is what these babies taste like to me. I could have called them “berryscotch,” but that sounded too much like an alcoholic beverage. 😉 Two posts in one day–am I mad?? No, just behind on my posting (as usual)–and I really, […]
SOS Sesame Seeds: Grown-Up Halvah
[This is my first entry for the SOS Kitchen Challenge: Sesame Seeds this month: anti candida friendly, sugar-free, gluten-free halvah. If you’ve got a sesame-based recipe of your own to share, link up below–and win one of our eleven prizes!] Have you ever noticed how some of the foods we loved as children seem entirely distaseteful once […]