Today please welcome Amber of The Tasty Alternative! I’m delighted to welcome Amber to the blog today! Amber is yet another blogger whom I’ve met online and can’t wait to meet “IRL” (in real life) one day. Amber’s health journey began with some unusual symptoms that ended with a diagnosis of Crohn’s disease (you can […]
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Carrot Colada
Today please welcome Shirley from Gluten Free Easily! If memory serves me correctly, Shirley is one of the very first bloggers I met in the GF community (or maybe it’s just that it feels as if we’ve known each other a long time!). Somehow, we got to chatting via email, and I discovered that Shirley […]
Strawberry Hazelnut Bars for Valentine’s Day from Spabettie
Today please welcome Kristina from Spabettie! I’ve been following Kristina’s blog, Spabettie, for a loooong time, and have always been in awe of the creativity and versatility of her recipes (not to mention her amazing photos)! Kristina has a knack for creating recipes that marry sometimes unexpected ingredients, textures or colors, always resulting in a […]
Chunky Tomato Sauce
Today, please welcome Stephanie from The Recipe Renovator! [Stephanie and her girl Daisy May.] Today’s guest poster is my friend Stephanie Weaver, writer of the wonderful Recipe Renovator blog. I met Stephanie for the first time when we bonded over tofu scramble at the Dole Summit a year and a half ago, and our online […]
Gluten-Free, Vegan Festive Roast
[My plate from our impromptu Christmas dinner last week: simple arugula salad, Festive Roast with brown gravy (still working on that recipe), homemade cranberry sauce, roasted potatoes, roasted carrots.] Have I got a treat for you today! I had intended to cook up–and post about–this incredible Festive Vegan Roast last week, as it was slated […]
Flash in the Pan: Cranberry Ice Cream
[Sometimes, you just want a dish that’s quick and easy–no fuss. I’ve decided to offer a mini-post every once in a while, for a dish that comes together incredibly quickly or else is so simple to make that no recipe is required. Here’s today’s “Flash in the Pan.” (For other FitP recipes, see “Categories” at right). […]
Six Degrees of Leanne Vogel and Cocoa Caramel Bars
Leanne Vogel is the massively popular food blogger, holistic nutritionist, recipe creator and creative mind behind Healthful Pursuit, a blog devoted to helping you “embrace your true self and live authentically.” Leanne has been there, learning how to eat healthier, struggling with disordered eating in the past–and, as a holistic nutritionist, she knows very well […]
Six Degrees of Kathy Smart, Grain-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies and Gluten-Free Smart Store
[This post is part of an ongoing series of interviews with cookbook authors, bloggers, women entrepreneurs and home chefs whose work I enjoy and admire. If you’ve got someone in mind you’d like me to approach for an interview, please shoot me an email at ricki@rickiheller.com, or leave a comment here and let me know! […]
Pumpkin Palooza: Grain-Free, Egg-Free, Gluten-Free Pumpkin Gnocchi with Browned Sage “Butter”
Seventh grade was a year of firsts for me. That year marked the first time I had to take a bus to get to school. It was the first time I had teachers who actually spoke French as their first language. With the explosion of hormones suddenly making its appearance that year, it was the […]
New York: An Oasis of Calm, plus Homemade Superfood Chocolate
[Warning: this is a looooong recap post. If you like New York and want to know what we did there, read on! If you just want to get straight to the chocolate recipe, skip on down.] [Homemade superfood chocolate (stevia-sweetened on left, coconut sugar-sweetened on right. Skip on down for the recipe.] You wouldn’t normally […]