Sauteed Cabbage

I'm posting this simple recipe because, well, it's amazing. I keep making it over and over because I can't get enough of it. You can see the same recipe here. The coconut oil really makes this dish sublime. I've used green cabbage, red cabbage and brussels sprouts and they all turn out great.1/2 head cabbage, washed, cored and thinly sliced2 tsp. coconut oil, plus more as neededsalt and

Shout-out for Butternut Hash Browns

Heal~Balance~Live is a great blog full of great recipes - not all casein free, but all gluten free and all interesting. I pop over on a regular basis to check out recipes that are safe for us, such as these amazing looking Butternut Hash Browns. Yum! I can't wait to make them. There's no chance my girls will eat these, so I don't have to worry about the egg in them. Anyway, I keep trying to

GFCF Egg-Free Sandwich Bread for the Bread Machine

Up until now, I've been baking Megan's egg-free bread in the oven. It's been turning out great and it feels a little quaint, which I like. And I thought - why mess with something that is working? I've also been making two different breads - one for Megan, and one in the bread machine for the rest of the family that has eggs in it. For some odd reason I thought this was easier and cheaper, but

GFCF Chocolate Chip Bar Cookies (Vegan)

I am slowly embracing gluten-free vegan baking. Each time I turn out something edible, I feel like doing a little dance. So far I'm able to scaffold off of what others have done, but I'm not yet able to wing it myself. I tried to make my Snickerdoodles egg free and they turned out fairly terrible. I don't know how the kids ate them, but they did. Kudos to them.Today I made chocolate chip bar

Natural Food Colorings

I've gotten a couple of requests for dye-free frosting. Here I'm going to show you what beet and red cabbage can do!To use beet juice as food coloring, roast some beets in a little bit of water, about 1/2 cup. Save the brilliant red beet juice. A little bit makes a light pink frosting, a lot makes a dark fuschia frosting.To use red cabbage as a food coloring, boil half a red cabbage in a

Homemade Avocado Mayonnaise

In my continuing hunt for egg-free, soy-free mayonnaise, I ran across an article in Eating Well featuring Rick Bayless and avocados. The article mentioned that avocados are a natural emulsifier, so I ran to the computer and looked up recipes for avocado mayonnaise. Then I ran to the grocery store to pick out the perfect avocado - according to Bayless a perfectly ripe avocado is not green, but