Gluten Free, Vegan Bagels

Bagels. Fabulous, gluten free, vegan bagels. Perfect with margarine, but just as good as a sandwich. It's been a long time since we've had bagels. Well apart from Enjoy Life bagels, which while pretty good, are not the same as big, light and airy homemade bagels. Actually, I've had homemade bagels before going gluten free and I have to say, I was less than impressed. They were, well, lumps

Dairy-Free, Egg-Free Caesar Dressing

Here is a Caesar salad dressing that has no egg, no casein, and no soy! Without compromising its integrity, it retains all its familiar Caesar tangy-ness. Which is good, because a Caesar dressing without integrity is, well...bad.This dressing ha a lovely tan color due to anchovies.3 medium or 2 large cloves garlic1 tbsp. dijon mustard1 tbsp. lemon juice1 tbsp. vinegar2 tbsp. mayonnaise2oz can

Gluten Free, Vegan Buckwheat Zucchini Muffins

School started this Monday. It was so hot, like 105 degrees, the kind of hot that sizzles your skin in 10 seconds flat, coupled with the kind of humid that makes it harder to breathe. When it gets that hot and humid, it's like living in an armpit. We've been treated to this sort of heat for over a month, I think (although I stopped counting the days because it's just too depressing). Yesterday

Gluten Free and Corn Free - Fried Green Tomatoes!

It's been obnoxiously hot and humid here for three weeks and counting. My tomato plants are looking very sad. No matter how much I water them, they are frying in the sun. They are still producing small to medium tomatoes, but as soon as they ripen they get rotten spots where the sun hits them all day long. I've thrown out many ripe tomatoes, which is starting to make me very cranky. Then I

Gluten Free, Vegan Snickerdoodles

Finally! I've finally made egg-free Snickerdoodles that work! The first time I tried replacing the egg in my old recipe with applesauce (which works for many things but apparently not those cookies), they tasted truly terrible. Since then I've realized that there is more to baking without eggs than simply replacing egg in a recipe. So I scrapped the shortening for canola oil and I used maple

Shae's Hot Wings

Full disclosure: I'm not a wing person. I could live without chicken wings basically forever. I don't know what it is about the chicken wing craze where we are (lots of wing restaurants everywhere), but I'm not part of the insanity. I was happy to live a wing-free life indefinitely until a friend (Shae, you did it again) made dinner for us one night. He said "I'm going to make hot wings!".

Crock Pot Baked Beans

My BFF makes great baked beans from scratch. She bakes them in the oven using her grandmother's beanpot. Truthfully, I'm slightly green over her beanpot. I want one in the worst way. Actually I want two, one to pass down to each of my daughters. But until then I will have to make do with baking beans in my crock pot. Actually that's not so bad right now, as it's we've had triple digit heat

Dairy Free, Soy Free "Sour Cream" (or Avocado Creme, How I Love Thee)

Recently I stumbled across Ellie Krieger's recipe for these Broccoli Stuffed Potato Skins with Avocado Creme. They look pretty, no? And they are YUMMY, a true crowd-pleaser. Daiya Cheddar stands in for regular sharp cheddar just fine, and the potato skins can be filled with something other than broccoli, such as chili. What is particularly exciting about the recipe is the Avocado Creme ,

Sauteed Lentil Sprouts

Sprouted lentils - what's not to love? They are super healthy and delicious!Recently a friend came over with a gift of lentil and mung bean sprouts, a full dry pint of each. He said the CSA he's part of is having a hard time producing vegetables, so the farmer sprouted lentils and mung beans. I said thank you, raised an eyebrow, and asked him what to do with them. He told me to saute them in