Desserts

Gluten Free Strawberry Vanilla Cake

April 3, 2012
gluten free strawberry vanilla cake recipe

Leila requested two things for her birthday yesterday.  Fish tacos and pink strawberry cake.  Fish tacos were the easy part.  I have made them countless times and always use this recipe for marinating the fish.  The trickier part was the strawberry cake.  As you know, I’m not much of a baker.  Thankfully, I was able [...]

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Healthy Chocolate Shake

February 20, 2012
healthy chocolate shake recipe

Welcome to this month’s Recipe ReDux!  When I found out that our theme is chocolate, I was pretty stumped.  I’m not much of a baker, so chocolate chip cookies were out.  A healthy recipe using chocolate?  Hmm….. Inspiration hit me last week when a friend mentioned that she thought of me while sipping a smoothie [...]

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My all-time number one favorite Christmas cookie recipe

December 21, 2011
gluten free gingersnap cookies

When I was first diagnosed with celiac disease, I thought about all of the foods I wouldn’t be able to eat anymore. Immediately, my mind went to Christmas. Most of the year, I don’t have much of a sweet tooth or get tempted by baked goods. Christmas is another story.The breads and cookies that I [...]

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Rustic Fig & Date Pie on The Kids Cook Monday

September 19, 2011
fig and date pie

It’s been a while since our last Kid’s Cook Monday post.  With the end of summer, a little bit of traveling, and some crazy cold that kept me on the couch for a week, I haven’t spent much time in the kitchen.  I woke up feeling better this morning, so I decided to go with [...]

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Coffee Granita

August 21, 2011
Coffee granita

Do you like coffee?  I have a bit of an obsession with the stuff.  I don’t care if it’s 100 degrees at eight in the morning, I want a hot cup of coffee!  In the afternoons though, iced coffee is the way to go.  Throw a little soy or coconut milk in there, mix it [...]

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The Kids Cook Monday – Spiced Apple Crisp

June 13, 2011

With such a huge pile of apples from our Agritopia picking on Saturday, Joe and I couldn’t stop talking about apple pie.  When it got right down to it though, I just didn’t feel like making pie crust.  So we made an apple crisp instead.  We used a recipe from one of my favorite-titled food [...]

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Christmas Cookie Recipe Roundup

December 20, 2010
Post image for Coconut Almond Macaroons

In anticipation of our family baking day on December 23rd, I haven’t done any kind of Christmas baking yet.  So since I don’t have any of my own cookies to share with you yet, I thought I would share some of the mouth-watering cookie recipes that I have been perusing from around the blogging world. [...]

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