I’m one of those people who think that the real star of so-called Turkey Day is mashed potatoes and gravy, so I’m by nature reluctant to mess with the simplicity of plain potatoes, milk, butter and salt.  My dairy allergies have forced me to try to replicate this perfection with non-dairy options and some of [...]

This recipe is a riff on the spinach salad my mom used to make. I have her dressing recipe written on an index card with no attribution, so its original source is a mystery. Slightly sweet and tinged red from paprika, it’s pretty typical of spinach salad dressings from the 70’s.
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One of the things that has surprised me about gluten-free baking is how much fun it can be to play with different flour combinations.  At first it seemed overwhelming to face adding five ingredients instead of one when a recipe called for flour.  However, once this became a habit, I started to see how varying [...]

It was not love at first sight for me and quinoa.  I feel vaguely guilty about this.  When you go gluten-free, quinoa seems to constantly come up in reading and conversation as the grain equivalent of the guy all your friends think would be perfect for you.  But quinoa and I . . . we [...]

Seattle mornings have turned cold, but our tomato plants don’t seem to have noticed.  By now I expected to be wrapped in a quilt and Googling “green tomatoes” for inspiration, but the fruit keeps ripening.   And we have a lot of it.  My husband decided to grow tomatoes from seed this year.  We became rather [...]