Battle Cinnamon: Quinoa Chickpea Salad

This month I scored a coveted invitation to a Chicago Iron Chef group that my friends Emily and Heather are a part of (check out the full battle rundown here). I was excited for this competitive foodie potluck – our own little Olympic celebration. The secret ingredient was revealed as cinnamon 2 days prior to [...]

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Polenta Chili Pie

Would you like some deep dish Chicago style pizza? Yeah, me too, (though the gluten would kill me)…so while the above photo may look like a deep dish pizza, this is a whole other animal that I’m calling Polenta Chili Pie. If you liked those polenta wedges two weeks ago, then this is the next [...]

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Black and White Popcorn

While Mark and I were kicking back watching House, I felt the itch for a sweet treat, and for once there was no homemade ice cream in the freezer. I went to my other go-to quick snack – popcorn. I wasn’t feeling like making the usual cinnamon-spiced popcorn, so I went rummaging through the spice [...]

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Crusty Olive Boule

It may be mid February, but it’s not too late for New Year’s Resolutions, right?! I’m starting to feel like 2010 is the year that I return to baking. Before I was gluten-free, I made cookies,  the occasional cake, but my real specialty was homemade pizza dough and bread. My fingers knew how to make [...]

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Pork and Beans…And Chard

It’s Valentine’s Day, and while everyone else is talking about chocolate and sexy, sexy food….I’m talking pork and beans. Hot, right?! You can probably tell by the photo above that this isn’t the pork and beans of your youth. There are no hotdogs here, or beans from a can. In reality, this bears a close [...]

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Roasted Potato Wedges with Garlic Oil and Mustard

Living gluten-free means culling most junk food from your diet. I’m happy about this in general, as it has helped me lose about 50lbs since my gluten-filled days of yore. One thing that I do miss every now and again is french fries. Hand-cut fries like they have at Moody’s Pub, or fancy frites with [...]

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Roasted Polenta Wedges

Polenta is one of those comfort foods that I adore, yet I seem to forget about it most of the time. It’s humble food – there’s nothing really flashy about this thick corn porridge, yet it can be dressed up into something marvelous with very few ingredients. In November, I was reminded about how much [...]

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Sweet Potato Soup with Chorizo

Saturday morning, I awoke with a very sore throat. Fearing that this was the harbinger of Mark’s cold come to roost, I decided to hit it with everything (natural) that I had. So, out came the vegetable juicer and I dove into my carrot-ginger-celery juice regime, brewed endless pots of “tea” with grated ginger, honey [...]

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Mexican Hot Chocolate Ice Cream – Dairy-Free

Remember those pavlovas I made a couple weeks ago? They left me with four lonely egg yolks that were definitely bound for ice cream. This is the first new ice cream recipe on the new site – so I guess this place finally feels like home! Deep dark chocolate. Check. Warm cinnamon. Check. An earthy, [...]

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Simply Perfect Tomato Sauce with Butter

I have to confess that this one is a total copycat post. This tomato sauce recipe has been banging around the blogging community for YEARS. I have bookmarked it no less than three times, and never gotten around to making it, despite all the wild adoration of many bloggers I love. How could a recipe [...]

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