Chana Dal

Sabera is one of my very favorite bloggers. Over on One Life to Eat, she shares simple recipes from her homeland, India. Sabera has taught me a few of the subtle techniques in Indian cooking that really make the spice combinations sing. Like dropping black mustard seeds in hot oil to hear them crackle and [...]

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Chilaquile Casserole

I have a natural aversion to anything attached to the term “casserole.” Growing up in the 80s attending frequent Lutheran potlucks and soup dinners. I have seen many casserole tragedies I’d care not to repeat – most included that gloopy staple – cream-of-whatever soup. There were definitely good dishes, too, but mostly the potluck table [...]

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Chai

Last weekend, Mark and I dropped by our neighborhood coffee shop to pick up a pound of beans for our friend James who was coming to stay with us for the weekend. I don’t do coffee or caffeine, though we like to have coffee around the house for our house guests who do. While I [...]

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Polish Sausage and Sauerkraut

Yes, yes, I know it’s St. Patrick’s Day and all, but we’re not making corned beef until the weekend, so you’re stuck with quasi-Polish food instead. Chicago is probably more Polish than Irish in reality anyway, so it fits – right?! My husband claims to not like sauerkraut. Once upon a time, I would have [...]

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Simple Green Salad with Vinaigrette

I sometimes overlook the simple things as I strive for the next “unique” recipe to share with you. Of course, no recipe is really unique or truly new – we’re all working within the same framework of taste, texture and smell to create the food that feeds our families (and our blogs). Recipes overlap, we [...]

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Rhubarb Bloom Cocktail

Hello, my name is Jenn and I’m a frozen fruit hoarder. There – I admitted it. I spend all summer stocking the freezer full of locally grown fruits and berries to be enjoyed in the winter months (13 gallons worth, last summer). I then miserly dole the fruit out – a batch of sorbet here, [...]

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Chewy Oatmeal Cookies…Gluten-Free

After years in the gluten-deprivation tank, I’m finally re-learning how to bake. For years, I’ve largely gone without cookies, cakes and bread in our house, and that’s been fine for the most part. I’ve focused on health and weight-loss and having baked goods around predictably works against my health goals. But with the online gluten-free [...]

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Chile Rubbed Sirloin Tip Roast

As with so many good things that have come into my kitchen recently, the initial inspiration for this one comes from Shauna, aka Gluten-Free Girl. She posted to twitter how much she loved Thomas Keller’s new cookbook, Ad Hoc at Home. I mentioned that I had just received my copy and she then convinced me [...]

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Thai Pork Stir Fry

I haven’t been eating out much lately, due to a couple of gluten cross-contamination incidents that have laid me flat. Such is the reality of living with celiac disease – every pot, pan and surface is suspect if outside your control. A mere morsel of gluten left inside a wok can make me ill for [...]

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Basil Hummus

When I took the gluten-free plunge 8 years ago, I found parties to be particularly difficult. I LOVE food (as you may have guessed), and the sight of a party table loaded with treats that I could not eat made me so sad. At the start of my long climb back to real health, I [...]

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