Erin – Page 39 – Big Sis Little Dish

Happy New Year!

I wish you a joyful new year! I also wanted to show off the little gluten-free sticky toffee pudding that I made.

Ricotta Tart with Drunken Spiced Figs (Gluten-Free)

I made this tart to use up the the figs marinated in spiced wine that I had made for my Christmas eve salad.

Brussel Sprout Pakora

This is a recipe from The Patterned Plate which is a food blog that I have recently fallen in love with. I highly recommend that you check it out for excellent recipes, stories and advice…

Butter Tarts for Boxing Day (Gluten-Free)

I have always thought of the butter tart as the finest example of Canadian cuisine. You can get butter tarts everywhere in Canada from the gas station convenience store to a fancy bakery. I have never encountered a butter tart anywhere outside of Canada, not even on the border states. Not even in Maine, which…

Christmas Salad with Figs Marinated in Spiced Wine, Blue Cheese and Toasted Walnuts

I know that everyone is busy, but I would love to hear about your Christmas dinners past or present. I’ll start. I have been thinking about my Estonian grandmother’s Christmas dinners, which happened late in the evening on Christmas Eve. The funny thing is that I can only remember my favourite and my least favourite…

Butternut Squash and Sage Pizza…or a Gluten-Free Squash and Sage Gratin

I’m going to state this up front. This pizza is fancy, and it deserves a better pizza crust than what I have to offer. I have made gluten-free pizza crust from scratch and it was not much better than the gluten-free mix, so I just use the mix when I want a pizza. The mix…

The Lure of Pineapple and Ham Pizza (Gluten-Free)

I moved from British Columbia, Cananda to Maui, Hawaii half way through my fourth grade year. I could go on and on about all of the culture shock that I experienced, but I am going to focus today on public school lunch. In the schools that I attended in Canada, there was no school lunch….

Friday Afternoon Pear and Hazelnut Pudding Cake (gluten-free)

Sometimes, usually on a Friday, our friend Bethany drops in. She has keys to our place, so she could just come over un announced, but usually she calls to say that she’s going to drop by after school. She is in Medical school at SUNY downstate which is right around the corner from our house….

Guava Cream Cheese Tarts (Gluten-Free )… the charmingly imperfect result of a five year obsession

I have been thinking about trying to make this for a very, very long time. In 2007 Chris and both spent a lot of time working in Los Angeles on the opening of the amazing Noah’s Ark at the Skirball. Chris designed and built kinetic sculptures and puppets of 46 of the animals on…

Cheerful and Simple Kumquat Salad

Kumquats are amazing. You eat the whole fruit. They are the size of an olive, the rind and pith are sweet like candy and the flesh is just the right amount of tart. I appreciate that they appear in markets when it starts to get cold because they are cheerful and full of vitamin C….