I can’t remember how this conversation started. I suspect it was October when Rachel told us about the Quarante Quatre. It looks funny to type those words. When you say it as an Anglophone it sounds more like “Care Aunt Cat,” where aunt is pronounced in that British sort of way that sounds like you’re…
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….
Christmas Gifts
I have been lame about giving gifts for the last many years. It is easy for me to look to look at the bizarre consumerism of Christmas and just disconnect from the whole process. Truthfully though, I love giving gifts! I also love my stuff, my objects, the gifts that people have given me. My…
Fennel-Scented Sweet Flaky Bread (Meetha Paratha)
I first tried making this delicious flat bread at my friend Meta’s house. At the last moment we realized that her brown wheat flour was no good, so we gave it a go using a mixture of buckwheat and pea flour. They turned out yummy, but this bread is much easier to make with wheat…
Fake Double the Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (gluten-free and vegan if you like)
Our dear friend Marc came over for dinner the other night. He doesn’t live in the city anymore so my husband and I don’t see him as much as we would like to. We invited another dear friend, Lake, over as well. All four of us met while working on a puppet show that toured…
Layered Wild Mushroom Blini Casserole (Gluten-Free)
I moved to New York from Maui when I was 18 years old. I had never even been to the East coast to visit. I had a scholarship to attend college at a school just outside of the city, so I just moved here. For the first many years that you live in New…
Big Sis Little Dish 