Before giving up gluten, I was big cookie lover. I used to know where to get the kind of crispy, buttery chocolate chip cookie that I like, in almost every neighborhood in Manhattan. It was a survival mechanism.
Tag: dessert
Mona’s Gingercake (and a Gluten-Free, Vegan version)
I once made about a dozen gingerbread recipes and invited my friends over to taste all of them. It was an obsessive episode (not unlike my recent situation with cauliflower, only nowhere near as healthy).
Magical Macaroons in Two Flavours- Almond, Cardamom and Berry OR Ginger, Lemon and White Pepper (gluten-free)
So, I have been on a big lemon curd kick and this means that I have a lot of leftover egg whites…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Clementine Marmalade Cake (Gluten-Free)…a cure for the winter blues
Yesterday, I tried a new cake recipe. I was interested in this cake because it is made from whole clementines that are boiled, pureed and then combined with just a handful of other ingredients, as if the inventor had started off making marmalade and then changed their mind and made a cake instead. I love…
In Search of Magical Estonian Apple Cake (Gluten-Free)
A couple of weeks ago, my husband went to the Adirondacks for a weekend and brought me back some Winesap apples. This is a man who knows how to keep me happy. Winesap apples are dark, dark burgundy colour. They are not shiny and they are frequently blemished because they are an old variety of…
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