Sticky Toffee Pudding (traditional and gluten-free)

Sticky toffee pudding is  a not too sweet date cake with a very sweet and sticky toffee sauce.  It is a classic British desert and is one of the reasons that I love English food.  Thats right, I love English food.  I like puddings and trifles and shepherd’s pie and sausage roles and bangers and…

Two Thanksgiving Pies (with gluten-free variations)

My grandfather made delicious lard pie crusts.  He showed me how to do it when I was in junior high.  When he was baking, my grandpa was like a magician who could not wait to finish his spell and enchant you with it.  He knew that he was going to make everyone so happy with…

Blackberry, Lemon, Ginger Tea Cake (gluten free)

Last Christmas, my mother and I made an apple cinnamon cake recipe from the Baby Cakes cookbook.  That’s a really outstanding source of  recipes for wheat and dairy free baking, for those of you who need that kind of thing.  I cannot eat gluten, which is a particularly annoying for someone who likes to bake…