This is a chewy, yeasted bread. It’s not sweet, although it is perfumed with cardamom and studded with walnuts, dates and raisins. It’s best toasted and slathered with salted butter. I like it for breakfast, tea or with afternoon coffee when my husband is kind enough to make me some (I make terrible coffee). It…
Tag: gluten-free
Grown Up German Chocolate Cake (gluten-free or not)
Last week, I made myself a German chocolate cake for my 41st birthday. I have fond childhood memories of German chocolate cake, but I suspected that as an adult it would be too sweet. I recently bought some turtles (chocolate covered caramel and pecans) with gleeful anticipation only to discover that they are gross if…
Kook-Kwee Inspired Macadamia and Coconut Shortbread (gluten-free and vegan)
This will be the last of my Hawaii food nostalgia posts for a while. Cook-Kwees Maui cookie company produce wildly popular crisp shortbread cookies. My favourite variety includes coconut and macadamia nuts. I consumed a truly terrifying quantity of these cookies as a child. They were ubiquitous in gift baskets and no meeting that provided…
Cauliflower Roasted with Curry and Cashew Butter
I recently wrote about the foods that I miss from my childhood home, Maui. I decided not to mention an entire genre of delicious hippy cuisine, served up at potlucks, vegetarian and/ or vegan restaurants and health food store lunch counters. This food is a gleeful mash up of vegetarian food from all over the…
Roasted Celery and Buttermilk Soup
When I was in my 20s my friends and I had a game that we liked to play with any new person that we met. We would each list the 10 foods that we would take if we were going to be stuck on a desert island for the rest of our life. You could…
Lemon Poppy Seed Meringues
I know, it’s Valentine’s and I am supposed to be posting some sort of gooey chocolate dessert. The truth is that I am just not always in the mood for chocolate. Anyway meringues use cooking alchemy to make something special out of common ingredients which I find very romantic on a symbolic level . Also,…
Passionfruit Cream Pie in a Coconut Crust (gluten-free and vegan)
I apologize for my month-long absence! I have been traveling, and truly enjoying not looking at a computer more than for a few moments once or twice a week. Over Christmas and New Year I was on Maui with my mother (see photos above). Then I came home to NYC for four days, during which…
Furikaki Crusted Seared Ahi with a Salad of Spicy Vegetables
My mother and I got to cook Christmas dinner together this year. She made a very delicious lamb roast and I made a salad from all of the amazing locally grown vegetables that you can buy on Maui in the dead of winter (watercress, kohlrabi, watermelon radishes). The salad was spicy, crunchy and full of…
Happy New Year! Whipped Ricotta and Beet Caviar served on Seed and Nut Bread
I humbly offer not one, not two but three wonderful recipes that I did not invent. They came from three of my favourite food blogs, which I encourage you to take a look at if you have not done so already. All I have to offer is the suggestion that you make these three wonderful…
Boxing Day Almond Spice Cookies (Gluten-Free)
Happy Boxing Day! There are some conflicting ideas out there about what Boxing Day is, what the name means, and why it is a holiday. My mum says that December 26th was the de facto Christmas for all of the people who had to work on Christmas Day. For example, all of the servants who…
