We spent most of our camper honeymoon lingering in Utah. Then we sped through Colorado, Kansas, Missouri (pausing briefly to admire St Louis…GREAT CITY), Illinois and Kentucky to reach Tennessee. Utah is an astonishingly beautiful place. The landscape really deserves the adjective AWESOME. However, Utah does not seem like a place that would be easy to…
Tag: gluten-free
Caramel Truffles with Sesame and Sea Salt PART ONE: Ganache and Ground Rules
The Personification of Chocolate If chocolate were a human being, she would be high maintenance. Chocolate would be the kind of person who takes exactly as much time to get ready as she damn well pleases and must have everything just so. Just particularly so. Just exactly specifically precisely just so. Okay? OK. Then when…
Camper Honeymoon Cookery
Chris and I just got back from our honeymoon. We drove from British Columbia (where my family is from and where the wedding was) to Tennessee (Where Chris’ family lives) in a diesel Ford pick-up truck with a vintage Slumber Queen truck camper. The truck and Camper belonged to my daddy, who passed away a…
Corn Fritters with Poblano Peppers and Goat Cheese (Gluten-Free)
The day after our wedding we made a huge lunch out of leftovers for the 50 or so guests who were able to stay the whole weekend. Making food from leftovers is one of my favourite activities. I despise having to throw food or ingredients out so finding a way to use up several random…
Lemon Blackberry Wedding Cake (Gluten-Free)
This is a recipe for a 3 tier gluten-free wedding cake to feed 70 guests. We had 100 people at our wedding so we also made a grooms cake as well…basically a separate bottom tier so that there would be enough for everyone. All of the cake was eaten so I guess that we got…
Roasted Potato Salad with Garlic and Rosemary
I went through a period during college and for years after when I made this salad a lot. I had not made it in years, but thought to include it in the menu for our wedding picnic because it does well sitting out a room temperature and it uses fairly inexpensive ingredients that were in season….
Mona’s Bean Salad
I have kept a recipe note book since I was in the 6th grade. Before that there are a few random recipes in earlier diaries…but I started keeping a dedicated notebook in when I was 12 (the same year that my little sis was born). I used that note book until I was half way…
Ieva’s Greek Salad
When I was 12, I went to spend a summer in Vancouver with my biological father Hank and his fabulous wife Ieva. I admired that Ieva was so well read and educated. I admired her wit and sense of humour. I admired that she had travelled the world and lived abroad. I admired…
Cobb Salad
You may have noticed that I post a lot recipes for main course salads. This is because most days, I pack a very large salad for lunch. I am someone who requires rather a lot of food. I work with small children and I expend a lot of energy. I don’t eat gluten so I…
Gluten-Free Cherry Clafouti
Clafouti is a baked fruit custard. It is a French dish that (I feel) was invented by particularly unfussy and homey French people. I love clafouti because it reminds me of a delicious custardy apple cake that my Estonian grandmother used make. She would slice and layer apples into a baking pan and then…
Big Sis Little Dish 