Tarragon-Lime Green Beans
Lime & Tarragon Green Beans
This was adapted from a Cook’s Illustrated recipe. It’s a pretty fast cooking dish, and the flavors are amazing. Don’t cheat and use bottled lime juice – if you don’t have a fresh lime to zest and juice, wait until you do.
Serves 6.
Ingredients:
1 TBS extra virgin olive oil
2 cloves [...]
Miso Soup, hold the barley
Traditional miso contains barley, a gluten-containing grain. However, there are some companies, such as Great Eastern Sun which make miso from alternate ingredients such as soy, chickpeas, and rice (their misos are also certified organic and kosher). Additionally, as miso soup is usually made using a fish broth, using a vegetable broth in [...]
Summer Gazpacho
Gazpacho is chilled tomato-based soup with lots of veggies and a bit of a spicy kick is just right. For my kids, I explained it was “salsa soup”, which interested them. The adults loved it, and all the kids enjoyed it, too.
On a hot summer day, a cool bowl of gazpacho [...]
Polenta that’s kick-yourself simple
We, like everyone else we know, are finding ourselves on a tighter budget because of the cost of gas and heating oil. My daughters love polenta, and while I am Italian, I always thought it was too tricky to make from scratch. I mean really, would they be selling it in rolls at [...]
Asian Rice Salad
This recipe contains peanuts! You could easily substitute pea butter, sunbutter, or soynut butter for the peanut butter, though. Do not despair! The top 8 allergen I can’t avoid in this recipe is soy, as the soy sauce is integral to the taste. If you have a good soy sauce substitute [...]
Ginger Butternut Squash Soup
Make this for thanksgiving. In our house, it is not thanksgiving without it.
As a warning, though, I broke my crock pot with this soup (OK, it slid off the hood of my car), and my mom needed stitches from this soup. So be careful!
Ingredients
2 large butternut squash, peeled, seeded and chopped in 2 [...]
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
These are surprisingly delicious – sweet and mouthwatering. You won’t believe how fast brussels sprouts disappear if you roast them!
This is a delicious gfcf, gluten free, family-friendly recipe! It is also (if you double check ingredients!) a wheat free, dairy free, soy free, egg free, tree nut free, peanut free, [...]
Lemon Risotto
This is an adaptation of a great recipe in Cooking for Mr. Latte, an amusing book that has fabulous recipes. Many of which can be easily adapted to be dairy and gluten free.
This is dairy, egg, gluten, corn, and soy free. It could also be vegetarian very easily, too.
Ingredients
2 TBS olive oil
1 cup [...]
Great Gluten-Free Stuffing
What is thanksgiving without stuffing? OK, so we never actually stuff the turkey with it, but it’s still a delicious bread stuffing. Mmmmmm… This year it finally turned out just right. Yum.
This is a delicious gfcf, gluten free, family-friendly recipe! It is also (if you double check ingredients!) [...]
Flaky Gluten Free Biscuits
These are flaky and delicious. They are perfect for serving with some soup or fried chicken!
This is a delicious gfcf, gluten free recipe! It is also wheat free, dairy free, tree nut free, peanut free, top 8 allergen free, corn free, vegetarian recipe. This recipe only has two eggs in it, so [...]






