Hey friends!! Today I have one of my “staple” recipes. Banana muffins are a must and often in our house. I’ve always made them gluten free, but a few months ago I finally worked out a recipe that was both gluten free and vegan. They just taste like really good banana muffins. They’re light, and fluffy, and moist, and very tasty. And that’s good, because we eat them alot. One, because it’s an easy snack to grab; and two, because we keep our house pretty warm and bananas go brown very quickly. This is a small batch. Depending on how much batter you scoop into the muffin tins, you’ll get…
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Gluten Free, Vegan Pico de Gallo
About a mile down our road is a garage that once a year turns into the most amazing vegetable stand I’ve ever seen. Mr. Homer is famous for his tomatoes. He also sells squash and cucumbers and a few other things, but people go there for the tomatoes. In his garage are long tables with hundreds of tomatoes. He sells the beautiful ones for $2/lb, and the “canning” tomatoes for $1/lb. The canning tomatoes are also beautiful, just maybe less so, and they are perfect for cutting up into homemade pico de gallo. Pico de gallo, or fresh salsa, is the perfect summer side/garnish. We eat it with chips, or…
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Gluten Free Vegan Quinoa Casserole
gluten free vegan quinoa casserole I first started making this gluten free vegan quinoa casserole because of a very common problem. Not enough time. When my mom friends and I talk about healthy eating and how hard it is to stick to a healthy diet, the number one complaint we all have is, it just takes so much time.
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Really Quick Gluten Free Soup Stock
Many recipes call for chicken broth or soup stock. If you don’t have any on hand, or if you can’t find a gluten free broth in your supermarket, you can try this easy recipe. This is the base I use for all my soups and I often use it to add extra flavor to grits or rice. If you need a quick and flavorful gluten free replacement for soup stock or broth, try this easy vegetarian soup stock.
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Gluten Free Ginger Garlic Coriander Marinade for Chicken or Tofu
Chicken is naturally gluten free, and easy to make, but it can get boring. I love spicing things up with flavorful gluten free marinades like this one made with lots of ginger, garlic and coriander. You can use this marinade for baked tofu too!
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Gluten Free Corn Relish
So, my daughter took this amazing picture of the Target Brownie she bought from an antique shop. It’s one of those dark moody pictures, with the Brownie camera sitting on a dark wood table with a black backdrop. It looks mysterious and smokey. I loved it so much I made it my computer desktop. And I was thinking, you know what would look great like that? Corn relish. Corn relish is such an incredibly boring looking food. It looks like corn in a bowl. Lets add a dash of irony and take a picture of it as artistically and mysteriously as possible.
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Spicy Black Bean, Pumpkin Soup Gluten Free, Vegan
A rich curry soup made with black beans and pumpkin. Gluten free, vegan and great for the slow carb diet.
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Gluten Free, Vegan, Very Easy Broccoli Soup
It seems everyone in my house has a different food issue. This year, because of increasingly poor health, my daughter decided to try becoming a vegetarian. Surprisingly, (to her meat eating Momma) her health has improved dramatically. Even to the point of no longer requiring her prescription of iron supplements. The only problem I have with her new diet, is finding things that I can cook for both of us. Vegetarian AND gluten-free is a pretty narrow window.
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Roasted Winter Vegetables, Vegan, Gluten-Free
Meeting multiple dietary needs in one family (or one person) can be a challenge. In our house, I’m gluten-free and my daughter has recently gone vegetarian, for health reasons. She’s always struggled with just not feeling well, and by experimenting a bit with the food she was eating she has been able to identify meat, fat and sugar as the main culprits. Her decision to cut out meat has changed things up in our kitchen. When we all have dinner together as a family, I make a main dish that is both vegetarian and gluten free, usually a fancy vegetable dish, and then have sides of meat and vegetable based…
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Gluten Free Vegan Football Fritters
It's official. After an amazing 11 months in Thailand, we're moving back to the States. Needless to say, I have mixed feelings about this. It's been three years (2 in Canada and one here in Thailand) since life has been “normal”. I miss normal. On the other hand, a community like Verge @ 50 is a very rare one, and I can't imagine finding a situation that would allow me to “do life” with others in such a real way. I'll miss the great friends that have surrounded us here. There is one thing I don't have mixed feelings about. Football. You can't get all the games in Canada, and…
