Mixing it up a little, gluten-free style

I’ve been playing around a fair bit lately with gluten-free flour blends that are closer to “whole grain”, and less reliant on starches. From a nutritional stance, its always preferable to have fewer refined ingredients happening in one’s food, and quite frankly, some of the carb counts on some of the fluffier gluten-free breads can [...]

Rhubarb … and cake! Its all good!

I recently got a copy of David Lebovitz’s most recent book, Ready for Dessert,  and have noodled around a little bit, but wanted to make a few of the cakes.  For tonights dinner, I was looking for something that wouldn’t be too sweet, and might pair well with some of the rhubarb that was begging to [...]

Gluten-free Baguettes

I’ve been playing around with the gluten-free recipes from Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes per day.  Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertzberg have done a great job of providing whole grain and gluten-free options for their Artisan Bread in 5 minutes per day method.

Simply put, this method is great for families and households where you would like [...]

Gluten-free puff pastry

This is a quickie post!  Just wanted to get the pictures up.  I will talk in more detail in a day or so.

In the meantime, I pursued gluten-free puff pastry for a couple of reasons:

its a challenge — I’m just a little bit stubborn and love a challenge!
I wanted to be able to offer a gluten-free [...]

Gluten-free cinnamon raisin bread

Well I’ve had a couple of things I needed to do on the gluten-free baking front, one being to work on a new loaf to add to the mix, and a cinnamon raisin loaf seemed like just the thing.

One of the other things on the list was to incorporate chia seeds into more of the baking [...]