A Gluten-free, Vegan Bagel (its a beautiful thing)

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So I know I promised this to you a little while ago, but with Christmas and all, other baking had taken priority.  Given a free day, with the husband and Shiba inus preoccupied outside on a sunny day, I set about with my scale, camera, pen and paper (yes, Virginia, people do still use pen and [...]

Its beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

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We’ve turned the corner to December, and for those of you feeling a little grinch-like at Christmas decorations in the stores in November, you can officially start feeling festive and enjoying yourself!

I know I promised the gluten-free bagel recipe, but am still double checking my measurements before putting the recipe out there for y’all.  In the [...]

A Sneak Peek!

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I’ve been working on gluten-free bagels for a little while now, and been stymied by the challenge of achieving that nice chewy bagel-ey texture that comes with traditional Montreal style bagels.  High protein bread flour and a long, slow, cool ferment all help create that unique texture, which I had thought nigh impossible to achieve with [...]

Asian Eggplant Salad Rolls (a drive-by recipe!)

errr… more like guidelines than a recipe.

Things have been pretty busy here, between cooking, baking and the new role I`ve taken on as one of a team of bloggers over at Foodie.ca (Go check it out, I`m doing blog posts on setting up a basic home bar and on getting started going gluten-free).

In the meantime, I [...]

Connecting from the Left Coast … and a contest!!!

It has been a while since my last blog post, but there have been quite a few things going on here chez Real Food Made Easy, including our regular roster of cooking and gluten-free baking, BUT, in the midst of all that, I was invited to attend a conference in Toronto called She’s Connected.

The conference was [...]