A Cocktail-Related Public Service Annoucement!

We recently decided to rebrand our bitters and cocktail-related activities under the name “House Made”, and will be moving our cocktail focussed blog posts and recipes over to our new website housemade.ca !!!

These are exciting times for us, and we’ve been busy working on getting the new website up and running (consequently running a little behind [...]

Gluten-free Wild Yeast Baguette and Boule

As you know, I`ve been playing around here with Dr. Jean Layton`s gluten-free sourdough flour blend, creating a starter with honest-to-goodness Vancouver Island wild yeast — it`s been a fun few months of mucking around creating various starters, finding Dr. Jean`s flour blend, and then exploring the many things you can do with it!

I was also [...]

Gluten-free Bread #1 with Dr. Jean Layton’s flour mix

Last post, I teased you with a pic of the fail loaf, with the promise of the Success Loaf to come!

So I’m starting by sharing some of the non-sourdough experimenting I’ve been doing with this flour blend that Dr. Jean Layton has come up with for her sourdough feeder. As she mentions in her post, [...]

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 [...]

Pork Tenderloin stuffed with Spiced Quinoa and Peaches

Following up on my last blog post, I’ve submitted a recipe to the Maple Leaf contest and some of you have started voting on it.  But I thought I would put a printer-friendly recipe up for those of you interested in making it.

This recipe is gluten-free, and while it looks like it contains a few steps, [...]