Lentil Soup

A quick lentil soup that is hearty enough for dinner!  While you can use plain brown lentils for this, do try and get the French Lentils (Lentils de Puy).  They have a richer flavour, and have a slightly firmer texture than the brown ones.  They look like beautiful little speckled stones in their uncooked [...]

Cinnamon buns that roll!

I’ve been on a quest for a tasty gluten-free cinnamon bun for a while now, and come across recipes that achieve cinnamon bun flavour, but use a dough that is so wet that you have to bake them in muffin pans.  When you are hankering for a cinnamon bun, you really want those layers of dough, [...]

Gingerbread Houses: post-modern style

The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes.

This one was actually [...]

Gluten-free Vegan Brownies

It all began with a tweet from Karina over at the Karina’s Kitchen, who was getting frustrated trying to come up with a tasty brownie that didn’t rely on eggs.  As she mentioned, who knew the brownie was so reliant on the egg!

A quick whirl around the interwebz will reveal lots of brownie recipes, but nary [...]

Winter Solstice Cocktail

So here we sit in front of the fire, on the longest night of the year, Winter Solstice.  It seemed only fitting that there should be a cocktail to celebrate the day (ok, we’re doing some pretty serious relaxing here Chez Real Food Made Easy!)

I was initially inspired to use a good Canadian Whiskey, seeing as [...]