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Sunday, April 13, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Gluten Free Picnic Recipes Karinas Faves
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| Easy, easy! Grilled veggies for gluten-free pasta salad. |
Despite the rain and chill (here in northwest Connecticut) the summer kick-off weekend is here Darling. Let the picnics and grilling begin. June is nigh. 'Tis the season for dining alfresco. From a casual backyard family get-together to post-graduation parties, it's time to celebrate. And time for a little romance- a picnic in the park, a sunset dinner at the beach, feeding each other beneath the stars.
So air out those picnic blankets, blow the winter dust off your beach chairs and wire brush that grill. I've got some fabulous Gluten-Free Goddess® recipes for you. My best top
May you enjoy a meaningful Memorial Day, defined by love, gratitude, and the support of family and friends.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
GLuten Free Blueberry Corn Muffins
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| Summery, fresh blueberry corn muffins- gluten-free. |
August is fast approaching. I am trying not to think about it. I am baking blueberry corn muffins. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Or so I'm told. I am constructing my best defense to put off thinking about hauling our ocean-loving selves back to the dusty stoic hills of Ojo Caliente- 913 miles away from my sons, 915 miles from the sea.
Anyone out there want to buy a charming casita with mesa sunset views? Two kiva fireplaces. Saltillo tile floors. Vigas. All the rustic Southwest vibe you could ask for. Price reduced (thrice). To less than what we paid for it.
I don't pretend to understand the bigger picture, the honking beast of our lumbering economy. I'm no good at math- even when the economy is not melting down, humming along to its own sweet tune, nevermind comprehending the intricate ins and outs and ups and downs of depression economics and the breathtaking depths of Wall Street greed and extra sensitive interest rates that pout and pose and tease like strippers sending brokers into sweating Xanax popping frenzy. Not to mention, I cannot wrap my poetic visual brain around those epic taxpayer funded Wall Street buy-outs.
I'm an artist. I have always lived by the seat of my pants, without health insurance, without an IRA. I don't live by a plan. I live by intuition. Inspiration. I play with paint (not a skill valued by many people in our big screen spectacle loving culture). So I probably shouldn't have become a home owner. It was probably my fault. I should have known better. I've learned my lesson. I'm letting go. I'm saying no to mortgages. For now.
And I'm baking muffins.
I'm trying to practice my best Zen-Lebowski detachment
(the waves help). And yeah. We still have three weeks. Miracles happen.
And I'm baking muffins.
I'm trying to practice my best Zen-Lebowski detachment
(the waves help). And yeah. We still have three weeks. Miracles happen.As always?
I'm hoping for the best.
I'm hoping for the best.
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Vegan Spiced Toffee Cake Recipe Egg free Gluten free Recipe
If you bake my vegan spiced toffee cake recipe once I guarantee that you will be baking it again for sure.
You best grab a piece of this tasty toffee cake before everybody else eats it all up!
This is an egg free toffee cake recipe a gluten free toffee cake recipe and it is fully vegan.
I use a combination of individual sweet spices but you can use a ready made sweet spice blend if the spices I use are not available to you.
The use of both dates and dried apricots add to the toffee flavour of the cake, when dates and apricots cook the texture of the fruit becomes soft and the flavour is very much of toffee. I use unsulphured apricots which are darker in colour and more rich in flavour.
Once my cake is cooked I insert a skewer into the cake and spread a thick layer of my dairy free toffee sauce all over the cake.
This spiced toffee cake is so more-ish, I slice the cake up into squares and it is not long before there is only cake crumbs left over on the plate.
Ingredients for Vegan Spiced Toffee Cake Recipe
5 oz Rice flour
2 oz Light brown Sugar
3 oz Dried apricots (chopped)
2 oz Dried dates (chopped)
2 oz Sunflower margarine
100ml Hot water
1/4 tsp Aniseed powder
1/4 tsp Cinnamon powder
Pinch Mace
Pinch Ground cloves
1 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp Bi carbonate of soda
1 tsp Vanilla extract
2 oz Ground almonds
2 Tbsp Flax seeds
4 Tbsp Hot water
Chef Jeenas Vegan dariy free toffee sauce
How to make Jeenas Kitchen Vegan Spiced Toffee Cake
Soak the dried fruit in the hot water.
Grind the flax seeds to a powder. Mix flax seed powder and 4 tablespoons of hot water together and leave for a few minutes.
In a large mixing bowl mix margarine, sugar and flax seed binder together very well.
Add all of the dried ingredients and vanilla, mix very well.
Add the dried dates and apricots along with all of the water used to soak the fruit.
Pour into a greased and floured square cake tin. Place into a hot oven at 200C for 30-40 minutes or until golden and a skewer comes out clean.
Leave to cool slightly then cool on a wire cooling rack. Take a skewer and poke holes into the cake, only insert the skewer half way into the cake, do this all over the cake.
Spread generously with my vegan toffee sauce. You want the sauce to seep into all of the holes and cracks on the cake.
Once fully cooled and ready to served spread with a thick layer of my dairy free toffee sauce.
Enjoy Chef Jeenas vegan and gluten free toffee cake recipe.
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Sunday, February 23, 2014
Gluten Free Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
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| Gluten-free strawberry rhubarb crisp with a tangy twist. |
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
When I was a little girl my favorite way to eat rhubarb was to snap off a stick in the back yard, run into the kitchen and dip the end into the sugar bowl, repeating the dipping process as needed to coat each tart and chewy bite with granular sweetness. In a post-Seinfeld
world I risk being labeled a dreaded double dipper. And I admit up front, it's true.I double dipped and triple dipped and lived to tell the tale.
Beyond childhood I never bothered much with rhubarb, except for tasting the occasional strawberry rhubarb crisp at someone else's family picnic. I was never much a fan of it cooked. Stewing and baking seemed to rob it of its charms, mocking my memory of those sugar coated crisp and sour stalks. The mush in the bottom of all those Pyrex baking pans was a sorry excuse for rhubarb, I thought. So recreating a rhubarb crisp recipe for living gluten-free was never glowing brightly on my cooking radar screen. It was never even the faintest of blips. I've been blogging for four rhubarb seasons now and haven't felt inspired to develop a recipe. Until now.
Why now, I've no idea. Perhaps it's because we're stuck out here in the desert, with nary a garden or bursting rhubarb patch in sight. Just rolling hills of crusty earth studded with brittle pinon and juniper trees, the oddball cholla, or tuft of tenacious sage. The words green and leafy don't exactly come to mind when you walk the dirt road to the arroyo.
So when I spotted a few lonely stalks of rhubarb in a basket at Whole Foods in Santa Fe- ruby red and sexy in their glistening rhubarb goodness- I thought, Why not attempt a strawberry rhubarb crisp recipe?
And because I'd asked myself out loud my husband said, You do realize you just asked three stalks of rhubarb if you should make them into a crisp?
Well, yeah, I shrugged back. I talk to my fruit.
Don't you?
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
Gluten Free Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
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| Crunchy golden gluten-free oatmeal cookies. |
Spectacular! Spectacular!
No words in the vernacular. In all my six-plus seven-plus eight-plus years of living gluten-free, this is the tastiest damn cookie yet. And- lucky for those of us living also dairy-free and egg-free- it's a vegan recipe, to boot.
No words in the vernacular. In all my After combing through all my pre-GF cookbooks this weekend to find some baking inspiration I decided to create a gluten-free egg-free version of a classic oatmeal raisin cookie. And Babycakes, am I glad I did. This bumpy crunchy golden cookie is pleasantly crisp on the outside with a hint of chewiness in the center. After two days stored in the fridge (tightly wrapped) the cookie is still quite good. Your tenacious gluten-free goddess is one happy camper.
With cookie crumbs dotting her keyboard.
With cookie crumbs dotting her keyboard.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Gluten Free Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Cinnamon apple goodness- gluten-free.
A classic fall favorite- the pairing of apples and cinnamon. Stir them together in a muffin batter and you have a sweet and cozy breakfast treat that is not only heart warming and soul satisfying but super easy to wrap and freeze. That is, if you don't eat every single morsel first. These little gems would be a fabulous side nosh for Thanksgiving brunch- or a casual supper of Curried Butternut Soup.
It's a gray flannel sky kind of day here in the high desert. Chilly and damp. Steve is watching The Great Escape as I nibble on a warm apple muffin. It's been a historic week. I am still re-viewing on-line videos of our President-Elect with gratitude and awe, thankful that hope, grace and smarts prevailed despite the ugly drumbeat of fear, fueled by prejudice and the age old tactic of scapegoating and button-pushing, appealing, of course, to the lower instincts of our reptilian past. The old and rusty paradigm is giving birth to the new on a collective level. And I feel it in my bones and in the air that I breathe.
I am grateful. Hopeful. And eager to greet change.
It's all good.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Sweet Potato Cornbread A Gluten Free Favorite
Scrumptious sweet potato cornbread- and it's gluten-free.
It's all about taste. Good taste and bad taste. You want the good first? This recipe for sweet potato cornbread. It rocks. Seriously. The bad? Yesterday we decided to go to the movies with Joey and Will (those two totally fab rockin' guacamole styling hunks). We chose The Departed
, Scorsese's new flick (it's been garnering rave reviews); and met at the theater.
, Scorsese's new flick (it's been garnering rave reviews); and met at the theater.Well, Babycakes, in all gut wrenching honesty (I won’t speak for the three men who apparently liked it more than I did) I could barely sit through it. I felt as if I was being beat up. Run over by a Zamboni. I mean how much misogyny and homophobia and execution-style murders can a tenderhearted sensory sensitive girl like me take?
Not this much it turns out.
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