Gluten-free

Recipe: Gluten-Free Macaroons

December 15, 2011

As a food writer, I’ve dabbled in the gluten-free world. I’ve bought guar gum and xantham, various rice flours, teff, sorghum and nutmeals. They’re taking up a lot of room in my spiffy new pantry along with the gluten-loaded all-purpose, whole wheat, cake & pastry, bread and unbleached flours. Since everyone in my house can [...]

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Two Quick and Easy Apple Recipes

October 1, 2009

It’s been quite the week. Over the weekend I co-hosted a 24-hour playwriting contest for the playwright development centre I’m involved with. While my co-host and I ensured the entrants never ran out of coffee or junk food, a dozen writers pounded out scripts on laptops in the Rotunda of Kitchener City Hall — under [...]

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Raspberry Lassi

July 28, 2009

I know I shouldn’t post information like this, but I am not a Breakfast Eater. Please, don’t tell me breakfast is The Most Important Meal of the Day. I have read the reports and do not need to be reminded Breakfast Eaters consume fewer calories throughout the day, snack less, have fewer cravings and, if [...]

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Dry Rubs — French Kiss

May 20, 2009

This is how dry rub should be. Sure it looks a bit like potpourri, but this Mediterranean-inspired rub proved to be so tasty it nearly convinced Andrew to like lamb — something I’ve been trying to do for almost a decade. Ever since I nearly smoked us out of the house pan-searing a steak slathered [...]

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Quinoa for the King of Salmon

April 17, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, I posted one of the most challenging reader questions to date. What do you feed a multi-generational family where one person is on a gluten-free, dairy-free diet and another must eat low-GI foods but no root vegetables? Oh yes, lean pork, chicken or turkey only. No beef or high-fat luncheon [...]

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Homemade Yogurt

February 5, 2009

My supermarket infuriates me. I’d just recently given them a brownie point for finally stocking locally grown garlic instead of the ubiquitous, dried out, flavourless bulbs from China. And now I’m taking it right back again for never having my favourite plain organic yogurt in stock. Trip after trip, I encounter shelf upon refrigerated shelf [...]

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