Tag: gluten free

Urban Gardening Vegetables – The Balcony Nanofarm

My massage therapist and I discussed the Grow Your Own Food movement (it seems to be a popular topic.) He shared that he loves balcony gardening vegetables!  In general (and compared to the average grocery store veggies), we both emphatically agreed: Yes, we preferred the flavor of our own fresh-picked ones better. As I lay on …

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Homesteading For The Inept: Fake Flash-Freezing

My especially talented sister Elin is an amazing urban homesteader who has been freezing vegetables for years! As a matter of fact, she’s written all sorts of foodie posts on her blog, including about hot water bath canning the season’s harvest. You know, for a little taste of summer in the dead of winter.  Accordingly, she’s …

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Gluten-Free Taco Bell Canada! 

Were Taco Bell’s vegetarian options your drive-thru go-to before you got your Celiac diagnosis? If so, I come bearing tidings of great joy! Ok, maybe not in a totally Biblical sense–but pretty close. But here you are: there are gluten-free options there! ImmusanT not to the rescue at this time Had you been following the …

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Toronto:  Off The Hook Fish & Chips

What’s this?! A title picture of a plate of clearly deep-fried, battered fish and chips? Have I finally lost my patience and sanity with having to be constantly gluten-free and gluten-vigilant, and decided to trash my intestines in a huge gastronomic temper tantrum? Why, no…not at all 🙂 I have discovered deep fried pescatarian heaven. …

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Don’t Trash It: Homemade Scrap-Bag Vegetable Stock

All about how to make homemade vegetable stock or broth from months of saved veggie scraps. You know how people either composted their vegetable scraps or threw them in the trash?  I’ve got a much better and tastier idea:  Scrap-Bag stock, made from said scraps.  The best parts are that a) it’s pretty much free, …

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Eat Your Words: Crispy Baked Salt and Pepper Smoked Tofu with Cilantro Jalepeño Sauce

You know when people quit smoking or find religion or whatever behavior or lifestyle change they’ve made,  and then become this completely annoying person that’s out to convert everyone else? That’s me with tofu. I’m a former tofu hater. Like, big time. All I knew about tofu is that my parents poured ginger syrup over …

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The Truffle Trend: Tricks of the Trade

Since Celiacs  mainly eat junk food made with potatoes, corn, or rice flour, the taste and flavor profiles can get pretty same-old/same-old after a while. The two guilty pleaures that never get old?  Fresh, hot popcorn and crispy frites! A good friend of mine (who was a major foodie) recommended that I go to a …

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Eats Shoots and Leaves: A Post for Salad Haters

This isn’t a post to lecture you on why you should use  correct punctuation (although I’d prefer if you did). It’s about, well…eating shoots and leaves. We all know that eating salad is good for us, and that as mature adults we should eat salad frequently for fiber, nutrients, and all that kind of good …

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Earthy Mushroom Broth Risotto

It’s no secret that I’m no slave to the stove. I’m generally capable of about  five, maybe 10 minutes of heating edibles when I’m so over the concept of food not made by others. My mother once said to me, bluntly, that she never figured me to become an avid chef.  And she’s right. But …

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SoLo: Low Calorie/Low Glycemic Meal Bars That Don’t Suck

***Sad Update:  This product is no longer available. Are you a Celiac that loooves cooking, and makes each and every one of your meals with delicious, organic, from-scratch ingredients, turning recipes into fabulous, gourmet creations? Awesome. Leave your week’s menu in the comments, and I’ll put my order in with you. If not, chances are …

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