Category: Recipes & Grocery Items

When you have to cook and don’t want to spend much time getting something ready. Tested by my own inept hands. If I can make these recipes, so can you! I also talk about cool gluten-free groceries that I’ve discovered.

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

Louise 0 June 20, 2016June 20, 2016

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 …

The Truffle Trend: Tricks of the Trade

Louise 2 June 13, 2016February 15, 2024

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 …

Eats Shoots and Leaves: A Post for Salad Haters

Louise 0 May 30, 2016May 30, 2016

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 …

Inside-Out Tacos that Rock!

Louise 0 May 9, 2016May 9, 2016

Get ready to start a Gluten-free, vegetarian, lower calorie/major flavor party in your mouth! Meatless Monday…we will rock you! Pre-diagnosis, Taco Bell was my go-to drive-thru: they would cheerfully vegetarianize any item with beans instead of beef, and the food was tasty, hot, quick, and inexpensive. I loved my Bean Buritos, Bean hard-shell tacos, Fries …

Earthy Mushroom Broth Risotto

Louise 2 May 2, 2016May 2, 2016

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 …

Smoked Salmon Tortellini in Boursin with Watercress

Louise 0 March 21, 2016March 21, 2016

Today was spent sorting through the boxes upon boxes of magazines, books, and general paper clutter in the house, as I am on a Minimalist Journey (I’ll probably touch on it sometime later). So much for a relaxing weekend. Anyhow, I was so beat that I was going to make salsa and chips for dinner, …

Simple Salsa

Louise 0 March 1, 2016April 3, 2016

Simple Salsa is my friend. It’s a fruit, it’s a vegetable (ok, technically it’s just a fruit because it has seeds, but don’t get all technical on me–the USDA considers it a vegetable so that’s good enough!) It’s savory and spicy and just everything good! It’s also always there for me, as my fridge is rarely without …