Archive for September, 2010

Gluten-Free Fried Okra

Something about being gluten-free makes me crave foods I never ate or cooked regularly before I was gf. Fried foods definitely fall into that category! I do try to eat healthy and cook healthy for my family. But I am a Georgia peach and our okra plants produced great big okra…too big for pickling. And [...]

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Socca.. how I love thee!

I tried socca a while back but wasn’t overly thrilled with it, just kinda appeased that there was a bread-like substance about.  I obviously didn’t do a good job making it. Because now I’m in LOVE. When I went to Seattle last week, I made a pan.  And I cut the slices and made a [...]

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Salmon Sauté

So I went last week to Seattle on a business trip, and actually dreaded trying to navigate eating gluten-free.  I was very pleasantly surprised that there were options everywhere I went, even striking it lucky at an Italian joint that happened to have gluten-free pasta on hand. The best meal I had by far, however, [...]

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Vanilla Pears

Randomly my 7 year old was watching a cooking show the other night and asked for vanilla pears.  I had never heard of such, but was impressed she would ask for such a thing.  So on a Saturday morning I found myself at the market buying organic bourbon vanilla extract. And here’s my recipe:2 1/2 [...]

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