whatever you worship
This weekend there was a wide green lawn with dozens and dozens of small children, delighting in finding the plastic pastel-colored eggs hidden in the grass. There was a buffet lunch with the family on…
Dairy-Free
where we shop
There’s a lovely little place, about a 20-minute walk from our house, where I want to visit every day. Sure, I love the craggy rock beaches on Vashon, the deep green forests, the tall beach…
brussels sprouts, three ways
Brussels sprouts are much maligned, for only one reason. Most of us have eaten brussels sprouts overcooked to the point of being grey, thrown into hot water and boiled to death. It’s easy to forget…
butternut squash soup for Thanksgiving, gluten-free
This butternut squash soup shimmers with a bit of pear cider, a taste of sage, and the depth of roasted vegetables. It works any day of the fall you feel like eating it, but it…
Easy Gluten-Free Appetizers for Thanksgiving
(Our Gluten-Free Thanksgiving iPad app is live! Go to GFThanks.com and click on the Apple Store link to purchase this app. Thank you!) Is your family going to be with you all of Thanksgiving Day? Will…
roasted orange sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving
I adore sweet potatoes. But those sweet potatoes we ate when I was a kid? (And perhaps you did too?) The canned sweet potatoes baked with brown sugar and marshmallows, an ooey-gooey mess that hardly…
how to make cranberry chutney for Thanksgiving
We’ve all eaten that cranberry sauce out of a can, I’m guessing. You know the stuff. The solid gelatinous red stuff, the one with the indentations of the can on the side, the one that’s…
play and play and play
I’ve been playing a lot lately. When Lucy is home, she mostly wants to play hide and seek with me. (And with her daddy when he is home. That’s a fine game.) Generally, she doesn’t quite…
smoked paprika-chipotle sauce
It started innocently enough. A few weeks ago, we had a picnic at the beach. Some good friends decided that the summer ending called for a little gathering. Three moms, one dad, and a bunch…
peanut butter pie, gluten-free
Today, all over the world, people are making a pie for Jennifer Perillo’s Mikey. We made one yesterday, so we could freeze it, take it on the airplane for our trip to Utah, and eat…