still here
Eight years ago today, I opened up a new blogger page, chose green for the header, and picked out a blog name. Gluten-Free Girl. My friend Dorothy named me Gluten-Free Girl because she had been…
Desserts
Shipoopi! Shipoopi! Shipoopi!
“Say MAP!” Anyone who has a small child in the United States probably recognizes that line. And you probably started wincing, just hearing the sound of it in your head. I hate Dora. Yes, I know. Hate…
gluten-free chocolate cake
Back in 1994, I taught this singular young man. Nearly everyone I taught on this little rural island was singular. Vashon breeds eclectic kids, full of quirks and talents, whether it’s mud bogging in the…
grain-free doughnuts
I love the community that gathers around food, whether it’s our family of three at the dinner table every evening, or a picnic with friends in a park crowded with sunshine and other people, or…
gluten-free chocolate bundt cake
How can you not love someone whose name is Joy the Baker? That’s what she is — Joy. Yes, her name is Joy, but I mean more than that. Joy Wilson is sunlight and goofiness,…
gluten-free brownies
Brownies seem pretty simple, right? They’re flat, they taste of chocolate, they satisfy a quick urging for a weeknight dessert. How hard could they be? Let me tell you, people, there are no end to discussions…
fresh pumpkin pie, gluten-free
It’s pumpkin pie time. Pretty much, it’s always pie time around here. I love making pie enough that I was asked to speak at a performance art/pie contest event called PIE STORIES last weekend. Pie stories.…
gluten-free glazed yeast doughnuts
These are doughnuts. Yeasted doughnuts with a honey glaze, to be exact. They are light with a little heft, sweet but not too sweet, and have the feel and smell and taste of doughnuts. That’s because they…
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…
gluten-free strawberry shortcake
I’m in the middle of strawberry swooning season. It happens every year. We wait all year long, patiently, and then not so patiently, for real strawberries to appear at the farmstands here. From the fall…