a love letter to her mama
You could never have convinced me, when I was 16, that I would one day be writing this piece. Of course, back then I had memorized the name and spelling of every muscle nerve and tendon…
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how to make gluten-free gravy for Thanksgiving
Good gravy! (Forgive me for the terrible pun right off the mark. I’m a little exhausted with all this Thanksgiving posting.) From the frantic questions on email and the huge increase of hits to this…
how to make gluten-free stuffing for Thanksgiving
Stuffing. Raise your hand if hot stuffing covered in gravy is your favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal. (Raises hand.) Find some gluten-free bread, follow the technique you see in this video and you will…
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…
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…
gluten-free cornbread for Thanksgiving
Cornbread. It’s delightful. And you need a good gluten-free cornbread to make cornbread stuffing (or do you call it dressing?) for Thanksgiving next week. Here’s how to make it. A few years ago, we gave you a…
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…
letting her fly.
This is our girl. Our Lucy girl. Lucy turned four this summer, a summer of laughter and splashing in the pool every day, a summer of long days playing in the yard, evenings at the beach,…
gluten-free in airports
When the airplane’s wheels left the land, I looked over to see Lu’s eyes wide. Danny and I both smiled. She has been on a lot of airplane trips, this kid, but not in awhile.…