Tag Archive 'Almond flour'

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I was really excited to make these. The original recipe is by the delightful queen of clean, green, simple and brilliant recipes, Elana Amsterdam of Elana’s Pantry, who I had the pleasure of interviewing last Spring. Her recipes always inspire!

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Elana Amsterdam has inspired thousands with her brilliantly simple and inspiringly delicious gluten-free, low glycemic recipes. Without using any grains at all, Elana continues to offer recipes, advice and a way of living that promotes health, sweetness and simplicity. She is a talent to follow. We chatted baking, cooking, family, diets and life. Following the interview I wanted nothing more than to tie on my apron and get creating.

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An Italian Man/Basil Love Story, Part 1

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As soon as I sampled the treat that was the Strawberry Rhubarb Cake last week, I immediately began thinking of all the other ways I could use the moist and cakey base.  With local tomatoes and basil in abundance, I thought, Hey, why not take this cake to Italy and call it bread, or Tomasil [...]

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I won a contest! And this is very exciting as I never win anything.  No, I didn’t win first place, but a close second… or maybe third. Either way, I was up there! I was a runner up in a recipe contest for Crazy Sexy Life.  The contest was to submit a recipe that was [...]

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Tea-lightful Lemon Scones

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Before I begin the recipe post- Just want to remind you that the first Guess The Ingredient List contest ends Friday- so if you haven’t made your guess yet- get on that! I was calling the ladies tea that I hosted on Sunday ‘Tea and Crumpets’. Thankfully by the time everyone got here, saw the [...]

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Just Get Messy

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I make a mess in the kitchen. It’s half the fun  in my opinion. My mom hates when I get cooking in her kitchen for this very reason. I don’t know how I do it, or why it happens. It always starts off in a rather civilized way but by the end- there is flour [...]

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Breadless Bread

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When we think of bread, we usually think white-flour, water, yeast, and salt. Now if we were to take all those things away and create a moist, nutrient dense, high protein, low allergenic, sandwich friendly bread, well, we might just have a solution to all those ADD-type behaviour disorders that are equally prevalent in both [...]

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Am I going to too far with the whole ‘Making Love In The Kitchen’ themed posts? You should see the creepy search terms people put into google that land them on my site. I can only imagine how disappointed someone must be when they type in “grandma making love videos” and come upon silly me [...]

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Fruit Cakettes

When this photo (not the one above) appeared with a post I had written for The Appetizer, I sent my an email to my editor inquiring about the photo and what the little green bits were (in my nutrition naivete, I thought they were peas). I was informed that in the tradition of Christmas Fruitcake, [...]

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I was on the phone with my friend Vanessa, yesterday as I was pulling a fresh batch of cookies from the oven. She asked if I had a new and improved cookie recipe. Of course I do.  I love cookies and so over the last couple of years, my cookie recipe has evolved. I have [...]

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