Parenthetical

Warm weather, Shakespeare on the Common… picnic time! I adore picnics. The trouble with them, though, is that everything has to be cold, and in my fridge I had primarily zucchini and eggplant — traditionally warm foods. Internets to the rescue! Inspired by this recipe from the NYTimes and this one from A Sweet Life, [...]

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…and am somewhat sorry. One of my Summer Projects is to get a handle on vegan and/or gluten-free baking. (Yes, I realize that summer in Boston is perhaps not the ideal time to turn on the oven ever, let alone on a weekly basis, but this is when I have free time. Insert inappropriate joke [...]

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This one isn’t GF (sorry, S!), nor is it vegan, but it is dairy-free. It also isn’t very good, so you aren’t missing out. I started with Heather Van Vorous’s Lemon-Glazed Sticky Bread recipe from Eating for IBS, and then heavily adapted it for my own purposes such that it is now an entirely new [...]

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Thanks to some health problems and the end of the school year, I’ve been a posting slacker. I promise to clean up the backlog soon, etc. etc. Anyway, my newly restricted diet plus S’s own dietary restrictions have led to some bold experiments in gluten-free, animal-fat-free (vegan with egg whites) cooking. Some have been successful. [...]

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My first attempt at a gluten-free pie was a fine success, if I do say so myself. I used the Flaky Pastry recipe from Rebecca Reilly’s Gluten-Free Baking, more or less: 1.5 c flour mix* 3 T sweet rice flour 2 tsp. sugar 1/4 tsp. salt 9 T cold butter, cut into cubes 1 large [...]

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