Just Baking

In the March edition of Foods Matter, a magazine for food allergies and intolerances, Lucinda Bruce Gardyne shares a very detailed article on ‘Making gluten-free bread.’  Lucinda is a skilled ‘special-diet’ cook – see her new book, How to Cook for Food Allergies - but her speciality is in fact, making gluten-free bread.  Though you will […]

Chocolate in our household is a staple, not a luxury.  It seems like my husband needs hourly fixes of bite-sized dark chocolate, or simply a handful of chocolate chips.  In the past I have purchased him an assortment of chocolate for special occasions, but it really isn’t met with much enthusiasm, to him, chocolate is […]

My husband and I spent the holidays in British Columbia with his family.  Every day of the visit we would make our pilgrimage to the Whole Foods (a whopping ¼ mile from his parents house) for a jumbo muffin with tea.  Now, the muffins in Vancouver are quite unlike those we see at Whole Foods […]

This year Thanksgiving was at my grandmother’s house, an intimate affair of close family prepared potluck style.  My aunt and grandmother spent the morning preparing the turkey, two types of wonderful homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes, and green beans.  My parents brought salads and finger-foods, some family friends prepared their delicious Hawaiian yams, and I was called […]

Following the lead of the ginger-spiked chocolate chip cookie recipe I created for my birthday, I snuck some crystalized ginger into a Molasses Cookie recipe I was trialing out.  The recipe was amazingly vegan (dairy-free, egg-free) and oddly enough, didn’t call for any ginger.  Knowing how well ginger goes with molasses, I thought this would be the […]

They had an awesome sale on bananas this past weekend at a Grand Opening Albertson’s sale, just 25 cents per pound, so it was time to stock up!  Bananas are a mainstay in my smoothies, which gives me an excuse to buy … oh … about eight pounds of them.  I sliced them up, flash […]

I went a bit nuts for the The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook (which is actually nut-free by the way), as well evidenced by the book review and blog post I put up within one week.  Mixing home-style and gourmet, this cookbook is more about good (real) food than any sort of special diet.
Of course, my favorite […]

This week was my father’s birthday, and of course I felt the duty and delight to bake something for him!  However, like myself, he isn’t a big cake fan.  With limited time on my hands, a pie sounded like a large endeavor.  Then I remembered one of his favorite desserts, oatmeal raisin cookies.  While in […]

When I returned to a dairy-free lifestyle, I scoured the Internet for recipes and ideas, as I am certain many people do.  Yet, there was one cookbook that seemed to appear with almost every search, The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook.  While intrigued by the title, I have never missed cheese much, so it was filed away […]

While I am by no means a chocoholic, forsaking all things chocolate flavored for their vanilla cousins, I do have a huge weakness for those little chips.  Of course, the chocolate chip itself is merely a piece of candy without a proper medium.  For myself, the perfect chocolate chip cookie is thick, soft, and chewy. 
I […]