Gluten Free Desserts: Halloween Cake Pops

The weather is beginning to turn. The mornings are cooler and the leaves are starting to change color on my grape vines and peach trees. We just pulled out all our summer vegetables and flowers and are preparing the garden for our winter season. We’ve always enjoyed Halloween. Every year, the kids and I would go to…

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Gluten Free Cupcakes for Halloween

The weather has started to turn a little bit here. Seems the 100 plus temps have taken a break and now the lower 90 temps have moved in. Hey! That’s better than 107! We really won’t see the lower 80’s for at least another month. That’s the fun of living in the southwest deserts. Because…

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Review: Kitchen Pans Swiss Diamond

How many non-stick pans have lost their non-stick coating? How many have you had to throw out? How many have had that wonderful coating that is not good for you? Are you afraid to try non-stick anymore? You need to take a second look at the new generation of non-stick pans. You will want to…

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Gluten Free Recipes: Easy Orange Ginger Chicken

Life just seems to get busier and busier. I want to put a good meal on the table for dinner, but how and when and who has time to slave over anything these days. Not me! So here’s to easy gluten free recipes! Time to turn to one of your handiest gadgets in your kitchen.…

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Gluten Free Recipes: Pork or Vegetable Nachos

I just adore Mexican food of all types. Enchiladas, fajitas, tacos, tamales, spanish rice, refried beans, chicken tortilla soup, flan, the list goes on and on. It’s all yummy and pretty much uses gluten free ingredients. When you order nachos here, you don’t get just tortilla chips smothered in cheese. These things are enough to…

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Gluten Free Recipes: Make Your Own Salsa

Every year we go to the U-Pick farm for vine ripe tomatoes. I gave some extras I had to my mom. She thanked me and said it had been a long time since she had a tomato that tasted like a tomato (she grew up on a farm). By canning your own tomatoes, you pack…

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Gluten Free Desserts: Peach Rice Pudding

I love going to the U-Pick farms where I live. Wandering down the dirt paths between rows and rows of peach trees where the fruit is inches away from your face and the fresh peachy smell makes you swoon.  That’s when the picking frenzy hits you and you end up with 5 huge buckets of…

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Gluten Free Tropical Homemade Granola

Fresh baked homemade granola just out of the oven. The vultures start circling after the first 30 minutes and keep coming back until it I finally pull it out and say, OK it’s done! Out come the bowls and within 4 days the oven is cranked up again for a new batch. It’s that good.…

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GIG Convention Florida

Gluten Free Convention I was honored to be able to attend the GIG convention in Kissimmee Florida last week. The weather cooperated by not raining down on our heads!  I enjoyed talking with fellow gluten free foodies out there! I met and talked with Vanessa Weisbord,editor of Delight Gluten Free Magazine. She and her staff are…

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Gluten Free Jam: Homemade Apple Pie Jam

This is like capturing your favorite apple pie in a jar. Make this gluten free jam any time of year, but especially in the fall when so many varieties of apples are available. You can pick and choose your favorites. Then get cooking!   Gluten Free Apple Pie Jam 4 cups, peeled,cored and chopped apples…

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