Tag: Gluten Free

Baked Goodies, Home Made Cooking

Delicious Baked Brown Rice and Vegetable Falafel

Do you like Falafel? I love it!! So imagine how happy I was when this next recipe turned just right! One taste was enough for me to understand that what it’s missing is a good fresh pita with chopped salad and tahini sauce, just perfect. Growing up in a place where falafel can be found […]

Cakes and Cookies

Moist Quinoa Chocolate Muffins With Chocolate Ganache

When I opened my fridge yesterday I was pleased. Most of the leftovers were gone and the fridge was almost ready to be re-filled with food. The only leftover in it was a container with cooked red quinoa in it. After discovering a few days earlier, that cooked quinoa can be used in baked goods, […]

Maple Cornbread
Baked Goodies

Maple Cornbread Loaf

Once in a while I get to receive products from different brands. Sometimes all I am required to do is try them out, sometimes I’m using the product in a recipe, sometimes it’s a review or feedback and sometimes, like in this instance I’m just looking for something to go really well with the product. […]

Gluten Free Bell Peppers and Goat Cheese Corn Muffins
Baked Goodies

Gluten Free Bell Peppers and Goat Cheese Corn Muffins

I would like to start this post with a rant and go ahead and say it: I don’t like preparing the kids’ lunchboxes! not on a daily basis. Does this make me an awful mom? I hope not. I guess I’m the only one to blame. I have such high expectations and standards I set […]

Gluten Free Baked Vegetable Latkes
Baked Goodies, Home Made Cooking

Gluten Free Baked Vegetable Latkes

It’s Hanukkah, the festival of lights, the celebration of fried foods, children’s joy and weight watcher’s worst nightmare. Yup, it is, by far, the best. holiday. ever! Some people love Hanukkah for the jelly doughnuts, some for the candle lights, some for the songs and some for the time off. Me? I love Hanukkah because […]

Chocolate Pumpkin Seed Bites
Cakes and Cookies

Gluten Free Chocolate Pumpkin Seed Bites

When I think spring I think nature, sun, flowers, blossom, fresh, life, new and much more. But then I look out the window here in Halifax and I can’t help but thinking gray, rain, wet and windy.  No, I’m not pessimistic by nature, don’t get me wrong but seriously, how many sunless days can one […]

Cakes and Cookies

Lava Chocolate Cakes from Chef Michael Smith – Sweet, Impressive and Gluten Free

It’s May. It’s spring. And for the past few days it’s been gorgeous! I must admit that there are days when I’m sitting in my office at work, looking out the window and wondering if we’re not missing out on too much in life. Not that trip overseas, not that final sale at the mall […]

Mamaliga topped with Shiitake Mushrooms
Home Made Cooking

Mamaliga with Shiitake Mushrooms – That Yellow Goodness

Directly from Wikipedia: Mămăligă is a porridge made out of yellow maize flour, traditional in Romania and Moldova. It is similar to the Italian polenta. It so happened that I am apparently the luckiest girl in the world when it comes to Mamaliga. My dad is from Moldova and my in-laws are from Romania, how […]