Flops

Smoked Salmon Pâté

June 13, 2010

I don’t usually write about my failures in the kitchen – after all, who wants to try a recipe that didn’t work?  However, at the risk of sounding cliché, I’m learning the slow lesson that life is not always about the end result, but about the process that one went through to get there. Our [...]

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NY Style Sun-Dried Tomato Bagels, Gluten Free

June 9, 2010

Yes, you read the title right.  Bagels.  Gluten free bagels.  Until last week the idea had crossed my mind a few times, and all I could picture are those kinds that come frozen in a bag that you have to microwave to defrost at which point they become a bit mushy for my taste.  My [...]

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Pear Tart and a Gluten Free Puff Pastry Attempt

December 18, 2009

Puff pastry seems like it should be easy to adapt to be gluten free.  After all, the gluten isn’t involved in the “puffing”, all that work is done by the layers of butter within the dough and the steam pockets that arise because of it while baking.    However, searching online yields very limited results [...]

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DC #8 – "En Croute" Two Ways

December 13, 2009

The 2009 Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Simone of Junglefrog Cooking. Simone chose Salmon en Croute (or alternative recipes for Beef Wellington or Vegetable en Croute) from Good Food Online. Now this month was a serious challenge!!  I had to do it twice to get something even remotely similar to the original intent, and even then [...]

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GF Cookie Cake

August 23, 2009

After my last flop trying to make GF cookies, I decided I was not meant to develop my own cookie recipes and went with one that came out of a cookbook.  I changed it up a little bit by adding in almond extract instead of vanilla, and threw in some cinnamon.  I also used maybe [...]

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GF Stromboli…er Pizza roll Ups

August 20, 2009

So after our amazing GF pizza success, I decided we could try a stromboli.  This is apparently something that my father has been wanting me to try, haha.  Every time I talk to him about my food blog he asks, “Have you figured out a stromboli yet?”  Well, stromboli did not work out quite as [...]

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