Tag: gluten

No, really, the heat is on. Or it could have been, but I restrained myself from touching the dial. It is COLD today in Rhode Island. Funny how this happens almost every year, and yet I’m never really quite prepared

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It’s here!  It’s finally here!  My beloved summer Farmer’s Market opens in just a little over a week, and I’m positively giddy about it (in case you couldn’t tell). Oh, I know it’s not going to have much to begin

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It’s January. It’s a new year.  It’s time for a change. Well, maybe not so much a change as a tweak.  I don’t do cleanses, detoxing, juice fasts, or anything like that.  I just try to listen to my body,

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What, you may be asking yourself, is a grizzly bar? Well, if you’re Davy Crockett, it’s just a big old animal that lives in the woods and had an unfortunate run-in with you when you were only three.  *Rim shot*

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You.  Guys. You don’t want to miss out on this stuff.  If there’s one holiday treat recipe that I’d say is darned near perfect for just about every occasion, this has to be it.  Fun nibble for a casual get-together? 

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Late in his life, my grandfather was diagnosed with celiac disease.  He took the news, and the subsequent dietary adjustment, quite well for someone who’d been eating wheat for sixty-odd years.  I rarely, if ever, heard him complain about it. 

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If you’ve hung around this blog for any length of time, you may know that about a year and a half ago (gosh, that long???  Really???), our family had to undertake a serious gluten-and-dairy-free challenge as part of evaluating L.’s

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In the past couple of days, I’ve gotten quite a number of requests for two recipes: my homemade chicken nuggets, and my spelt zucchini muffins.  Both of these items have shown up in L.’s first-week-of-first-grade lunches, which have been posted

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What do you do when you intend to make homemade pizza for dinner, but you TOTALLY FORGOT to defrost/make/purchase dough and there is just no time to fix the mistake? Well, you could punt entirely and make something else, it’s

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Let there be light! Light in the morning when I wake up…light in our backyard until well after we’ve called the boys in from playing to get ready for bed…a light at the end of the long, dark tunnel that

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