Gluten Freebird

My favorite find in New York was Babycakes, a vegan, wheat-free, sugar-free bakery on the Lower East Side that specializes in gluten-free goods. The little shop is darling. It looks like a retro bakeshop with darling uniforms, rows and rows of cupcakes, and frosting shots.
They don’t exclusively do gluten-free, but they have separate cooking facilities [...]

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I trekked up to New York for work this week. New York may be hot, busy, and gritty, but it’s also a gluten-free mecca. I started plotting my meal plan ages ago and boy did it work out nicely.
Gluteneer and I finished up the cleanse with a rocking gluttonous affair on Friday night. There was [...]

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With this summer vegan stint, I’ve been loving on Veganomicon, a vegan tome that I gave to Gluteneer for Christmas last year. (Ironically, he also received a three-month subscription to bacon-of-the-month club, but I digress.) The book is a fantasyland of recipes, offering preparations of chickpeas, tempeh, forbidden seitan and fresh fruit and veggies.
We rounded [...]

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One of the hardest things with gluten-free cooking has been finding suitable alternatives for my baking. There are no easy substitutes when baking without gluten. Cookies come through without too many major issues, but cakes can be dry and, as I just discovered, pie crusts are nearly impossible.
Last weekend (before THE CLEANSE), Gluteneer and [...]

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Saturday was one of those glorious, warm, breezy summer days where people inexplicably fly kites off the apartment building roof and fireflies seem to light up everywhere.
We took advantage of the twilight with a dinner picnic in Kalorama Park. Friends brought fresh fruit, chicken salad, hummus and veggies.
Gluteneer and I are still defying the [...]

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Yesterday’s CSA offered apricots, gorgeous jewel-toned plums, squash, and red chard. I ate one plum before I even made it to the car, but the red chard was the base for last night’s dinner. We made a tangy, sweet, and spicy dish of chard with chickpeas. You could sub in any chard or even collards. [...]

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With our CSA and tons of fresh produce (gooseberries, peaches, and cherries, oh my!), this is my favorite time of year to eat. I could subsist on farmers market fare and nothing else.
Soo, when I read about Oprah’s 21-day cleanse, a lightbulb went off. Oprah’s diet was a three-week course to remove toxins. When [...]

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