Caregiving from my kitchen
Sometimes I wonder how anyone ever came to eat rhubarb in the first place. It looks much like celery, but the outside is green to pink to red. (When you cut it, the inside is still green.) You can’t eat the leaves, which are toxic. …
Gingerbread waffles – gluten free, sugar free, but light and crisp, with the warm aroma of the gingerbread spice blend. Yes, I’m still on the gingerbread kick… I’d hoped to have actual gingerbread for Christmas this year, but I don’t think I’m going to …
Gluten Free Gingerbread Muffins.They’re sugar free, also, with a touch of sweetness from apples and tang from teff flour. Well, you see, I don’t eat gluten. And I don’t eat sugar. And sometimes it feels as if food in December is All About flour and …
When I was in my early 20s, I shared an apartment for a year with another young woman, who was a vegetarian. For a variety of reasons, I chose to join her in vegetarian cooking – she put no pressure on me to do so …
Last Spring, when I had the first indication that gluten might present a problem for me, my first challenge was to change my breakfast. I really hadn’t eaten very much bread – even my excellent homemade whole wheat bread – for years, but I ate …