Our favorite gluten-free chili- hearty winter comfort. FADE IN: INT. 5TH FLOOR APARTMENT – DAY A chilly winter light slices into a SANTA MONICA apartment and illuminates every cobweb. (Obviously, a certain individual has been neglecting house work again). Said individual sighs audibly. Glances sideways into the mirror hanging above the kitchen sink cluttered with coffee spoons, grilled Hi there! This is a short summary only. Visit Gluten-Free... 

3X3FZ8T3VA9W Top ten gluten-free recipe favorites As the first decade of the new millennium chugs to a long slow finish like the spunky little engine that could, top ten lists are sprouting up everywhere. Top ten movies, top ten playlists. Which begs the burning question for celiac survivors. Hello! Where is our own gluten-free top ten list? Where is our shining and sparkly Top Ten Gluten-Free [This is a short summary only. Visit Karina’s... 

A cranberry apple cake for the holidays From the recipe archives with a few edits and notes. No philosophy today. Dust off your cake pan and rustle up some apples and cranberries. Here is a moist and tender apple cake laced with a hint of cinnamon and studded with fresh tart berries. After seven eight years of baking various gluten-free incarnations of my tried and true Jewish apple cake [This is a short summary only. Visit Gluten-Free Goddess at... 

A gluten-free chicken soup to cure all ills We’ve been living on soup since Sunday. No, not turkey leftovers soup. Jewish penicillin soup. You see, Steve- that ordinarily upbeat and tenacious husband of mine- has been feeling a tad under the weather these past few days. In truth, more than a tad. He’s caught a nasty cold. The kind of cold where you ache all over and do nothing but lay in bed [This is a short summary only. Visit Gluten-Free... 

A delicious acorn squash risotto that is vegan and gluten-free. Looking for a perfect Thanksgiving side dish? Or a vegetarian knock-your-socks-off bowl of creamy goodness? Risotto might fit the bill. This is one of my all-time recipe favorites. In fact, it was the first dish I turned to eight years ago when I discovered I had to live gluten-free. Way back then (insert hazy slow-mo flashback) I [This is a short summary only. Visit Gluten-Free Goddess... 

My favorite gluten-free bread with sorghum and millet flour,  revisited with new baking tips. Man shall not live by bread alone, so the famous saying goes. In other words, we need ideas to feed us, too. We need awareness. Conscious action. An expression and celebration of the spirit. And yet (here’s the sticky part, folks) almost every spiritual tradition includes the bread we shall not [This is a short summary only. Visit Gluten-Free Goddess... 

Need a gluten-free and dairy-free pumpkin pie? No problem. The Big T. Thanksgiving. Nothing sends shivers of trepidation up a gluten-free or dairy-free girl’s spine like the mental image of Grandma’s sage pungent white bread dressing or shimmying slabs of Aunt Ida’s pumpkin pie. It’s a butter and wheat flour gorge fest with danger at every turn. The gruesome gut-twisting threat of thirty-six [This is a short summary only.... 

Maple roasted acorn squash and a gluten-free cornbread stuffing. We are moved in. Books are unpacked, paintings hung, bamboo platform bed assembled. I am dog tired and sore and deeply, deliriously happy to be here. It is a soft, foggy morning in Santa Monica, a Glenn Gould Goldberg Variations kind of morning. Five floors below our apartment window the traffic lights glow in haloed reds and [This is  Read More →