Thursday November 5, 2009
Cranberry sauce has always been one of my favorite dishes at Thanksgiving. The tangy acidity of ruby red cranberry sauce compliments roasted turkey and herb dressing like nothing else. That's probably why cranberry sauce has been a mainstay on Thanksgiving tables forever!
Here are our top 10 gluten-free cranberry sauce recipes from About.com Food Guides. You'll find traditional cranberry sauce recipes as well as unusual, gourmet recipes, like Cabernet Cranberry Sauce and Cranberry Avocado Salsa. They are all gluten-free and delicious!
Tuesday November 3, 2009
Dean Lavornia, a talented Pastry Chef and Associate Professor at the International Baking and Pastry Institute at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, RI, developed this fabulous and versatile gluten-free recipe for Honey Pecan Tart with Gingerbread Crust, including an original gluten-free flour blend, used to make the gingerbread crust.
Chef Lavornia suggests using this recipe to make, not only gluten-free Honey Pecan Tart with Gingerbread Crust- which he calls his "favorite Thanksgiving dessert"- but also to make gluten-free graham crackers, gingerbread cookies and gluten-free gingerbread houses for the coming holidays.
The caramel-based Honey Pecan Tart Filling recipe is also extremely versatile. Use it to fill gluten-free tart or pie shells, in gluten-free sticky bun recipes and even as a decadent ice cream topping. Wow!
Gluten-Free Recipes by Dean Lavornia
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Sunday November 1, 2009
What's so great about gluten-free vanilla wafers?
Well, these little plain Jane classic cookies are so versatile and buttery good.
Enjoy this little golden cookie with ice cream, slather your favorite frosting on one side and top with another cookie for a so-much-better-than-store-bought sandwich cookie, decorate GF vanilla wafers for any special event and pack this sturdy, easy to make cookie in lunchboxes and travel bags.
Or do what I did today, just enjoy gluten-free vanilla wafers in all their golden simplicity, plain.
Gluten-Free Vanilla Wafer Recipe
More Gluten-Free Cookie Recipes
Gluten-Free Cooking - What's Hot This Week
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Thursday October 29, 2009
Don't toss out the pumpkin seeds when you carve your pumpkins this week! Pumpkin seeds are nutritious little gems- a good source of healthy omega-3 fatty acids, protein, minerals and fiber. And they taste so good. Kids eat them like candy. Really? Really!
Diana Rattray, About.com Guide to Southern Food and Fiona Haynes, About.com Guide to Low Fat Cooking have several terrific recipes for roasted pumpkin seeds including:
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