Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Gluten free carrot cake

 https://meaningfuleats.com/gluten-free-carrot-cake/#wprm-recipe-container-15298

Very good, ate almost all of it myself!

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Cheddar and Nettle biscuits

 https://seasoned.com/blog/2021/07/cheddar-nettle-scones

These are pretty good, but I would definitely add more salt to the dough. I used King Arthur GF 1:1 Flour in place of the regular flour.

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Recent Indian food exploration

Potato Masala https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/potato-masala-aloo-masala/#wprm-recipe-container-37991

Just used potato, no dal, also didn't have onions so I used onion powder.


Moong Dal (modified) https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/moong-dal-recipe/

I didn't use tomato or onion in this, but I did use onion powder and lots of garlic in the tadka. This could have been vegan had I used oil instead of butter in the tadka 

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Chive blossom vinegar

 https://leitesculinaria.com/80938/recipes-chive-blossom-vinegar.html#wprm-recipe-container-368591


I made this and it was great. It was wonderful to make some salad dressing with this!!

And it was so pretty pink/purple color.

Birthday cakes

For Roland's 6th birthday party,  he wanted a two-tier cake covered in sprinkles.

It wasn't beautiful,  but I did it! To appeal to the widest variety,  I did half yellow cake and half chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. 

I used the chocolate cake I have made many times.  I found a yellow cake recipe on the same blog - web address- and I tried making Swiss buttercream-https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/swiss-meringue-buttercream/#tasty-recipes-80765


Since I couldn't find the right size cake pan,  I just cut down the upper layer.  I had a hard time making them even! 

I made quite a mess putting on the sprinkles, but it looked great and tasted better. 


For Roland's 8th birthday he wanted vanilla cake with vanilla frosting, so I will make this:https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/new-favorite-white-layer-cake/

Monday, April 21, 2025

Stuffed kabocha squash

 https://cookingforpeanuts.com/roasted-kabocha-squash-recipe/#recipe

Made this "acid watcher" friendly:

Subbed pepitas for the walnuts and just omitted anything pepper, tomato, onion,  and garlic-related

For the tahini sauce I just used tahini, water, honey, and salt.

I had one squash and for dinner I stuffed each half with one cup each of brown rice and the tofu taco filling. I ate one quarter of the squash, rice, filling combo and that was quite a lot!

Sunday, April 13, 2025

AIP Cinnamon rolls

 https://healmedelicious.com/cinnamon-rolls/

These were pretty good for gluten-free, lower-sugar, lower-fat cinnamon rolls. As one commenter wrote, the whole thing is like the inside of a Cinnabon roll.

I followed the recipe except for using honey as the sweetener in the filling, I needed to chill the filling so the coconut oil solidified in order to keep it from oozing out when rolling. They needed to bake for about 33 minutes. If you follow the recipe or use maple syrup instead of honey, then they would be vegan.