grapefruit and boys

I have to gush for just a moment here, so give me a small gush moment if you would. Last night I was making stir fried shrimp with snow peas from this magazine http://www.saveur.com/ (of course I can’t find the recipe online to link to it) and my sweetie offered to make me a […]

every blog needs a cat photo…knitting and pakora

Ok, I completely forgot for a while that this blog is also about knitting and gardening too, so here is my first post of a knitting project. I should have lots of photos, but have a habit of giving the finished knitting project away before photographing. Here are my adorable niece and nephew […]

Wings… is it the sauce or the chicken??

For me, it is all about the sauce and the crunch, well, two sauces really. Hot wing sauce and blue cheese sauce. Eating wings is a reason to eat the wing sauce. Just like for my dad, eating shrimp is just a way to eat as much cocktail sauce as he wants. […]

GF Road tripping cont’d, cider, oysters and nachos

Day 5 Savannah and Hilton Head. After sleeping in and waking up to the sound of the surf and gulls on Tybee Island, we headed in to explore Savannah. I am not going to blog about the dinner we had on Tybee Island, needless to say, we should have gone with our gut […]

Gluten free road tripping

Ahhh…vacation. Road trip with the significant other. We both survived and surely it was because of my driving (he would argue because of his driving I am certain) and mostly lack of gluten with a week on the road. As all of you celiacs know, eating GF on the road is a […]

back to asia and some more breads

One day this winter I tried to satisfy my craving for spring rolls/egg rolls and make my favorite Vietnamese style rolls. Since I can’t use regular spring roll wrappers, I tried to use spring roll papers - the rice ones. This worked ok. They were sticking to each other and breaking open […]

A few sweets to tempt…and some demi glace

A little story about a tart. My brother was in town for the weekend, babies and wife too. He got up early in the morning on Sunday and pulled out my Rebecca Reilly GF cook book and made a pastry dough and filled with the pear tart. But first he had to […]

Cardinals in the snow

This a picture taken out of our front window.
i’m out

Oh my larb!

I finally uploaded a bunch of photos and will post them here soo, but first, breaking news - oh my larb!!
Ok, so I just made some larb gai - thai chix salad with mint - the type that Lamai Thai (my local delish Thai restaurant )often has. I looked up a recipe […]

And we begin….

Ok,I will admit to less blogging since my laptop fried. But now I have use of my boyfriend’s ignored Apple laptop and life is good again. Be prepared for a barrage of cooking photos and recipes now! I suppose I should take the occasional photo of my knitting projects too. I often […]