Baked oatmeal cups are a healthy, make-ahead breakfast that your family can grab and eat on the go - even if they are just going to another room. My version is studded with Cape Cod Select Premium Frozen cranberries and buttery pecans for extra nutrition and tons of flavor. Back when my kids left the house to go to school - remember those ...
No-Bake Lemon Posset
This tart, creamy lemon posset requires only three ingredients and no baking! Perfect for Passover or that bleak moment when you run out of eggs. Well, we are almost a month into our self-isolation here in Illinois and now it is Passover to boot. So much for all the stress baking I have been doing! Not only can I not bake because it is ...
Vegan Eton Mess with Tropical Fruit
A classic British boarding school dessert updated to be 100% vegan with aquafaba meringues, luscious whipped coconut cream and sweet tropical fruit. My daughter, Zuzu, has never tried a meringue. As I have mentioned before, she is allergic to eggs. While she can tolerate eggs when they are mixed into a batter and baked, such as in a cake or ...
Instant Pot Mocha Pudding with Whipped Cream
The Instant Pot is the perfect tool for making no-bake desserts like puddings and custards. Enjoy this recipe for Mocha Pudding with Whipped Cream from the revised and expanded edition of The Gluten-Free Instant Pot Cookbook. What a festive way to end your Passover seder or treat friends and family members who are gluten-free. By now, you ...
Summer Soup and Salad with Vegan Corn Chowder
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Danone. The opinions and text are all mine. For a refreshing, seasonal meal, try my summertime soup and salad combination with a vegan corn chowder and a simple green salad. If, like me, you want to adopt a more plant-based diet, summer is the best time to do it. With so many ...
How to Make Arepas
Try your hand at arepas -- easy-to-make savory Venezuelan corn cakes -- and you will want to serve them with everything! A few years ago, when I was in New York on the book tour for Food Swap, I met a lovely young woman named Mercedes, who was orginally from Venezuela. As we chatted, I asked Mercedes about arepas, a savory corn cake that I ...
Instant Pot Mexican Rice
Mexican restaurant-style rice is a perfect side dish for all your Mexican-inspired meals and it comes together so quickly using the Instant Pot or other electric pressure cooker. You know how when you go to your favorite Mexican restaurant and, no matter what you actually order, the meal always seems to include a side of flavorful, red-hued ...
Flourless Mexican Chocolate Cake
Whether it is Passover or you avoid gluten all year long, this flourless chocolate cake with Mexican spices is the perfect special occasion gluten-free dessert. Is it still Passover? Don't we deserve a treat for making it this far into an eight-day-long holiday? How about a kosher-for-Passover flourless chocolate cake? That will make up for ...
Pavlova with Mango Curd
A dreamy kosher-for-Passover dessert: a light, airy pavlova filled with tart mango curd and fresh berries! Easy to make dairy-free. Put away that matzo meal! Once again, I am bringing you a kosher-for-Passover dessert that doesn't suffer from a lack of wheat because it never had wheat to begin with. Today, we are learning how to make a ...
Teff Crepe Cake for Passover
A gluten-free crepe cake made with teff flour is a show-stopping dessert for your Passover seder or any occasion! You can do this, I promise! Once I figured out how to make kosher-for-Passover crêpes using teff flour, it was only a matter of time before I created a recipe for a kosher-for-Passover crêpe cake, right? If you are not ...
Coconut, Lime & White Chocolate Pudding
A tropical island-inspired, gluten-free dessert for Passover or any occasion! White chocolate pudding made with coconut milk and flavored with lime and ginger. In December, I posted a Mexican Chocolate Pudding made with coconut milk - inspired by a recipe from Chicago chef Bill Kim - that was both gluten-free and vegan. I speculated that ...
Gluten-Free Chocolate Teff Crepes for Passover
A very special Passover breakfast or elegant Seder dessert: chocolate crepes made with teff flour! When it comes to Passover desserts, my favorite flour is not the dreaded matzo cake meal, which makes everything dense and leaden. It's teff flour. What’s teff? An ancient grain native to eastern Africa, teff is most familiar to Americans as ...
Papaya Salsa
Sweet and spicy papaya salsa goes with everything from grilled chicken to fish tacos to your favorite tortilla chips. Keep your healthy eating resolutions with this easy vegan and gluten-free recipe. My family just returned from a fabulous trip to Belize. If you are not familiar with this small Central American nation, where English is the ...
Edible Gift: Jam-Swirled Marshmallows
Beautiful jam-swirled homemade marshmallows are the perfect edible gift for the hot chocolate lovers in your life! Homemade marshmallows are satisfying to bite into, melt in your mouth and burst with flavor. They are are so superior to store-bought versions as to be almost a different food. I love one and cannot abide the other. Indeed, once ...
Vegetarian Burrito Bowls
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SimplyAvocado #CollectiveBias Rice bowls are one of my go-to weeknight dinners. They are quick to make -- especially with some advance planning, namely cooking the rice ahead of time -- and infinitely customizable. For this reason, rice ...
Purple Passion Hummus
Do not adjust your monitor. You are seeing correctly. That's purple hummus! I make it with a secret ingredient: Stokes Purple sweet potatoes. Before you recoil in horror at the idea of hummus in a never-before-seen shade of purple, let me assure you that this hummus is not so very different from the hummus you know and love. This is not some ...
Edamame Succotash
Sweet, crunchy succotash made with late-summer corn and a new twist: edamame instead of lima beans! It's "my supper dish/My succotash wish." Sing it, baby! Summer corn is a short-lived, seasonal treat. So while it lasts, I make the most of it. I never buy fewer than a dozen ears at the farmers market. At $5 a dozen, there is truly no reason ...
Queen’s Jam (Raspberry and Blueberry)
Queen's Jam, a combination of raspberries and blueberries, is a classic Swedish preserve. It is also the perfect way to use the best summer berries. I write a lot about my Jewish heritage and how it influences my cooking. What I perhaps do not mention enough is that I am also part Swedish on my mother's side. My maternal grandmother was the ...
Meyer Lemon Pots de Creme with Candied Lemon
Who has time to make dessert on a weeknight? No one. But sometimes a special occasion, be it a birthday, anniversary, or national holiday, falls on a weeknight. What to do in that case? Turn to a dessert that is best made in advance. A dessert like pot de crème. Pot de crème is an adorable name for an adorable baked custard that is typically ...
Dip Recipes for Super Bowl Sunday
The Super Bowl is this Sunday and everyone is planning their game day menus. Whether you're the hosting the watch party, or the guest who promised to bring something, you'll need a recipe. Maybe two. Recipes for dip. Dip is what the people want to eat while watching the big game! But don't settle for a store-bought dip that is full of ...
Cauliflower Ceviche (Ceviche de Coliflor)
Cauliflower ceviche ticks every January healthy eating box. It's vegan. It's gluten-free. I even think it's Paleo. And we are talking practically no calories. But the best news is, it's absolutely addictive. Crunchy vegetables, tangy lime juice, spicy peppers, lots of beautiful colors -- cauliflower ceviche is health food you never want to stop ...
Healthy Eating: Homemade Granola Bars
It’s okay to snack. Really. Snacks are part of a healthy diet. No one should be expected to go from lunch until dinner without some fuel, especially given how busy weekday afternoons can be. What do you think will happen when you sit down to dinner utterly famished? That’s exactly how overeating happens. In fact, smart snacking may be the key to ...
Healthy Eating: Nicoise Salad
It is also the time of year when we atone for our sins during the holiday season and eat healthier. But healthy eating does not have to be depressing. The goal of this recipe is to show you that eating light and healthy can still satisfy your soul, even in the dead of winter. Packed with protein from tuna and hard-boiled eggs, and full of crisp, ...
Passover Meal Ideas
Are you looking for dinner ideas that are kosher-for-Passover to get through the rest of this week? Me too. I have combed through my archives to find some of my favorite wheat-free recipes to make your Passover meal planning easier. This is also a great list of gluten-free meal ideas for those times you are hosting friends or family who avoid ...
Chocolate Teff Cake for Passover
Teff it out! When it comes to Passover desserts, I have a new favorite flour: teff. What's teff? An ancient grain native to eastern Africa, teff is most familiar to Americans as the basis for injera, the spongy, slightly sour (because it's fermented) pancake-like flatbread served at Ethiopian restaurants. Teff is considered to be kosher for ...