{gluten-free} Caramel Apple Pie
Last week we spent a few days in Istanbul – just a 4-hour flight away, it was the perfect escape. My lingering impression, other than …
{gluten-free} Gingery Applesauce-Oat Cookies with Dried Cherries
Hi, me again with yet another cookie recipe. I swear I used to post healthy vegetarian and vegan recipes and I still cook this way …
Cherry-Almond Scones
I’m sort of desperately clinging to the idea of fall weather — the mornings here have been a tiny bit cooler the past few weeks …
A Simple {Gluten-Free} Chocolate Cake
You should always have a one-bowl cake or two in your recipe arsenal and this one, for a simple chocolate cake with or without frosting, …
Spelt-Honey Cake: For Now (or Later)
One aspect of international living is the last minute cramming into your suitcase all and sundry items you wish to take back home with you …
A {gluten-free} Lemon Cake
[Kehoe Beach, August 2015.] Yesterday we were on a beach in the blazing sun watching the Pacific roar and hurtle itself onto the sand; today …
Summer Staple (+ Gluten-Free Double Crisp Apple Crisp)
I’ve decided that each summer going forward should be marked by a particular staple, be it swimming early in the day, twice-weekly hikes, a certain …
Slow Days (+ a Cherry Galette)
We are having a summer. Foggy mornings, warm afternoons, swim ‘lessons’ at the pool where I learned to swim so many years ago, (very) early …
Coming Around to It (+ A Better Carrot Cake)
I don’t typically like carrot cake. It’s too sweet for my taste and traditional recipes call for an amount of oil and sugar that make …
Getting Back to It (+ Strawberry-Rhubarb Honey Pie)
{Tomales Bay from the trail, July 2015.} Strawberries There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon sitting on the step of …