Gluten-Free Appetizers + Snacks

Baked Grape Tomatoes with Basil and Cornbread Crumbs
Basil Pesto
Brown Rice Tortilla Chips
Buttermilk Flatbread

Cilantro Pesto de Esteban
Crispy Potato Sticks with Roasted Tomato Salsa
Crunchy White + Sweet Potato Chips

Easy Guacamole with Lime
Green Chile Quesadilla
Greenwiches Lettuce Cups and Wraps
Hummus Tahini with Spiced Oil

Jalapeño Lime Hummus

Joey's Kicked Up Rockin' Guac

Nachos Fabuloso
Parmesan Crisps
Pecan Crackers

Quick + Easy Garlic Shrimp Pizzas
Roasted Eggplant Tapenade
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
Roasted Tomato Salsa
Roasted Yellow Tomato Salsa
Roasted Vegetable Salsa

Savory Grain Free Crackers
Spinach and Cheddar Quesadilla
Three Ways To Dress a Naked Salad (Gluten-Free Dressings)
Winter Pesto

Karina's Cranberry Pot Roast Stew

Warm Your Body (& Celiac Soul)

What could be more comforting as we face the chilly New Year than a slow roasted one-dish supper? Not to mention, easier. Especially after all the hustle and bustle of last week's holiday celebrations. All the sugar. And latkes. And eggnog. And hoopla. I'm exhausted just imagining it. So I'll stop. And share a recipe instead- a tasty little number I tossed together in my trusty Crock Pot over the weekend- a cranberry laced pot roast stew that cooked its sweet 'n savory heart out while I walked in snowy woods.

So, Happy Monday, Dear Heart. It's a brand new week. And I offer up this warming flavorful stew to help you recover from holiday stress and travel and whatever kind of wacky, weird or wonderful family stuff you dealt with over the big collective craziness we call Christmas.

Take a deep breath. 

Slide on your toasty new slippers.

And slow cook a bowl of spoon-licking winter goodness.

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Seasons Greetings from New Mexico!

Bunny tracks and a low flannel sky sifting snow. My view today. We have a buffalo roast with cranberries and wine in the slow cooker. A fire in the kiva. A quiet-as-a-field-mouse day here in northern New Mexico.

Sending out a bundle of wishes for a safe and warm holiday to all- be it Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, or simply Thursday. Be well, Dear Readers. And thank you for your comment love this past year. I appreciate every kind word, your recipe tweaks and stories shared.

One more glimpse of snow in New Mexico- our view. 

My New Year's gift to you? During the next week- or two- I'll be busy behind the scenes creating printable recipes. 

Be safe, be healthy, and be good to one another.

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Sweet Potato Latkes

Sweet potato latkes and ruby applesauce.

The shortest day of the year is finally upon us. The darkest point in the turning of the seasons will tomorrow tilt toward light. The balance in power has shifted. Daylight gains. The darkness recedes, inch by inch, minute by minute. Light is reborn. Pretty powerful stuff. No wonder so many cultures have celebrated the Winter Solstice in a myriad of ways.

For Hanukkah- no matter how you spell it- it's also about light. An eight day Festival of Lights, in fact, and food is intricately woven into the tradition. Because Hanukkah celebrates the fortuitous finding of a flask of olive oil (a small amount that would, maybe, last a day, but miraculously burned for eight dark nights) recipes for celebrating the miracle of light are cooked in oil.

And that brings to me to one of my all-time favorite foods on Earth.

Latkes.

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Dairy-Free Layer Bars: Coconut Chocolate Nirvana

Dairy-Free Bliss:

Coconut-Almond-Chocolate Layer Bar

This is a quickie bonus post. Chocolate-coconut layered cookie bar bliss --- just in time for the holidays. A wink and a nudge to the retro cookie layer bar recipe I posted two years ago. This newer version is non-dairy using condensed coconut milk, so you lactose-free folks don't miss out on all the fun.

Now get ready to party.

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Gluten-Free Sweet Potato Coffee Cake- and a love story

Winter in Northern New Mexico- my view.

First, the love part.

It's been snowy, windy, cold- you name it. From all the tweets I've been reading over on Twitter lately, I'm not alone. Far from it. This has been one crazy snowy month. So what does a gluten-free goddess do when she gets stuck in the middle of the desert with no buckwheat flour, no sorghum, and no four-wheel drive? (Note to self- if you're going to live in rural Northern New Mexico, Darling, a cute and thrifty little Honda Fit won't cut it.)

Snowed in and hungry she does the only sensible thing.

She scans the pantry and pulls out a Whole Foods gluten-free cake mix and starts stirring things up. She starts imagining dirt bombs. And bakes up a coffee cake worthy of the winter holidays.

The love part of the story?

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Sweet Potato Soup with Ginger

A comforting sweet potato soup for the sun deprived  soul. With ginger.

Winter Solstice is approaching fast. The days now are so short I've been warning Steve to hide all sharp instruments. Your intrepid gluten-free goddess, you see, has that infamous seasonal wrestle with gloom this sun deprived time of year. In a perfect world I'd be spending the month of December in Hawaii like certain lucky individuals, soaking up vitamin D with the surfer girls and feeling all mahalo instead of Get me the bleep outa here before I scream.

So I've been on a sweet potato kick. I can't get enough of these ruby and golden hued tubers- perfect for winter comfort food. So tasty. And versatile. Astute readers may have noticed the trend already.

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