
Eat a mango like a pro and stop making a scene with these tips.


Oh my God. This can't be true...My favorite birthday cake of all time, dairy free.

Tortelli di Zucca is traditionally served on Christmas Eve in Mantova (or "Mantua" - a translation I've never understood...like the painter "Titian" when his name is Tiziano... Mantova is where my grandmother was born, and famous for harboring Romeo after killing Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet). The finest version of this dish ever served around our family dinner was by my aunt, and she served it with a deliciously simple tomato sauce on top...

We may have cracked the code on this addictive, dairy free California classic. Now this is not the most dairy-free-friendly restaurant in the world, but it can still be done...Famous for their salads and cheese bread that come with any order of an entree (or on it's own for a nominal fee), their Cabbage Salad is so more-ish you can happily much away on that alone for an hour.

Historically, (Thanks, Mrs Beeton!) Toad In The Hole was a basic dish for leftovers: throw in surplus meat (ground up and made into sausages), root veggies, pour in the Yorkshire pudding and Bob's your uncle. Today, a pub menu featuring Toad In The Hole will most likely contain some scrumptious Cumberland pork sausages. Personally, I try to avoid pork whenever I can, so I used chicken sausages here instead. Just as good, if not better. Plus the potatoes and onions add an extra texture to it, making it a One Pot Wonder.

So I had to wait a while to post this one so I wouldn’t spoil the gift-giving surprise, but this homemade vanilla extract was super easy (and super economical) to make. You could probably still make it now and have it looking decent by Christmas, too. My sister in law liked this idea so much, [ Read More ]

Hooray!!! After only a couple dozen dairy free cookies coming out of the oven and sliding directly into the rubbish, I'm getting the hang of baking! To make your own lavender sugar, you'll either need some culinary lavender and a couple of weeks, or a month and infinite amounts of patience. I happened across a lavender farm a few months ago where the work of sifting the lavender from impurities was already done for me, so all I had to do was put the buds in some cheesecloth and let it sit in an airtight container of sugar for a month...

Eat a mango like a pro and stop making a scene with these tips.

A dairy free pancake recipe to keep of with the tradition of Shrove Tuesday.

Oh my God. This can’t be true…My favorite birthday cake of all time, dairy free.
“Bad, WordPress, very very bad WordPress…”, is what I’ve been saying to my website for weeks as I’ve tried to (unsuccessfully) make it look the way I wanted it to. I realize now that it wasn’t WordPress, it is a poor musician who blames her instrument, and it was a simply a case of choosing [ Read More ]

Tortelli di Zucca is traditionally served on Christmas Eve in Mantova (or “Mantua” – a translation I’ve never understood…like the painter “Titian” when his name is Tiziano… Mantova is where my grandmother was born, and famous for harboring Romeo after killing Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet). The finest version of this dish ever served around our family dinner was by my aunt, and she served it with a deliciously simple tomato sauce on top…
So instead of being able to post a bunch of Christmas recipes in time for Christmas, I’ve got to settle for showing you a taste of what’s to come. Sorry, but life just happens sometimes, doesn’t it. (#decemberfail.) Just a short post to let you know how grateful I am to my readers for visiting [ Read More ]

We may have cracked the code on this addictive, dairy free California classic.
Now this is not the most dairy-free-friendly restaurant in the world, but it can still be done…Famous for their salads and cheese bread that come with any order of an entree (or on it’s own for a nominal fee), their Cabbage Salad is so more-ish you can happily much away on that alone for an hour.

Historically, (Thanks, Mrs Beeton!) Toad In The Hole was a basic dish for leftovers: throw in surplus meat (ground up and made into sausages), root veggies, pour in the Yorkshire pudding and Bob’s your uncle. Today, a pub menu featuring Toad In The Hole will most likely contain some scrumptious Cumberland pork sausages. Personally, I try to avoid pork whenever I can, so I used chicken sausages here instead. Just as good, if not better. Plus the potatoes and onions add an extra texture to it, making it a One Pot Wonder.