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Better Layered Blini Mushroom Casserole (gluten-free or not)
Last winter I made a Layered Wild Mushroom and Blini Casserole in an attempt to recreate a gluten free version of my favourite dish from the long ago closed House of Blini on East 86th street in...
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Sangeeta’s Butter Chicken
This recipe is from my friend Sangeeta, who I met when she generously housed my husband and I in her Delhi apartment. She made this excellent chicken and I begged her for the recipe. I made it for my...
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Lemon Mochiko Cake
Mochi flour, also known as mochiko flour, sweet white rice flour or glutinous rice flour is used to make delicious sweet treats in Japan. In Hawaii, where spent the second half of my childhood,...
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Brown Butter, Hazelnut, Buckwheat Financier (Gluten-free)
I eat a lot of egg yolks. Luckily, egg whites freeze well. That said, the collection of egg whites that I have collected in the freezer recently reached a critical mass. I considered making...
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Cauliflower Gratin with Horseradish and Poppy Seeds
I just got off the phone with my best college girl friend, Rebecca. We lived together when she was a Sophomore and I was a Junior. We rented the furnished apartment of an old lady in Yonkers. It...
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Sinister Black Forest Trifle (Gluten-Free)- A birthday treat for the last...
I am lucky that I had the help of an award-winning cake decorator and artist (Tony) and also the help of a future surgeon (Bethany) with the decoration of our wedding cake, because if it had been...
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Bittersweet Boozy Goodness- Old Fashioned Orange Marmalade (with bitters and...
Just before Christmas, I came home one night to find the teenage daughter of one of my neighbors sitting in our cold and dirty hallway. She was locked out. I invited her into my apartment and offered...
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Creamy Jicama, Kohlrabi and Carrot Slaw with Garlic and Lemon/ Maui Farm...
I spent the second half of my childhood on the island of Maui. First in the old whaling town and tourist Mecca of Lahaina and later in the scorching hot seaside sprawl of Kihei. When my parents...
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Carrot Cardamom Muffins with Coconut Rosewater Icing (Gluten-Free)
I wanted to make a carrot cake inspired by Indian carrot halva for Easter this year. I wanted it to have coconut instead of walnuts and feature cardamom and rosewater. We are spending Easter with...
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Maui Forager’s Salad- Pohole Fern, Watercress and Poha Berry Salad
It is easy to forage for food in Hawaii. There are wild mountain apples that grow on the side of the road on the way to Hana and guava trees dotting the ranch land that many of the hiking trails cut...
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Tropical Fruit and Macadamia Nut Torte- From the backyard in Kula, Maui...
For the last three years, my mother has been living in a little cottage in Kula, Maui on a beautiful property planted with mango, loquat, natal plum, macadamia nut, avocado, kukui nut and guava...
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Crushed Green Olive Salad with Celery and Mint
I knew I was going to love this salad as soon as I read the recipe. I am a big fan of good green olives and celery. In fact, when I travel I always pack green olives and celery as an airplane snack....
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Finally, a good gluten-free pizza crust
Until recently, I have had a resigned attitude toward making gluten-free pizza crust at home. The only really good gluten-free pizza’s I had eaten had been made in a wood-fire oven or on a grill and...
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Four Weird and Delicious Pestos
I know this is weird, but I don’t make basil pesto. I make pesto for three reasons. 1. I have some sad bunch of green something that I did not use in a timely fashion, but cannot stand to throw...
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Fried Lima Beans with Feta, Sorrel, Sumac and Lemon
This recipe combines beans that originated in Peru with cooking techniques and spices from the Middle East AND the little green things that are starting to come out of the ground at this moment in New...
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Tiny Coconut Chocolate Cakes (Gluten-Free)
My mother is allergic to egg whites. When I visited her recently, I made her quite a few scrambled egg yolks for breakfast. By the end of the visit I had a big vat of egg whites in the fridge. We...
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Watercress and Buttermilk Vichyssoise
I am rediscovering my love of watercress. It was my favourite green vegetable in my college years. Every week I would make one of my three watercress dishes. 1. Pasta with watercress arugola and goat...
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Sourdough Boule (Gluten-Free)
This recipe is for my mother. She carried some of my gluten-free sourdough starter home in her checked luggage when she last visited me, and is now struggling to stay on top of a pet that demands...
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Rhubarb Curd Tart with a Buckwheat Almond Crust (Gluten-Free)
Did you know that Buckwheat is related to Rhubarb? I know! Weird right? I was so excited by this fact when I learned it, that I decided to make a rhubarb tart with a buckwheat crust. Then I had to...
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Laying Hens and Herbal Teas
I am working at a farm this summer and fall! This is something I’ve been wanting to do for going on 10 years now, ever since I travelled down the west coast on a bike tour meeting farmers and other...
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