I have decided (at least for now) to stop doing the monthly challenges. My purpose was to encourage people to get creative in the kitchen and not always depend on a recipe.  I also wanted people to try making things from scratch that they would normally buy a mix for or buy already prepared.  We [...]

Okay, I know it’s not much of a challenge at all to create a gluten-free beverage because, thankfully, most beverages are naturally gluten-free.  I simply thought beverages would be a good challenge for the month of July. The more challenging things to create gluten-free often require the oven, and in the heat of summer, many [...]

June’s monthly gluten-free challenge is not at all difficult in terms of making it gluten-free, but I thought it would be fun to come up with salad recipes this month.  There are lots of options for participating in this challenge. Types of recipes you could submit for this challenge include: garden/green salad fruit salad salad [...]

Pizza!  I know I’m still young at heart every time I eat good gluten-free pizza, because I’m reminded that it is one of my favorite foods.  Or at least it was until I went dairy free.  I still enjoy pizza, but cheese substitutes are not quite the same. I do still enjoy making pizza, though, [...]

It’s been a few months since we’ve had a dessert challenge, and we’ve already done most of the major dessert categories so I decided on a dessert bar. What I mean by dessert bar is any dessert that you make (usually bake, but not necessarily) in a square or rectangular pan and cut it into [...]

February’s monthly challenge is to create a loaf of yeast bread. This month has turned out to be pretty busy forme,  and as expected I didn’t have a lot of time for experimenting with loaf bread.  I did make two loaves, neither of which I was happy with. First I made a bread machine variation [...]