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Paleo Easter Desserts
Posted on March 26, 2013
Our holiday is Passover, and accordingly, I have a list of Paleo Passover recipes. However, since many of our friends celebrate Easter, I have put together a list of Paleo Easter dessert recipes. Of course, you may wish to be a super duper caveman and simply dine on ham and veggies for your Easter celebration.
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Paleo Valentine’s Day Recipes
Posted on February 7, 2013
Here are my favorite Paleo Valentine’s Day recipes. I’m not much of a romantic, so I must confess that Valentine’s Day is not my favorite “holiday,” however, there is an upside, and that is chocolate. The gluten-free, dairy-free Paleo recipes below are full of healthy ingredients such as coconut flour, almond flour, coconut oil, and
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New Year’s Eve Finger Foods
Posted on December 28, 2012
According to Wikipedia, an amuse bouche (pronounced aˌmyzˈbuʃ) is a single, bite-sized hors d’œuvre. Literally, this term means amusement of the mouth. I’m putting together a list of amuse bouche finger foods that will amuse fingers, mouths and guests alike during your New Year’s Eve celebration.
10 Paleo Christmas Cookie Recipes
Posted on December 11, 2012
I’ve got the Christmas cookie bug. The gluten-free Christmas cookie bug that is. Because the recipes that I’ve written on this blog for the past year or so have been Paleo (the ones prior to that are merely grain-free), I’ve gone back and retested a number of my classic gluten-free cookie recipes and reworked them
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Sukkot
Posted on October 1, 2012
Sukkot or Sukkos is the Jewish harvest festival. This holiday takes place on the 15th of the month of Tishrei (sometime between late September to late October), and occurs on the full moon (the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar and many of our holidays start on the full moon). The word sukkot literally means
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Gluten Free Tu B’shevat
Posted on January 26, 2012
photo by tess_marie on flickr.com What is Tu B’shevat you ask? Why it is the holiday of trees established by the Talmudic rabbis sometime between the 3rd to 5th century –the early part of the Middle Ages. As the daughter of liberal Jewish activists (my parents met at a civil rights meeting in the 1960′s)
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Eco-Friendly Christmas Gifts
Posted on November 27, 2011
Stainless steel snack containers, mulling spices, cookie mix in a jar and a Wally mug; simple, yet useful gifts for the holidays. Finding the perfect Christmas gifts for friends and loved ones can be a challenge. Especially if you’ve put off your holiday shopping until now. Because we celebrate Chanukah it seems like we have
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Paleo Thanksgiving Recipes
Posted on November 18, 2011
Make your Thanksgiving meal one of abundance AND health with these easy nutritious Paleo recipes. A completely Paleo Thanksgiving menu –all gluten free, grain free and sugar free, including many delicious superfoods. Ten recipes for appetizers, salad, dinner, dessert and more. For decades my father has said “eat the rainbow,” and Thanksgiving is the perfect
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Healthier Halloween Candy
Posted on October 25, 2011
If you find the ingredients in Halloween candy a little spooky, you may want to try making treats for your children this holiday. The recipes below for healthier Halloween candy are a great way to please palates in search of sweets this season.
Gluten Free Fourth of July Recipes
Posted on June 30, 2011
For our July 4th celebration this year I will be serving some of my favorite gluten free recipes (pictured above/listed below). We will have a small gathering at our house with two other families, then we’ll hike up Mount Sanitas to watch the fireworks show. My younger son is begging us to take him up
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Our Passover Seder
Posted on April 20, 2011
With the release date for my new book Gluten-Free Cupcakes, bearing down on me less than one week from today, I feel as though Passover really snuck up on me this year. I did not post any Passover Menus, though do have ones from years past for those that might be looking for a good
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Gluten Free Easter Recipes
Posted on April 18, 2011
The spring holidays (Easter and Passover) mark my favorite time of year. The ground begins to thaw, buds make their way up through the soil and the ground comes alive again. Year after year, my garden is reborn after a deep sleep –signs of transformation abound. As everything in my yard wakes up, a renewed hope and the
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Mishloach Manot
Posted on March 18, 2011
Image by koshercom on flickr Mishloach Manot? Shalloch Manos? No, I am not speaking in tongues. I am just speaking in Hebrew. And Yiddish. Every year to celebrate Purim, we have a little party (with Hamantaschen of course) and give mishloach manot to our friends. Here’s Wikipedia’s official description of this “festive gift basket:” “Mishloach
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Gluten Free Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day
Posted on March 16, 2011
Lots going on here with a double header holiday week that includes both St. Patrick’s Day and Purim. All of the festivities are keeping me quite busy. Luckily, I have not attempted to make green Hamantaschen, though if things keep progressing at this rate I just might. Here are some of my favorite gluten free
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Valentine’s Day Recipe Roundup
Posted on February 10, 2011
Here’s some gluten free Valentine’s Day desserts and treats for y’all. I’m not a big Valentine’s day person, more of the practical type, so I don’t have a lot to say about, well, you know. What I can tell you is that you might fall in love with one of the desserts below. These gluten
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Gluten Free Super Bowl Recipe Roundup
Posted on February 3, 2011
We are getting ready for a big gluten free Super Bowl party this Sunday as the Packers take on the Steelers. Personally, I could care less who wins (sorry to offend all of you fans), I just want to serve awesome (and healthy) delicious gluten free snacks and make sure that all of my guests
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DIY Christmas Gift Round Up
Posted on December 13, 2010
This year I’m having a DIY Christmas. Not that Christmas is actually my holiday, as I’m Jewish. But that doesn’t mean I can’t give all my friends lovely homemade Christmas gifts. And give all of you guys fun ideas for Christmas gifts for your friends and loved ones.
Hanukkah Menu
Posted on November 29, 2010
Wow, Thanksgiving is barely over and it’s time for Hanukkah already! I’m planning the festivities for the first night of Hanukkah (it’s this Wednesday night) if you can believe that. I’m not in the habit of buying much Hanukkah paraphernalia and such for my boys, I like to keep this holiday simple and on point,
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Gluten Free Thanksgiving 2010
Posted on November 17, 2010
I’ve had so much fun over the last few weeks making various Thanksgiving dishes and dinners for my family –we’ve had several mini-Thanksgiving celebrations to date in preparation for the below menu. So, as you can imagine, the following are my favorites. I have compiled these gluten free dishes into one big, healthy, delicious Thanksgiving
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Gluten-Free Halloween Treats
Posted on October 21, 2010
Looking for Halloween treats that won’t make your little ghosts and goblins frown? So am I. Hence, I’ve composed the lists below of gluten-free goodies. This year, I’ve purchased organic (gluten-free) milk chocolate squares to hand out to the trick-or-treaters. My children and I had a funny conversation about this at Whole Foods the other
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