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Snowmageddon Strawberry Brownies

February 11th, 2010 No Comments

Snowmageddon may have made most of us a little stir crazy, but it also gave us plenty of time in the kitchen to try new recipes. I found this recipe for brownies on the back of Meister’s Gluten Free Mixtures and swirled in some strawberry sundae topping for a little flare. Even though the snow [...]

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DC Restaurant Week Reviews: Bobby Van’s, BlackSalt, and Zengo

January 25th, 2010 1 Comment

January and August bring a treat to DC foodies on a budget: DC’s famed Restaurant Week. The gluties try to make the rounds to new restaurants each time Restaurant Week comes to town. It’s a great opportunity to truly test a restaurant’s gluten free sensitivity. When limited menus are the rule during Restaurant Week, some joints go [...]

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Gluten Free Pie Crust

December 20th, 2009 No Comments

Just in time for the holidays …
The snowy weekend inspired me to warm up in front of the oven and do some baking. I always turn to Carol Fenster’s recipes for my gluten free pies, but since we’ve already headed north to Massachusetts to spend time with family, I was without my trusted cook books. Instead, [...]

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Why the mystery when eating out?

December 1st, 2009 1 Comment

I love to eat. I really love eating out. But, I really don’t love being forced to eat on the road. For gluties, every new restaurant is a risk and every uninformed server is a serious source of frustration.
Over the past several months, I’ve been traveling quite a bit in both my personal and professional [...]

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Hill’s Kitchen Offers GF Baking Class

October 13th, 2009 No Comments

Hill’s Kitchen in the Eastern Market neighborhood is a gourmet cooking store that I stumbled upon recently because of its pressure cooking courses. There are few cooking classes that delve into the  locavore culture, but Hill’s Kitchen is all about teaching people to cook with seasonal ingredients and preserve summer’s pleasures in jams, jellies and [...]

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