I'm starting to love a good dutch baby pancake. They are so easy to make. Just put everything in the oven and then go about your business (usually for me this involves brushing my hair for once, putting away all the clothes that are laying about on the floor, and maybe even making my bed). Then, twenty minutes later, open the oven to see that something magical has happened. When I remove my beautiful Dutch Baby from the oven, it is usually greeted with gasps of awe and hunger. The Wheedler ...
Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie (Refined Sugar Free, No Evaporated Milk)
We used to get sick every year around Christmas time. It’s true there are a lot of colds going around this time of year, as well as a lot of people getting together having parties and such, but there are colds going around for a lot of the year and usually we don’t get sick. It could be all the Vitamin C that we take every time cold season rolls around (though really sometimes I think the Vitamin C actually makes me sick...it tastes awful). I think mainly we don’t get sick because our ...
My Tried and True Gluten-Free Christmas Recipes
There are a few favorite recipes that I make ever single year around Christmas. I've learned that it's really not a good idea to test out something new when I need something that will work and be absolutely delicious too. Here I've assembled a list for you of great holiday recipes, from breakfast to dessert (actually, I kind of skip dinner and go straight to dessert. You know me). So, here we go.... Christmas Morning Breakfast The way I figure it, there are two kinds of people in this ...
Quick Lunch: Tortilla Pizza
In this quick and easy tortilla pizza recipe, you just sprinkle on some toppings and cook. How does gluten free pizza in under 30 minutes sound? There are wars at our house. I like to think of them as tortilla pizza wars (we also have pan wars, bread wars, dish wars, cleaning wars, kindle wars, and lately a rather worrisome cardboard war, but currently I'm just talking about the pizza wars). Pizza Wars involve a great deal of fighting, secrecy, hiding, shady deals, and sometimes fire ...
Gluten Free Crepes with Caramelized Peach Spread
A delightful breakfast or a pretty dessert, these gluten free crepes with caramelized peach spread are simply divine. Refined sugar free, too! Jump to the Recipe. This morning I wandered downstairs in a daze and collapsed backwards onto the couch, legs swinging up into the air and head hanging off the edge (this is the proper way to sit/lounge/flop on a couch). The blood rushed all the way down from my feet to my brain, and I stared at the opposite upside down wall and faced that old ...
Chocolate Fudge Brownie Gluten Free Cookies
These gluten free cookies taste like a cross between a fudgy brownie and those chewy chocolate cookies you remember! Believe me, you won't be disappointed in these gluten free cookies! I dare you to only eat one! I’m currently living by myself, tragically cast away by my cruel family, left adrift in this world. Actually, it was I who left them. Not that I had any choice. They practically booted me out, saying, “See ya. Don’t let the door hit you on the butt on the way out.” Okay, fine, it ...
Pure7 Chocolate Review
I stumbled upon Pure7 Chocolate about a month ago through a link on a blog and was immediately impressed by the short, organic-only ingredient list and their beautiful website (because, okay, who isn’t impressed by a nice website?). So, liking what I saw, I contacted them and asked them if they had an affiliate program. Originally I was just thinking something along the lines of a picture on my sidebar leading to their site or something (or what was I thinking? I’m not sure. I tend to rush ...
Paleo Cupcakes (Chocolate, Moist, and Not Eggy!)
Super rich, fudgy, chocolatey, and not at all eggy paleo cupcakes with a secret ingredient. No one would know these divine cupcakes are secretly paleo! JUMP TO THE RECIPE. I first made this recipe as a cake with zucchini for my sister’s birthday, but we all agreed later that the zucchini flavor was a bit too strong and didn’t pair well with the peanut butter. In the end we switched in carrots instead of zucchini. None of us could taste them at all and no one would guess that these paleo ...
Balsamic Molasses Marinated Skirt/Flap/Blade/Flank Steak
I would like to make a confession. I am an amateur. At what, you ask? Well, pretty much at everything, life included/especially. But I’m referring specifically to the fact that I’m an amateur when it comes to cooking meat. Confession #2: I have never, ever even cooked a steak until today. Which is sort of embarrassing, since I do live on a cattle ranch. My family produces beef. I remember one time we were at a friend’s house, and they were wanting to fry a steak. They ...
Apple Pizza
One lovely morning I got out of bed thinking all was right with the world. Until I went downstairs and found my sisters. Hungry sisters. “Linnaea,” they said, “We are hungry.” (Actually they said it in Pig Latin. I’m translating here). Merciful sister that I am: “Don’t worry, angels, I shall feed you.” (It didn’t sound quite so good in Pig Latin). “Oh, thank you, Linnaea, and in return, we will serve you forevermore.” “That’s not necessary, my darling sisters.” Okay, fine. ...
Taste Guru–A Review
A few weeks back I was contacted by the people at Taste Guru and asked if I was interested in testing their product and writing a review. Well, YEAH, I was interested. I mean, who doesn’t want to taste food, take pictures, and then write about it? So here I am, fingers poised over the keyboard, about a million pictures loaded onto my camera, full of information and not quite sure where to start. So I’ll just start by telling you what exactly Taste Guru is. It’s a lot like a magazine ...
Gluten Free and Can Be Paleo No Bake Cookies
These tasty gluten free, can-be-paleo no bake cookies are perfect for everything from parties to your afternoon chocolate fix. :) You can't succeed in life without a no bake cookie recipe. Okay, fine, that might be an exaggeration. But it is true that I was having some serious difficulties without a sugar free no bake cookie recipe. Well, actually, just serious difficulties without an easy sugar free dessert. Because sometimes even I get sick of drowning myself in ...
2-Serving Paleo Chocolate Mousse
Let me establish something right off the bat: This paleo chocolate mousse does not taste like straight up coconut cream. I get it, I get it. Coconut cream thickens nicely. Coconut cream tastes good with chocolate. Coconut cream is easy to turn into a mousse. But it's easy to get tired of coconut cream mousse. Sometimes you just want regular, honest, silky smooth chocolate mousse that doesn't even hint of coconut. Yes, I use coconut cream in this recipe, but, no, you can't ...
Berry Clafoutis
I stumbled upon this French custard dessert a while ago on Pinterest. Of course, I just had to do it my way and made it with chocolate rather than fruit. Then, while updating some of the recipes on my blog the other day I came upon the chocolate clafouti recipe and realized that I never did make a real gluten free fruit clafouti. I was also looking for something to make for breakfast the next morning (yes, even though it’s a dessert). So I decided to go for it. I’m not normally ...
Fruit Sauce
I originally used this fruit sauce on these lemon crepes, but have since then used it so many different ways that it deserves its own page. I updated the recipe, tweaked it a bit to perfect it, and now here it is. Blueberry Sauce Print Prep time 5 mins Total time 5 mins Fresh, flavorful fruit sauce for anything from pancakes to cheesecake. Author: Linnaea Recipe type: Sauce Serves: 1½ cups sauce Ingredients 1 cup frozen or fresh strawberries, ...
4 Years of Gingerbread Houses
I've made it a tradition for the past few years to make a gluten free gingerbread house with my sisters every Christmas. I figured today (by the way, happy new years everbody!) I'd share four years of gingerberead houses (and improving photography skills let's hope). First off, here’s the recipe. Make one of your own. If you can't wait until next year, try it for valentine's day. So, 2011: I think that year someone gave us a huge bag of m&ms (normally we don't have much candy in ...
Butternut “Pumpkin” Pie
CLICK HERE for an updated version of this post! I took it into my head that this year I wanted to make a pumpkin pie without any of that toxic white sugar. Of course, I haven't completely given up on white sugar. Yesterday's fudge post should be proof of that. But either way, this pumpkin pie is sugar free. I also ran out of canned pumpkin and didn't realize it until I had started the pie. I could've backed out even then, but you see, I'd already decided to make pumpkin ...
Fudge
The perfect thanksgiving or christmas dessert (we also put this fudge in christmas baskets to give to friends, which when you think about it is a bit mean because we're basically poisoning them with sugar)! Anyway, this recipe is super easy, super sweet, and everything fudge ought to be. And what is this time of year for besides eating all the unhealthy, really delicious food you possibly can? Fudge Print Prep time 15 mins Total time 15 mins ...
Gluten Free Gingerbread Muffins
These amazingly soft gluten free gingerbread muffins have just the right of molasses and spice. Perfect for cold winter mornings...or all year round! With winter in the air, I’ve suddenly wanted spicy, wintery foods. Like these gluten free gingerbread muffins. Or pumpkin pie (recipe soon). Or Or maybe some insanely good cinnamon rolls. I guess it’s just this idea of what winter is supposed to be. Am I the only one picturing blankets, those weird-looking slippers, a mug of hot ...
Gluten Free Poppy Seed Muffins
You can never have too many muffin recipes...and this gluten free poppy seed muffin recipe definitely adds to the collection! On this blog I already have Cinnamon Nut Muffins, Coconut Pecan Carrot Cake Muffins, Lemon Blueberry Muffins, Yeast Muffins, Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins, Paleo Banana Muffins, and Pumpkin Muffins. So now here you have some delightful little gluten free poppy seed muffins. Cook them up some cold Saturday morning. Enjoy. Vanilla Poppyseed Muffins ...
Gluten Free Made Easy Cookbook
A few weeks back I was contacted about featuring a cookbook called "Gluten Free Made Easy" by Christi Silbaugh and Michele Vilseck. As this post probably demonstrates, I was interested. I'd never done a feature before (so being that this is my first try, don't expect extreme excellence or elegance) but I was willing to give it a shot. I'd forgotten about it until a mysterious package arrived in the mail addressed to me...For a second I thought it was maybe a gift from a complete stranger ...
Gluten Free Apple Cobbler
You've gotta have gluten free apple cobbler. It's just one of those necessities of life. Like chocolate or books. Books. I've been on a book marathon lately. Except not really a marathon. It's just that sometimes I'm hungry for food and other times I have a voracious appetite for books. Sometimes both. I think I read three books yesterday. And after that I read a bunch of short children's stories. Yes, I still read children's books. No, I'm not ashamed. And anyway, ...
Make Your Own Tulip Cupcake Liners
Yesterday I decided to make some chocolate cupcakes. The only problem was that we were completely out of cupcake liners. For a while I was using these super cool (not) tiger striped cupcake liners. We're talking genuine tiger stripes here. As in bright obnoxious orange with black streaks. I can't really say that I'm sad they're gone. Or that I'm sad to have to replace them with this more homemade (and less obtrusive) version. So today, when I decided to make Lemon Blueberry Muffins, ...
Lemon Blueberry Muffins
I needed a perfectly amazing blueberry muffin. You see, when you hear the words "Blueberry Muffin" there is a very definite idea of what that should be. It should be light and mildly sweet, and plain enough that the blueberries are in the spotlight, but not so plain that they are flavorless. The barely perceptible strain of lemon flavor in these muffins adds that tiny bit of extra flavor, but the blueberries are very much the spotlight. I've made a lot of blueberry muffins ...
Gluten Free Coconut Cake (dairy free and refined sugar free options)
This gluten free coconut cake is everything you know a coconut cake should be: it's light, soft, sweet, full of coconut flavor, and has a nice tender crumb! Sometimes I feel like writing and sometimes I don't. Today I don't. So I probably shouldn't, because I'll end up writing something really weird about aliens or extinct mammoths, and then I'll come back here later and look at it and wonder how I even started thinking about extinct mammoths. So instead, I'm going to ...
Yam Salad
Okay, I just need to let you know before we get started: This could very well be a sweet potato salad instead of a yam salad. My sisters and I have been arguing about yams vs. sweet potatoes for a long time now. I looked it up on the internet but there were varying definitions, so I’m still not completely certain which is which. It’s a sad world when you don’t know the difference between a yam and a sweet potato. I’m of the opinion that yams are orange and sweet potatoes are ...
Chuck Roasts
My family once had this weird discussion starting with “If you had been starving for two weeks on a desert island, and you were finally rescued, what would you most want to eat?” Nobody really said much about sweet desserts or chocolate. Most of the responses included “good thick bread with butter” and “very creamy mashed potatoes.” All responses included some kind of meat. I mean, we grow beef for a living. Of course we’re going to eat it. A high number of the responses included a ...
Flourless Fudge Brownies
I feel so disloyal. You see, I have another brownie recipe. A good brownie recipe. A brownie recipe that I’ve sworn by for at least seven years. A brownie recipe that has never once disappointed. But we were out of flour yesterday. We needed a dessert. (Yes, you heard me. We needed a dessert. This is a basic human right that we’re talking about here). So I had to make dessert. It had to be quick and it had to be flourless. The result? Flourless fudge brownies. I ...
Paleo Pancakes Without Bananas
I figured that if I’m going to have some paleo recipes on this blog, I should have a pancake recipe....a recipe for paleo pancakes without bananas. Something I’ve noticed about paleo people: They must all love having bananas in their pancakes, because pretty much ever recipe I've seen contains bananas. I hate to disappoint them. But there are paleo pancakes without bananas. So in other words, you won't take a bite of these pancakes and get your mouth filled with ...
Gluten Free Dutch Baby Pancake
A Dutch Baby, as near as I can figure, is a baked pancake that puffs up and turns a delicious golden brown. It sounded good to me. I had to experiment a few times. The first one didn’t puff quite like it should’ve, the second one was too eggy. But this one was good. So enjoy. This recipe makes one 10 inch gluten free dutch baby pancake. Cover it with maple syrup, cinnamon, butter, and a dash of cloves. (And, yes, you'll notice that I changed my recipe format--Hopefully ...
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Gluten-free flours have less “hold” than gluten flours. Obviously. I’ve found that this is a problem in cookie and pie making because all of the butter in the mix just melts all over the place because there’s nothing to hold it together. With my pie crust, I finally got the perfect recipe with cream cheese. Cream cheese is firmer and doesn’t melt as much, so that way I was able to keep the crust firm without compromising that sweet buttery flavor. I was having the same “melt” ...
Lemon Cake
Yes, yes, I know it’s been a while since the last recipe. But you know that cold that has been sweeping across the entire world? Yep. I’ve had this lemon cake recipe ready for a while, but haven’t gotten around to posting it. Until now, of course. For some reason I’ve developed a fondness for lemons. Maybe it’s just the idea behind a lemon—sweet but sour, tangy and romantic—or maybe it’s that I read a book about lemons. Now you’re weirded out. Who reads books about ...
Gluten Free Breakfast Casserole
I actually made this gluten free breakfast casserole last week, but haven’t gotten around to posting it until now. I’ve been experimenting a lot lately with different breakfast recipes, and I even considered the hated quiche (hated by me, anyway. You probably love it and I’m really sorry for offending you just now). This is sort of an adaption of quiche, made with potatoes, meat, spinach, and cheese to break up the “egginess” of it all. Of course, you can make it as quiche, but who would ...
Lemon Vanilla Crepes
I really should stop going on pinterest. A few days ago some beautiful lemon vanilla crepes flashed before my eyes, and suddenly I remembered that I hadn’t made crepes for a long time. But these ones were gluten-stuffed. And sugar stuffed. And they were too hard to make. And you had to let the dough refrigerate for a whole hour, or (gasp!) overnight. I don’t usually plan ahead the night before, and I especially will not get out of bed an hour earlier. Will not. So I made my ...
Gluten Free Strawberry Crisp
My Mom recently bought a whole bunch of strawberries for a really good price. We enjoyed them very much, but even a family as big as ours failed to eat that many strawberries in just a few days. My sisters and I polished off the last few (anything that wasn’t completely rotten we managed to use) in this easy and delicious gluten free strawberry crisp. I made the topping oat free, so if you don’t eat oats there’s not a problem. If you do eat oats and you’d prefer an oat crisp, use the ...
Chocolate Birthday Cake Frosting & Decorating
For my little sister’s 11th birthday this week, I made a two layer chocolate cake with my new favorite icing (BUTTERCREAM)! The results were delicious and now my entire family is on sugar withdrawal. Earlier today, hoping to tempt my little sisters to go to town with us, I told them that we would buy them ice cream and everything (an impressive bribe, considering that they hardly ever get to buy ice cream). My youngest sister piped up: “No, I don’t want ice cream; I’ve had too much sugar ...
No Bake Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
I’m not a big date lover. For some reason dates remind me of dried figs and dried figs remind me of what my Dad used to tell us: Figs are filled with small, disgusting worms that crawl around inside your throat after you’ve eaten them. I apologize for telling you that. You’ll probably never eat figs again either. But all the same, dates aren’t figs. They might remind you of figs, but they aren’t filled with disgusting worms like figs are. And even though I don’t like them plain, they are ...
Paleo Carrot Cake
Lately I’ve been experimenting a little more in the world of paleo. It’s a strange world, full of aliens like coconut flour and chia seeds (still not real sure about the chia seeds but everyone else loves them so that’s terrific for them). I’m not even going to say that half (or a third) of my paleo baking attempts are exactly successful, but I can say that this one is. So, here you have it. Paleo Carrot Cake with some Coconut Spice Frosting. Dig in. Ingredients ¼ ...
Chocolate Smoothie
You didn’t think I’d dare to go and post a recipe for cold chocolate smoothie when it's still freezing at night out here. But I dared. Mostly just to be mean. Hopefully you’ll make this smoothie, and, realizing how good it is, you’ll drink it all before you realize how cold it is. And then you’ll sit there shivering in a blanket. The best thing I can recommend is that you buy one of those blankets with sleeves that everyone has been raving about lately. Those things aren’t exactly beautiful ...
A Week of Eating Gluten Free
So recently I’ve had a bunch of people asking me what we eat for meals. I didn’t really think about it before, since usually breads and pancakes and desserts are what people miss, but really it is hard to make good, healthy gluten-free main dishes. Cooking used to be so much easier, right? On nights you didn’t feel like it, you could just make some mac and cheese or hamburgers or go out to dinner. Now you can’t do that anymore. So anyway, last Wednesday I decided to take a week to track ...