Karina's Kitchen:

Brown Sugar Buckwheat Thumbprint Cookies

2009-12-14T13:17:00.000-08:00

Scrumptious buckwheat cookies with fig and apricot jam. 'Tis the season for baking cookies. So I feel no guilt at all tempting you with my latest gluten-free baking success. What kind of gluten-free goddess would I be if I didn't keep conjuring up cookie recipes? I ask you. Not a goddess worth her salt- er- sugar. So I am not going to apologize for the calories, or the fat or the organic golden

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Winter Holidays: Celebrating Gluten-Free

2009-12-09T10:02:00.000-08:00

Looking for inspiration and recipes for your gluten-free Christmas breakfast? Winter solstice brunch with friends? Vegan Hanukkah guests? A romantic New Year's Eve? Here is my collection of holiday favorites. Browse recipes and create your own winter holiday menu. Celebrate gluten-freestyle. With love. A Mid-Winter's Menu Brunch and Breakfast Apple Cake with Cranberries Cranberry Banana

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Apple Cake with Cranberries

2009-12-06T11:26:00.000-08:00

A cranberry apple cake for the holidays From the recipe archives with a few edits and notes. No philosophy today. Dust off your cake pan and rustle up some apples and cranberries. Here is a moist and tender apple cake laced with a hint of cinnamon and studded with fresh tart berries. After seven eight years of baking various gluten-free incarnations of my tried and true Jewish apple cake

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Quinoa Pumpkin Cookies

2009-12-04T13:25:00.000-08:00

Quinoa cookies with pumpkin and spice Dear Reader, Yes, Babycakes, I'm talking to you. You know I love you, right? In fact, I'm crazy about you. I read your comments (beyond ten thousand now!) and I smile at your Twitters (or is the correct nomenclature actually tweets?). I'm giddy you follow the blog on Facebook. I am humbled by your generous and warm e-mails (I save them). Your feedback and

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Chicken Soup for Body and Soul

2009-12-01T09:00:00.000-08:00

A chicken soup to cure all ills We've been living on soup since Sunday. No, not turkey leftovers soup. Jewish penicillin soup. You see, Steve- that ordinarily upbeat and tenacious husband of mine- has been feeling a tad under the weather these past few days. In truth, more than a tad. He's caught a nasty cold. The kind of cold where you ache all over and do nothing but lay in bed watching a

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Pumpkin Scones with Maple Nutmeg Icing

2009-11-25T12:58:00.000-08:00

Warm pumpkin scones drizzled with maple nutmeg icing Take a deep breath. Stop. Sit. I understand. I get it. And I know what you're craving. Because I'm craving it, too. After all the pre-Thanksgiving hubbub, after scouring the Internet for gluten-free recipes, after all the planning, the lists, the shopping at six different markets because one store never has everything you need (that would be

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Roasted Acorn Squash Risotto

2009-11-19T08:41:00.000-08:00

A delicious acorn squash risotto that is vegan and gluten-free. Looking for a perfect Thanksgiving side dish? Or a vegetarian knock-your-socks-off bowl of creamy goodness? Risotto might fit the bill. This is one of my all-time recipe favorites. In fact, it was the first dish I turned to eight years ago when I discovered I had to live gluten-free. Way back then (insert hazy slow-mo flashback) I

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Delicious Gluten-Free Bread Recipe

2009-11-15T10:23:00.000-08:00

My favorite gluten-free bread with sorghum and millet flour, revisited with new baking tips. Man shall not live by bread alone, so the famous saying goes. In other words, we need ideas to feed us, too. We need awareness. Conscious action. An expression and celebration of the spirit. And yet (here's the sticky part, folks) almost every spiritual tradition includes the bread we shall not

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Sweet Potato Pie

2009-11-13T15:44:00.000-08:00

A crustless, creamy sweet potato pie vegan and gluten-free guests will devour. Promise. The afternoon sun is spinning the seaside air that particular autumn gold, burnished and warm and chilly all at once. Delicious. And gone too soon. The sun will officially set tonight at 4:50. I feel as if I am running out of time. There is so much I want to do- and never get done. I surrender my

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Thanksgiving Recipes & Tips for Gluten-Free & More

2009-11-09T09:48:00.000-08:00

Need a gluten-free and dairy-free pumpkin pie? No problem. The Big T. Thanksgiving. Nothing sends shivers of trepidation up a gluten-free or dairy-free girl's spine like the mental image of Grandma's sage pungent white bread dressing or shimmying slabs of Aunt Ida's pumpkin pie. It's a butter and wheat flour gorge fest with danger at every turn. The gruesome gut-twisting threat of thirty-six

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Maple Roasted Acorn Squash and Cornbread Stuffing with Curried Apple & Cranberries

2009-11-04T09:06:00.000-08:00

Maple roasted acorn squash and a gluten-free cornbread stuffing. We are moved in. Books are unpacked, paintings hung, bamboo platform bed assembled. I am dog tired and sore and deeply, deliriously happy to be here. It is a soft, foggy morning in Santa Monica, a Glenn Gould Goldberg Variations kind of morning. Five floors below our apartment window the traffic lights glow in haloed reds and

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Pumpkin Pie Bread

2009-10-26T11:48:00.000-07:00

A new moist and tender tea bread that tastes like pumpkin pie. This is a big week. Huge. Never mind The Canyon premiere. Forget the post screening parties at Cafe Was and the Palihouse (where the valet parked the only Honda Fit of the night- I'm guessing). Forget hanging out in Hollywood with Yvonne Strahovski. Mark Williams. We're talking major excitement. Glamor. Dreams come true. That's

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Gluten-Free Apple & Pear Crisp

2009-10-23T08:58:00.000-07:00

Easier than pie, a crisp makes a lovely gluten-free dessert. Tart crisp apples and tender pears are sprinkled with a cinnamon and brown sugar crumble and baked to melt-in-your mouth perfection. This simple gluten-free dessert- worthy of excavation from Karina's Kitchen archives- evokes old fashioned autumnal comfort at its coziest. Using a gluten-free pancake and baking mix- such as Pamela's

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The Canyon Premiere Video

2009-10-21T15:49:00.000-07:00

Here's a sneak peek at last night's premiere of The Canyon at Grauman's Chinese Theater. It was the first time we saw the film on the big screen. In the video- shot by our son Colin aka Slighter, on his iPhone- you can catch a glimpse of Grauman's, Steve, son Alex and Jess, Beth Brunner, lead actress Yvonne Strahovski, director Richard Harrah, and producer Mark Williams. And me. An independent

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Gluten-Free Pumpkin Waffles and The Canyon

2009-10-19T11:20:00.000-07:00

Gluten-free pumpkin waffle goodness I haven't been baking much in our dorm-sized sublet. The Barbie scaled toy that pretends it's an oven (my lasagna pan- never mind my cookie sheets- won't fit) is totally, weirdly cattywampus. Pie plates slide to the rear and flip backwards like pancakes. And trying to fetch potatoes that have rolled off the back of the rack is often a futile act proving

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Gluten-Free Banana Corn Muffins

2009-10-14T13:42:00.000-07:00

Tender and sweet corn muffins infused with the scent of banana Apartment hunting is more than a little fun, right? It's big fun. You get to tour unfamiliar lobbies and prowl rooms old and new. You get to peek into kitchen cupboards and step onto balconies, turning your face toward the sun to imagine greeting the day in that one particular spot on Earth (mug of fresh brewed coffee and a crisp LA

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Roasted Eggplant Tapenade + Pasta Sauce

2009-10-10T10:29:00.000-07:00

Roasted eggplant tapenade also makes a delicious pasta sauce Yesterday was summery here in Southern California. In a Meg Ryan breezy kind of way. Not in a sultry no air peel off your jeans cowboy boots and socks Jennifer Lopez in U Turn kind of way. Nope. Sunny and warm it was- but not hot like New Mexico. We've moved into our sublet (above one of Santa Monica's most famous vegan restos). The

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Spicy Pumpkin Soup with Coconut Milk

2009-10-05T09:19:00.000-07:00

Here's a recipe for a quick and easy pantry soup that just so happens to be gluten-free. Cleaning out the pantry always makes hungry. Come to think of it, so does packing. And lugging laundry. But the truth is, this time of year- anything can make me hungry. I could blame it on shorter daylight. Or the jarring touch of the cold tile floor when I tumble out of bed barefoot and sleepy and weave

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Gluten-Free Pumpkin Cake with Maple Icing

2009-10-02T09:56:00.000-07:00

Tender and moist pumpkin cake with maple icing Today I'm digging into the archives to share an old favorite. My pumpkin cake recipe. We're so busy sorting, bagging clothes and boxing up books for donation, getting ready for the big move to Los Angeles (next Thursday!) that yours truly has not had time to bake. But if I did? I'd whip up this moist and tender beauty of a cake. Today it snowed

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Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie

2009-09-28T12:03:00.000-07:00

Sweet potatoes make a fabulous shepherd's pie topping A certain individual living by the mesa has some news. Can you guess? We sold the house. We're moving lock, stock and barrel (in reality, more like Macs, books and UGGS) to Los Angeles, packing up the Honda Fit again to head West and start our new life as Los Angelenos. I am almost too wired to write. The quasi-plan is to rent a furnished

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Quinoa Breakfast Brownies

2009-09-24T15:39:00.000-07:00

My new favorite: quinoa breakfast brownies We were treatless this week. Specifically, breakfast treatless. No Pear Polenta Muffins were hiding in the freezer. No Apple Cake with Cranberries. In fact, the only food items in the freezer were a solo bottle of organic vodka and a bag of frozen cranberries (does vodka count as food?). Which turned out to be a good thing. Because we had to bake. [Had

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Easy Chicken and Balsamic Peppers

2009-09-20T08:27:00.000-07:00

One of our family's favorite (and easy!) baked chicken recipes. When it comes to big change I'm brave. I jump in feet first. In my small and particular universe it's easier to pinch your nose and hurl yourself off the edge than it is to stand there and think about it. That kind of anticipation is excruciating. Give me five minutes to think about all the things that can go wrong and I'll start

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Gluten-Free Apple-Pear Muffins

2009-09-16T15:02:00.000-07:00

tender and sweet apple-pear muffins Today I have new muffin recipe for your gluten-free repertoire- with apples and pears. And a story. A story not about muffins or fruit or sunlit pastoral memories of picking apples with my grandfather (he wasn't that kind of grandfather). No, no childhood ramblings. A story instead that's more of a snippet. A conversation, actually. The dating game. "I wish

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Ruby Applesauce with Cranberries

2009-09-14T17:43:00.000-07:00

Apple season is upon us. Bring on the apple recipes. First up- a favorite New England pairing- apples and cranberries simmered to create a luscious slightly tart sauce, sweetened with organic raw agave. Make it as sweet or as tart as you prefer. This beautiful ruby red applesauce is a lovely side dish for so many fall recipes- from Turkey and Sweet Potato Enchiladas to classic Sweet Potato

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Roasted Hatch Chile Stew Recipe with Sweet Potato, Corn + Lime

2009-09-11T07:24:00.022-07:00

Scrumptious slow cooker stew with roasted chiles, sweet potato and lime Ho-la! It's that time of year again. The annual roasted Hatch chile madness is upon us here in chile blessed New Mexico. You can smell the intoxicating smoky-sweet scent of roasting green chiles everywhere you go. Even Walmart. Seriously. There's a roaster out front in the baking hot Espanola Walmart parking lot as we

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