Category: gluten-free

Recipe: Tropical Chocolate and Amaranth Cake

This recipe is the unnatural spawn of three different recipes – one in Veganomicon, for a low-fat vegan chocolate cake, one in 366 Delicious Ways To Cook Rice, Beans and Grains (which, incidentally, is an incredibly useful cookbook if you…

Recipe: Roast Garlic and White Bean Chilli

Photographic evidence of Cross-Dressing Ken’s latest cake adventures will be up later this evening, but I just need to get this recipe down before I forget what I did!  This is another vegan chilli recipe, but this time it’s gluten…

Recipe: Grapefruit Pectin Jellies

These jellies are basically the point of grapefruit, at least in my opinion.  I find grapefruit far too bitter to eat, but the bitterness and sourness help the pectin to set the jelly, and the resulting confection is just sweet…

Living dangerously

Here’s the planned menu for tomorrow’s (actually, it’s now today’s) dinner.  It’s vegan, gluten free, and free of a bunch of other bad-tempered fruits, vegetables and fruit-derived products (ie, no wine or vinegar) that make my guests unhappy. I’m taking…

Recipe: Ricotta and Herbs

Still feeling too seedy to really be creative, so here’s a really short, easy recipe, inspired by The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook.  This recipe makes me feel a little sad, because right now is absolutely not the season for it…

Recipe: Onion Soup for a Sick Day

The Christopher Robinish breakfast didn’t work, so  it’s time to resort to my ultimate virus-fighting weapon: onion soup.  What what could be stronger, heartier, or more pungent? No virus would dare colonise a body with this many allicins in it,…