Here you will find an archived weblog of my food, travel, and creative pursuits which I kept from 2010-2016. Please note both that the travel information contained here may outdated and that these logs were created on a prior version of this website and may not yet be optimized for the current version. If you’re looking for specific content, use the search field below! <3
It all started back in my very first apartment during my sophomore year of college. Both the holidays and finals were rapidly approaching and I had a full kitchen at my disposal after a year of living in the dorms with a microwave and mini-fridge. I needed a way to both procrastinate writing papers and to get into the holiday spirit in sunny San Diego. And so, I covered all the flat surfaces in my two bedroom apartment (shared with three other girls) with cookies.
Read MoreAlthough I ordered my gluten free turkey a couple of weeks ago, I pretty much forgot about planning our Thanksgiving menu until this week. After looking at the calendar and realizing how quickly one of the best dinners of the year was approaching, I managed to jot down a full shopping list in about five minutes.
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2012 Travel Gifts by glutenfreetravelette
I've done a lot of traveling this year, more than any other year since starting this blog. Through those travels I've found a couple of stand out items that I've just been loving along the way and since the season of gift giving is upon us, I thought I'd share some of my favorites!
Accordion Treats are another family recipe that I remember having during the holidays for about as long as I can remember. These gluten free versions are maybe a bit more fluffy than crispy and have to be very gently removed from the foil. Someday I would like to try making these dairy free by substituting coconut oil. But I'll save that for another day and let you enjoy the butter goodness of these!
And yes, you may also call these Banana Slug Cookies.
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I will be spending today finishing up cooking up and then eating our Thanksgiving dinner, yum! We delayed a day due to our work schedules and will be staying in Seattle. For our party of five we will be having a petite organic turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, a fall salad, and four types of pie (pumpkin, apple, shoofly, and pecan). Clearly, we like pie.
This year we will be having our low key Thanksgiving on Friday due to our work schedules and we'll keep it pretty simple with a turkey, mashed yukon gold potatoes with all the toppings, herbed stuffing, some kind of green bean dish, and pecan pie. If anyone has recommendations on a good green bean cassarole dish, please share!
This was the first time I've ever been involved in roasting a turkey, so at first I felt very clueless as to how to go about this endeavor. I found lots of different recipes, but this one from weelicious which was featured on GOOP seemed to be the most understandable and written in a way I could understand. So I took that as our base, but made a lot of changes. Including with the cooking time, since we had a little eight pound gluten free turkey. This recipe below was excellent for our little turkey and we got an incredibly moist, well and consistently cooked white and dark meat. However, if you're making a larger turkey you might want to adjust the quantities of the ingredients a bit and definitely increase the cooking time.
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