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Kitchen Experiments – Beans for Dessert?

Flourless Coconut Great Northern Bean Blondies It seems like these days I am continually searching for new recipes and especially things made without flour. Anita and I have been on our low grain and fruit diet now for over a month and we are sick of what we are eating. We keep looking for different ways toContinue reading “Kitchen Experiments – Beans for Dessert?”

Smell – What Smell?

So, we had a very unfortunate incident at our house this past week. I came home from dropping my daughter at the bus stop to the blaring of smoke alarms as I opened the front door! At first, I could not comprehend what was going on. There was some smoke in the upstairs and myContinue reading “Smell – What Smell?”

Kitchen Experiment – Lentil Loaf with Zucchini Latkes

I love it when you forget about something that you used to cook all the time and it suddenly pops into your head again! That is what happened the other night. We are still doing a 4 day rotation for the ALCAT diet and it was lentil night. Suddenly, lentil loaf popped into my head!Continue reading “Kitchen Experiment – Lentil Loaf with Zucchini Latkes”

Kitchen Experiment – Gluten Free Pizza

I am always on the look out for a good gluten-free pizza dough recipe. I have been making homemade pizza since I was young. My Mom would make her own dough and then set us up to make our own pizzas. We would have friends over so that we could “teach” them how to makeContinue reading “Kitchen Experiment – Gluten Free Pizza”

Kitchen Experiments – Baked Eggplant

Growing up in an Italian household, there were a few things that were a given, like Sunday dinners. Typically we ate pasta and meatballs, one of my Dad’s favorite meals, which meant Monday school lunches were meatball sandwiches. There were several Italian kids in my class and you didn’t need to look any further than theirContinue reading “Kitchen Experiments – Baked Eggplant”

Bacteria, and more bacteria!

Did anyone hear the report on NPR earlier this week about bacteria? It was great! It was an update on an earlier report about bacteria and the immune system. The first report talked about children and pacifiers and how the children whose parents picked up the pacifier when it dropped on the ground and putContinue reading “Bacteria, and more bacteria!”

Kitchen Experiments – Millet “Pizza” with Greens

Growing up in an Italian household, my Mom would make something that she called polenta pizza. I am not sure why they called it pizza but it must have something to do with the italian word for pizza because pizza it was not! It was more like a thick polenta with a delicious crust on theContinue reading “Kitchen Experiments – Millet “Pizza” with Greens”

Kitchen Experiments – Buckwheat Applesauce Cake

I had no idea when I started to experiment with recipes for this ALCAT diet how to bake things without eggs. I always imagined that the baked items would not be as light and fluffy as their egg counterparts, but I will admit that I was wrong! This is the third, fourth or fifth time thatContinue reading “Kitchen Experiments – Buckwheat Applesauce Cake”

Gluten-Free, Yeast-Free Pizza

Who doesn’t love pizza! Well, I do think that there are those odd few that really don’t care for it, but in our house homemade pizza has always been a real treat. I can remember growing up and having friends over so that we could teach them how to make pizza – the right way! Continue reading “Gluten-Free, Yeast-Free Pizza”

Kitchen Experiments – Lentils with Spinach and Shitake Mushrooms

I really like lentils – red, black or green – soup, stew, loaf – almost anyway you cook them, I love them! Once again this recipe came out of the necessity of finding something to eat for dinner that was different but easy and definitely delicious. I had made something similar to this previously beforeContinue reading “Kitchen Experiments – Lentils with Spinach and Shitake Mushrooms”