Awesome Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Recipe The Award-Winning Cake Recipe from our Popular Cookbook is now Online! Award-Winning Gluten-Free Carrot Cake This excellent cake is features in our Gluten-Free Gourmet Desserts cookbook. My wife created this recipe which is truly indistinguishable from the “real” thing, and this carrot cake won first place honors at our city cake-baking competition in ..read more

Purple Sweet Potato Pie An Alternative to the Traditional Pumpkin Pie Slice of my Purple Sweet Potato Pie This year, I wasn't able to quickly procure any pumpkin puree for my traditional gluten-free Thanksgiving dessert of choice, so I decided to get a bit creative and work with what I had at hand: purple sweet potatoes!  I really like these potatoes roasted, by themselves, as they are ..read more

Loquat / Nespera Time is Here Ripe Loquat (or Nespera), Spain / Portugal variety, about 5cm (1.75 inch) A Lesser-Known Tasty Fruit, available nearly worldwide I first encountered the Loquat, which grows on an evergreen shrub or tree, while in Houston, Texas.  There were plenty of the bushes growing around the neighborhoods, and it seemed like nearly everyone owned the plants just for the ..read more

Chocolate + Lemon = Tasty GF Recipe! Gluten-Free Chocolate Lemon Cheesecake I generally like the combination of citrus flavors and chocolate / cocoa.  And, since I had some extra cheeses and yogurt to put to use, as well as some lemons, I decided to assemble this super-simple cheesecake. The Recipe / Directions When baking for fun, I don't usually take time to measure ingredients or ..read more

Gluten-Free Biscotti Recipe Apple and Cinnamon Flavors join Almond — delicious treat! Gluten-Free Biscotti Recipe : Apple Cinnamon flavor I finally got around to posting this delicious Apple-Cinnamon Gluten-Free Biscotti recipe (link to full recipe) on my recipes-library site.  This is a recipe that Kate came up with a while back, and it extends upon the basic Almond biscotti formula with ..read more

Pure Buckwheat is Really Gluten-Free I had an anonymous reply to an old Gluten-Free blog posting where I had used buckwheat in a gluten-free pumpkin and spice pancake recipe, and the anonymous poster made it clear that, even though they have Celiac Disease, they remain misinformed about buckwheat and still think it contains gluten. I have tried repeatedly to get the word out about the fact that ..read more

Sobreiro de Pegões Portuguese Red Wine Review Simply put: Spectacular! I rarely review alcoholic beverages here on The Gluten Free Blog. In fact, the last such product review was for Carolyns Irish Cream liquor in 2010, and before that some various gluten-free beer reviews.  But, my wife and I came across a wine that we think is absolutely fantastic, so I figured why not post a quick review ..read more

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig-Paste Recipe Last week, I posted a blog entry about how fresh figs are now in season along with some recommended preparations and uses for these figs, one of which was to create your own fig paste.  After harvesting some 20 pounds or more of figs in the past week, it became quite clear that I had to get busy... Step 1: Wash the Figs, Cut in Half, place in Vitamixer ..read more

Figs, fresh-picked from the trees I really enjoy this time of year when figs are ripening on the trees and plentiful.  Yesterday I came across a small cluster of fig trees growing wild on a tiny strip of public land where a couple streets meet at an intersection (barely a 2-foot wide area between an alley and a larger road). These trees, which are approximately 15 feet tall and 10 feet in ..read more

Pomegranates as the basis for a tasty GF treat One of my favorite fruits is the wonderfully delicious pomegranate — a fruit that requires a bit of patience when it comes to retrieving all the individual edible berries (seeds) from within its thick reddish skin and the inner near-white pulp. I have tried repeatedly over the years to improve the efficiency with which I can harvest those little ..read more