the peaceful peacock

Looks like my Great Gluten Free Exper­i­ment is back on for a cou­ple of rea­sons.  With a new baby on the way, I’d like to have some go-to recipes ready to rock once she starts eat­ing solids.  One of the most kid-friendly things out there is banana bread–this ver­sion has been cre­ated with a mixture […]

Gluten Free Lemon Bread with Chia Seeds Feel­ing a lit­tle dis­heart­ened after my last gluten free exper­i­ment, I took a lit­tle time to mel­low out a bit and inves­ti­gate some alter­na­tive solu­tions for gluten free bak­ing.  Yes, I’m research­ing alter­na­tives to gluten free alter­na­tives. Even I don’t have a smart ass com­ment for that one. My thought […]

I knew that div­ing into the world of gluten free bak­ing would be a chal­lenge. I knew this, I swear. Let me tell you what I have learned for sure this week: there are A LOT of crappy gluten free recipes out there. Holy moley. Our com­post bin is quickly fill­ing with these hor­ri­ble, horrible […]

Since we have a wee one under the age of one year and a his­tory of aller­gies in the fam­ily, my goal is to fig­ure out a way to to trans­late our favorite recipes into gluten free dishes that don’t suck. Obsta­cle One of the Gluten Free Chal­lenge: cre­ate gluten free foods that the boy is […]

The flow­ers from AnnieDesign are all here!  Cute lit­tle bug­gers, aren’t they?  Fin­ish­ing this project is at the top of the list for this week. Since there is no Farm­ers Mar­ket this week (the fair is com­ing, silly) I am tak­ing this oppor­tu­nity to catch up on a few ideas and fur­ther develop some prod­ucts in […]