Gluten & Grain Free

 We’re back. Wait. You didn’t know I was gone, but we slipped away for 6 days to Kentucky for a beautiful wedding and a visit with some very special friends.  The weekend before that we had another wedding in the middle of the Mojave desert. Fun times. You can see some picture on my Instagram.  I’m @agoldenafternoon so come ...

I love Holidays.  They are an awesome way to get people together, eat good food, share a bit of happiness, and maybe even relax a little (if you’re not the hostess, of course!)  St. Patrick’s day is no Christmas, but there’s a little piece of history there for everyone to celebrate in. St. Patrick (or Maewyn Succat, ...

Oatmeal is definitely a comfort food for me.  When I eat it in the morning it sits in my tummy and says, “Your day is gonna be awesome”.  I started making this oatmeal quite a few years ago and I love it (some of our frequent guests even ask for it which is sooo sweet).  Don’t get ...

Aren’t they just beautiful?  I have to say I love to take pictures of vegetables.  It’s weird I know, but I love that this color isn’t fake or added.  It’s just right there…the way God made it. Radiant as they are, these fellas come with a power-punch of bitterness.  Don’t worry though, the fat from the ...

So, lately I have been in a soup funk.  I guess it’s not really a funk because everyone around here seems to be happy with it.   Basically, I seem to be only thinking in soups these days when it comes to cooking.  I even convinced my newly minted 3-year-old to have 2 kinds of soup ...

It’s Fall and also October as far as the calendar goes, but it could not be further from cool and scarf-worthy here.  That will not keep me from enticing it with spices my kitchen and soup on my stove.  I made this recipe from good-looking seasonal veggies from my fridge and tons of garlic.   It ...

One of my very favorite things to cook is roast chicken.  It’s one of the few things I enjoy making over and over again, the same.  For this version, I wanted to mix the flava’ up a little. My oregano is so overgrown so I decided to use that along with some lemon thyme for the ...

Last year,  the canned item I got the greatest response to (besides pickles, of course) was salsa.  It seems that salsa speaks to everyone.  The cool thing about salsa is you can basically make it however you want.  I have a “gringo” tongue so it’s pretty abnormal that I would even stick a jalapeno in ...

One of my favorites, this salad.  I first had a beet salad several years ago at the Pebble Beach, CA restaurant, Club XIX (amazing place, by the way).  This kind of salad was hardly popular yet and I was hooked right then and there.  This restaurant also is responsible for my husband and myself becoming ...