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Homemade Grenadine + Pomagaritas Cocktail

December 24, 2015 By Jessica

Homemade Grenadine + Pomagaritas Cocktail

Have you ever had a Shirley Temple? It was a popular kid’s drink in the seventies and eighties made up of ginger ale and grenadine and usually the bright red dyed kind. To make things healthier I made us a homemade dye free grenadine for our pomagritas cocktail. It is so versatile and easier than you think!  Use it for Tequila Sunrises, Shirley Temples (kids love it), Rum and Cokes, martinis, anything really. It takes 20 minutes to make without any of the corn syrup, dyes or preservatives like the bottled stuff and stores for over a month in the fridge. read more

Filed Under: drinks, entertaining, holiday Tagged With: entertaining, holiday

Chocolate Peppermint Bark

December 20, 2015 By Jessica

Chocolate Peppermint Bark

I couldn’t be more last-minute with this being it’s Christmas week and now, only now, am I sharing this chocolate peppermint bark (!). Sigh. I know, I know… snail mail pace … but hey, the good news is this super fast & easy for your last-minute homemade gift giving. Yesss. read more

Filed Under: chocolate, dessert, holiday, vegan Tagged With: chocolate, dairy-free, dessert, gluten-free, holiday, soy-free, vegan

Dark Chocolate Truffles

December 20, 2015 By Jessica

Dark Chocolate Truffles

A possible, just maybe, Christmas week scenario: It’s Christmas week and you still have last minute gifts you need to give but you want to make them homemade because you don’t know what your dear ones would like or want because they are more of an acquaintance from work, or your hair dresser, or your super or the mailman (who always makes sure you get your packages from Amazon safely and securely); and who wants to go to the mall and look for parking for an hour when you have too many things to do before Christmas, so you search for a quick and easy food gift that doesn’t look quick and easy and all without baking a single thing because you baked enough cookies and are cookie-ed out. With that, we also need to make it gluten free, dairy free, grain free, nut free and vegan to cover all your allergen bases. read more

Filed Under: chocolate, dessert, holiday, vegan Tagged With: chocolate, dairy-free, dessert, gluten-free, holiday, vegan

Grain Free Almond Joy Cookies

December 15, 2015 By Jessica

Grain Free Almond Joy Cookies

I heard about the 5th Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap back in October, on a blog somewhere – I can’t remember – where bloggers are given three names to send each a dozen cookies and also receive cookies in exchange, all through the mail. This caught my interest for obvious reasons and the idea of raising money for charity. read more

Filed Under: cookies, dessert, paleo Tagged With: cookies, dairy-free, dessert, gluten-free, paleo, soy-free

Grain Free Pumpkin Butter Waffles with Maple Cinnamon Glaze

December 13, 2015 By Jessica

Grain Free Pumpkin Butter Waffles with Maple Cinnamon Glaze

Even though we are all well past pumpkin, I’m boldly (gasp) reprising its role despite all the gingerbread and eggnog in the air.  

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My love of waffles is obvious – gingerbread, pumpkin spice, vanilla bacon, (posted so long ago using my iPhone 4 (yes, really) to which the photos don’t do any justice), and savory cornbread ones with fried chicken (another vintage recipe), it’s no wonder I’m inspired to try new waffle recipes. read more

Filed Under: breakfast, holiday Tagged With: breakfast, dairy-free, gluten-free, holiday, paleo, pumpkin, soy-free

Jelly Doughnuts

December 9, 2015 By Jessica

Jelly Doughnuts

Coming from first-generation Russian Sephardic Jew immigrant family, we didn’t have homemade fried Israeli-style “sufganiyot” jelly doughnuts. Then again, we weren’t a very traditional “Jewish-food” kind of family. Eating Russian food like plov (lamb and rice pilaf with carrots) and a savory cabbage stuffed with ground beef, instead of brisket with sweet glazed carrots was the norm at the family holiday gatherings. But I do remember my Mom buying ponchiki (Russian for doughnuts and a close cousin to the Israeli version) from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Underfilled (never enough filling) with cherry jam or vanilla creme, is how I remember them – and usually coated with sugar. Albeit untraditional with our Chanukah table, doughnuts always made their way to the table. read more

Filed Under: dessert, holiday Tagged With: dairy-free, dessert, gluten-free, holiday, soy-free

Chicken pot pie with Chanukah flair

December 4, 2015 By Jessica

Chicken pot pie with Chanukah flair

Hope you got to spend some quality time with loved ones and enjoyed good eats on Thanksgiving as we did. It was just last week yet feels like it was eons ago, doesn’t it? We completely stuffed ourselves with roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, butternut squash puree with homemade marshmallow fluff topping, roasted root vegetables, brussels sprouts, roasted green beans, cornbread, dinner rolls, salad, cranberry sauce and my favorite – stuffing – also cranberry pear and pumpkin pies. If that wasn’t enough, also made peppermint brookies, for the weekend to go with hot cocoa. I dug into my plate full speed and stuffed myself so quickly that halfway through I had to take a moment of pause. read more

Filed Under: holiday, main dishes Tagged With: dairy-free, gluten-free, holiday, main dishes, soy-free

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Hi! I'm Jessica, welcome to my blog! I'm a wife and mother of four (all boys, including twins. Did not see that coming!) who loves to eat. Discovering food intolerances in my family and myself had me think about cooking differently with an emphasis on nutrition, but not any less deliciously. No, won't settle for that, neither will my kids! Here you will find simple, healthy, seasonal recipes we love that are gluten, dairy, and soy free. Many are also egg free, nut free, plant-based and/or grain free, given our evolving dietary lifestyle. Even though we live a life of dietary restrictions, my passion for food keeps me on a constant quest to create tasty recipes or adapt our favorite recipes from my stack of cookbooks to bring back the joy of eating again, without sacrificing flavor. Hope you find some inspiration and recipes to enjoy ... thanks for stopping by!

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