Chocolate Cake – Dairy & Gluten Free – with Chocolate Frosting
This gluten-free, dairy-free chocolate cake recipe, found on the Downshiftology website is the very BEST I have ever eaten! I am not kidding! I really enjoy a frosted cake and I never thought I’d find my new favorite recipe on a paleo website. I have a few friends with gluten and dairy intolerance. I was …
Pumpkin Custard – The VERY Best and Dairy Free!
This velvety Pumpkin Coconut Custard features naturally sweet coconut milk and a touch of maple syrup. This recipe has been husband and friend tested and rates a 10 out of 10 for yummy-ness! Don’t save for fall – make it all year round! Our good friends both have diets that restrict both dairy and gluten. …
Guilt Free Brownies
GUILT FREE, gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free. They’ll satisfy your craving without the sugar and with the added healthy fiber of the garbanzo beans! Shelly, a good friend of mine, made these brownies for us one evening. I was shocked to find out there is NO flour in these – they are a real treat – …
Chocolate Pudding – Dairy-Free, Surprise!
No one will ever guess the main ingredient of this extremely healthy chocolate pudding: avocados! Even those that don’t enjoy the taste or texture of avos they will love this recipe. Don’t tell anyone and they’d never guess. This is an absolute favorite in our house. I make a double recipe every time. This recipe is from …
Peach Cobbler
A Family Dessert Favorite! 20 Aug 2016: I am still making this recipe but now it is with Colorado peaches. I am happy to say it is such a hit my neighbor just brought over peaches and asked if I’d make this cobbler for them. What a wonderful compliment! AND I am happy to make …
Chocolate Cream Drop Cookies
Vintage 1950 from my Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book of the same age…a timeless favorite! I came across this cook book when I was browsing in a used book store a few years ago. I loved it! I finally had a cookbook like the one my mom cooked from! I was able to then find the …
Autumn Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
I love everything pumpkin. These take a little time but are well worth it!
Old Fashioned Apple Pie
Old Fashioned Apple Pie This apple pie recipe from Martha Stewart is the either the same or as close as it gets to my nana’s and mother’s apple pie recipe. (I lost any original I may have possessed – if ever). The only addition I made was noting one could use Pippin apples, because Nana …
Ginger Cookies – Recipe Not from my Nana’s Kitchen
Not my Nana’s cookies! I submitted my Dutch Nana’s Frosted Ginger Cookies to the Sunset Magazine a few years back. It was then published in the 2005 Christmas edition – a couple years after submitting. I got a letter and a $100 check – which was a surprise because I’d forgotten I had sent it …
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pumpkin Cheesecake – Now Famous in our household! I found this wonderful Pumpkin Cheesecake recipe on the food network. My son-in-law, Anthony, doesn’t like pumpkin pie, so I thought I’d find a variation he might enjoy…or the grand kids would eat. My grandson loves cheesecake and I love pumpkin so found a great combination that …
French Apple Pie
FRENCH APPLE PIE This recipe is almost the same as my Apple Pie recipe but the butter is omitted, there is no pie crust on top and instead it is topped by the Crumb Topping. (Recipe altered slightly from the original found in Betty Crocker’s Cookbook printed 1982.)
Fresh Apple Pie
FRESH APPLE PIE I always loved my Nana’s cooking. She had a pippin apple tree in her back yard in Tujunga, CA. in the 50’s so pippin was the apple of choice…for baking. She would make chunky cinnamon apple sauce to die for! And the pies were the same. Unfortunately, over the years I have …
Pie Crust – Favorite!
Our Favorite Pie Crust I have an old recipe from my aunt Dot, that my mom used…it calls for Crisco shortening. A handful of years ago I decided I wanted to use something other than shortening. I found Martha Stewart’s recipe for pie crust and tried it. It was so wonderful I can’t imagine any …
Pumpkin Pie – Dairy and Gluten Free
Dairy and Gluten Free, this Pumpkin Pie is scrumptiously delicious! My best friend, Jodine, gave me this recipe. It was her mom’s and she has modified it to be dairy and gluten-free. I really enjoy good old-fashioned pumpkin pie, and I loved this! YUM! INGREDIENTS: 1 unbaked 9” pie shell (gluten-free) 2 c pumpkin (16-17 oz can …