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More Adventures in Gluten Free: BREADS
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More Adventures in Gluten Free: BREADS

One Sunday morning, I woke up with the burning desire to fulfill a mission…I wanted to go on the hero's journey of attempting to make homemade gluten free bread that actually tastes delicious.

I searched for gluten free bread recipes with a certain criteria. So many recipes required so many ingredients. As a baking-philic wife of a gluten intolerant man, I have MANY flours and starches, so if the recipe called for a flour I actually didn’t have, I passed. Until I found the perfect one…. I had all the ingredients - here’s to a wing, and an uncardboardy tasting prayer. And made the sign of the Star of David for some extra!

Gluten free baking has its challenges. I try to reduce the amount of gluten in general, so it’s worth exploring other options. The picture looked so beautiful, I was convinced mine would NOT look as nice, but I was wrong!

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Holiday “Healthier” Dessert for Passover and Easter
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Holiday “Healthier” Dessert for Passover and Easter

It seems a contradiction to have a blog about health and movement, and then slip some dessert recipes in there. But we all need a vice, and mine is baking, and it’s only kind to share this type of vice with you! Plus the holiday dessert editions were very popular, so you demand and I supply. At least these desserts have modified sugar or use healthier fats and no gluten. I have two recipes for Passover and two for Easter, although with a little bit of paleo flour magic, all these recipes work for Passover as well! And even though our Seders are finished, we still have a good amount of time in Passover to still make treats.

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Your “Healthier” Thanksgiving Desserts
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Your “Healthier” Thanksgiving Desserts

I am here to give you some ideas for gluten free, dairy free “healthier” but delicious desserts that I have tested in my kitchen and were crowd pleasers in my circles. And you won’t even miss the dairy or the gluten! They do take alternative ingredients so if you are so inspired, you have a good week to find them.

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