Author: denisedaniel

  • Chicken Fried Steak with White Pepper Gravy

    My mother made cube steak sometimes when we were kids, but wasn’t one for sauces, so I wasn’t introduced to white pepper gravy until I began ordering it at diners. I liked nothing better than going to a greasy spoon diner after a night out with friends if we’d been imbibing, or as a recovery…

  • Atomic Fireball Liqueur

      Atomic Fireball Liqueur Remember when we were little kids and you could get Atomic Fireball individual candies for a penny or five cents depending on the era and rate of inflation? I wonder how much they are these days. In any case, I was trying to make a spiced cranberry liqueur when I came…

  • DIY Creme de Cacao Liqueur

    So the 15 food allergy thing, two of which are wheat and corn, ends up cutting out a whole lot of alcoholic beverages out of my diet. It’s looking like I may have another possible allergy (or three) on the horizon that may make my safe vodka no longer safe, so I was poking around…

  • Roast Goose

    Roast Goose Why Roast Goose? I’m sure some of you are asking that question.  Well, I’m allergic to chicken and I reacted to turkey when I challenged it. However, I don’t appear to react to duck and I like it. After further research it turns out that chicken and turkey are both in the Phasianidae family,…

  • Gluten-free Apple Pie (vegan option)

    Now that we have have a pie crust that works, of course I had to make apple pie. Because most of you won’t have the copious amount of home canned apple pie filling that is currently sitting in my garage, I made one up using fresh apples. Gluten-free Apple Pie (vegan option) 2 batches of our…

  • Gluten-free Pie Crust (vegan option)

    Gluten-free Pie Crust (vegan option)

    When I first was diagnosed with my wheat allergy (yep, actually allergic, not celiac), I tried to do a pie crust. I figured that all I’d have to do is mix some rice flour with shortening (I still had a safe-ish one at that point) and a bit of salt and voila, it’d all work…

  • Sriracha Sweet Potato DIY Tater Tots

      Okay, I know I already did a bunch of tater tots, but I had to do a chili head version. Seriously, you expected that I’d just leave it alone? I often use Sriracha (my homemade version, as I no longer can use the commercial version, sob, sob, although mine’s pretty close) instead of ketchup…

  • Apple Cranberry Habanero Hot Sauce

    In attempting to use up my glut of apples (they are finally all gone!!!), I wanted to do a chutney of some sort. But most of the recipes call for raisins, and at the moment, I don’t have safe raisins I can buy at the store because most of them have sunflower oil all over…