If you follow my Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram pages, you may remember that I traveled to New Zealand’s North Islands the day after Thanksgiving. My son and his family (Linda, granddaughters Georgia and Cecile, and their three rescue dogs, Teddy, Moo and Cocoa) relocated from Los Angeles, CA to Wellington, NZ for a year. I was very […]
Vegan Halloween Cakeballs
I keep a dessert leftovers box in the freezer. In that box–on the day my fridge/freezer was being replaced, I found two bags of chocolate cake crumbs, one marked wheat and the other gluten-free. and both labeled, “flavor not great.” Really? I knew the cakes weren’t spoiled, but just left over from a couple of tests […]
Gluten Free Vegan Castagnaccio
In my last blog post, I talked about the castagnaccio cake Susan Andrews and I made for our Vegano group’s dessert one night. Regional versions of the cake are found in Tuscany, where I first ate it, and Liguria and Emilia-Romania too, but not Cilento where we were staying. Still, when I saw the chestnut flour […]
Mother’s Day Chocolate Cake- Updated
I wrote this post on the first Mother’s Day after my mother, Shirley Bernstein passed. My Mom was outspoken to say the least, kind of feisty in her choice of words at unexpected times, a totally dedicated grandmother and great-grandmother, and a woman who did not like to cook. During the year I was in […]
