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Substitution Guidelines
With the rise of allergies and alternative diets, it can be really challenging to find recipes that fit your needs.
Here are some tips to help you with recipes on my site.
* All of my recipes that call for any type of bread cubes or crumbs will work with gluten-free breads.
* Many of my salads call for sour cream and mayo - they originally called for all mayo. You can also use fake sour cream or vegan sour cream.
* Baking recipes that call for butter can use margarine, cooking recipes can use oil.
* Recipes marked with dairy-free, vegan or gluten-free can either have offending ingredients substituted or omitted.
* Usually milk and half-n-half can be substituted with soy, rice, coconut and other nut milks.
I hope this helps!
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Category Archives: holidays
Looking back at 2009
Just over six months ago, I started this blog. Since then, I’ve met a lot of very lovely people and eaten a lot of great food.
I thought I’d share with you a few favorites.
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Happy New Year!
I hope you enjoyed your New Year’s celebrations, whatever they may have been, and safely returned (or stayed) home. I know the folks on the road here were crazy — and that was well before dark!
I’ve never been much for resolutions. They’re more likely to make me feel guilty rather than inspired. Instead of setting myself up for failure, I’ll share with you some of the things I hope to accomplish this year.
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Merry Christmas! Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Our Christmas meal consisted of pelēkie zirņi ar sīpoliem un speķi (grey peas with bacon and onions), speķa rauši (Latvian bacon and onion rolls), a spiral-sliced ham, šķovēti kāposti (braised sauerkraut), apple cobbler and mulled wine. (Mmm.. mulling spices + inexpensive merlot.. Wonderful.)
On Wednesday, I told you that we’d been waiting all year for one special dish. These, my friend, are pelēkie zirņi. Grey peas. This is also the last of our supply we brought with us from Latvia and, unfortunately, will be the last until we go back.
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Christmas Eve is nigh!
It’s almost Christmas Eve and I’ve been busily baking up a storm all week. A very slow storm who stops and rests quite a bit. Luckily, I’ve only got a head cold and it’s been manageable, but I still have a lot to accomplish today and tomorrow.
Christmas Eve is when my husband has traditionally celebrated Christmas and we’ll be continuing that tradition together, seeing family on Christmas day and following. We have plans for a great Christmas dinner, including one meal we’ve quite literally been waiting all year to have.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving as much as I did! We had a lot of great food at my Mom’s today and brought home enough leftovers for at least an entire dinner.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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