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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: Latvia
Priecīgus Līgo svētkus!
I’ll be back tomorrow.. for now, there is cheese to eat and cider to drink while we wait for the sun to return…
Posted in Latvia, holidays, off-topic, untranslated
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Sveicieni Latvijas dzimšanas dienā! (91st Anniversary of Latvian Independence)
I thought about what I wanted to do for the holiday and eventually came up with this cake. In the South, red velvet cake is a tradition. I’ve never made it, much less had it, but I knew it’d give me the deep maroon of Latvia’s flag. The white was a little trickier.
I found a recipe for a Silver-White Cake in my Good Housekeeping cookbook. It used no egg yolks so that the cake would come out white as snow and after some fiddling, I had adjusted the recipe so I would get some white and some red velvet out of it. It came out beautifully, the colors perfect.
I think my little Latvian Independence Cake came out well. My husband liked the flavor too — tangy and not-too-sweet.
Posted in Latvia, cakes, holidays
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Vēlos… I wish…
This is some of what my mother-in-law grew in her garden and harvested last week.
Posted in Latvia, family, untranslated
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