Kristine Kidd | Fresh Gluten-Free Food
Come up to the mountains
and stay for a cabin meal
CABIN LIFE
A Bon Appetit Editor Cooks at an Alpine Cabin
Spring in the High Sierra
Turkish Eggs
We arrived at our cabin on a sunny but nippy day at the end of April. Twelve-foot-high snow banks still lined our driveway, four feet …
Avalanche Threat
Kidney Bean Stew with Pickled Cabbage
This winter has been extreme at our cabin. We’d already gotten 8’ of snow, and more was in the forecast. An avalanche destroyed one house in our mountain community, did great damage to two more, and then stopped across the …
Entertaining Cabin Style
Pasta with Mushrooms and Italian Sausage
Mountains of fresh snow lured us back up to our cabin after a mere week in the city. We arrived on a Saturday afternoon to discover our internet wasn’t working. This was President’s Day weekend, meaning we faced the …
A Community Shoveling Party
Chickpea, Butternut Squash and Harissa Soup
Our Alpine community was inundated by a blizzard this January. Nine atmospheric rivers flowed through the eastern Sierra, dumping about 8’ of snow over only a few days. Roads were closed, driveways and walkways were heaped too high to clear …
COOKING TO IMPROVE LIVES
Cooking Classes at a Homeless Housing Program
The Best Thanksgiving
Mushroom Sauce
Roast Sweet Potatoes with Maple-Molasses Butter
Spiced Cranberry Sauce
Accepting the invitation to Thanksgiving dinner at a relative’s home seemed weird—I always cook this meal—but, everyone would be there, so declining would have left …
Intro to These Classes
Easy Green Pozole
My Famous Guacamole
A lanky youth walked into the community room, eyes down, mumbling an incomprehensible reply to my welcome. Then an outgoing, smiling young man bursts in with an affable hello. Next, a guy who won’t make eye contact sneaks in. Our …
Cooking is Caring
Chicken and Vegetable Pho
Crème Brûlée
While we were eating guacamole and pozole at the end of the first class, I asked what dishes the boys would like to learn to cook. I was totally unprepared for the sophisticated requests. No one mentioned spaghetti, stir-fried chicken, …
What’s Good with You?
Cheese Omelettes
Mustard Vinaigrette
Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
I’m learning that more than a bunch of easy, inexpensive recipes to recreate, the kids want good food experiences. So, not only am I going with the request for French Omelettes, but I decided to include a cheese tasting too. …

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