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
Gathering with Neighbors when Snowed In
Abundant Vegetable Nachos
The falling snow was relentless, beautiful and magical, but relentless. We alternated shoveling the entrances to our cabin and keeping the driveway …
Cabin Life
How to Keep Warm During a Snow Storm
White Bean, Kale and Parmesan Stew
A storm that dropped three feet of snow over 24 hours had us cabin bound, except for brief periods outside to shovel snow and run the snow blower up and down the driveway. Temps hovered around 8°F before bed and …
Cabin Life
The First Snow
Warming Butternut Squash Soup with Maple Drizzle
Steve was heading off on a business trip, leaving me the big decision of where to spend the week without him: in Los Angeles or at our cabin high up in the Sierra mountains. That was an easy choice, …
Breads
An Explosion of Color
Apple Cornbread with Walnut-Brown Sugar Topping
The east side of the Sierra reliably displays an explosion of color during the first two weeks of October. After moving to Los Angeles from Vermont, and New York before that, each October I’d be filled with a deep seeded …
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 …
Cooking to Improve Lives
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 to Improve Lives
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, …
Cooking to Improve Lives
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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Kristine Kidd
Read about the Thanksgiving feast we cooked at our class for disadvantaged youth and adults at Venice Community Housing on my blog https://kristinekidd.com/the-best-thanksgivingmushroom-sauceroast-sweet-potatoes-with-maple-molasses-butterspiced-cranberry-sauce/ #venice community housing #thanksgiving
Nov 28
Here’s a luxurious pumpkin pie. With its crispy ginger snap crust and creamy brown sugar and spice laced filling, this is bound to become a family classic. No one will notice that it’s gluten free. Find it at Kristine Kidd.com, search “pumpkin pie.” #thanksgiving #thanksgivingdinner #cabinlife #cabincooking
Nov 19
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