Cottage Cheese & Fruit Salad

If there is one dish I couldn’t live without, this cottage cheese and fruit with spinach would be it. This is my old stand-by breakfast, lunch, or snack. It’s naturally sugar and gluten-free. I never get tired of eating this salad. When I take it for lunch, someone always comments at how good it looks, [...]

Cinnamon Raisin Scones

Truth be told, I’ve eaten only one or two scones in my lifetime prior to giving up flour and sugar. They weren’t that great. As popular as they are today, I assume it’s the sugar that compensates up for the lack of taste and dryness. I set out to create the perfect sugar and gluten [...]

Shortcake with Berries and Cream

My Grandma Ruth is one of the best home cooks I’ve ever known. When I was little, she used to take us to the berry patches in Ohio and we’d pick our own strawberries. Sometimes when we were out in the country she’d pull over to the side of the road and pick wild blackberries [...]

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

When I was a kid, my dad bought an old-fashioned electric ice cream maker with a wooden container. He would make the ice cream mix right in the metal ice cream canister with sweetened condensed milk. Daddy always had a sweet tooth and had to taste the rich, thick milk as he made the mix. [...]

Angel Food Cake

When I was a kid, angel food cake was one of my favorite desserts. It still is, but finding as store-bought cake that fits my dietary preferences was impossible. I tried making several versions of angel food cake – the first few were complete flops. They were heavy, too moist, and they collapsed. This version, [...]