Cozy Cauliflower Cheese, gluten free

         The other day we hosted a “Hipster Thanksgiving” for our friends. Named so because we did turkey day before everyone else! Clever, right! Right? It was definitely something that couldn’t happen without all of our friends bringing dishes! We had everything a proper thanksgiving should have... including almost 20 people stuffed into my apartment, and a too small kitchen! It was crazy, and fun, and just what I love to do.

     Ever since then I have been craving comfy cozy foods. This is especially difficult because I live in coastal Florida, which you know definitely never feels cozy like a cool fall day. In my search, I ended up on an english website where I saw this dish, albeit a much simplified version. ANY new way to make common things is great in my book. So I read the recipe... and promptly changed it to something way delicious (at least to me).

Return, & Shrimp and Pineapple Curry

      I'M BAAACK! I guess its been a couple years now. Things got in the way, work, study, school, new relationship, all awesome things but they took up time. Well... study and work paid off. I am now in med school year 2! Also, now engaged to a most wonderful person who makes me inadvertently smile all the time (D). More about those things later (I feel like I could write a book on these past two years)! 

      I have recently decided that it would be a great outlet to have something creative in my life, that can break up the endless hours of studying (okay I havent actually studied hours in about a week... but back to it tomorrow!). I remembered my old rusty food blog, with its mediocre pictures and Im-too-tired-and-not-creative-or-verbose-enough descriptions, and I had a glimmer of an idea. Maybe I could do a couple GOOD posts a month, and not stress about content or frequency? Use the blog for ME and if anyone loves it along the way... well thats just icing on the [gluten free] cake! I do hope some of you love, or at least like, the blog. If nothing else I hope you find it instructive in at least one thing. Extroverted and Socratic by nature, I hope nothing more than to bring smiles, joy and learning to myself and those around me! 

      The pictures may not be any better, and I am trying harder at making it worth reading a little but... its mine. Its mine and there may be others like it, but this one is mine. On to the recipe part...

Thai Inspired Salad of Awesome!

Recipe found here: By me!
I was featured on Marks Daily Apple!


UPDATE: as of Dec 2012 all pics older than this post are deleted. This was unfortunately a terminal error and cannot be undone. I will be re-uploading the pics from the more frequently viewed posts but doing all of them would be too time consuming.
I am sad. Lesson learned: dont delete Google+ albums!!! Oops. 

Quick and Dirty Lamb Stew

Lamb Stew in da Crockpot (quick and dirty)

1.5 lbs lamb stew meat
1 small bag frozen pearl onions
1 leek, chopped
4 carrots, chopped
4 cups chopped celery (I really like it)
1 sweet potato, cubed
1 quart veggie stock
1 can fire-roasted tomatoes
2 garlic cloves, minced
fresh chopped sage
1 small can tomato paste
1/2 cup butter
1 small bag frozen baby peas

Add everything but peas into crock pot. Turn on low for about a workday (that was 8 hrs for me). Come home, add peas, wait 15 mins. Eat. YUM.

Hannah visits!

Alrighty so this is the short, pictorial version of our day. Im pooped and need to go to bed but I wanted to get this up!

Hannah came and visited, after we went to pick up the meat I had ordered we looked arounf and went to a toy store. We found a primal grill set for the kiddos!

Then we got all excited about the kites the toy store had (and the bacon band aids were prety cool) so we decided to make one. It allllmost worked, lol.

Then we went on a hike and saw lots of cool stuff.

Then we made food! GIANT garlic on the left, green mango with garam masala, chili powder and salt on the right.

Yummy thai salad with chicken and cilantro pesto.

YOUNG COCONUT OMG GOOD.

The end.