Dairy Free and Delicious: Homemade Berry Bars

summer fruit desserts

Luscious Summer Dessert

 

Pastry chef and author, Paula Shoyer, makes warm weather entertaining easy and delicious.

Every great celebration is just a little sweeter with a great dessert.  As summer sets in and warm weather brings us outdoors for barbecues, picnics, and concerts now is the tastiest time to reach for seasonal and sweet fresh fruit.  Pastry chef, teacher and cookbook author, Paula Shoyer, has created a light and easy summer dessert perfect for anyone who loves to create something special for family and friends that’s also dairy free!

Gluten Free Pasta Recipe: Cook Once, Eat Twice

tinkyada brown rice pasta

Easy gluten free pasta for any night of the week

I am a big fan of the cook once, eat twice philosophy. I am also learning to be completely gluten free. As a busy, working mom cooking is one of my biggest chores. The kids are going to camp right now and get picked up at 5pm. They are coming home starving after 4 hours of playing in the ocean at Surf and Kayak camp and I can’t get dinner made fast enough, and of course, I didn’t have time to get it started before I picked them up!

Gluten Free Apricot Crumble Recipe

Fresh, ripe apricots

by Minette Riordan

I recently moved to Santa Barbara, CA and am enjoying the bounty of fresh fruit and vegetables. This past weekend, my son and I had the opportunity to go pick apricots. Super fun and picked way too many as they were falling off the trees into our bucket. We decided to make a gluten free apricot crumble with them. It was so good, I think we will make another one on July 4th (yes, we picked a lot of apricots.)